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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781405158084 , 9781405158091 , 1444305050 , 1282138758 , 9781444305050 , 9781282138759
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 228 p) , ill , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: RGS-IBG book series
    Parallel Title: Print version Resistance, Space and Political Identities : The Making of Counter-Global Networks
    DDC: 303.48/2
    Keywords: Geopolitics ; Globalization Political aspects ; Power (Social sciences) ; Anti-globalization movement ; International relations
    Abstract: Utilizing research on networked struggles in both the 18th-century Atlantic world and our modern day, Resistance, Space and Political Identities: The Making of Counter-Global Networks challenges existing understandings of the relations between space, politics, and resistance to develop an innovative account of networked forms of resistance and political activity.:.; Explores counter-global struggles in both the past and presentincluding both the 18th-century Atlantic world and contemporary forms of resistance.; Examines the productive geographies of contestation.; Foregrounds the solidarities
    Abstract: Utilizing research on networked struggles in both the 18th-century Atlantic world and our modern day, Resistance, Space and Political Identities: The Making of Counter-Global Networks challenges existing understandings of the relations between space, politics, and resistance to develop an innovative account of networked forms of resistance and political activity.Explores counter-global struggles in both the past and present-including both the 18th-century Atlantic world and contemporary forms of resistanceExamines the productive geographies of contestationForegrounds the solidarities and geogr
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Space, Contestation and the Political; Part One: Networking the Political; Chapter One: Place and the Relational Construction of Political Identities; Chapter Two: Geographies of Solidarities and Antagonisms; Part Two: Geographies of Connection and Contestation; Chapter Three: Labourers' Politics and Mercantile Networks; Chapter Four: Making Democratic Spatial Practices; Chapter Five: Counter-Global Networks and the Making of Subaltern Nationalisms; Part Three: Political Geographies of the Counter-Globalization Movement
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter Six: Geographies of Power and the Counter-Globalization MovementChapter Seven: Constructing Transnational Political Networks; Conclusion: Towards Politicized Geographies of Connection; Notes; References; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    Basingstoke [England] : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9780230591547
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 323 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection
    Parallel Title: Printed edition
    Keywords: Political economy ; Globalization ; International economics ; Development economics ; Asia Economic conditions ; Regional economics ; Spatial economics ; Political economy ; Globalization ; International economics ; Development economics ; Asia ; Regional economics ; Economic conditions ; Spatial economics ; Economics ; Development Economics ; International Economics ; Regional/Spatial Science ; Asian Economics ; Political Economy ; Globalization
    Abstract: The momentum of economic progress in India and China will bring about the next major shift in geopolitics. This book analyzes the economic experience of both countries in the context of development and globalization, and offers insights that could be crucial for development thinking
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    ISBN: 9781403981479
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xx, 292 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series
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    Keywords: European Union ; Political science ; Europe History ; World politics ; Europe Politics and government ; International relations
    Abstract: Many thought that the 'German question', that had shaped European history so catastrophically in the last century, had been solved for good in 1990. And the last elections seemed to confirm that Germany was on the road to 'normalcy'. However, at the beginning of the new century, many see Germany as a problem case in Europe. This raises the question about the future of Germany and the performance of the incumbent government. The book addresses these issues by examining the policies and politics of the Red-Green government and by putting recent changes and developments in this country in a long-term perspective
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9781403982353
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 195 p)
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    Series Statement: Culture and Religion in International Relations
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    Keywords: Religion ; Religion History ; Religions ; Religion and sociology ; Political science ; International relations
    Abstract: Reason, Culture, Religion book provides a systematic overview of the study of world politics. The author then locates modernist world politics in its sacral context by discussing Taoist strategics, Buddhist economics, Islamic civics, Confucian Marxism, Hindu constructivism, Pagan feminism and Animist environmentalism. It concludes by asking what a world affairs worthy of the name would be
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9781403981417
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (213 p)
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    Keywords: Political science ; Ethnicity ; Social justice ; Military history ; International relations ; Politics and war ; Terrorism ; Political violence ; Human rights ; Race.
