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Hardcover. Why are some political leaders stronger than others? How do we make sense of the interaction between the leader's personality and the context that the leader faces? This book provides a unique way of approaching these questions, identifying the very different philosophical foundations that underpin the contemporary study of political leadership. Series: Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 figures. BIC Classification: JPA; JPHL; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137347060
- ISBN
- 9781137347060
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Condition: New
€ 138.47
€ 138.47
Hardcover. It is sometimes assumed that fantasizing stands in contrast to activism. This book, however, argues that fantasy plays a central role in social movements. Drawing on psychoanalysis and psychosocial theories, Fantasy and Social Movements examines the relationships between fantasy, reality, action, the unconscious and the collective. Series: Studies in the Psychosocial. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JMAF; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 504.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137348166
- ISBN
- 9781137348166
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Condition: New
€ 67.71
€ 67.71
Hardcover. By comparing the importance of representative democracy to the EU as enshrined in the Lisbon Treaty with the political systems in the EU's newest member states, this study explores whether representative democracy can really exist in an enlarged EU and explores the constraints and opportunities for political parties operating the in the EU. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPB; JPHC; JPHV; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 219 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137348852
- ISBN
- 9781137348852
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Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Hardcover. Collection with new contributions to the debate from New Politics concerning the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg. Publishing Stephen Eric Bronner's essay 'Red Dreams and the New Millennium' along with the numerous responses to the piece, a new introduction, and an interview with Bronner stimulates the discussion around Luxemburg's legacy. Editor(s): Schulman, Jason. Series: Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: BGH; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 170 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137349811
- ISBN
- 9781137349811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.30
€ 127.30
International Educational Development and Learning through Sustainable...
Coombs, Steven, Potts, Mark, Whitehead, Jack
Hardcover. Addressing the debate around what makes a good citizen, this work proposes a new form of post-colonial citizenship education which can be applied in any cultural setting. International educational partnerships provide the opportunity for participants to live out values such as cultural empathy and thus demonstrate their right to citizenship. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JNAM; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137349972
- ISBN
- 9781137349972
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Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. Monique Taylor analyses the policy rationale and institutional underpinnings of China's state-led or neomercantilist oil strategy, and its development, set against the wider context of economic transformation as the country transitions from a centrally planned to market economy. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPQB; KCP; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137350541
- ISBN
- 9781137350541
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Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. This book offers the most updated research on the dynamics, challenges, and prospects in China's environmental governance. Editor(s): Shou, Huisheng. Series: Environmental Politics and Theory. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPA; JPQ; RNA; RND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137350688
- ISBN
- 9781137350688
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Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
The Public on the Public: The British Public as Trust, Reflexivity and...
Westall, Claire, Gardiner, Michael
Hardcover. In Britain, the resistance to popular determination allowed by the financial construct of the public has been so successful that this term, public, must be re-read as politically paralyzing. The problem, our problem, is the public - which we are so often told will bring us together and provide for us - and it is this we must move beyond. Num Pages: 160 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCX; JFF; JHB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137351333
- ISBN
- 9781137351333
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.24
€ 66.24
Hardcover. Cosmopolitan Borders makes the case for processes of bordering being better understood through the lens of cosmopolitanism. Borders are 'cosmopolitan workshops' where 'cultural encounters of a cosmopolitan kind' take place and where entrepreneurial cosmopolitans advance new forms of sociality in the face of 'global closure'. Editor(s): Geiger, Martin. Series: Mobility and Politics. Num Pages: 115 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFFS; JPF; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 292.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137351395
- ISBN
- 9781137351395
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Hardcover. Faced with falling social cohesion governments have sought to revitalise society by trying to reconstruct local communities, civil society and citizenship. As a result, civil society is increasingly brought within the realm of public management, subject to accountability and embedded in hierarchies the impact and origins of which this book explores Editor(s): Brandsen, Taco; Trommel, Willem; Verschuere, Bram. Series: Governance and Public Management. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPB; JPHV; JPP; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137351623
- ISBN
- 9781137351623
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Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. This book argues that the rising tide of anti-colonialism after the 1930s should be considered a turning point not just in harnessing a new mood or feeling of unity, but primarily as one that viewed empire, racism, and economic degradation as part of a system that fundamentally required the application of strategy to their destruction. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: BGH; HBTR; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137352019
- ISBN
- 9781137352019
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Condition: New
€ 128.00
€ 128.00
Hardcover. The book compares the politics of Europeanization in Estonia and Slovenia from 1989 to the current crisis. Num Pages: 99 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPB; JPH; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 143 x 13. Weight in Grams: 276.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137352170
- ISBN
- 9781137352170
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.84
€ 65.84
The Political Economy of an Emerging Global Power: In Search of the Br...
