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  • 1
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    Baltimore, MD : John Hopkins University Press | Princeton, NJ [u.a.] : Univ. Press | Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press ; 1.1948/49(1949) - 60.2007/08; 61.2009 -
    ISSN: 0043-8871 , ISSN 1086-3338 , ISSN 1086-3338
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1948/49(1949) - 60.2007/08; 61.2009 -
    Additional Information: 14,1=78 von Princeton paperbacks Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1954
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als World politics
    DDC: 320
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    Keywords: Internationale Beziehungen ; Internationale Politik ; Außenpolitik ; Welt ; Internationale Politik ; Zeitschrift ; Internationale Politik ; Politik ; Weltpolitik ; Internationale Politik ; Außenpolitik ; Sicherheitspolitik
    Note: Repr.: New York, NY : Johnson; Bad Feilnbach : Schmidt Periodicals , Beteil. Körp. 1.1948/49 - 3.1951: Yale Institute of International Studies; früher: Center of International Studies
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  • 2
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511607813
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 301 pages)
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    DDC: 306.2
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    Keywords: Nationalismus ; Boundaries / Case studies ; Ethnicity / Case studies ; Nationalism / Case studies ; Ethnizität ; Staatsgrenze ; Nationalismus ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Staatsgrenze ; Ethnizität ; Nationalismus
    Abstract: This book offers fresh insights into the complex and various ways in which international frontiers influence cultural identities. The ten anthropological case studies collected here describe specific international borders in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America, and bring out the importance of boundary politics, and the diverse forms that it may take. The frontier itself may be of great symbolic importance; in other cases the symbolism lies rather in the disappearance of the traditional border. A frontier may be above all a barrier against immigration, or the front line between hostile armies. It may reinforce distinctive identities on each side of it, or the frontier may be disputed because it cuts across national identities. Drawing on anthropological perspectives, the book explores how cultural landscapes intersect with political boundaries, and ways in which state power informs cultural identity
    Description / Table of Contents: Nation, state and identity at international borders / Thomas M. Wilson and Hastings Donnan --- State formation and national identity in the Catalan borderlands during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Peter Sahlins --- A western perspective on an eastern interpretation of where north meets south: Pyrenean borderland cultures / William A. Douglass --- The 'new immigration' and the transformation of the European-African frontier / Henk Driessen --- Transnationalism in California and Mexico at the end of Empire / Michael Kearney --- National identity on the frontier: Palestinians in the Israeli education system / Dan Rabinowitz -- Grenzregime (border regimes): the Wall and its aftermath / John Borneman --- Transcending the state?: gender and borderline constructions of citizenship in Zimbabwe / A.P. Cheater --- Borders, boundaries, tradition and state on the Malaysian periphery / Janet Carsten --- Markets, morality and modernity in north-east Turkey / Chris Hann and Ildikó Bellér-Hann --- Imagining 'the south': hybridity, heterotopias and Arabesk on the Turkish-Syrian border / Martin Stokes
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9780521515689 , 0521515688 , 9780521092906 , 0521092906
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 199 Seiten , Diagramme , 23 cm
    Edition: First published
    DDC: 325.43
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    Keywords: Deportation ; Deportation ; Deportation United States ; Deportation Germany ; Deutschland ; Einwanderungspolitik ; USA ; illegale Einwanderer ; United States Emigration and immigration ; Germany Emigration and immigration ; Deutschland ; Einwanderungspolitik ; Illegaler Einwanderer ; USA ; USA ; Einwanderung ; Deutschland ; USA ; Einwanderungspolitik ; Deutschland ; USA ; Illegaler Einwanderer ; Ausweisung ; Deutschland ; USA ; Ausländer ; Deportation ; Abschiebung ; Deutschland ; USA ; Einwanderungspolitik ; Ausweisung ; Deutschland ; USA ; Illegaler Einwanderer ; Ausweisung ; Deutschland
    Abstract: In this comparative study, Ellermann examines the capacity of the liberal democratic state to coercively regulate individuals within its borders. Ellermann shows that the conditions underlying socially coercive state capacity systematically vary not only across institutional contexts but also across stages in the policy cycle.
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  • 4
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511626562
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (392 p.)) , digital, PDF file(s).
