Télécharger le livre :  Institutions, Ideas and Leadership in Russian Politics

A stimulating and thought-provoking collection that challenges some of the emerging conventional wisdom about contemporary Russia. It examines the role of leadership, institutions and ideas, and the interactions among them, in shaping Russia's post-Soviet...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-06-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Russian Politics from Lenin to Putin

Seven leading specialists present chapters devoted to key themes in Soviet and post-Soviet Russian politics. Those themes include: the personal versus the institutional in the political process; legitimacy and legitimation; and change and collapse of a...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-05-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Turkey's Engagement with Modernity

Turkey's Enagement with Modernity explores how the country has been shaped in the image of the Kemalist project of nationalist modernity and how it has transformed, if erratically, into a democratic society where tensions between religion, state and society continue...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-02-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Refugees, the State and the Politics of Asylum in Africa

How do African states respond to the mass arrival and prolonged presence of refugees? This book answers this question by drawing on recent case studies and examining the politics behind refugee policy in Africa. The implications of this approach are important not only...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-11-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Russia as an Aspiring Great Power in East Asia

Rangsimaporn argues that Russia aspires to become a great power and tries to achieve this through utilizing its position as a Eurasian country, with vast territories in East Asia, its economic assets, primarily arms and energy, and careful management of its role in a...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-08-27
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Télécharger le livre :  The End of the British Mandate for Palestine, 1948

Henry Gurney was the last Chief Secretary of the Mandate Government of Palestine. From mid-March to mid-May 1948, at his HQ in Jerusalem's King David Hotel, he wrote his diary under fire from Jews and Arabs alike, with both groups taking aim at the British...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-08-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Women and Nationalism in the Making of Modern Greece

This pioneering book reveals how nationalism in Ninteenth-century Greece helped women to develop an alternative vision of female politics, history, and citizenship. Shedding new light on women's ideas and beliefs the author brings to life the story of the ideas that...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-05-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Small States and EU Governance

Small States and EU Governance shows that the EU's rotating Council presidency and small states' capacity to make use of it have been underestimated. It examines the political objectives the presidency serves and presents a systematic and comparative assessment of its...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-03-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Development Aid in Russia

Drawing on both Development Studies and post-Soviet literature, this study examines projects in Siberia since the fall of the Berlin Wall.  Focusing on critical accounts of development projects in Siberia, managed by the author, this book provides a first-hand account...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-02-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Explaining Change in Russian Foreign Policy

An assessment of the explanatory utility of different approaches to account for post-Soviet Russia's foreign policy towards the West, arguing that only by focusing both on external constraints and changes in the Russian leadership's foreign policy thinking can we...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-11-27
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Télécharger le livre :  The Rise and Fall of Privatization in the Russian Oil Industry

A study of the actors and institutions that shaped decision-making on privatization in the Russian oil industry between 1992 and 2006. The book analyses the origins of privatization as a policy on a macro, industry-wide level, as well as presenting three in-depth case...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-10-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Local Governance in Central and Eastern Europe

This book examines local government performance in key areas of social services and economic promotion in eight towns in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Russia. It dispels the myth that socio-economic 'givens' or inter-governmental systems are key determinants...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-01-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Family Life and Individual Welfare in Post-war Europe

Taking Britain and Italy as comparative cases, the author explores the extent to which dominant notions of family life differed in postwar Britain and Italy and the implications this had on the development of family policy in these two countries.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-11-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Political Leadership and the Northern Ireland Peace Process

By providing a critical interpretation of political leadership during the Northern Ireland peace process, Gormley-Heenan shows the 'leadership lens' offers insights not offered by conventional analyses of peacemaking processes. The book discusses the confusions,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-11-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Kuwait Amid War, Peace and Revolution

This books explores Kuwaiti internal security challenges of terrorism, sabotage and subversion, and, using untapped Kuwaiti government sources, examines policy responses such as mass deportations and special security trials. The study details how turmoil in neighbouring...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-10-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Gender Politics in Brazil and Chile

What impact do political parties have on women's political representation and on state gender policies? Does this vary at national and local levels? This study looks at the National Women's Ministry in Chile, a country of ideological conflict, strong parties and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-04-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Legislative Politics and Economic Power in Russia

Chaisty looks at the legislative actors and institutions that have shaped economic law making in Russia since 1990. Assessing the influence of partisan, bureaucratic, regional and corporate interests in Russia's post-communist parliaments, the book considers Russia's...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-04-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Technology Gatekeepers for War and Peace

The technological revolution in shipbuilding in the early twentieth century had a great impact on the military, industrial, commercial worlds. Matsumoto focuses on the relationship between this revolution and the structure and function of 'technology gatekeepers' during...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-03-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Moving the Maasai

This is the scandalous story of how the Maasai people of Kenya lost the best part of their land to the British in the 1900s. Drawing upon unique oral testimony and extensive archival research, Hughes describes the intrigues surrounding two enforced moves and the 1913...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-01-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Political Culture and Post-Communism

Our understanding of the dynamics of Communist systems was substantially improved by taking political culture into account. But how much does the concept of political culture add to our empirical understanding of post-Communist Russia? The book's contributors engage...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2005-10-11
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