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How can fair cooperation and a stable peace be reached in the international realm? Peace, Justice and International Order discusses this question in the light of John Rawls' The Law of Peoples, offers a new approach to Rawls' international theory and contributes to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-10-29
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The study analyzes three themes: first, the evolution of the concept of civilians in the course of human history, and secondly, the situation and victimization of civilians in armed conflict since 1990, and third, how the international community since the end of the...
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Springer VS
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2014-10-29
Collection :
Globale Gesellschaft und internationale Beziehungen
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In this edited volume, a set of issue and country experts tackle questions regarding China’s current rise to power within the current international economic and political order. The current international system is governed by a “Western” conception of order and based on...
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Springer
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2014-10-29
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The Political Economy of the Asia Pacific
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As the RtoP moves from norm to operationalization, greater analysis of action to halt crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide and ethnic cleansing is needed. This uncovers opportunities and challenges associated with third pillar interventions by looking at legal,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-28
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This collection reflects on the international political economy of media and the valuable lessons to be learned from the media reforms currently taking place across South America. The contributors present a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives on the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-10-28
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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This book examines the Australia-ASEAN Dialogue Partnership since its inception in 1974 and looks at the networks of engagement that have shaped relations across three areas: regionalism, non-traditional security, and economic engagement.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-10-23
Collection :
Asia Today
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Why do leaders of countries opt to sign on to international institutions that constrain their freedom to enact domestic policy? In this book, Leonardo Baccini and Johannes Urpelainen address this enduring question of international relations by looking at liberal...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-10-23
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This edited work explores piracy and surreptitious activities such as privateering, war-making, slave-hunting and raiding, focussing on Southeast Asia in the early modern period. Readers will discover nine essays studying the different sub-regions of the Malay...
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Springer
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2014-10-22
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Poland is one of Europe's economic out-performers. The country's history and geography encourage it to be in favour of deeper European integration. This book aims to contribute to discussions on the future shape of EMU and the next steps ahead.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-21
Collection :
Studies in Economic Transition
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The current crisis in Ukraine has revealed a striking lack of background knowledge about Ukraine’s history and politics among West European politicians, journalists, intellectuals and even many academics. In this book, experts from Poland, Ukraine, the US, Russia and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-16
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The question of how to constrain states that commit severe abuses against their own citizens is as persistent as it is vexing. States are imperfect political forms that in theory possess both a monopoly on coercive power and final jurisdictional authority over their...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-10-16
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We need a world trade organization.We just don't need the one that we have. By pitching unequally matched states together in chaotic bouts of negotiating the global trade governance of today offers - and has consistently offered - developed countries more of the...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-10-07
Collection :
What's Wrong?
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This study patterns national identity over a number of important historical milestones and brings the debates over Europe up-to-date with an analysis of recent happenings including the referendum on Scottish independence, the global economic crisis and the current...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-05
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This timely study analyses the ways in which competing ideologies and cultural narratives have influenced the Obama administration's decision-making on Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria, situating these decisions within the broader history of American foreign policy.
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-10-03
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A study of US-Syria relations, this book analyzes the legacy of mistrust between the two states and continuities and discontinuities over time. It challenges the purely realist and power-political explanation that is dominant and points to a politically embedded set of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-02
Collection :
Middle East Today
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International friendship is a distinct type of interstate relationship, and that as such, it can contribute to capture aspects of international politics that have long remained unattended. This book offers a framework for analyzing friendship in international politics...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-01
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Bringing together renewable energy and energy security, this book covers both the politics and political economy of renewables and energy security and analyzes renewable technologies in diverse and highly topical countries: Japan, China and Northern Europe.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-23
Collection :
Energy, Climate and the Environment
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The authors investigate well-known concerns in natural resource management in Africa while focusing on the capacity dimension of the problems. They examine dynamics of leadership, governance, criminality, structural transformation, as well as emerging issues such as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-23
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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Providing a coherent and current account of how the U.S. manages to 'pivot to Asia' amid a rising China, this book provides an insightful glimpse into China-US relations, and the complexities of the two nations' economic and defense issues as China asserts is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-11
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In 1940, the USSR occupied and annexed Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, leading to calls by many that the Soviets had violated international law. This book examines British, US, and Soviet policies toward the Baltic states, placing the true significance of the Baltic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-11
Collection :
The World of the Roosevelts
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