    Abstract: Combining theoretical analyzes with case studies, this book increases understanding of the internationalization, diffusion and escalation of ethnic conflict. The essays stand at the nexus of comparative politics and international relations, examining the influence on ethnic conflict of the weakening of state institutional structures, the role of non-state regional and international actors, changes in the ethnic balance of power, and the degree of economic, social, and cultural integration within the regional or global system. The variety of approaches provides useful analytical tools for students, while the diversity of cases from different regions gives the reader a sense of the scope of such problems
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9780230000865
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxiii, 350 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
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    Keywords: Political theory ; European Union ; Political science ; Elections ; Europe Politics and government ; International relations
    Abstract: Elections, Parties and Representation in Post-Communist Europe 1990-2002 stresses the ways in which the development of political parties affected the quality of democracy, the nature of political representation, and political accountability in the early stages of post-communist politics. It also analyzes the nature and consequences of the corpus of parliamentary candidates and deputies for the representation of social classes, women and minorities. In contrast with the wide social profile of communist parliaments, politics largely became the playground of new highly educated male elites
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9780230503526
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 211 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
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    Keywords: Political economy ; Political science ; International relations ; International economic relations.
    Abstract: Steven Kettell analyzes the development of exchange rate policymaking from a Marxist perspective. He examines and provides a new means of understanding three key policymaking episodes in Britain - the return to the gold standard in 1925, membership of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism from 1990-1992 and the possibility of joining the Single European Currency. The alternative means of understanding these policy episodes provides a basis for making wider generalizations about the political economy of exchange rate policymaking
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9780230554436
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 202 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Studies in Diplomacy
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    Keywords: History ; Middle East History ; Europe History ; International relations ; Diplomacy
    Abstract: This book provides a general understanding of Ottoman diplomacy in relation to the modern international system. The origins of Ottoman diplomacy have been traced back to the Islamic tradition and Byzantine Inner Asian heritage. The Ottomans regarded diplomacy as an institution of the modern international system. They established resident ambassadors and the basic institutions and structure of diplomacy. The book concludes with a review of the legacy of Ottoman diplomacy
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9780230524408
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 275 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
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    Keywords: Political theory ; Democracy ; Russia Politics and government ; Political science ; International relations ; Europe
    Abstract: The Legacy of the Soviet Union offers a distillation by a group of eminent scholars of their experience of the post-Soviet years. Analysis of the post-Soviet landscape is accompanied by meditations on the impact of the post-Soviet transition on both policy-makers and academics. The book therefore examines both assumptions of 'transition' and reconsiders the experience of Soviet communism in the light of its demise
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9781403981172
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 245 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
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    Keywords: Economic policy ; Political science ; Asia Politics and government ; Middle East Politics and government ; International relations ; Terrorism ; Political violence ; Economic development.
    Abstract: The interaction of failed states, terrorism and the need for 'nation building' is at the top of the international agenda, with particular focus on Afghanistan and Iraq. This path breaking collection brings together top analysts to examine the goals and challenges facing efforts to reconstruct states that have collapsed into anarchy or have been defeated in war. Drawing on lessons from 50 years of past experience with post-conflict reconstruction and development around the world, the authors provide historical context, identify difficulties that can impede progress and recognize the realistic limitations of ambitions to create new states. They assess ongoing development plans in a country devastated by more than a century of conflict. Throughout, particular attention is paid to the interaction of the goals of external and domestic actors, highlighting the importance of understanding the internal social, economic and political environment of the society receiving assistance
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9780230536708
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 190 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
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    Keywords: Political science ; World politics ; International relations ; Politics and war
    Abstract: From Power Politics to Conflict Resolution surveys the development of the ideas of John W. Burton, an Australian civil servant and diplomat who became a prolific author in the fields of International Relations and Conflict Theory. This work, beginning with an introduction to his life and associations, assesses the development of Burton's ideas, at once critical of much of the conventional wisdom of International Relations as well as seeking to be innovative, helping us to understand the issues of peace and conflict in a changing world. A central theme is the development of a framework of ideas which Burton came to call provention
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9780230501751
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 228 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
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    Keywords: European Union ; Political science ; International relations ; Europe
    Abstract: The European Union and Enlargement is about the EU's 'power of attraction' - an exploration of the potential for EU impact on conflicts within Europe - and the implications for the EU to influence the 'order' beyond its borders. It provides both a theoretical and historical context in order to understand the EU's impact and combines this with empirical analysis of the perceptions of the Greek Cypriots, Turkish Cypriots and Turkey on the accession process and its effect on the Cyprus issue. It demonstrates the limits and the potential of the EU as a global actor through its power of attraction
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9781403979117
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (214 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
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    Keywords: Political science ; Europe Politics and government ; International relations ; Politics and war
    Abstract: With the U.S. armed forces playing an ever increasing central role in American foreign policy, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the role of regional Commanders-in-Chief (CINCs) in both implementing and shaping relations with various countries. Wielding tremendous power and substantial resources, both military and economic, these officers are also diplomats, advisors, and intermediaries between other countries and the Washington policy process. This book explores the role these military commanders play in contemporary U.S. foreign policy
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9780230523258
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 254 p) , ill
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    Keywords: Comparative politics ; Democracy ; Ethnicity ; Political science ; International relations ; Race. ; Comparative government.