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Cambridge Companions to Management
    Series Statement: Cambridge companions to management
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Power and interdependence in organizations
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    DDC: 302.35
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    Keywords: Organizational behavior ; Organizational sociology ; Power (Social sciences) ; Control (Psychology) ; Power (Social sciences) ; Organizational sociology ; Control (Psychology) ; Organizational behavior ; Organisationssoziologie ; Organisationsverhalten ; Organizational behavior ; Organizational sociology ; Power (Social sciences) ; Control (Psychology) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Organisationsverhalten ; Macht
    Abstract: Power is an inescapable feature of human existence. It plays a role in all social contexts and is particularly important in the functioning of organizations and work groups. Organizational researchers have certainly recognised the importance of power but have traditionally focused on its negative aspects. Yet power can also have very positive effects. Power and Interdependence in Organizations capitalizes on significant developments in social science over the past twenty years to show how managers and employees can manage power in order to make it a constructive force in organizations. Written by a team of international academics, the book explores both the positive and negative aspects of power, identifying opportunities and threats. It shows that harnessing the positive aspects of power, as well as controlling its more destructive effects, has the potential to revolutionise the way that organizations function, making them both more humane and productive
    Abstract: Understanding power in organizations / Jeffrey Pfeffer -- How can power be tamed? / David G. Winter -- Power and self-construal: how the self affects power processes / Barbara van Knippenberg and Daan van Knippenberg -- The conceptualization of power and the nature of interdependency: the role of legitimacy and culture / Joris Lammers and Adam D. Galinski -- Power in cooperation and competition: understanding the positive and negative faces of power / Dean Tjosvold and Peiguan Wu -- Growing powerful using cherry picking strategies: coworker networks as cherry trees / George B. Graen -- Acting fairly to be the boss: procedural justice as a tool to affirm power relationships with subordinates / David De Cremer and Marius van Dijke -- A tale of two theories: implicit theories of power and power-sharing in organizations / Peter T. Coleman -- The power process and emotion / Edward J. Lawler and Chad A. Proell -- Gender inequalities in power in organizations / Alice H. Eagly and Agneta Fischer -- Power and the interpersonal influence of leaders / Gary Yukl -- Bases of leader power and effectiveness / M. Afzal Rahim -- Power tactics preference in organizations: individual and situational factors / Meni Koslowsky and Joseph Schwarzwald -- Influence triggers and compliance: a discussion of the affects of power, motivation, resistance and antecedents / John E. Barbuto, Jr. and Gregory T. Gifford -- Leadership and conflict: using power to manage conflict in groups for better rather than worse / Randall S. Peterson and Sarah Ronson -- Organizational change / Lourdes Munduate and Francisco J. Medina -- Servant-leadership, key to follower well-being / Dirk van Dierendonck, Inge Nuijten and Imke Heeren -- Ethical leadership: the socially responsible use of power / Annebel H.B. De Hoogh and Deanne N. Den Hartog -- The tao of value leadership and the power of interdependence / Ping Ping Fu and Caroline Fu
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9780511575839
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 308 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als North, Douglass Cecil Violence and social orders
    DDC: 306.301
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Violence / Economic aspects / History ; State, The / History ; Social control / History
    Abstract: All societies must deal with the possibility of violence, and they do so in different ways. This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger social science and historical framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked. Most societies, which we call natural states, limit violence by political manipulation of the economy to create privileged interests. These privileges limit the use of violence by powerful individuals, but doing so hinders both economic and political development. In contrast, modern societies create open access to economic and political organizations, fostering political and economic competition. The book provides a framework for understanding the two types of social orders, why open access societies are both politically and economically more developed, and how some 25 countries have made the transition between the two types
    Description / Table of Contents: The conceptual framework -- The natural state -- The natural state applied : English land law -- Open access orders -- The transition from limited to open access orders : the doorstep conditions -- The transition proper -- A new research agenda for the social sciences
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9780511753749
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (320 p.)) , digital, PDF file(s).
