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  • Good Hunting
    Jack Devine
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    16,20 €

  • Gender Expertise in Public Policy
    S. Hoard
    Through a selection of in-depth interviews, a survey of experts working with the European Union and United Nations, and Qualitative Comparative Analysis of policy debates, this text rethinks our understanding of gender expertise and the circumstances that lead to expert success in public policy. ...
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    48,16 €

  • The Politics of Transatlantic Trade Negotiations
    Frederik Ponjaert / Jean-Frederic Morin / Tereza Novotná
    By focusing on the wider process of negotiations, this novel volume presents the first systematic analysis of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The authors include outstanding scholars and relevant practitioners from across disciplines and various academic institutions around Europe and North America, but also from outside of the transatlantic basin. Wh...
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    73,15 €

  • Environmentalism Gone Mad
    Alan Carlin
    Dr. Alan Carlin is an economist and physical scientist with degrees from Caltech and MIT and publications in both economics and climate/energy, who became actively involved in the environmental movement in the 1960s. This led to an almost 39 year career as a manager and senior analyst at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In the mid-2000s he began researching the claims...
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    19,31 €

  • Environmentalism Gone Mad
    Alan Carlin
    Dr. Alan Carlin is an economist and physical scientist with degrees from Caltech and MIT and publications in both economics and climate/energy, who became actively involved in the environmental movement in the 1960s. This led to an almost 39 year career as a manager and senior analyst at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In the mid-2000s he began researching the claims...
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    38,59 €

  • The Transitions of Aging
    Suchit Arora
    This book explores the unresolved paradox at the heart of population aging, namely how to account for the fact that death rates from most non-communicable diseases rise as people age, yet aggregate death rates from such diseases have decreased overall despite an increasingly aging population. It provides a long-term historical perspective on this issue, presenting evidence that...
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    65,16 €

  • The Civil Rights Movement in America
    Peter Levy
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    142,60 €

  • Organizing Democracy in Eastern Germany
    Stephen Padgett
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    54,52 €

  • Stephen A. Douglas
    Reg Ankrom
    When newly elected Illinois State Representative Abraham Lincoln first saw 5’4' Stephen A. Douglas, he sized him up as 'the least man I ever saw.' With the introduction of Douglas’s first bill in 1834, Lincoln soon thought differently. The General Assembly not only passed the bill, it appointed the 21-year-old Douglas State’s Attorney of Illinois’ largest judicial district, ...
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    58,59 €

  • Contemporary France
    Francois Nectoux / Jill Forbes / Nicholas Hewlett / Nicholas LAST KNOWN ADDRESS Hewlett
    In one stimulating source this successful text provides a rigorous analysis of the political, economic and social developments in post-war France. The analysis is supported by specially selected French language texts and exercises. This text is suitable for undergraduate students of French (especially within a languages, social science, or business course) and for courses in Fr...
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    186,12 €

  • Cultures of Post-War British Fascism
    In Post-War Britain cultural interventions were a feature of fascist parties and movements, just as they were in Europe. This book makes a new major contribution to existing scholarship which begins to discuss British fascism as a cultural phenomenon. A collection of essays from leading academics, this book uncovers how a cultural struggle lay at the heart of the hegemonic proj...
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    240,96 €

  • Financial Crisis, Austerity, and Electoral Politics
    Pedro Magalhães
    This book examines the domestic electoral consequences of the economic crisis in Europe, particularly in countries where the crisis manifested itself more severely: Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Iceland and Ireland. Besides looking at individual-level survey data, examining the major causes of voting behaviour and how they compare with previous elections, the chapters look at...
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    241,43 €

  • Northern Ireland
    Jonathan Tonge
    This essential text for undergraduate courses on Northern Ireland combines coverage of the historical context of the situation in Northern Ireland with a thorough examination of the contemporary political situation and the peace process. The book explores the issues behind the longevity of the conflict and provides a detailed analysis of the attempts to create a lasting peace i...
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    267,97 €

  • Foreign Policy In A Transformed World
    Mark Webber / Michael Smith
    This text provides an in-depth introduction to foreign policy analysis, looking at the role of foreign policy within contemporary international politics. The overall theme of the text is the study of foreign policy in relation to change and transformation, providing conceptual frameworks and applications for use in a variety of learning contexts and situating the study of forei...
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    267,35 €

  • Britain under Thatcher
    Anthony Seldon / Daniel Collings
    This new Seminar Study, by one of the experts on the subject, provides students with a balanced historical analysis of the Thatcher years and their consequences. Within a chronological framework, Dr Seldon analyses the many controversial episodes and aspects of Margaret Thatcher’s premiership, including the Falklands War; the miners’ strike; Britain’s relations with America and...
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    281,96 €

