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This book offers a socio-historical analysis of migration and the possibilities of regional integration in Southern Africa. It examines both the historical roots of and contemporary challenges regarding the social, economic, and geo-political causes of migration and its...
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Springer
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2017-07-24
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Through a detailed historical and empirical account of post-independence years, this book offers a new assessment of the role of the judiciary in Pakistani politics. Instead of seeing the judiciary as helpless or struggling against an authoritarian state, it argues that...
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Springer
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2017-07-02
Collection :
International Law and the Global South
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The global financial crisis of 2008 ushered in a system of informal decision-making in the grey zone between economics and politics. Legitimized by a rhetoric of emergency, ad hoc bodies have usurped democratically elected governments. In line with the neoliberal credo,...
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Polity
Parution :
2017-06-15
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Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move.Oil politics in the twentieth century was about the management of abundance, state power, and market growth. The legacy of this age of plenty includes declining...
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Polity
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2017-06-05
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Resources
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This book focuses on international relations in the Indian Ocean region and covers many policy aspects of Modi’s India. Written by leading scholars of international and Indian Ocean studies, this annual report includes both a strategic review and the major events and...
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Springer
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2017-06-01
Collection :
Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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This book presents novel theoretical and empirical findings on the issue of unrecognized states and secession. The first part of the book conceptualizes unrecognized states as entities with a national identity and which have achieved political independence, yet are not...
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Springer
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2017-05-27
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For decades, Milton Santos (1926-2001) has been considered one of the most influential thinkers in Brazilian and Latin American social sciences and geography. Yet his writings, most of which have not been translated into English, are largely unknown to European and...
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Springer
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2017-05-08
Collection :
Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice
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This book examines in depth science diplomacy, a particular field of international relations, in which the interests of science and those of foreign policy intersect. Building on a wealth of examples drawn from history and contemporary international relations, it...
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Springer
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2017-05-07
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China's spectacular growth and expanding global role have led to visions of the 21st century being dominated by the last major state on earth ruled by a Communist Party. In this new edition of his widely acclaimed book, renowned China expert Jonathan Fenby shows why...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-03-27
Collection :
Global Futures
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The world is troubled and full of misunderstandings. It seems a new world order of fundamentalist violence and meaningless atrocity is upon us, whilst civilised instruments for cooperation and compromise are becoming increasingly ineffective. In this timely book,...
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Polity
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2017-02-27
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As the world faces another water crisis, it is easy to understand why this precious and highly-disputed resource could determine the fate of entire nations. In reality, however, water conflicts rarely result in violence and more often lead to collaborative governance,...
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Polity
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2017-02-27
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This edited volume is an outcome of the first major collaborative project between Japanese economists and political scientists, funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. The authors of the individual chapters show that Asian states play games of...
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Springer
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2017-02-07
Collection :
The Political Economy of the Asia Pacific
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"Speak softly and carry a big stick" Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the right sentiment, perhaps, in an age of imperial rivalry but today many Americans doubt the utility of their global military...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2017-01-03
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This book investigates the economic, political and cultural factors that influence regional economic integration processes as well as international political cooperation in the area of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The authors analyze market integration...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-11-26
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Bringing warring parties to the negotiating table is the aim of any peace process. But what happens when those negotiations falter and conflict resolution fails? Is everything lost or are there prospects for meaningful change in even the most intractable of conflicts? ...
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Polity
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2016-11-02
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Since the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis, there has been much talk of a new Cold War between the West and Russia. Under Putin’s authoritarian leadership, Moscow is widely seen as volatile, belligerent and bent on using military force to get its way. In this incisive...
Editeur :
Polity
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2016-11-02
Collection :
Global Futures
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This volume honors the lifetime achievements of the distinguished activist and scholar Elise Boulding (1920–2010) on the occasion of her 95th birthday. Known as the “matriarch” of the twentieth century peace research movement, she made significant contributions in the...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-11-02
Collection :
Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice
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This book is a valuable work of reference for the study of sea power, especially in China. It analyzes the challenges and problems facing China’s sea power and offers a complete set of solutions known as ‘sea exploitation.’ In this context, it discusses five aspects of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-10-25
Collection :
Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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This important and topical volume is composed around the debt and migration crisis in Europe in 2015 (known as the Greece crisis), and written almost concurrently as the two crises developed in quick succession. The central argument here is that Europe’s present crisis...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-10
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