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences no. 30
    Series Statement: Structural analysis in the social sciences 30
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Kilduff, Martin, 1949 - Interpersonal networks in organizations
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    DDC: 302.3/5
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    Keywords: Social perception ; Power (Social sciences) ; Organizational behavior Social aspects ; Self-perception ; Social networks ; Organizational behavior ; Social aspects ; Social networks ; Self-perception ; Social perception ; Power (Social sciences) ; Organisationsphsychologie ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Organisationskultur ; Organisationspsychologie ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Organisationsverhalten ; Soziale Wahrnehmung
    Abstract: This book brings a social networks perspective to bear on topics of leadership, decision-making, turnover, organizational crises, organizational culture, and other major organizational behavior topics. It offers a new direction for organizational behavior theory and research by drawing from social network ideas. Across diverse research topics, the authors pursue an integrated focus on social ties both as they are represented in the cognitions of individuals and as they operate as constraints and opportunities in organizational settings. The authors bring their 20 years worth of research experience together to provide a programmatic social network approach to understanding the internal functioning of organizations. By focusing a distinctive research lens on interpersonal networks, they attempt to discover the keys to the whole realm of organizational behavior through the social network approach
    Abstract: Perceiving networks. A network approach to leadership ; An analysis of the internal market for reputation in organizations ; Systematic biases in network perception ; Effects of network accuracy on individuals' perceived power -- The psychology of network differences. Social structure and decision making in an MBA cohort ; The social networks of low and high self-monitors ; Centrality in the emotion helping network : an interactionist approach -- Network dynamics and organizational culture. Network perceptions and turnover in three organizations ; Organizational crises; The control of organizational diversity ; Future directions
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  • 7
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521855497 , 9780521855495
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 415 p) , ill , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy
    Parallel Title: Print version Information Technology and Moral Philosophy
    DDC: 303.48/33
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    Keywords: Information technology Moral and ethical aspects ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: An international team of philosophers shed light on many of the ethical issues arising from information technology
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1 Norbert Wiener and the Rise of Information Ethics; 2 Why We Need Better Ethics for Emerging Technologies; 3 Information Ethics: Its Nature and Scope ; 4 The Transformation of the Public Sphere: Political Authority, Communicative Freedom, and Internet Publics ; 5 Democracy and the Internet; 6 The Social Epistemology of Blogging; 7 Plural Selves and Relational Identity: Intimacy and Privacy Online ; 8 Identity and Information Technology; 9 Trust, Reliance, and the Internet
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 Esteem, Identifiability, and the Internet11 Culture and Global Networks: Hope for a Global Ethics?; 12 Collective Responsibility and Information and Communication Technology ; 13 Computers as Surrogate Agents; 14 Moral Philosophy, Information Technology, and Copyright: The Grokster Case; 15 Information Technology, Privacy, and the Protection of Personal Data; 16 Embodying Values in Technology: Theory and Practice ; 17 Information Technology Research Ethics; 18 Distributive Justice and the Value of Information: A (Broadly) Rawlsian Approach; Select Bibliography; Index
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  • 8
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511800672
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 257 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: New approaches to the Americas
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    DDC: 304.2098
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1600-2007 ; Geschichte ; Human ecology / Latin America / History ; Nature / Effect of human beings on / Latin America / History ; Rain forest ecology / Latin America / History ; Rain forest conservation / Latin America / History ; Forest management / Latin America / History ; Environmental degradation / Latin America / History ; Umweltveränderung ; Lateinamerika ; Latin America / Environmental conditions / History ; Lateinamerika ; Lateinamerika ; Umweltveränderung ; Geschichte 1600-2007
    Abstract: A narration of the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period that begins with Amerindian civilizations and concludes in the region's present urban agglomerations, the work offers an original synthesis of the current scholarship on Latin America's environmental history and argues that tropical nature played a central role in shaping the region's historical development. Human attitudes, populations, and appetites, from Aztec cannibalism to more contemporary forms of conspicuous consumption, figure prominently in the story. However, characters such as hookworms, whales, hurricanes, bananas, dirt, butterflies, guano, and fungi make more than cameo appearances. Recent scholarship has overturned many of our egocentric assumptions about humanity's role in history. Seeing Latin America's environmental past from the perspective of many centuries illustrates that human civilizations, ancient and modern, have been simultaneously more powerful and more vulnerable than previously thought
