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This study examines and explains the relationship between social health insurance (SHI) participation and out-of-pocket expenditures (OOP) as well as the mediating role the institutional arrangement of SHI plays in this relationship in China. Embracing a new...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-09-21
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International Relations (IR) theorists speak with conviction, and often passion, to the global condition of human society. The result is an important, dynamic and often deeply divided field. This long-awaited new edition ofInternational Relations Theory Today offers...
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Polity
Parution :
2016-09-16
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The Future of Diplomacy Never before has diplomacy evolved at such a rapid pace. It is being transformed into a global participatory process by new media tools and newly empowered publics. 'Public diplomacy' has taken center-stage as diplomats strive to reach and...
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Polity
Parution :
2016-09-02
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The SAGE Handbook of Diplomacy provides a major thematic overview of Diplomacy and its study that is theoretically and historically informed and in sync with the current and future needs of diplomatic practice . Original contributions from a brilliant team of global...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2016-08-12
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Recognizing the vital importance of concepts in shaping our understanding of international relations, this ground-breaking new book puts concepts front and centre, systematically unpacking them in a clear, critical and engaging way. With contributions from some of the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2016-08-09
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This book explains how major world economies are recognizing the need for a major push in cyber policy environments. It helps readers understand why these nations are committing substantial resources to cybersecurity, and to the development of standards, rules and...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-07-29
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In this inside assessment of Barack Obama's foreign policy legacy, Derek Chollet tackles the prevailing consensus to argue that Obama has profoundly altered the course of American foreign policy for the better and positioned the United States to lead in the future.The...
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PublicAffairs
Parution :
2016-06-28
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This book focuses on skilled labour migration from Malaysia to Singapore. In this regard, it examines a number of variables such as Better Perks and Benefits, Quality of Work Life, Ease of Immigration Procedures, International Exposure, Greater Job Availability, and...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-06-15
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After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. Putin’s motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail Gorbachev. In this new...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-06-08
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Au lendemain de la Première Guerre mondiale, la diplomatie est à réinventer. Un nouvel ordre international émerge au sein duquel juristes internationaux, journalistes, banquiers d’affaires et autres experts concurrencent désormais les diplomates de métier. De nouvelles...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2016-06-03
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The 2014 crisis in Ukraine sent a tottering U.S.-Russian relationship over a cliff - a dangerous descent into deep mistrust, severed ties, and potential confrontation reminiscent of the Cold War period. In this incisive new analysis, leading expert on Soviet and Russian...
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Polity
Parution :
2016-04-22
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This book analyses the development of geography as a scientific discipline in Brazil, highlighting how the established partnerships with French geographers have helped shape scientific progress in the country. It connects economic development and politics with the study...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-04-13
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Latin American Studies
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This book provides a critical review of the achievements and challenges of European organizations promoting democracy in the Republic of Armenia. Armenia is a post-transition country and yet not a consolidated democracy. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-08
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"Penetrating, detailed, and very readable. . . . A splendid biography." -- Wall Street Journal Few figures in American history have held as many roles in public life as John Quincy Adams. The son of John Adams, he was a brilliant ambassador and secretary of state, a...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2016-03-22
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Is America still Number 1? A leading scholar of international politics and former State Department official takes issue with Paul Kennedy and others and clearly demonstrates that the United States is still the dominant world power, with no challenger in sight. But...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2016-03-01
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Picking his way through Andean cocaine fields, Central American prisons, Colorado pot shops, and the online drug dens of the Dark Web, Tom Wainwright provides a “a lively and engaging book, informed by both dogged reporting and gleanings from academic...
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PublicAffairs
Parution :
2016-02-23
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This book presents in a concise and accessible way why the EU institutional system exists in its present form, how the EU fits into the world as a system of governance, and who is involved in EU policy processes. It outlines the historical context which has shaped the...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-02-04
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This book offers an eyewitness account of China’s twenty years of rural reform. It records the successive changes in different types of China’s rural economic systems, from rural cooperatives to the people’s communes to the household responsibility system. It...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-12-30
Collection :
China Academic Library
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Der Band beleuchtet das Internationale Kooperationsrecht der Europäischen Union aus drei unterschiedlichen Perspektiven. Der erste Teil definiert das primäre Internationale Kooperationsrecht der EU als Abkommen der EU mit Drittstaaten, die eine bestimmte...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-12-11
Collection :
Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht
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This book presents a systematic collation of the regional and global dimensions of the leadership role of BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). It analyses the rising regional and global leadership of BRICS, using specific benchmarks to gauge...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-11-17
Collection :
United Nations University Series on Regionalism
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