    Abstract: Democracy and Ethnic Conflict addresses the problem of establishing durable democratic institutions in societies afflicted by ethnic conflict. While the holding of multi-party elections usually plays a role in the ending of conflict, consolidating democracy presents a much larger challenge, as does preventing the perversion of democracy through the dominance of a particular ethnic group
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : PALGRAVE
    ISBN: 9781403937520
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 223 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
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    Keywords: Political science ; Social justice ; International business enterprises ; International relations ; Human rights
    Abstract: Bringing together a diverse group of contributors, this collection addresses the impact of transnational corporations on human rights. Topics covered include corporate social responsibility; the impact of corporations on internal conflicts, and codes of conduct. Case studies range from the negative effects of the Nigerian oil industry to the positive engagement by a logging company with the Nuu-chah-nulth people in Canada. The book uniquely combines the discussion of conceptual issues with an in-depth examination of specific corporations and industries
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    ISBN: 9781403907707
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xx, 227 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: International Political Economy Series
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    Keywords: Political science ; Middle East History ; Middle East Politics and government ; Management science ; Spatial economics ; Political economy ; Public policy ; Economics ; Regional economics ; Middle East-History. ; Middle East-Politics and governm.
    Abstract: Negotiations between Israel and the Arab states have continued in one form or another for over a decade, through three Israeli administrations, the death of a King of Jordan, and through countless riots and incidences of protest by Palestinians and Jews alike. The agreements that have been reached, and some situations established by defacto rule and force majure, have created possibly irreversible economic and political structures. This collection presents a debate among eminent scholars and public officials over the power these structures engender in the region
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave
    ISBN: 9781403907196
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 231 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Global Issues Series
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    Keywords: Political science ; International relations ; Politics and war
    Abstract: The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention entirely prohibits biological warfare, but it has no effective verification mechanism to ensure that the 140-plus States Parties are living up to their obligations. From 1995-2001 the States Parties attempted to negotiate a Protocol to the Convention to remedy this deficiency. On 25 July 2001 the United States entirely rejected the final text which would probably have been acceptable to most other states. The book investigates how this disaster came about, and the potential consequences of the failure of American leadership
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    ISBN: 9781403905321
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (341 p.)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Studies in Development Economics and Policy
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Economic policy ; International relations ; Education ; Development economics ; Economic development.
    Abstract: Since the end of the cold war, civil wars and state violence have escalated, resulting in thousands of deaths. This book provides a toolbox for donors, international agencies and developing countries to prevent humanitarian emergencies. The emphasis is on long-term rather than mediation or reconstruction after the conflict ensues
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9781403932839
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 213 p) , map
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: International Political Economy Series
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    Keywords: Political science ; Political economy ; Imperialism ; International relations ; Globalization ; Economic policy ; International economic relations.
    Abstract: The Caribbean banana trade is a controversial issue within international affairs. Peter Clegg investigates the complex political relationships between the traditional actors in the trade and how the issues of colonialism and globalization have shaped their interactions. He presents a detailed analysis of the development of the Caribbean banana trade and analyzes why the influence and importance of the traditional actors within the trade has diminished over the last thirty years
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9781403940155
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 251 p) , ill., maps
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    Keywords: Political science ; Culture Study and teaching ; World politics ; International relations ; Regionalism ; Ethnology.