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  • 9
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511288531
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (310 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Print version The Logics and Politics of Post-WWII Migration to Western Europe
    DDC: 304.8/4
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    Keywords: Europe, Western ; Emigration and immigration ; History ; 20th century ; Electronic books ; Europe, Western Emigration and immigration 20th century ; History ; Europe History 1945- ; Europe, Western Emigration and immigration ; Government policy
    Abstract: This book traces the evolution of immigration for the immigration-receiving states of Western Europe.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- The Logics and Politics of Post-WWII Migration to Western Europe -- 1 Introduction: Immigration and State Sovereignty -- Framing the core puzzles of post-wwii immigration -- Overview and argument -- Linking immigration and state sovereignty -- Policy challenges posed by post-wwii immigration -- Challenge of Unwanted Immigration -- Challenge of a Contested Domestic Immigration Policy -- Challenge from Anti-Immigrant Groups -- Challenge of Immigrant Political Incorporation -- Plan of the book -- 2 The Origins and Trajectory of Post-WWII Immigration -- Three waves of postwar immigration -- First Wave: Labor Immigration and the Postwar Economy (1945-79) -- Seasonal Immigration -- Second Wave: Secondary Immigration and Permanent Settlement (1973-2007) -- Third Wave: Irregular and Forced Immigration (1989-2007) -- Irregular Immigration -- "Crisis" of Asylees and Refugees -- Postwar immigration as a coherent phenomenon -- Securitization of immigration and its emergence as a meta-issue -- Conclusion: immigration's shifting benefits and costs -- 3 The Organized Nativist Backlash: The Surge of Anti-Immigrant Groups -- The phenomenon of anti-immigrant groups -- A Brief Survey -- Varied Orientations, Forms, and Strategies of Anti-Immigrant Groups -- Generic Groups -- Neo-Fascist Groups -- Opportunistic Right -- New Radical Right -- Ethnonational Right -- The logic of anti-immigrant groups -- Filling a Unique Niche within the Domestic Political Marketplace -- Violating the Conspiracy of Silence -- Immigrants as a Perceived Threat -- Anti-Immigrant Sentiment and Unemployment -- Size of the Foreign Population -- Subjective versus Objective Opposition -- Anti-Immigrant Groups as a Post-1980 Phenomenon.
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  • 10
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511618307
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 214 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Series Statement: New approaches to African history 4
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    DDC: 307.76096
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    Keywords: Urbanization History ; Cities and towns History ; Cities and towns ; Africa ; History ; Urbanization ; Africa ; History
    Abstract: This book is comprehensive both in terms of time coverage, from before the Pharaohs to the present moment and in that it tries to consider cities from the entire continent, not just Sub-Saharan Africa. Apart from factual information and rich description material culled from many sources, it looks at many issues from why urban life emerged in the first place to how present-day African cities cope in difficult times. Instead of seeing towns and cities as somehow extraneous to the real Africa, it views them as an inherent part of developing Africa, indigenous, colonial, and post-colonial and emphasizes the extent to which the future of African society and African culture will likely be played out mostly in cities. The book is written to appeal to students of history but equally to geographers, planners, sociologists and development specialists interested in urban problems
    Abstract: Urban life emerges in Africa -- African cities and the emergence of a world trading economy -- Colonialism and urbanisation -- Cities in revolt: the long time crisis of South African urbanism -- The post-colonial African city -- Globalisation and the African city: Touba, Abidjan, Durban
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  • 11
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511812415
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 235 pages)
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    Abstract: In today's volatile business environment, organizational design is a serious challenge for any manager, whether of a multinational enterprise or a small team. This book sets out a step-by-step approach to designing an organization. All the key aspects of organizational design are covered, including goals, strategy, structure, process, people, coordination and control, and incentives. The text engages with critical issues affecting organisations, such as globalization, worldwide competition, deregulation and ever-new technologies, and contains many helpful features such as end-of-chapter reviews and unique step-by-step diagrams to orientate the reader in the design process. Diagnostic questions help the reader to determine the changes needed in an organization. The action oriented approach of this text helps the reader to assess and re-design the complex organizations of today, and plan for the information-rich organizations of tomorrow.
