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Hardcover. This book reviews bureau-type organizations delivering network goods, documenting how most global institutions greatly improved their effectiveness during the last few decades. In the current globalized world, the design and choice of appropriate institutional rules and procedures can result in effective and democratic global government. Num Pages: 233 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPSD; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137475077
- ISBN
- 9781137475077
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.44
€ 66.44
Hardback. The book argues that a universally widespread virility currently prevents humans from realizing their sexualities, which are originally the feminine and the masculine. This obstacle may be traced back to Renaissance humanism, whose core intention is to take control over the so-called 'nature." Translator(s): Edwards, Christopher. Series: Recovering Political Philosophy. Num Pages: 111 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFS; JFSJ; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 111
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137475251
- ISBN
- 9781137475251
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Hardback. Series: Global Political Thinkers. Num Pages: 158 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 244 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 158
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482143
- ISBN
- 9781137482143
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
The Political World of Bob Dylan: Freedom and Justice, Power and Sin (...
Taylor, Jeff, Israelson, Chad
Hardcover. This work illuminates, identifies, and characterizes the influences and expressions of Bob Dylan's Political World throughout his life and career. An approach nearly as unique as the singer himself, the authors attempt to remove Dylan from the typical Left/Right paradigm and place him into a broader and deeper context. Series: Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 23. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482341
- ISBN
- 9781137482341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.17
€ 128.17
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. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482396
- ISBN
- 9781137482396
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.46
€ 161.46
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.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484734
- ISBN
- 9781137484734
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.88
€ 65.88
Paperback. This interdisciplinary study explores the interaction between memory and transitional justice in post-dictatorship Argentina and Uruguay and develops a theoretical framework for bringing these two fields of study together through the concept of critical junctures. Series: Memory Politics and Transitional Justice. Num Pages: 335 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 1KLSU; JFF; JPA; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137485007
- ISBN
- 9781137485007
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
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.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137488213
- ISBN
- 9781137488213
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.31
€ 67.31
Hardcover. Asian security institutions have struggled to adapt to the so-called 'non-traditional' security issues that characterise the strategic landscape of the 21st century. The resulting gaps in governance have increasingly been filled by think tanks, which have arguably begun to change the way that Asian security is governed. Series: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; JPA; JPRB; JPS; JWK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137488244
- ISBN
- 9781137488244
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.48
€ 127.48
Hardcover. Recent years have seen the rise of anti-politics as a political phenomenon. Beyond this new rejection of the political class there has long existed a deeper challenge to the political itself. Identifying the work of Derrida as 'a politics' and that of Baudrillard as 'transpolitics' this book charts convergences and divergences in their approaches. Num Pages: 110 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JHBA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137488558
- ISBN
- 9781137488558
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Paperback. This book analyzes the recent development of Gulf capitalism through to the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis. Situating the Gulf within the evolution of capitalism at a global scale, it presents a novel theoretical interpretation of this important region of the Middle East political economy. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBX; JPA; JPS; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 217 x 13. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137490582
- ISBN
- 9781137490582
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.75
€ 71.75
Hardcover. The book uses the long-standing theatre metaphor to bring political spectators out into the open, finding that they can be politically powerful. Filling out the metaphor with theatre theory, the book also finds that the metaphor can produce a viable model of democratic politics that incorporates spectators in a positive, meaningful way. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 23. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137490612
- ISBN
- 9781137490612
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Hardcover. Practicing Post-Liberal Peacebuilding engages with one of the central debates in Peace and Conflict Studies and International Relations. The book's innovation lies in the introduction and application of 'practice theory' to develop a critical methodology for mapping the everyday practices of post-liberal hybridity in Liberia. Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137491039
- ISBN
- 9781137491039
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Post-Western International Relations Reconsidered: The Pre-Modern Poli...
Shih, Chih-Yu, Yu, Po-Tsan
Hardcover. This study offers a critique of international relations from the perspective of a pre-modern Chinese thinker, Gongsun Long. It explores both the potential and the danger of the post-Western quest for geo-cultural distinction. Series: Global Political Thinkers. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPDF; HPS; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137493200
- ISBN
- 9781137493200
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.02
€ 66.02
Hardcover. In this book, Safinaz El Tarouty provides a detailed account of the role of Egyptian businessmen in the survival of Mubarak's regime until its collapse in 2011. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HBE; JPA; JPHX; JPZ; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137493378
- ISBN
- 9781137493378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.42
€ 127.42
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.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137495273
- ISBN
- 9781137495273
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. The book explains how social outcomes result from the influence of economic ideas which are themselves strongly impacted by the distribution of power in society. The book examines policies and programs of contending interests, emphasizing the importance of socio-economic issues stemming from quasi-economic stagnation. Num Pages: 148 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JPA; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137497888
- ISBN
- 9781137497888
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Hardcover. How do two ideologically opposed governments co-operate? The Unionist government struggled to answer this question during the sixties and seventies. This book charts the development of this government's policy towards its neighbor in Southern Ireland and explains how it ended up in a total stalemate with the emergence of the Troubles. Num Pages: 159 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBLW; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137499530
- ISBN
- 9781137499530
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Hardback. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB; JPA; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 549.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137506610
- ISBN
- 9781137506610
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.32
€ 128.32
Hardback. Num Pages: 147 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, 2 colour illustrations, 2 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; RND; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 147
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137507891
- ISBN
- 9781137507891
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77