    Abstract: Microregionalism and World Order is a pioneering work on the least understood aspect of regionalism. Leading specialists analyze the form microregionalism takes in different parts of the world, including the Americas, Asia Pacific and Africa. By illustrating the complex relationship amongst the political, economic and social dimensions of microregionalism, the book seeks to contribute to the theoretical debate on regionalism as well as to provide new empirical insights
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    Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9780230288669
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (232 p)
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    Series Statement: Advances in Political Science: An International Series
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    Keywords: Political science ; Europe History ; International relations ; Politics and war
    Abstract: Has any good come out of the efforts to mediate the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia? The short answer is, 'Yes, but..' Mediation has brought about agreements that halted the fighting in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia. Yet, the negotiations took too long, and their achievements came too late. Between 1991 and 1995 some two hundred thousand people lost their lives, and close to two million were uprooted from their homes. Saadia Touval examines why the efforts to reach a negotiated solution have not been more effective. He calls attention to two lessons: that collective mediation faces much greater obstacles than mediation by individual states, and that a mediator's priority should be saving lives, rather than aiming at other objectives, or even pursuing justice
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave
    ISBN: 9780230595736
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 253 p) , map
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    Series Statement: International Political Economy Series
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    Keywords: Political economy ; Political science ; International relations ; Economic policy ; International economic relations.
    Abstract: Ireland's Celtic Tiger economy has been held up as a model of successful development in a globalized world, offering lessons for other late developing countries. It interrogates the principal theoretical approaches which have been used to analyze the Celtic Tiger, particularly neo-classical economics, and finds them inadequate to capture its ambiguities or address its developmental deficit. Elaborating an alternative approach, drawing particularly on the work of Karl Polanyi, the book offers an interpretation which captures more fully the ways in which the Irish State has made itself subservient to market forces. The options now facing Irish society are mapped out through a critical examination of globalization, identifying possibilities for development and social action
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave
    ISBN: 9780333985557
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 287 p)
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    Series Statement: International Political Economy Series
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    Keywords: Political science ; Political economy ; Management science ; International relations ; Economics ; Sociology ; International economic relations.
    Abstract: This book examines global change from a dialectical perspective. Looking at global change in terms of unipolarisation in international security, globalisation in the world economy, and democratisation in global governance, the volume provides a refreshingly Japanese angle on addressing complex interplays between the social forces underlying these themes. The book is indispensable reading for undergraduate and graduate students or IR theory, international security, international political economy, and global governance, as well as American and Japanese foreign policy
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    ISBN: 9781403982537
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 250 p)
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    Keywords: Political science ; European Union ; Europe Politics and government ; International relations ; International organization ; Politics and war
    Abstract: NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia was justified. NATO violated the United Nations Charter - but nations have used armed force so often that the ban on non-defensive use of force has been cast into doubt. Dangerous cracks in the international legal order have surfaced - widened, ironically, by the UN Security Council itself, which has ridden roughshod over the Charter's ban on intervention. Yet nations remain hopelessly divided on what the rules should be. An unplanned geopolitical order has thus emerged - posing serious dilemmas for American policy-makers in a world where intervention will be judged more by wisdom than by law
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    ISBN: 9780230286429
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 254 p)
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    Keywords: Political science ; Asia Politics and government ; International relations
    Abstract: The new millennium can only be a time of true globalization if different histories and systems of understanding the world are appreciated. The authors unveil significant studies to do with epistemological debates in International Relations, and give detailed middle and far-eastern examples of how different cultures have used story-telling as a means of understanding what is outside and around. Especially provocative is the Chinese idea of the West as an 'Other', as atypical and, indeed, inscrutable, to the extent of not needing scrutiny at all
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    New York, N.Y : Palgrave
    ISBN: 9780230628083
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 197 p)
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    Series Statement: Studies in Military and Strategic History
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    Keywords: History ; Europe History ; Military history ; Imperialism ; International relations