  • Sweet Land of Liberty?
    Robert Cook
    A powerful and moving account of the campaign for civil rights in modern America. Robert Cook is concerned less with charismatic leaders like Martin Luther King, and more with the ordinary men and women who were mobilised by the grass-roots activities of civil-rights workers and community leaders. ...
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    281,14 €

  • Beyond Post-Socialism
    C. el-Ojeili
    The return of interest in socialism and the critique of capitalism make Beyond Post-Socialism a timely work. The book explores the critical-theoretical and utopian contribution of a number of far-Left socialist currents, including anarchism, situationism and post-Marxism and thinkers, such as Castoriadis, Wallerstein, and Badiou. ...
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    48,08 €

  • Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms, Strategic Framing, and Intervention
    Melissa Labonte
    This book seeks to examine the effects of strategic framing in U.S. and UN policy arenas to draw conclusions regarding whether and how the human rights and humanitarian norms embedded within such frames resonated with decision-makers and, in turn, how they shaped variation in levels of political will concerning humanitarian intervention in three cases,Somalia, Rwanda, and Sierr...
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    93,57 €

  • The Politics of European Competition Regulation
    Angela Wigger / Hubert Buch-Hansen
    Examines the political power struggles that have shaped the evolution of European competition regulation over the past six decades ...
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    89,73 €

  • Variegated Neoliberalism
    Huw Macartney
    We know from the cost of the 2007-09 crisis that transnational finance does not operate in a realm removed from our everyday lives. Variegated Neoliberalism explains why its inequalities persist and how they undermine more social-minded policies towards finance in the EU. The book suggests that large financial groups capitalize on broader changes in capitalism and emerging assu...
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    65,29 €

  • Kant and International Relations Theory
    Dora Ion
    This book challenges popular international relations theories that claim to be based on the political writings of Immanuel Kant, and sheds new light on the philosopher’s perspective on peace. ...
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    78,96 €

  • Social Media and Democracy
    This book critically investigates the complex interaction between social media and contemporary democratic politics, and provides a grounded analysis of the emerging importance of Social media in civic engagement. ...
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    85,23 €

  • Minority Nationalisms in South Asia
    Tanweer Fazal
    This book examines the perspective of minority identities as they negotiate their terms of co-existence, accommodation and adaptation with several other competing identities within the framework of ’nation-state’.This book was published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.  ...
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    81,71 €

  • Party Government in the New Europe
    This truly comparative volume examines the 'life cycle' of party governments in Europe from 1990 onwards, and examines the role and the function of party government in contemporary European parliamentary democracies. ...
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    78,50 €

  • Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect
    Theresa Reinold
    Set against the debates over the transformation of sovereignty, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the concept of sovereignty as responsibility and features case studies on Kosovo, Darfur and Afghanistan. ...
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    78,81 €

  • Migration and Insecurity
    This book presents an inter-disciplinary investigation into contemporary migration and social inclusion through an examination of migrant and refugee experience. ...
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    85,62 €

  • The European Union and South East Europe
    Andrew Geddes / Andrew Taylor / Charles Lees
    This book explores the interaction of the EU in Greece, Slovenia, Croatia, and Macedonia in three key policy sectors - cohesion, border managements and the environment - and assesses the degree to which the European Union’s engagement with the democracies of South East Europe has promoted Europeanization and Multi-Level Governance. ...
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    51,49 €

  • Pension Reforms in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
    Igor Guardiancich
    This book traces and analyzes the legislation and implementation of pension reforms in four Central, Eastern and Southeastern European countries: Croatia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia. By comparing the political economy of their policymaking processes, it seeks to pinpoint regularities between institutional settings, actor constellations, decision-making strategies and reform. ...
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    78,31 €

  • Civic Resources and the Future of the European Union
    This book shines new light on the political system of the European Union (EU) by focusing on civic resources as a keystone of the EU’s ability to sustain. Less-tangible resources such as trust, solidarity, mutual recognition and citizens’ social and political participation have been, until now, largely ignored in the research on European integration.  ...
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    78,54 €

  • Bureaucrats as Law-makers
    Frank Häge / Frank M. Häge
    The Council of Ministers is one of the most powerful institutions of the European Union (EU) and plays a major role in the European policy-making process. Drawing on formal theory and combining quantitative and qualitative methods in an innovative fashion, this book provides novel insights into the role of national bureaucrats in legislative decision-making of the Council of th...
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    78,69 €


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