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  • Ideological Lunacy
    Eric aka the TYGRRRR EXPRESS
    ' ''Put the varnish remover back on the shelf! You won’t need it when reading Eric’s latest book, Ideological Lunacy. In Eric’s true, take no prisoners style he impales liberals with a mixture of facts, wit, and outright humor melded together in a writing style guaranteed to grab your attention and not let go. This is a must read for anyone who is wondering why America is upsid...
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    15,63 €

  • Ideological Lunacy
    Eric aka the TYGRRRR EXPRESS
    ' ''Put the varnish remover back on the shelf! You won’t need it when reading Eric’s latest book, Ideological Lunacy. In Eric’s true, take no prisoners style he impales liberals with a mixture of facts, wit, and outright humor melded together in a writing style guaranteed to grab your attention and not let go. This is a must read for anyone who is wondering why America is upsid...
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    23,18 €

  • The Kurdish Issue in Turkey
    This book examines the Kurdish issue in Turkey . It provides a comprehensive survey of the topic from a spatial perspective. ...
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    254,00 €

  • Multiparty Elections in Authoritarian Regimes
    Susanne Michalik
    Susanne Michalik analyzes why authoritarian regimes allow for multiparty elections and how they affect political outcomes. Even though their introduction rarely leads to a change in power, such elections should not be regarded as mere window-dressing. She argues that competitive elections are installed to deal with a split among the incumbent elite and to facilitate the formati...
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    60,85 €

  • United States and Terrorism
    Ron Hirschbein
    Terrorism didn’t always get bad press. In fact, terror bombing was indispensable to winning World War II, and during the Cold War the threat of nuclear annihilation became the strategy to deter war between the superpowers. In this work, Ron Hirschbein discusses the competing definitions of terrorism and shows how the notion of terrorism has evolved since World War II from being...
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    109,82 €

  • Democratic Contestation on the Margins
    This edited volume focuses on the democratic performance of regimes in some of the least populous countries on the African continent. Using a framework developed by Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, each case study provides in-depth analysis of democratic contestation in the following arenas: electoral, judiciary, legislature, media, and civil society. This volume also examines th...
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    125,22 €

  • Achieving Dynamism in an Anaemic Europe
    Luigi Paganetto
    This book explores the reasons behind Europe’s poor performance in terms of overall growth and its progressively diminishing role in the global context. Recognizing that the big challenge is to restore confidence and hope in Europe, potential solutions are discussed. The volume comprises a selection of contributions to the XXVI Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar (R...
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    132,48 €

  • How long will South Africa Survive?
    RW Johnson
    In 1977, RW Johnson’s best-selling How Long Will South Africa Survive? provided a controversial and highly original analysis of the survival prospects of apartheid. Now, after more than twenty years of ANC rule, he believes the situation has become so critical that the question must be posed again. ’The big question about ANC rule’, he writes, ’is whether African nationalism w...
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    17,70 €

  • Latin American Rebels and the United States, 1806-1822
    Gordon S Brown / Gordon S. Brown
    When separatist revolts erupted in Spain’s American colonies in the early 1800s, opinion in the United States was undecided as to what position to take. Proximity and America’s own anti-colonial ethos favored sympathy with the rebel cause, yet U.S. strategic interests during the tumultuous Napoleonic Wars dictated a policy of neutrality. When representatives of the rebel p...
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    43,46 €

  • Contentious Elections
    From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe the world has witnessed a rising tide of contentious elections ending in heated partisan debates, court challenges, street protests, and legitimacy challenges. Despite growing concern, until recently little research has studied this phenomenon. To understand contentious elections, this book brings together scholars using a range of fresh evidence. T...
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    241,25 €

  • Retirement in Japan and South Korea
    This book analyzes reforms to retirement policies in Japan and South Korea, especially in the context of rapid population ageing.　 A defining feature of the labour markets and workplaces in these two nations, and the lives of workers and families, is involuntary retirement at relatively young ages. The book explains past developments and recent reforms of retirement policies bo...
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    268,24 €

  • The European Defence Agency
    This volume provides a comprehensive understanding of the European Defence Agency (EDA), the leading EU armaments policy institution. ...
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    281,33 €