    Abstract: The essays in this volume, written by leading historians and a former British foreign secretary, survey the strategy, politics and personalities of British peacemaking in 1919. Many of the intractable problems faced by negotiators are studied in this volume. Neglected issues, including nascent British commercial interests in Central Europe and attitudes towards Russia are covered, along with important reassessments of the viability of the Versailles treaty, reparations, appeasement, and the long-term effects of the settlement. This collection is a compelling and resonant addition to revisionist studies of the 'Peace to End Peace' and essential reading for those interested in international history
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    ISBN: 9780230508095
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 246 p) , ill
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    Keywords: Political science ; Great Britain History ; International relations ; Politics and war
    Abstract: From fear of sabotage on the London Underground to the first anthrax bomb and massive outdoor tests, Britain and Biological Warfare tells the largely untold history of biological weapons research and policy in the UK. Drawing on recently declassified documents, this book charts the secret history of germ warfare policy from the 1930s to the mid-1960s. Britain and Biological Warfare explores the role of independent advisors in shaping one of the most significant biological warfare research programmes in history
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave
    ISBN: 9780333977774
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxiv, 272 p)
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    Series Statement: Global Issues Series
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    Keywords: Political science ; World politics ; International relations ; International organization
    Abstract: This volume addresses the central theme of adjusting the United Nations system in light of, firstly, the broadening definition of security, secondly, a perceived shift from modernity to post-modernity; and finally, the contemporary debate about reform, adaptation and institutional learning in multilateral institutions during transnational periods. The UN has not been successful in learning appropriate lessons that could facilitate requisite changes to its structure and operations. Thus the authors in this study focus on the lessons learned from the organizations' recent performance in collective security, preventative diplomacy, preventative deployment, peacekeeping, peacemaking, peace maintenance, and international legal, environmental and trade regulation
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave
    ISBN: 9781403900920
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (viii, 227 p)
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    Keywords: European Union ; Political science ; Europe History ; Europe Politics and government ; International relations
    Abstract: The successful maintenance of peace since 1814 made neutrality a widely popular doctrine in Sweden. Rather than a security policy in the strict sense, it has become a cornerstone of Swedish national identity. Yet, in the past decade the neutrality tradition has been called into question. What is meant by neutrality? Has Sweden ever been neutral? This book analyses the emergence, institutionalisation and reassessment of neutrality, of the notion of peace as a national good, from the sixteenth century to the present debate on NATO membership
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    Houndmills [England] : Palgrave in association with Millennium Journal of International Studies
    ISBN: 9780230520455
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (vii, 212 p)
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    Keywords: Political science ; World politics ; International relations
    Abstract: The end of the Cold War and the discussions concerning the process of globalization have brought the study of international politics face to face with new issues such as human rights, humanitarian interventions, environmental concerns, global social movements and health issues like HIV/AIDS. The challenges arising from these issues require novel theoretical approaches that are not limited to the traditional ethical concerns of international politics. The contributors to this volume re-examine existing approaches and formulate new ethical perspectives for the twenty-first century. This volume challenges the status quo in international relations and provides an opening for an alternative theoretical debate for those who are interested in international political theory
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    Houdmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave
    ISBN: 9780312292805
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 340 p)
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    Keywords: Political science ; History, Modern ; America History ; World politics ; Europe Politics and government ; International relations
    Abstract: Made by the U.S.A., The International System is a historical account, embedded in a set of theoretical constructs, of the two hundred year drive by the United States to first, become a global power and, second, create an international security and economic system capable of protecting and promoting its strategic and economic interests
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    Basingstoke : Macmillan Press
    ISBN: 9780333983737
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (x,223p)
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    Keywords: Political science ; International relations ; Politics and war
    Abstract: The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction has continued to give cause for concern even after the end of the Cold War. This book analyses how the prospects for proliferation have changed since the 1990s, particularly in light of the Gulf War and the UN inspections of Iraq. It will examine the new pattern of incentives and disincentives for proliferation, the utility of these weapons at state and sub-state levels and their implications for arms control and international security
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    ISBN: 9780333978108
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvi, 297 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection
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    Keywords: Political science ; Agriculture ; Macroeconomics ; International economics ; Urban economics ; Political science ; Agriculture ; Macroeconomics ; International economics ; Urban economics ; Economics ; Urban Economics ; Political Science ; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics ; International Economics ; Agriculture
