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This book assesses the diplomatic path of influence taken by German decision-makers during the early nineties in pursuit of their cautiously articulated interest in and commitment to the eastward enlargement of NATO.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2006-08-07
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Martin derives several realist and liberal propositions on the causes of war and peace and tests them, utilizing evidence from the peace in South America, as well as developing and discussing the "Militarist Peace" hypothesis.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-08-06
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This book looks at the evolution of the Organization of American States (OAS) multilateralism for democracy and the lessons its experience holds for other multilateral contexts. It also tackles the theoretical challenge of bridging the traditional divide between...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-08-05
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This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary analysis blends history, economics, and politics to challenge the prevailing accounts of the rise of U.S. militarism. While acknowledging the contributory role of some of the most widely-cited culprits, this study explores the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-08-05
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This is a unique book-length accounts of the domestic impact of EU membership. Drawing on expert contributions, this volume provides a state of the art account of how membership has affected the institutions of central, devolved and local governance, the activities of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-08-03
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This accessible text provides a comprehensive overview of globalization and its consequences from the perspective of social and political critical theory. Thematic chapters provoke student inquiry and the book shows how the views of critical theorists are crucial to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-07-28
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This book provides an account of systemic corruption within the context of post-Soviet economic and political transitions. Focusing on Armenia and Georgia, it shows how systemic corruption has developed since the fall of Soviet rule and how corruption has shaped the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-07-25
Collection :
Euro-Asian Studies
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Explains the complex and paradoxical process of economic integration and political divergence in current relations between Taiwan and mainland China. It analyzes the dynamics of economic statecraft on both sides and the conflicts between state objectives and business...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-07-07
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How do the environments, in which businesses operate, condition their success or failure? Such questions have long been of interest in the fields of business, economics and politics. This book thoroughly examines the main claims of the most important contribution - the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-05-31
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The New Multilateralism in South African Diplomacy provides a detailed analysis of how post-apartheid South Africa has participated in multilateral diplomacy in a variety of sub-regional, regional and international settings during the last decade.The book will interest...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-05-10
Collection :
Studies in Diplomacy and International Relations
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This book provides the first comparative treatment of the roles of informal ad hoc groupings of states within selected conflict settings and their effects on governance in and out of the UN Security Council.
Since the 1990s, informal institutions such as groups of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-04-27
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This book provides a critical engagement between contending historical materialist approaches that have played a crucial role in shaping post-positivist International Relations theory. It analyzes globalization as a process of state formation and argues that its fate...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-04-26
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This book seeks to comprehend the evolving nature of the European Union following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the failure of the European Constitution. Its prime focus is the last wave of enlargement that has profoundly transformed the EU. Although there are many...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-04-07
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A dense web of private associations drawn from multiple social classes, interest groups and value communities makes for a firm foundation for strong democracy. In Latin America today, will civil society improve the quality of democracy or will it foster political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-04-03
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The book examines the rise of the amalgam of economic and political ideas we know as neo-liberalism and how these became the defining orthodoxy of our times. It investigates the inexorable global spread of market economies and how neo-liberal agendas are accommodated or...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-03-28
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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This edited volume brings together leading scholars to debate the promises of poststructural politics within the study of the International Political Economy (IPE). The volume offers a sustained theoretical dialogue on the meaning of discourse, identity, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-03-14
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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The book turns the 'democratic peace' theme on its head: rather than investigating the reasons for the supposed pacifism of democracies, it looks for the causes of their militancy. In order to solve this puzzle, the authors look across International Relations, political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-02-28
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This study explores a range of dynamics in state-society relations which are crucial to an understanding of the contemporary world: processes of state formation, collapse and restructuring, all strongly influenced by globalization in its various respects. Particular...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-02-24
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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There are few issues more urgently in need of intelligent analysis both in the UK and elsewhere than those relating to displacement, asylum, and migration. In this volume, based on the 2004 Oxford Amnesty Lectures, major figures in philosophy, political science, law,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-02-16
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Gary Hart has long been one of the nation's foremost experts on national security, combining a deep knowledge of national security policy with first-hand experience of the political realities that influence how America safeguards itself and its interests. In his new...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2006-02-16
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