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The book suggests that the US-Russia post-9/11 partnership did not endure because much of America's policy is shaped by an ambition to remain the world's only superpower.The book analyzes the negative role played by Russophobia and advocates a different approach to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-04-26
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This book investigates a phenomenon in world politics that is largely overlooked by scholars, namely entities lacking international recognition of their status as independent states. It includes case studies on the Eurasian Quartet, Kosovo, Somaliland, Palestine,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-04-22
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This is an in-depth analysis of the various methods used by small states to overcome their vulnerabilities in the international arena. With its balanced approach and variety of contributions, this book is of interest to researchers and academics who focus on the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-04-08
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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'Bara and Pennington's edited volume successfully fills a huge void in the market for introductory textbooks to comparative politics which previously offered either descriptions of political processes and systems or overviews of the methodology of comparative analysis....
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2009-03-19
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Gendering the World Bank provides an unusual, wide-ranging and accessible account of the constitution and effects of discourses of neoliberal governance. Paying particular attention to how gender matters in and to contemporary global governance, the author focuses in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-02-27
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A broad yet distinctive analysis of the growing political, economic, and social gap existing between the world’s northern and southern hemispheres. Featuring papers selected by the ISA President from the 2006 annual meeting, this upper-level volume examines the genesis...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-26
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"A very good overview. Covers the key topics well and in an accessible and engaging style."
- Dr Daniel Hammett, Department of Geography, Sheffield University
This is a revised and updated edition of a core undergraduate resource for political geography. Focusing on...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2009-02-06
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Indigenous peoples and governments, industrialists and ecologists all use - or have at some stage to confront - the language of land rights. That language raises as many questions as it answers. Rights of the land or rights to the land? Rights of the individual or...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-01-15
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As European integration continues, the future of EMU becomes ever more important. Can EMU help create an integrated European community, or will it prove a hindrance to the EU project? This book brings together the experts in the area to provide an interdisciplinary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-01-15
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This collection brings together a diverse range of analyses to interrogate policy changes and to grapple with the on-going transformations of neoliberalism in both North America and various Latin American states.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-01-15
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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We are all familiar with the popular and academic analyses of the ongoing and future ascent of China. Two of the associated questions are whether and when China might succeed the United States as the lead state in the world system. These are interesting questions,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-01-05
Collection :
Evolutionary Processes in World Politics
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This book offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the impact of the government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his Workers' Party on Brazilian economy and society, as he begins his second four-year term.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-01-05
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This study offers a comparative analysis of Latin American and Middle Eastern corporatism by looking at Egypt and Mexico's differing experiences with privatization and showing that how the working class was attached to the regime during the period of state-building...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-12-22
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This volume outlines the methods appropriate to an English School understanding of international relations and their assumptions about how knowledge of the social is gained. It makes clear what is involved in 'an English School approach' and what such an approach...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-12-19
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in International Relations
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Why does political decentralization seem reduce intrastate conflict more in some countries than in others? This question constitutes the central focus of Peace by Design. Brancati argues that the ability of decentralization to reduce intrastate conflict hinges on the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-12-18
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European governments have re-discovered labour migration, but are eager to be perceived as controlling unsolicited forms of migration, especially through asylum and family reunion. The emerging paradigm of managed migration combines the construction of more permissive...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-12-18
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This book looks at Africa's involvement in contemporary neoliberal globalization, paying particular attention to the social, economic, political, and cultural cost of the unbalanced structure of global wealth and power between Africa and the rest of the world.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-12-08
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This volume gathers contributors from both the US and UK to provide a comparative examination of federalism in the Bush era, a period of huge change in national politics, but also one of significant shifts in US federalism in relation to social and socioeconomic issues.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-12-08
Collection :
Studies of the Americas
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This book presents an original approach to understanding the relationship between official aid agencies and aid-receiving African governments. The first part provides a challenge to the hazy official claims of aid donors that they have stopped trying to force African...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-11-27
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This books analyzes international financial markets and environmental problems as typical examples of transnational common goods and considers the factors affecting the strategic constellations of countries in common goods provision, in particular the strategic effects...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-11-24
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