    Abstract: China now faces the difficult choice of whether to pursue a food self-sufficiency policy or further integrate its agriculture into the world market. China's choice will have profound implications for the world trading system, as well as for its own economy. At the same time, China needs to reform its land tenure and grain marketing systems. This book examines these majority policy issues using up-to-date information and empirical evidence
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    Dordrecht, Netherlands : Kluwer Academic Publishers
    ISBN: 9780585353234
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 353 p) , ill., maps
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    Series Statement: GeoJournal Library 51
    DDC: 330.9
    Keywords: Geography ; International economics ; Economics
    Abstract: The Institutional Position of Seaports deals with the logic and functioning of international seaport administration. This volume not only contains interesting reading for public and private port administrators and managers but can offer by its international comparisons relevant insights for the deregulation, privatisation, liberalisation and deconcentration of former government duties. Every seaport hosts different port activities in which public and private actors interact in changing relations. There is a permanent question of how responsibilities among public port administrators and the private users of the port have been divided and institutionally anchored. The unique model of analysis as used in this research has been built up by the distinction in four different control relations between state and market. By means of this institutional model the division of responsibilities for nautical control, port planning and port services can be determined. The reader can also learn via this model about the specific conditions that are needed to activate the learning capabilities of the different port activities. The model of analysis can be applied to every seaport in the world. Audience: This book is essential for everyone who is in a public or private managing or policy-making position in a seaport. It can also be of great help to students in disciplines like maritime economics, strategic management, social geography and public administration; for example, to make them more aware of the specific role divisions and mechanisms between state and market in international seaports
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    New York, NY : Springer US | New York, NY : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585274454
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 233 p)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Information Systems ; Economics ; Criminology ; Social sciences. ; Electronic data processing—Management. ; Operations research. ; Criminology. ; Business. ; Management science.
    Abstract: In a world where technology is continually advancing, and problems are becoming more and more complex, established practices for decision making and problem solving are no longer effective. In this new book, however, Enid Mumford draws on her wealth of experience in management, business schools, and working with the police and other professional problem solvers to show us how to tackle complex problems efficiently. With drugs and cyber-crime as her main examples Professor Mumford shows how these topical, yet apparently permanent problems, could be approached. She does this by looking at how the criminals themselves have overcome legal obstacles, and other problems to make the drug trafficking industry the second largest in the world today, and the relative newcomer, electronic fraud, a multi-billion dollar problem already. These crimes, which in themselves lead to more crime from petty theft to support a drug habit, to international money laundering, are incredibly complex, and yet the book shows us that there is not only a way forward with these issues, but a way to approach all complex problems with efficiency and competency, wherever they occur in our lives
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    New York, NY : Springer US | New York, NY : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585296012
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 265 p)
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    Series Statement: Clinical Sociology: Research and Practice
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Economics ; Sociology ; Sociology. ; Education. ; Business. ; Management science. ; Public health.
    Abstract: This book demonstrates how and why morality can result in extremist behavior and advocates what the author calls `critical idealism' as a way of life. The author discusses radical elements of the feminist, civil rights, and `medicalist' movements as examples of the contemporary drift toward intolerance and incivility and demonstrates how idealism can contribute to misleading and dangerous behavior in some cases but in the right hands can result in positive social action
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585276243
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xviii, 323 p)
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    Series Statement: Issues in Business Ethics 11
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Economics ; Political science ; Ethics. ; Business. ; Management science. ; Political science.
    Abstract: Education, Leadership and Business Ethics: New Essays on the Work of Clarence Walton includes a history and anecdotes of Clarence Walton's professional and personal life; a discussion of the controversial introduction of ethics into the field of management studies; contributions on a variety of subjects connected to leadership and business ethics from experts in the field; and critical essays reviewing Clarence's most recent work in social criticism. The book gives a history of the rise of the fields of business and society and business ethics, details the events leading to its acceptance in academic circles and gives personal accounts by Clarence Walton, one of the people most responsible for its creation. Intended target groups are students, former academic peers, and friends of Clarence Walton, as well as anyone interested in the history of business ethics or connected to Columbia University of America, or The American College
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    New York, NY : Springer US | New York, NY : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585346496
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 476 p) , ill
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Economics ; Political science ; Sociology ; Labor economics. ; Sociology. ; Economics. ; Political science.
