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  • Migration and Organized Civil Society Migration and Organized Civil Society
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    Migration and Organized Civil Society

    Migrant organizations are of vital importance for countries of residence and countries of origin, but the empirical and theoretical knowledge of the cross-border character of migrant organizations remains incomplete. It is clear that migrant...
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  • Security and Global Governmentality Security and Global Governmentality
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    Security and Global Governmentality

    This book examines global governance through Foucaultian notions of governmentality and security, as well as the complex intersections between the two.The volume explores how Foucault's understanding of the general economy of power in modern society...
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  • The EU's Human Rights Dialogue with China The EU's Human Rights Dialogue with China
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    The EU's Human Rights Dialogue with China

    This book provides the first detailed reconstruction and assessment of the EU's responses to human rights violations in China from 1995 to the present day. Using classified documents in the EU's historical archives and interviews with diplomats,...
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  • Regulating Next Generation Agri-Food Biotechnologies Regulating Next Generation Agri-Food Biotechnologies
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    Regulating Next Generation Agri-Food Biotechnologies

    How do lessons learned from past and current regulatory oversights of agricultural biotechnology - and other high-technology sectors - help us address new regulatory challenges in the agri-food genetics sector? The expert contributors in this volume...
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  • The Politics of the Lisbon Agenda The Politics of the Lisbon Agenda
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    The Politics of the Lisbon Agenda

    In the year 2000, in Lisbon, the European Union launched an agenda for growth, jobs, sustainability and competiveness with a ten-year target. In 2010, the agenda was re-launched with different specific objectives but with the same final goals. Why do the...
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  • The Gay Games The Gay Games
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    The Gay Games

    This book explores the significance of the Gay Games in the context of broader currents of gay and lesbian history, and addresses a wide range of key contemporary themes within sports studies, including the cultural politics of sport, the politics...
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  • Political Culture and Participation in Rural China Political Culture and Participation in Rural China
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    Political Culture and Participation in Rural China

    Despite China's rapid urbanisation and industrialisation, most Chinese still live in the vast countryside or have rural household registration. Although there was significant economic improvement in rural areas in the 1980s, the rural economy has been...
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  • Terrorism and Communism Terrorism and Communism
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    Terrorism and Communism

    First published in English in 1920, this work is a reissue of Karl Kautsky's seminal work dealing with the origins and history of the forces at work in revolutionary epochs.
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  • Making and Managing Public Policy Making and Managing Public Policy
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    Making and Managing Public Policy

    Understanding how public policy is made and managed is a key component in studying the disciplines of public management and administration. Such are the complexities associated with this topic, a deeper understanding is vital to ensure that practising...
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  • US Foreign Policy and Democracy Promotion US Foreign Policy and Democracy Promotion
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    US Foreign Policy and Democracy Promotion

    This book offers a collection of concise case studies, written by leading academic experts, that debate how far democratic aspirations have been realized in actual foreign policies. They evaluate whether or not these efforts were successful in promoting...
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  • Trans-Colonial Urban Space in Palestine Trans-Colonial Urban Space in Palestine
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    Trans-Colonial Urban Space in Palestine

    Taking a multidisciplinary approach to examine the dynamics of ethno-national contestation and colonialism in Israel/Palestine, this book investigates the approaches for dealing with the colonial and post-colonial urban space, resituating them within the...
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  • Inclusion and Exclusion in the Liberal Competition State Inclusion and Exclusion in the Liberal Competition State
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    Inclusion and Exclusion in the Liberal Competition State

    This book examines the increasingly international division of labour, which promotes transnational integration. It analyses the change in worker solidarity as it moves from collective national welfare to a transnational inclusion of workers from various...
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  • Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore
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    Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore

    This book examines the relationship between population policies and individual reproductive decisions in low-fertility contexts. Using the case study of Singapore, it demonstrates that the effectiveness of population policy is a function of competing...
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  • Islamic Area Studies with Geographical Information Systems Islamic Area Studies with Geographical Information Systems
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    Islamic Area Studies with Geographical Information Systems