  • Social Psychology and Politics
    Understanding how humans manage power and govern themselves is one of the key issues in social psychology. This volume, written by many of the field’s most influential researchers, surveys the latest theoretical and empirical work on the social psychology of politics. It integrates the role of cognitive, affective, social and cultural influences on political perception and beha...
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    267,38 €

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis
    This volume brings together a collection of leading international experts to revisit and review our understanding of the Cuban Missile Crisis, via a critical reappraisal of some of the key texts. The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Critical Reappraisal brings together world leading scholars from America, Britain, France, Canada, and Russia to present critical scrutiny of authoritative ...
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    281,35 €

  • The Politics of Evolution
    David F. Prindle / David Prindle
    The controversy over teaching evolution or creationism in American public schools offers a policy paradox. Two sets of values-science and democracy-are in conflict when it comes to the question of what to teach in public-school biology classes. Prindle illuminates this tension between American public opinion, which clearly prefers that creationism be taught in public schools, v...
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    254,74 €

  • The Decline of England 1945-2013
    Michael Thompson
    England has been in decline for many years but amazingly the majority of the decline has happened within the last 70 years. It’s been a time when our country for one reason or another has constantly been travelling in the wrong direction. During this time organisations and establishments have continually hindered our progress even to the point where today we no longer rule our ...
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    20,16 €

  • CHINA’S MARITIME POWER AND STRATEGY
    HAILONG JU
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    157,15 €

  • Divergence and Convergence of Automobile Fuel Economy Regulations
    Masahiko Iguchi
    This book reveals the mechanisms underlying the convergence of car fuel economy regulations in Europe, Japan and the US by drawing upon a constructivist theory of International Relations and law that focuses on business competition and environmental regulations. It offers new understanding of the topic of cars and an issue of climate change, discussing the emerging phenomenon o...
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    65,51 €

  • Cleobury Mortimer
    Billy C. Mumford / Billy CMumford
    Cleobury Mortimer is a small market town nestling in the rolling countryside beneath the Clee Hills in South Shropshire. Passing through this town no-one would notice the simmering discontent or smell the stench of political corruption, but this account written by a local shop-keeper, depicts a decade when a pleasant community that was prosperous, friendly and vibrant, was turn...
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    27,78 €

  • Cleobury Mortimer
    Billy C. Mumford / Billy CMumford
    Cleobury Mortimer is a small market town nestling in the rolling countryside beneath the Clee Hills in South Shropshire. Passing through this town no-one would notice the simmering discontent or smell the stench of political corruption, but this account written by a local shop-keeper, depicts a decade when a pleasant community that was prosperous, friendly and vibrant, was turn...
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    16,15 €

  • Armed Group Structure and Violence in Civil Wars
    Roos Haer
    This book examines whether differences in the organizational structure of armed groups shape patterns of human rights violations in civil wars.Since the end of World War II, civil wars have been characterized by extremely high numbers of civilian casualties. However, the exact extent of civilian suffering varies across time, conflict, and geographic region. Recently, a new stra...
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    281,60 €

  • Public Affairs and Administration
    IRMA
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    943,89 €

  • Public Affairs and Administration
    IRMA
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    943,85 €

  • Public Affairs and Administration
    IRMA
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    943,84 €

  • Public Affairs and Administration
    IRMA
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    943,90 €

  • Brazil on the Global Stage
    In the past generation, Brazil has risen to become the seventh largest economy and fourth largest democracy in the world. Yet its rise challenges the conventional wisdom that capitalist democracies will necessarily converge to become faithful adherents of a US-led global liberal order. Indeed, Brazil demonstrates that middle powers, even those of a deeply democratic bent, may d...
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    65,16 €

  • The Dynamics of Bureaucracy in the US Government
    Samuel Workman
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    156,48 €

  • Nonpartisan Primary Election Reform
    J. Andrew Sinclair / JAndrew Sinclair / R. Michael Alvarez / RMichael Alvarez
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    114,44 €

  • Caring Autonomy
    Katri Lõhmus
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    167,16 €

  • Bringing Sociology to International Relations
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    54,00 €


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