    Abstract: As China, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia become world economic powers, questions arise regarding the fate of workers in these countries. This book examines the difficult road traveled by human rights movements in these nations when trying to create independent labor organizations free from governmental interference. The in-depth treatment includes: a worker's rights/labor standards model individumental interference comprehensive data tables on many aspects of the labor struggle ally crafted for each of these nations comprehensive data tables on many aspects of the labor struggle China's problems as it moves from complete state economic control to a modified form of capitalism
    Description / Table of Contents: PrologueChina -- The Political and Economic Background -- The Industrial Relations Scene: The Players, Problems, and Prospects -- The ACFTU, Labor Law, and Labor Reform -- The Law, Contracts, Strikes, and Dispute Settlement -- Worker Rights Issues -- Indonesia -- A Political, Economic, and Demographic Overview -- Unions, Employers, and Labor Market Developments -- The Legal Framework -- Labor Disputes and International Pressures -- Thailand -- The Institutional Background -- The Labor Law Framework -- Labor-Management Relations -- Worker Rights Issues -- International Developments -- Malaysia -- Political Events, Economic Facts, and Demographic Variables -- The Law and the Reality -- Labor Relations: Structure, Process, and Practice -- Unresolved Issues -- Malaysia and the World Scene -- Epilogue.
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401110020
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 392 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: The GeoJournal Library 30
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Environmental management ; Economics ; Population ; Human Geography ; Human geography. ; Economics. ; Sociology. ; Environmental management. ; Population—Economic aspects.
    Abstract: In The Asian City the Asian urbanisation processes, nature and characteristics of the 1990s have been analyzed by countries, by comparing different countries and in an international context. The authors are urban specialists from four continents. This volume has been divided into six parts: Part I Urbanisation in an international context; Part II Comparative urban setting; Part III Urbanisation characteristics by country; Part IV Urban planning; Part V The urban poor, and Part VI Perspectives on urbanization. This work allows the reader to understand Asian urban forms, their evolution, the nature of urbanisation, its impact on economic growth in cities, the living and working conditions of the poor, and urban planning and problems
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    Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585288482
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 184 p)
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    Series Statement: Clinical Medical Ethics 3
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Medicine ; Economics ; Ethics. ; Medical sciences. ; Economics.
    Abstract: Overview -- A Bit of History -- Economic Forces, Clinical Constraints -- Fiscal Scarcity: Challenging Fidelity -- The Limits and Obligations of Fidelity: Resource Use -- The Obligations and Limits of Fidelity: Physicians’ Professional Services -- The New Medical Ethics of Medicine’s New Economics.
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    Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585271811
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (viii, 153 p)
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    Series Statement: Clinical Medical Ethics 3
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Medicine ; Economics ; Ethics. ; Medical sciences. ; Economics.
    Abstract: Arguments in Favor of Coercing a Pregnant Woman to Act in the Interests of her Future Child -- Arguments against Legally Requiring a Pregnant Woman to Act in the Interests of her Future Child -- Practical Applications.
    Abstract: The issues explored in this book have unfortunately come to be known as 'maternal-fetal conflicts'. The phrase is unsatisfactory because it is misleading: It places the emphasis on the well-being of the fetus instead of on the born child (who will bear the burden of any harm done prenatally); it assumes a conflict between a pregnant women and her offspring (while the issue is usually more complex and more broadly based); and it incorrectly implies that all pregnant women are appropriately regarded as mothers. For these reasons, I have chosen to avoid the phrase 'matern- fetal conflict' altogether, and will instead speak in terms of 'preventable prenatal harm'. I mention this at the outset, for those of you familiar with 'maternal-fetal conflicts' who might be wondering if I am addressing the same issues. Yes. But I am trying to look at them in a new - and I hope more fruitful - way. I would like to thank the other participants in the Hastings Center's maternal-fetal project - especially those who disageed with me - for being so thought-provoking. And I owe a lasting debt of gratitude to Henry Ruth and Allen Buchanan for their invaluable counsel.
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    Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585291741
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 385 p)
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    Series Statement: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook 15
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Economics ; Political science ; Sociology ; Sociology. ; Political science. ; Economics.
