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Far-reaching changes in the global distribution of wealth over the last few decades have led scholars of regional integration to recognise a need to examine the regional level as an arena of social policy formation and implementation. This development has long been an...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2013-12-04
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?Substantial disparities across different Chinese regions are one of the most prominent features in China’s development process. This book investigates the mechanisms through which openness affects regional economic growth and interregional disparities in China. Based...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-11-29
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Denmark and Switzerland are small and successful countries with exceptionally content populations. However, they have very different political institutions and economic models. They have followed the general tendency in the West toward economic convergence, but both...
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Springer
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2013-11-26
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This book investigates the causes of inequalities that have developed in the European Union, analyzes their social and economic consequences, and assesses the political measures taken to address these issues – also on the basis of public survey results.The detailed...
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Springer
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2013-11-19
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Wer heute über die deutsch-französischen Beziehungen nach 1945 spricht, denkt in der Regel an den Élysée-Vertrag, das Deutsch-Französische Jugendwerk und die (bundes)deutsch-französische Aussöhnung. Vergessen wird dabei häufig, dass auch die DDR bis zu ihrem Ende 1990...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2013-11-15
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The multi-billion dollar business of the international conventional arms trade involves virtually every country in the world. Around the globe, people's lives are being irrevocably changed by the effects of guns, tanks, and missiles. These weapons have the potential to...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-09-06
Collection :
War and Conflict in the Modern World
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-7%
21,50€
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Over a decade on from the terrorist attacks of 9/11, intelligence continues to be of central importance to the contemporary world. Today there is a growing awareness of the importance of intelligence, and an increasing investment in it, as individuals, groups,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-08-27
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Using a unique, question-based format, Global Trade Policy offers accessible coverage of the key questions in trade and policy; it charts the changing policy landscape and evolving institutional arrangements for trade policies, examines trade theory, and provides...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-07-09
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-9%
54,95€
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The partnership between India and Taiwan is situated in a virtual maze of complex political factors. Given the core issue of contestation of Taiwan’s political status in world affairs and India’s adherence to the “One China” policy, the relationship remains a fragile...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-07-03
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Economics
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Using a unique, question-based format, Global Trade Policy offers accessible coverage of the key questions in trade and policy; it charts the changing policy landscape and evolving institutional arrangements for trade policies, examines trade theory, and provides...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-06-27
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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...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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This innovative new text is derived from a highly successful Open University course of the same title. It takes as a dominant theme the contested issue of ‘globalization’ (the apparent intensification of global patterns of inter-dependence) and its implications for the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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The terms 'global' and 'civil society' have both become part of the contemporary political lexicon. In this important new book, Mary Kaldor argues that this is no coincidence and that the reinvention of civil society has to be understood in the context of globalization....
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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At the end of the Cold War, there was much talk of a new world order in which the sovereign state would be held to democratic account, fundamental rights would be respected, and conflict would be replaced by cooperation based on the rule of law.At the start of the new...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-24
Collection :
Themes for the 21st Century
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This book provides a comprehensive view of women's political participation in Latin America. Focusing on the latter half of the twentieth century, it examines five different arenas of action and debate: political institutions, workplaces, social movements, revolutions...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-24
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21,50€
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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...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-17
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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...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-17
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62,20€
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The social sciences have long been based upon contrasts drawn between the 'militaristic' societies of the past, and the 'capitalist' or 'industrial' societies of the present. But how valid are such contrasts, given that the current era is one stamped by the impact of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-12
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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 :
2013-06-10
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-69%
62,20€
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Since the end of the Cold War, activists and scholars alike have celebrated the phenomenal growth of transnational social movements across the globe. For some, this new eruption of grass-roots political activism on a world scale – from the Rio Earth Summit to the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-10
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-7%
20,40€
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