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The Arab Spring and the Geopolitics of the Middle East. Emerging Secur...
Yossef, Amr; Cerami, Joseph R.
Hardback. In this study, which highlights a renewed emphasis in international affairs on regional studies, the co-authors provide an assessment of the revolutionary changes in the politics and security of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Num Pages: 96 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; JPB; JPH; JPS; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 288.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137504074
- ISBN
- 9781137504074
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€ 93.46
€ 93.46
Hardback. This book studies the reactions of India, Brazil, and South Africa - the three main non-proliferation actors of the Global South - to Iran's nuclear program. Their responses are explained and situated in wider foreign policy context. Num Pages: 115 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 1FKA; 1HFMS; 1KLSB; JPB; JPSD; JWMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 299.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 115
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137499066
- ISBN
- 9781137499066
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€ 65.92
€ 65.92
Hardcover. Across the globe, more powers are being devolved to local and regional levels of government. This book provides an innovative analysis of such decentralisation in transition states in the Balkans. Using new and rich data, it shows how political elites use decentralisation strategically to ensure their access to state resources. Series: New Perspectives on South-East Europe. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVWYC; 1DVWYS; JPB; JPHC; JPHV; JPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 222 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137495716
- ISBN
- 9781137495716
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€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. Contemporary bureaucracy is a set of norms, rules, procedures, and formalities which includes administration, business, and NGOs. Where Max Weber meets Michel Foucault, Beatrice Hibou analyzes the political dynamics underlying this process. Neoliberal bureaucracy is a vector of discipline and control, producing social and political indifference. Series: The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFP; JPA; JPB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
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- New
- SKU
- V9781137495273
- ISBN
- 9781137495273
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
hardcover. Though geographically far apart, Turkey and Australia are much closer than many would think. This collection provides a relevant, comparative and comprehensive study of two countries seeking to reconcile their history with their geography. Editor(s): Michael, Michalis. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1MBF; JPB; JPS; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 535.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 321
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137493149
- ISBN
- 9781137493149
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€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Hardback. Editor(s): Noonan, Norma Corigliano; Noonan, Nanette; Nadkarni, Vidya. Num Pages: 287 pages, 9 colour illustrations, 9 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; JPB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 524.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137492647
- ISBN
- 9781137492647
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€ 68.08
€ 68.08
hardcover. Political legitimacy has become a scarce resource in Russia and other post-Soviet states. Their capacity to deliver prosperity has suffered from economic crisis, war in Ukraine and confrontation with the West. Will nationalism and repression enable political regimes to survive? This book studies the politics of legitimation in Post-Soviet Eurasia. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; JPB; JPF; JPH; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137489432
- ISBN
- 9781137489432
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€ 66.90
€ 66.90
Hardback. This volume offers a comparative analysis of Japanese and Russian politics in the 2010s, examining both domestic dimensions and foreign policy. Editor(s): Inoguchi, Takashi. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1FPJ; JPB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137488442
- ISBN
- 9781137488442
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€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Economic and Policy Foundations for Growth in South East Europe
Bennett, Adam; Kincaid, G. Russell; Sanfey, P...
Hardback. This volume argues that a renewed commitment to sound macroeconomic policies and structural reforms is needed for countries in South East Europe, or 'the Balkans' achieve to sustainable prosperity, along with enhanced support from the international community. New fiscal and financial architecture has valuable lessons for policymakers in SEE. Series: St Antony's Series. Num Pages: 139 pages, 29 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVW; JPB; KCB; KCM; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 347.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 139
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137488336
- ISBN
- 9781137488336
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€ 66.22
€ 66.22
Hardback. This volume examines Japanese and Korean politics from both Japanese and Korean angles, exploring why the two countries do not cooperate bilaterally or consult one another, despite their geographical closeness and a number of common features that are central to both countries' domestic politics and foreign policies. Editor(s): Inoguchi, Takashi. Series: Asia Today. Num Pages: 305 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1FPKS; JPB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 515.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 305
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137488305
- ISBN
- 9781137488305
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€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Hardcover. Based on an analysis of the changing practice of sovereignty in Brazil, India and South Africa, this book argues that soft sovereignty provides an adequate, yet unrecognized, basis for a moderate, embedded and plural cosmopolitanism situated between globalism's demand for a world state and statism's defence of the status quo. Series: International Political Theory. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1HFMS; 1KLSB; JPA; JPB; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 492.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137488213
- ISBN
- 9781137488213
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€ 67.33
€ 67.33
Hardcover. The Arab Spring as the initiator of far-reaching changes in the regional power constellation. Editor(s): Furtig, Henner. Series: The Modern Muslim World. Num Pages: 232 pages, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FB; JPB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 416.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484741
- ISBN
- 9781137484741