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  • 12
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780521854092 , 0521854091 , 9780521670043
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 485 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
    DDC: 303.64
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    Keywords: Guerra civil ; Guerre civile ; Violence politique ; Violência política ; Political violence ; Civil war ; Bürgerkrieg ; Kriegführung ; Gewalttätigkeit ; Gewalt ; Bürgerkrieg ; Gewalt ; Bürgerkrieg ; Kriegführung ; Gewalttätigkeit
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  • 13
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511617430
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 591 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Edition: Second edition
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 302/.13
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    Keywords: Social choice Mathematical models ; Social choice ; Mathematical models ; Personalwesen ; Arbeitsmotivation ; Anreiz ; Informationsverhalten ; Kollektiventscheidung
    Abstract: This book, first published in 2006, examines the incentives at work in a wide range of institutions to see how and how well coordination is achieved by informing and motivating individual decision makers. The book examines the performance of agents hired to carry out specific tasks, from taxi drivers to CEOs. It investigates the performance of institutions, from voting schemes to kidney transplants, to see if they enhance general well being. The book examines a broad range of market transactions, from auctions to labor markets, to the entire economy. The analysis is conducted using specific worked examples, lucid general theory, and illustrations drawn from news stories. Of the seventy different topics and sections, only twelve require a knowledge of calculus. The second edition offers new chapters on auctions, matching and assignment problems, and corporate governance. Boxed examples are used to highlight points of theory and are separated from the main text
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511494215
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXXVI, 510 Seiten)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Secession
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    DDC: 341.26
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    Keywords: Secession ; Secession ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Völkerrecht ; Sezession ; Selbstbestimmungsrecht
    Abstract: The end of the Cold War brought about new secessionist aspirations and the strengthening and re-awakening of existing or dormant separatist claims everywhere. The creation of a new independent entity through the separation of part of the territory and population of an existing State raises serious difficulties as to the role of international law. This 2006 book offers a comprehensive study of secession from an international law perspective, focusing on practice and applicable rules of international law. It includes theoretical analyses and a scrutiny of practice throughout the world by eighteen distinguished authors from Western and Eastern Europe, North and Sub-Saharan Africa, North and Latin America, and Asia. Core questions are addressed from different perspectives, and in some cases with divergent views. The reader is also exposed to a far-reaching picture of State practice, including some cases which are rarely mentioned and often neglected in scholarly analysis of secession
    Abstract: Introduction / Marcelo G. Kohen -- pt. I. The foundations of international law and their impact on secession. Secession and self-determination / Christian Tomuschat ; Secession, terrorism and the right of self-determination / Andrew Clapham ; Secession and external intervention / Georg Nolte ; The role of recognition in the law and practice of secession / John Dugard and David Raic ; The state as a 'primary fact': some thoughts on the principle of effectiveness / Theodore Christakis ; A normative 'due process' in the creation of states through secession / Antonello Tancredi ; Secession and the law of state succession / Andreas Zimmermann ; Are there gaps in the international law of secession? / Olivier Corten -- pt. II. International and domestic practice. The question of secession in Africa / Fatsah Ouguergouz and Djacoba Liva Tehindrazanarivelo ; International law and secession in the Asia and Pacific regions / Li-ann Thio ; Secession and international law: the European dimension / Photini Pazartzis ; Secession and international law: Latin American practice / Frida Armas Pfirter and Silvina Gonzalez Napolitano ; Lessons learned from the Quebec Secession Reference before the Supreme Court of Canada / Patrick Dumberry ; The secession of the Canton of Jura in Switzerland / Christian Dominice ; Conclusions / Georges Abi-Saab
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  • 15
    ISBN: 9780511584350
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 277 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1980-2000 ; Politik ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Social change / Hungary ; Social change / Poland ; Post-communism / Hungary ; Post-communism / Poland ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Polen ; Ungarn ; Hungary / Economic policy / 1968-1989 ; Hungary / Economic policy / 1945-1968 ; Poland / Politics and government / 1980-1989 ; Poland / Politics and government / 1945-1980 ; Ungarn ; Polen ; Ungarn ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Polen ; Geschichte 1980-2000
