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Six decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related agencies and programs are perpetually in crisis. While the twentieth century's world wars gave rise to ground-breaking efforts at international organization in 1919 and 1945, today's UN is...
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Polity
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2013-05-20
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What's Wrong?
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With the ever farther advancement of globalization, governance has become one of the most prominent theoretical concepts to describe today’s world. Governance theory is concerned with a system of rule through non-hierarchical governing modes, such as networks and market...
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Springer VS
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2013-05-17
Collection :
Globale Gesellschaft und internationale Beziehungen
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A popular myth emerged in the late 1990s: in 1900, wars killed one civilian for every eight soldiers, while contemporary wars were killing eight civilians for every one soldier. The neat reversal of numbers was memorable, and academic publications and UN documents...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-05-14
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Korea is one of the critical flashpoints in the world today. News of North Korea's recent nuclear tests, conducted in defiance of international pressure, drew widespread condemnation and raised serious concerns about the threat now posed to regional and international...
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Polity
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2013-05-10
Collection :
Hot Spots in Global Politics
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This concise and timely book, written by one of the world's leading authorities on China, argues that the country is at a crossroads in its development and explores the challenges that lie ahead. A concise and timely book about China and its future, which argues...
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Polity
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2013-05-09
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Russia has been embroiled in bitter disputes with major Western powers over high-profile military interventions - over Kosovo (1999), Iraq (2003), Georgia (2008), and even Libya (2011) which had a UN Security Council mandate. Moscow and the West reached much more...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-05-09
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The purpose and location of frontiers affect all human societies in the contemporary world - this book offers an introduction to them and the issues they raise.
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Polity
Parution :
2013-05-08
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Wars throughout history have been fought in the name of ideology, religion and the pursuit of peace. Our thinking about war – when it is justified, how it should be fought and how it is perceived – has changed dramatically over time. Whereas in the past war has been...
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Polity
Parution :
2013-05-08
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A norm of special treatment for LDCs, created by the UN, has spread to various international organisations including the WTO. Within the WTO evidence of the institutionalization of the norm can be found both in the agreements and legal documents and the way in which the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-05-07
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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The US, China, and Japan form a 'troubled triangle,' with each country negotiating its foreign policy toward the other two in response to economic and security pressures that operate as an interrelated duality. Written by international relations experts, this book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-05-07
Collection :
Asia Today
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The book investigates the ways in which state-centred approaches to international relations have limited our understanding of global, political, economic and cultural processes. By assessing a wide range of such state-centred work, Youngs identifies the challenges we...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-02
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In this pathbreaking book, one of the world’s leading analysts of globalization and global governance confronts the failures of international politics in the aftermath of 9/11 and the war against Iraq. He argues that there were and are alternatives to the way the...
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Polity
Parution :
2013-05-02
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This introductory textbook examines the role of the Third World and the processes of development from the study of international politics and argues that in an increasingly globalized world development can no longer be seen as an isolated practice.
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Polity
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2013-05-02
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Der Arabische Frühling in Ägypten und Tunesien hat die EU sichtlich überrascht, die trotz milliardenschwerer Demokratisierungsprogramme keine Erfolge in der Demokratisierung der Länder aufweisen konnte. In der Arbeit wird folglich der Frage nachgegangen, ob die von der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-02
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Die EU-Grenz- und Migrationspolitik haben seit 1999 eine neue Dimension erreicht. Eine «gemeinsame» Außengrenze ist entstanden.Die Koordination, Harmonisierung und Weiterentwicklung des Grenzmanagements wird seit 2005 von der Agentur FRONTEX vorangetrieben, die sich als...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-02
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Seit der Unabhängigkeit vor über 200 Jahren waren die bilateralen Beziehungen zwischen Lateinamerika und Europa stets geprägt von einem asymmetrischen Abhängigkeitsverhältnis zugunsten Europas. Trotz historisch enger Verbundenheit und gemeinsamer kultureller und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-02
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Thema dieser Arbeit ist das Polenbild und die Polenpolitik der Jahre 1916 bis 1922. Stellvertretend für die deutsche Gesellschaft werden die Parteien SPD, DDP und das Zentrum in den Fokus genommen. Zur Diskussion steht hier der Einfluss, den Polenstereotypen und der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-02
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Gorbachev’s Gamble offers a new and more convincing answer to this question by providing the missing link between the internal and external aspects ofGorbachev’s perestroika. Andrei Grachev shows that the radical transformation of Soviet foreign policy during the...
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Polity
Parution :
2013-04-30
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The range of global human rights institutions which have been created over the past half century is a remarkable achievement. Yet, their establishment and proliferation raises important questions. Why do states create such institutions and what do they want them to...
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Polity
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2013-04-30
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Is it is justifiable to make any basic moral distinction between 'insiders and outsiders'? Do we have substantive duties of 'justice' to all human beings or merely Humanitarian duties of aid and assistance? These are two of the most crucial questions confronting world...
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Polity
Parution :
2013-04-30
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