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€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Paperback. This book questions the 'role model' status of the Turkish Republic with respect to the advancement of female agency in a secular context by using the study of women with headscarves as a case in point. Turkey's commitment to modernization depends heavily on secularism which involves, among other things, the westernization of women's appearance. Num Pages: 219 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVT; JPA; JPB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 288.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484734
- ISBN
- 9781137484734
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€ 65.86
€ 65.86
Paperback. This book looks at how China and India's growing interests in Central Asia disrupt the traditional Russia-U.S. "Great Game" at the heart of the old continent. In the years to come, both Asian powers are looking to redeploy their rivalry on the Central Asian and Afghan theatres on a geopolitical, but also political and economic level. Editor(s): Huchet, Jean-Francois; Balci, Bayram. Series: CERI Series in International Relations and Political Economy. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FPC; HBJF; JPB; JPF; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 217 x 13. Weight in Grams: 338.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484086
- ISBN
- 9781137484086
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€ 66.28
€ 66.28
Hardcover. Eleonora Poli analyses how ideas and material interests have come to determine the evolution of antitrust policies in the USA, EU, Japan and BRICS. She argues that three major economic crises together with market globalisation have changed governments' perceptions of market competition, giving rise to a neo-liberal global phase. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPB; KCL; KCP; LNCH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482945
- ISBN
- 9781137482945
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€ 127.46
€ 127.46
Hardback. This book explains why the level of party presidentialization varies from one country to another. It considers the effects of constitutional structures as well as the party's original features, and argues that the degree of party presidentialization varies as a function of the party's genetics. Editor(s): Passarelli, Gianluca. Num Pages: 328 pages, 23 figures, 11 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JPB; JPHL; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 24. Weight in Grams: 530.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482457
- ISBN
- 9781137482457
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€ 139.26
€ 139.26
Hardcover. The book provides the first comprehensive comparative analysis of the development of EU enlargement conditionality across four different enlargement waves - the first (2004) and the second (2007) phase of the Eastern enlargement, the EU enlargement to Croatia (2013), and the ongoing enlargement round involving Turkey and the Western Balkans. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JPB; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482426
- ISBN
- 9781137482426
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€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Hardback. Editor(s): Montecinos, Veronica. Series: Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership. Num Pages: 286 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPB; JPHV; JPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482396
- ISBN
- 9781137482396
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€ 161.42
€ 161.42
hardcover. This volume re-examines the concept of the developmental state by providing further theoretical specifications, undertaking critical appraisal and theoretical re-interpretation, assessing its value for the emerging economies of China and India, and considering its applicability to South Korea and Taiwan. Editor(s): Chu, Yin-Wah. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; GTF; JPB; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 475.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137476111
- ISBN
- 9781137476111
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€ 67.03
€ 67.03
Hardback. This study seeks to explain the impact of historical narratives on the inclusiveness and pluralism of citizenship models. Drawing on comparative historical analysis of two post-imperial core countries, Turkey and Austria, it explores how narrative forms operate to support or constrain citizenship models. Num Pages: 179 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 1DVT; HBJD; HBTQ; JPB; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 179
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137473653
- ISBN
- 9781137473653
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€ 66.28
€ 66.28
Hardback. By comparing Germany, France, the UK and the USA this study explores how governments have tackled the increased pressure of financing state pensions. Specifically, it looks at the approach of each of these countries to raising the age of entitlement in order to understand the ways in which this policy was introduced in different countries. Num Pages: 162 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBD; JPB; JPQB; KFFP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 359.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 162
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137453969
- ISBN
- 9781137453969
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€ 66.18
€ 66.18
Hardcover. This book offers a comparative analysis of the distinct experiences of the Peruvian and Bolivian cocaleros as political actors. In doing so, it illustrates how coca, an internationally criminalzsed good, affected the path and outcome of cocalero political empowerment in each case. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSL; 1KLSR; JPB; JPH; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137453549
- ISBN
- 9781137453549
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Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
The Communicative Construction of Europe: Cultures of Political Discou...
Hepp, Andreas, Elsler, Monika, Lingenberg, Sw...
Hardcover. Based on a 12-year long project, this book demonstrates the contested character of the communicative construction of Europe. It does so by combining an investigation of journalistic practices with content analysis of print media, an examination of citizens' online interactions and audience studies with European citizens. Series: Transformations of the State. Num Pages: 320 pages, 25 black & white tables, 46 figures. BIC Classification: 1D; JFD; JPB; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 222 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137453129
- ISBN
- 9781137453129
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Condition: New
€ 67.29
€ 67.29
Hardcover. An analysis of the new physical presence of Chinese companies operating in Latin America and the Caribbean, the associated challenges that they face, and how they are impacting the region and its relationship with the PRC. Series: The Political Economy of East Asia. Num Pages: 333 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KL; JPB; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 520.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137439765
- ISBN
- 9781137439765
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Condition: New
€ 67.43
€ 67.43