    Abstract: The profound transformations that preceded the downfall of Communism originated in Poland and Hungary, but played out in strikingly different ways. Hungary led through economic reform, Poland through open political struggle. Analysis of these transformational variants yields important insights into systemic change, marketization, and democratization. This book shows how these changes were possible in authoritarian regimes as, over time, state and society became mutually vulnerable, neither fully able to dictate the terms of engagement. For Poland this meant principled confrontation; for Hungary, innovative accommodation. This book argues that different conceptual frameworks and strategies of persuasion account for these divergences in virtually identical institutional settings. Seleny traces the different political-institutional residues which, in both Hungary and Poland, now function as constraining or enabling legacies. In particular, she demonstrates that state socialist legacies account for salient differences between these two new capitalist democracies, and now condition their prospects in the European Union
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : points of permeable contact -- History and theory in practice -- Precocious reformer : Hungary -- Injustice: poland 1948--1980 -- Poland : from solidarity to 1989 -- Hungary : property relations recast -- Schumpeter by the Danube : from second economy to private sector -- Action and reaction : institutional consequences of private-sector expansion -- Conclusion : despotism, discovery, and surprise
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521537541 , 0521830532
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 390 p) , ill , 25 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in landscape ecology
    Parallel Title: Print version Issues and Perspectives in Landscape Ecology
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    Keywords: Landscape ecology
    Abstract: Through a series of personal essays by leading landscape ecologists, this book addresses a wide array of past, current, and future issues in landscape ecology. The essays are informative and entertaining and span multiple spectrums, addressing theory and practice, science and application, conservation and utilization, and aquatic and terrestrial systems
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Introductory perspectives; PART I Introductory perspectives; 1 When is a landscape perspective important?; What is landscape ecology?; What is landscape structure?; What is a landscape-scale study?; When is a landscape perspective necessary?; When is a landscape perspective not necessary?; Impediments to landscape-scale studies; Acknowledgments; References; 2 Incorporating geographical (biophysical) principles in studies of landscape systems; Space as the main subject of landscape ecology analysis
    Description / Table of Contents: The principle of the hierarchical ordering of geocomponentsThe principle of the relative discontinuity of the natural environment; The principle of the delimitation of partial geocomplexes; The principle of equivalence of the bottom-up and top-down approaches to spatial division; The principle of the compound and temporally variable potential of a geocomplex; The principle of the delimitation and bioindicative assessment of the geocomplex on the basis of the vegetation cover; The principle of the minimization of energy costs; Final remarks; References
    Description / Table of Contents: PART II Theory, experiments, and models in landscape ecology3 Theory in landscape ecology; Hierarchy theory and landscape scale; Percolation theory and hypothesis testing; Spatial population theory; Economic geography; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; 4 Hierarchy theory and the landscape … level? or, Words do matter; References; 5 Equilibrium versus non-equilibrium landscapes; Conceptual considerations; Examples of different kinds of landscapes; Consequences; References; 6 Disturbances and landscapes: the little things count; Small landscape structures and their functions
    Description / Table of Contents: What scale really matters to these functions?Tales from two continents; Disturbances and continua of landscape function; Implications for landscape preservation and restoration; Acknowledgments; References; 7 Scale and an organism-centric focus for studying interspecific interactions in landscapes; Three kinds of problems; An organism-centric approach; A case study; Some provisos; Scoping: interspecific interactions; Extensions; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; 8 The role of experiments in landscape ecology; Why should landscape ecologists conduct experiments?
    Description / Table of Contents: What kind of experiments should landscape ecologists conduct?Are landscape ecological experiments at all feasible?; Experiments on fundamental landscape ecological mechanisms; From small-scale experiments on mechanisms to inferences about landscape-level phenomena; Experimental model systems (EMS); Conclusion; References; 9 Spatial modeling in landscape ecology; Spatial models, expert knowledge, and data; Bringing together models and data yields more than the sum of both; Models are necessary for prediction; Correctly used, models are more powerful than crystal �balls or experts
    Description / Table of Contents: Strategic versus tactical models, or simple versus complex models
