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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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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
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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
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2006-02-16
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How do European states adjust to international markets? Why do French governments of both left and right face a public confidence crisis? In this book, leading experts on France chart the dramatic changes that have taken place in its polity, economy and society since...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-01-27
Collection :
French Politics, Society and Culture
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This comprehensive, in-depth assessment of the German foreign policy record under the Red-Green government of Gerhard Schröder and Joschka Fischer from 1998 to 2005, produced by a team of German and international experts, explores the idea of continuity and the sources,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-01-26
Collection :
New Perspectives in German Political Studies
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Cities, at their best, are cradles of diversity, opportunity, and citizenship. Why, then, do so many cities today seem scarred by divisions separating the powerful and privileged from the victims of deprivation and injustice? What is it like to live on the wrong side of...
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OUP Oxford
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2006-01-26
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This study examines the record of French and EU interactions with China, Japan and Vietnam in the areas of economic exchanges, political security relations and human rights to establish if there has been a trend of converging 'European' politics and collective European...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-12-16
Collection :
French Politics, Society and Culture
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The apparent success of a 'new' variant of social democracy has created considerable interest in the Third Way. This book synthesizes a core economic strategy from the most significant Third Way administrations. It explores the theoretical foundations to Third Way...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-12-16
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Maswood examines the trade and regulatory structures that inhibit the capacity of developing countries to improve their economic conditions. In particular, the book looks at institutional structures of the WTO and examines the Doha Round negotiations to assess their...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-12-16
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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Globalization processes are propelling a transformation of governance. As political problems become more transnational, public as well as private actors increasingly perform governance activities beyond the level of individual states. This book examines the wide variety...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-11-30
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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State sovereignty is the foundation of international relations. This thought-provoking book explores the gap between seeing sovereignty as either absolute or relative. It argues that state sovereignty is both factual and judicial and that the 'loss' of sovereignty...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-11-26
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After 9/11, which triggered a global debate on public diplomacy, 'PD' has become an issue in most countries. This book joins the debate. Experts from different countries and from a variety of fields analyze the theory and practice of public diplomacy. They also evaluate...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-11-22
Collection :
Studies in Diplomacy and International Relations
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Johnston argues that the preemptive first-use of nuclear weapons, long the foundation of American nuclear strategy, was not the carefully reasoned response to a growing Soviet conventional threat. Instead, it was part of a process of cultural 'socialization', by which...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-11-18
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This book provides an overview of what has happened to NATO from the closing stages of the Cold War to the new era of international terrorism. However, it is more than that. It also argues that NATO has travelled a course that contradicts the prevailing image of an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-11-18
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The essays in this collection seek to reflect on global governance and to provide a better critical understanding of the various practices that fall under its rubric.The first part challenges the concept of global governance, the second part focuses on organizational...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-11-18
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The recent controversy over Iran's nuclear programme represents an early and important test for a distinctively European approach to addressing concerns about suspected programmes for the development of weapons of mass destruction. Against this background, the report...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2005-11-17
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This book explores how a wide range of countries attempt to cope with the challenges of globalization. While the internalization of globalization proceeds in significantly different ways, there is a broad process of convergence taking place around the politics of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-11-16
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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Economic sanctions: panacea, symbolic but ineffectual, or useless and counterproductive? While these questions have framed much the existing debate, Drury digs deeper to why foreign policy leaders, and especially the president, choose sanctions, of which type, whether...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-11-04
Collection :
Advances in Foreign Policy Analysis
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