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With Asia as its backdrop, this book investigates the role played by the World Bank Group (WBG) in conceptualising and promoting new mining regimes tailored for resource-rich country clients. It details a particular politics of mining in the Global South characterised...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-04
Collection :
Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy
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Dieses Buch gibt Antworten auf häufig artikulierte, zentrale Fragen zum Thema Globalisierung: Was ist Globalisierung? Wie kann das Globalisierungsniveau gemessen werden? Wie hat sich die Globalisierung räumlich und zeitlich entwickelt? Wie kann Globalisierung...
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Springer VS
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2015-12-01
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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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On 19 August 2014, a member of the jihadist rebel group known as ISIS uploaded a video to YouTube. Entitled 'Message to America', the clip depicted the final moments of the life of kidnapped American journalist James Foley - and the gruesome aftermath of his beheading...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2015-11-05
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China's exponential rise and America's relative decline have led to a transition of power in contemporary Asia. The US pivot towards Asia is the most evident manifestation of such a transition, and Indian foreign policy shows signs of a hedging strategy, with attempts...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-11-05
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Since its coinage in mid-19th century Germany, Realpolitik has proven both elusive and protean. To some, it represents the best approach to meaningful change and political stability in a world buffeted by uncertainty and rapid transformation. To others, it encapsulates...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-11-02
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A recent National Security Strategy report singles out nuclear proliferation as one of the gravest threats to the United States. Much of this fear is focused on North Korea and Iran, two "rogue states" that have violated nonproliferation rules and engaged in provocative...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-11-02
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Macro-regional strategies seek to improve the interplay of the EU with existing regimes and institutions, and foster coherence of transnational policies. Drawing on macro-regional governance and Europeanization, this edited volume provides an overview of processes of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-10-19
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
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Eleonora Poli analyses how ideas and material interests have come to determine the evolution of antitrust policies in the USA, EU, Japan and BRICS. She argues that three major economic crises together with market globalisation have changed governments' perceptions of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-10-19
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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Widely recognized as one of the most important theorists of warfare, important strands of Carl von Clausewitz's thinking on the subject are not widely known. In the English-speaking world, few are familiar with anything other than his major, though unfinished and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-15
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Today, international economic sanctions are imposed in response to virtually every serious international crisis, whether to promote regime change and democratisation, punish armed aggression, or check nuclear proliferation. But how exactly is the economic pain inflicted...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-15
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In diesem Essential geht es um die Entstehungsgeschichte der Schuldenbremse. Der Autor stellt dar, warum die Schuldenbremse das Staatsschuldenrecht verkompliziert und die Parlamente entmündigt. Als das Wirtschaftswachstum in den 1970er Jahren nachließ, stand die Politik...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-10-07
Collection :
essentials
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Can coercive foreign policy destabilize autocratic regimes?Can democracy be promoted from abroad? This book examines how foreign policy tools such as aid, economic sanctions, human rights shaming and prosecutions, and military intervention influence the survival of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-09-17
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This book seeks to explain why weak states exist within the international system. Using the cases of Armenia, St. Kitts and Nevis, Lebanon, and Cambodia, the author argues that, if a state is weak and vulnerable, then it can practice an unexpected degree of relative...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-09-01
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Among the constitutive elements of the responsibility to protect (R2P), prevention has been deemed by many as the most important. Drawing on contributions from an international group of academics and practitioners, this book seeks to improve our knowledge of how to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-08-20
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This book questions whether the institutions and practices of the emerging EU diplomatic system conform to established standards of the state-centric diplomatic order; or whether practice is paving the way for innovative, even revolutionary, forms of diplomatic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-18
Collection :
The European Union in International Affairs
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Scholars and policymakers in EU foreign policy lament the EU's inability to assert itself on the world stage. This book explains this weakness by arguing that EU foreign policy is burdened by various internal functions, and systemizes the analysis of internal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-16
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This study provides up-to-date coverage of the most important domestic and external political and economic influences on Japanese trade policy, as well as the evolutionary dynamics of that policy in the post-war period.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-11
Collection :
Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific
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Axel Heck erarbeitet eine innovative Forschungsheuristik, um die sozialen Praktiken in der Herausbildung des transatlantischen Machtverhältnisses aufzudecken. Empirisch wird das Krisenjahr 1989 untersucht und durch eine rekonstruktive Analyse gezeigt, wie zwischen den...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-08-10
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