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  • 17
    ISBN: 9780511818059
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 815 Seiten)
    Edition: First published
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The handbook of political sociology
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    DDC: 306.2
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    Keywords: Globalization ; Civil society ; State, The ; Political sociology ; Globalization ; Civil society ; State, The ; Political sociology ; Political sociology ; Civil society ; State, The ; Globalization ; Politische Soziologie ; Soziologie ; Politikwissenschaft ; Staat ; Zivilgesellschaft ; Gesellschaft ; Globalisierung ; Handbuch ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Politische Soziologie ; Politische Soziologie
    Abstract: Political sociology in the new millenium / Alexander M. Hicks, Thomas Janoski, and Mildred A. Schwartz -- pt. I. Theories of political sociology. Rule making, rulebreaking. and power / Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward -- Neopluralism and neofunctionalism in political sociology / Alexander M. Hicks and Frank J. Lecher -- Conflict theories in political sociology / Axel van den Berg and Thomas Janoski -- Institutionalist and state-centric theories of political sociology / Edwin Amenta -- Culture, knowledge, and politics / James Jasper -- Feminist theorizing and feminism in political sociology / Barbara Hobson -- The linguistic turn : Foucault, Laclau, Mouffe, and Žižek / Jacob Torfing -- Rational-choice theories in political sociology / Edgar Kiser and Shawn Bauldry -- Theories of race and the state / David R. James and Kent Redding
    Abstract: Political sociology in the new millenium / Alexander M. Hicks, Thomas Janoski, and Mildred A. Schwartz -- pt. I. Theories of political sociology. Rule making, rulebreaking. and power / Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward -- Neopluralism and neofunctionalism in political sociology / Alexander M. Hicks and Frank J. Lecher -- Conflict theories in political sociology / Axel van den Berg and Thomas Janoski -- Institutionalist and state-centric theories of political sociology / Edwin Amenta -- Culture, knowledge, and politics / James Jasper -- Feminist theorizing and feminism in political sociology / Barbara Hobson -- The linguistic turn : Foucault, Laclau, Mouffe, and Žižek / Jacob Torfing -- Rational-choice theories in political sociology / Edgar Kiser and Shawn Bauldry -- Theories of race and the state / David R. James and Kent Redding
    Abstract: pt. II. Civil society : the roots and processes of political action. Money, participation, and votes : social cleavages and electoral politics / Jeffrey Manza, Clem Brooks, and Michael Sauder -- Public opinion, political attitudes, and ideology / David L. Weakliem -- Nationalism in comparative perspective / Liah Greenfield and Jonathan R. Eastwood -- Political parties : social bases, organization, and environment / Mildred A. Schwartz and Kay Lawson -- Organized interest groups and policy networks / Francisco J. Granados and David Knoke -- Corporate control, interfirm relations, and corporate power / Mark S. Mizruchi and Deborah M. Bey -- Social movements and social change / J. Craig Jenkins and William Form -- Toward a political sociology of the news media / Michael Schudson and Silvio Waisbord -- pt. III. The state and its manifestations. State formation and state building in Europe / Thomas Ertman -- Transitions to democracy / John Markoff -- Revolutions and revolutionary movements / Jeffrey Goodman -- Regimes and contention / Charles Tilly -- Theories and practices of neocorporatism / Wolfgang Streeck and Lane Kenworthy -- Undemocratic politics in the twentieth century and beyond / Viviane Brachet-Márquez -- State bureaucracy : politics and policies / Oscar Oszlak
    Abstract: pt. II. Civil society : the roots and processes of political action. Money, participation, and votes : social cleavages and electoral politics / Jeffrey Manza, Clem Brooks, and Michael Sauder -- Public opinion, political attitudes, and ideology / David L. Weakliem -- Nationalism in comparative perspective / Liah Greenfield and Jonathan R. Eastwood -- Political parties : social bases, organization, and environment / Mildred A. Schwartz and Kay Lawson -- Organized interest groups and policy networks / Francisco J. Granados and David Knoke -- Corporate control, interfirm relations, and corporate power / Mark S. Mizruchi and Deborah M. Bey -- Social movements and social change / J. Craig Jenkins and William Form -- Toward a political sociology of the news media / Michael Schudson and Silvio Waisbord -- pt. III. The state and its manifestations. State formation and state building in Europe / Thomas Ertman -- Transitions to democracy / John Markoff -- Revolutions and revolutionary movements / Jeffrey Goodman -- Regimes and contention / Charles Tilly -- Theories and practices of neocorporatism / Wolfgang Streeck and Lane Kenworthy -- Undemocratic politics in the twentieth century and beyond / Viviane Brachet-Márquez -- State bureaucracy : politics and policies / Oscar Oszlak
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511491023
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 461 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
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    DDC: 304.6630904