Casanova, Lourdes, Kassum, Julian
Hardcover. Is Brazil ready to take its place among the world's leading powers? The authors examine Brazil's hard power and soft power resources, assessing the challenges the country will need to overcome in order to build its own "Brazilian dream" and project itself on the international stage. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JP; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137352354
- ISBN
- 9781137352354
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. (Mis)readings of Marx In Continental Philosophy reflects on the way major European philosophers related to the work of Karl Marx. It brings together leading and emerging critical theorists to address the readings of Marx offered by Benjamin, Adorno, Arendt, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Negri, Badiou, Agamben, Ranciere, Latour and Zizek. Editor(s): Habjan, Jernej; Whyte, Jessica. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137352828
- ISBN
- 9781137352828
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Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. Num Pages: 116 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DST; JFC; JFD; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137353412
- ISBN
- 9781137353412
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Hardcover. This book explores the paradox of the global spread of democracy in an era of Western decline. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPHV; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137353863
- ISBN
- 9781137353863
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. This is a history of political parties in ten nations (with the sections on France and Germany limited to specific period), and a critique of the existing literature that emphasizes the importance of electoral rules as determinative of political party systems. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPHV; JPR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 215 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137353870
- ISBN
- 9781137353870
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Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. The European Union clearly matters for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). EU officials and European political entrepreneurs has been crucial in the promotion of funding and access opportunities, but they have been proven to have little capacity to use CSOs for their own purposes. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JPSN2; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137355409
- ISBN
- 9781137355409
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. Combining theoretical and empirical insights, this book provides an in-depth analysis of South Asia's transition in the areas of democracy, political economy and security since the end of the Cold War. It provides a close scrutiny to the state of democracy and political economy in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Editor(s): Chakma, Bhumitra. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FK; GTF; JPS; KCM; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137356635
- ISBN
- 9781137356635
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Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. Felipe Filomeno presents a theory about the formation and change of intellectual property regimes based on the case of Monsanto in South American soybean agriculture. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JPB; JPS; KCP; LNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137356680
- ISBN
- 9781137356680
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. France Votes examines the Socialist victory in the French elections of 2012 from the standpoint of the nation's membership in the EU and a related growing internal political crisis of democracy. Series: Europe in Crisis. Num Pages: 127 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JPHF; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137356901
- ISBN
- 9781137356901
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Hardcover. Examining peacebuilding through the intersection of security, development and democracy, Castaneda explores how the European Union has employed civilian tools for supporting peacebuilding in conflict-affected countries by working at the same time with CSOs and government institutions. Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; JPSN2; JWLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 219 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137357304
- ISBN
- 9781137357304
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.44
€ 66.44
Hardcover. Cross-border cooperation is integral to the peace-building objective of the EU. Yet, 25 years of such cooperation has often failed to translate into connecting people across borders. This study assesses the significance of cross-border cooperation for addressing Europe's conflict wounds and examines its prospects in an enlarged EU of 28 members. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JPSN2; JPWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137357700
- ISBN
- 9781137357700
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Hardcover. Through case-analysis and cross-sectional assessment of eleven countries this collection explores the most deeply divided societies in the world in order to highlight what deliberative democracy looks like in a deeply divided society and to understand the conditions that deliberative democracies could realistically emerge in difficult circumstances Editor(s): Ugarriza, Juan E.; Caluwaerts, Didier. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137357809
- ISBN
- 9781137357809
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11