    Abstract: The Politics and Episteme of Discourses on Society -- Analyzing Social Science: On the Possibility of a Sociology of the Social Sciences -- Knowledge for Certainty: Poverty, Welfare Institutions and the Institutionalization of Social Science -- National Profiles In a Long-Term Perspective -- The Social Science Disciplines: The American Model -- The Tripartite Division of French Social Science: A Long-Term Perspective -- “Science and Politics” as a Political Factor: German and Italian Social Sciences in the Nineteenth Century -- The Discourse on Politics Between Philosophy, Science, and Profession -- In Search of the State: Political Science as an Emerging Discipline in the U.S. -- Oxford and the Emergence of Political Science in England 1945–1960 -- The Constitution of A Science of Society -- How to Make Things Which Hold Together: Social Science, Statistics and the State -- Science of Society Lost: On the Failure to Establish Sociology in Europe During the “Classical” Period -- Social Science and the “Swedish Model”: Sociology at the Service of the Welfare State -- The Instttutionalization of Economics: Educational Practices, State Policies, and Academic Recognition -- Political Economy to Economics Via Commerce: The Evolution of British Academic Economics 1860–1920 -- The Teaching of Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century Italy and the Characteristics of its Institutionalization -- Western Social Sciences in Space and Time -- States, Institutions, and Discourses: A Comparative Perspective on the Structuration of the Social Sciences.
    Abstract: This book, which represents probably the most comprehensive discussion of the emergence of modem social science yet produced, is of far more than merely historical interest. The contributors set out to rewrite the history of the social sciences and to show the limitations of conventional conceptions of their development. These tasks they accomplish with great success and much distinction. Yet in so doing they contribute in a direct way to our understanding of the relation between social analysis and the nature of human societies today. The brilliant and distinctive perspective of the papers in this collection is to demonstrate, with many specific examples, that social science and modem institutions have helped shape each other in mutual interplay. Modem systems are in some part con­ stituted through the reflexive incorporation of developing social science knowledge; on the other hand, the social sciences organise themselves in terms of a continuing reflection upon the evolution of those systems. Such a perspective, as Wagner and Wittrock in particular make clear, does not in any way either impugn the status of knowledge claims made within social science or destroy the independent reality of social institutions. The book questions the notion that the institutionalising of the social sciences can be understood as a process of their increasing autonomy from extemal social connections. 'Autonomy' forms a mode of legitima­ tion and a basis of power rather than a distinctive phenomenon as such.
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585282954
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix,380 p)
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 38
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Economics ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Economics. ; Bioethics.
    Abstract: The Rhetoric of Rights and Justice in Health Care -- The Rhetoric of Rights and Justice in Health Care -- Rights to Health Care: The Development of the Concept -- The Right to Health Care: Reflections on Its History and Politics -- The Right to Health Care: Presentation and Critique -- The Right to Health Care in a Capitalistic Democracy -- Justice and the Right to Health Care: An Egalitarian Account -- Rights to Health Care: Created, Not Discovered -- Why the Right to Health Care is Not a Useful Concept for Policy Debates -- A Qualified Right to Health Care: Toward a Notion of a Decent Minimum -- Rights, Reforms, and the Health Care Crisis: Problems and Prospects -- Rights, Obligations, and the Special Importance of Health Care -- Access to Health Care: Charity and Rights -- Equality, Free Markets, and the Elderly -- Equal Opportunity and Health Care Rights for the Elderly -- Free Markets, Consumer Choice, and the Poor: Some Reasons for Caution -- My Right to Care for my Health — And What About the Needy and the Elderly? -- Health Care as a Commodity -- Should Medicine be a Commodity? An Economist’s Perspective -- The Profit Motive in Kant and Hegel -- Virtue for Hire: Some Reflections on Free Choice and the Profit Motive in the Delivery of Health Care -- Rights, Public Policy, and the State.
    Abstract: Human existence is marked by pain, limitation, disability, disease, suffering, and death. These facts of life and of death give ample grounds for characterizing much of the human condition as unfortunate. A core philosophical question is whether the circumstances are in addition unfair or unjust in the sense of justifying claims on the resources, time, and abilities of others. The temptation to use the languages of rights and of justice is und- standable. Faced with pain, disability, and death, it seems natural to complain that "someone should do something", "this is unfair", or "it just isn't fight that people should suffer this way". Yet it is one thing to complain about the unfairness of another's actions, and another thing to complain about the unfairness of biological or physical processes. If no one is to blame for one's illness, disability, or death, in what sense are one's unfortunate circumstances unfair or unjust? How can claims against others for aid and support arise if no one has caused the unfortunate state of affairs? To justify the languages of fights to health care or justice in health care requires showing why particular unfortunate circumstances are also unfair, in the sense of demanding the labors of others. It requires understanding as well the limits of property claims. After all, claims regarding justice in health care or about fights to health care limit the property fights of those whose resources will be used to provide care.
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