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    Keywords: Genocide History 20th century ; Genocide ; Genocide ; Genocide ; History ; 20th century ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The Killing Trap, first published in 2005, offers a comparative analysis of the genocides, politicides and ethnic cleansings of the twentieth century, which are estimated to have cost upwards of forty million lives. The book seeks to understand both the occurrence and magnitude of genocide, based on the conviction that such comparative analysis may contribute towards prevention of genocide in the future. Manus Midlarsky compares socio-economic circumstances and international contexts and includes in his analysis the Jews of Europe, Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Tutsi in Rwanda, black Africans in Darfur, Cambodians, Bosnians, and the victims of conflict in Ireland. The occurrence of genocide is explained by means of a framework that gives equal emphasis to the non-occurrence of genocide, a critical element not found in other comparisons, and victims are given a prominence equal to that of perpetrators in understanding the magnitude of genocide
    Abstract: pt. I. Introduction -- 1. Preliminary considerations -- Purposes of the book -- The role of theory -- Research strategy -- Plan of the book -- 2. Case selection -- Excluded cases -- Three cases of genocide -- pt. II. Explaining perpetrators : theoretical foundations -- 3. Continuity and validation -- Continuity of the killing in three cases -- Validation -- 4. Prologue to theory -- Rational choice -- Utopianism -- Two historical cases -- 5. A theoretical framework -- The domain of losses and state insecurity -- Three types of realpolitik -- Realpolitik, property, and loss compensation -- The domain of losses, risk, and loss compensation -- Altruistic punishment -- pt. III. The theory applied -- 6. Threat of numbers, realpolitik, and ethnic cleansing -- The Irish famine -- Germans and Jews in Poland -- Muslims in Bosnia -- 7. Realpolitik and loss -- The Holocaust -- The Armenians -- The Tutsi -- Conclusion -- 8. The need for unity and altruistic punishment -- Germany -- The Ottoman empire -- Rwanda -- Himmler and the necessity for cooperation -- Conclusion -- 9. Perpetrating states -- Italy : a genocidal trajectory -- Vichy France -- Romania
    Abstract: pt. IV. Victim vulnerability : explaining magnitude and manner of dying -- 10. Raison d'état, raison d'église -- The Armenians -- The Holocaust -- The Tutsi -- Conclusion -- 11. Cynical realpolitik and the unwanted -- The United States -- Great Britain and commonwealth countries -- Impact on the Holocaust -- 12. High victimization : the role of realpolitik -- Hungary -- The Netherlands -- 13. Inequality and absence of identification -- Inequality and absence of identification between perpetrators and victims -- Inequality and absence of identification among the victims -- On the possibilities of survival -- Equality and identification between Jews and non-Jews -- 14. On the possibility of revolt and altruistic punishment -- Łódź -- Warsaw -- Vilna -- Comparisons among the three ghettos -- Conclusion : the role of altruistic punishment
    Abstract: pt. V. Exceptions -- 15. A dog of a different nature : the Cambodian politicide -- Variation in victimization -- Genocide of the Vietnamese -- The communist models -- Purges -- Summary comparisons -- 16. Dogs that didn't bark I : realpolitik and the absence of loss -- Bulgaria -- Finland -- Comparisons -- 17. Dogs that didn't bark II : affinity and vulnerability reduction -- Affinity and genocide -- Greeks in the Ottoman empire -- Jews in Eastern Europe -- Poland at the time of the Partitions -- Britain and Ireland -- Israel and intifada II -- The impact of war -- pt. VI. Conclusion -- 18. Findings, consequences, and prevention -- Similarities and differences -- Consequences of genocide -- Genocide prevention and the role of democracy -- Validation -- Coda
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511817274
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 580 pages)
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    DDC: 304.6/63
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    Keywords: Ethik ; Politik ; Political atrocities ; Genocide ; State-sponsored terrorism ; Ethnicity / Political aspects ; Democracy / Moral and ethical aspects ; Vertreibung ; Nationalismus ; Nationalstaat ; Minderheitenfrage ; Ethnizität ; Entstehung ; Völkermord ; Staat ; Akteur ; Electronic books ; Minderheitenfrage ; Vertreibung ; Nationalstaat ; Entstehung ; Ethnizität ; Nationalismus ; Völkermord ; Staat ; Vertreibung ; Akteur ; Staat ; Völkermord ; Akteur
    Abstract: A new theory of ethnic cleansing based on the most terrible cases (colonial genocides, Armenia, the Nazi Holocaust, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda) and cases of lesser violence (early modern Europe, contemporary India, and Indonesia). Murderous cleansing is modern, 'the dark side of democracy'. It results where the demos (democracy) is confused with the ethnos (the ethnic group). Danger arises where two rival ethno-national movements each claims 'its own' state over the same territory. Conflict escalates where either the weaker side fights because of aid from outside, or the stronger side believes it can deploy sudden, overwhelming force. Escalation is not simply the work of 'evil elites' or 'primitive peoples'. It results from complex interactions between leaders, militants, and 'core constituencies' of ethno-nationalism. Understanding this complex process helps us devise policies to avoid ethnic cleansing in the future
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