    In this volume the contributors use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to reassess both historic and contemporary Asian countries and traditionally Islamic areas. This highly illustrated and comprehensive work highlights how GIS can be applied to the...
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  • Kashmir's Right to Secede Kashmir's Right to Secede
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    Kashmir's Right to Secede

    A separatist conflict has been ongoing in India-administered Kashmir since 1989. Focusing on this region, this book critiques the existing normative theories of secession, and offers a comprehensive examination of the right of sub-groups to secede.The...
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  • Politics and Social Theory (Routledge Revivals) Politics and Social Theory (Routledge Revivals)
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    Politics and Social Theory (Routledge Revivals)

    First published in 1989, this Routledge Revival is a major collection of essays on the competing traditions of social and political theory. The contributions, by international scholars, reflect the re-examination of the boundaries between the...
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  • Marxism and Modern Thought Marxism and Modern Thought
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    Marxism and Modern Thought

    First published in English in 1935, this is a critical appraisal of contemporary thought in the post-World War One era in the light of Marxism.
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  • Democracy or Alternative Political Systems in Asia Democracy or Alternative Political Systems in Asia
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    Democracy or Alternative Political Systems in Asia

    This book tackles the important issue of what happened to Asia's political systems after the fall of various political strongmen? It is generally assumed that once strongmen who dictate a nations' politics with a dictatorial or...
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  • The European Union and South East Europe The European Union and South East Europe
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    The European Union and South East Europe

    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...
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  • Rules, Politics, and the International Criminal Court Rules, Politics, and the International Criminal Court
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    Rules, Politics, and the International Criminal Court

    In this new work, Dutton examines the ICC and whether and how its enforcement mechanism influences state membership and the court's ability to realize treaty goals, examining questions such as:Why did states decide to create the ICC and design the...
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  • American Images of China American Images of China
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    American Images of China

    The United States and China are arguably the most globally consequential actors of the early twenty first century, and look set to remain so into the foreseeable future. This volume seeks to highlight that American images of China are responsible for...
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  • Intimate Citizenships
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    Intimate Citizenships

    This volume responds to the need to extend the theory of citizenship, in order to bridge the gap between the public and the private sphere. Through the application of intersectional methodology, the authors document how people's most private decisions...
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  • Civil-Military Relations in Russia and Eastern Europe Civil-Military Relations in Russia and Eastern Europe
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    Civil-Military Relations in Russia and Eastern Europe

    This book examines how civil-military relations have been transformed in Russia, Poland, Hungary and Ukraine since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact in 1991. It shows how these countries have worked to reform their obsolete armed...
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  • British Business in Post-Colonial Malaysia, 1957-70
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    British Business in Post-Colonial Malaysia, 1957-70

    This book explores the limits of the idea of 'neo-colonialism' - the idea that in the period immediately after independence Malaya/Malaysia enjoyed only a 'pseudo-independence', largely because of the entrenched and dominant position of British business...
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  • Russia's Regions and Comparative Subnational Politics Russia's Regions and Comparative Subnational Politics
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    Russia's Regions and Comparative Subnational Politics

    Subnational political units are growing in influence in national and international affairs, drawing increasing scholarly attention to politics beyond national capitals. In this book, leading Russian and Western political scientists contribute to debates...
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  • Studies in Gangs and Cartels Studies in Gangs and Cartels
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    Studies in Gangs and Cartels

    Concerns over the changing nature of gangs and cartels and their relationships to states in the late 20th and early 21st centuries has resulted in the emergence of a scholarly body of work focused on their national security threat potentials. This body...
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  • Human Security in Southeast Asia Human Security in Southeast Asia
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    Human Security in Southeast Asia

    There is a growing interest in human security in Southeast Asia. This book firstly explores the theoretical and conceptual basis of human security, before focusing on the region itself. It shows how human security has been taken up as a central part of...
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  • Pakistan's Stability Paradox Pakistan's Stability Paradox
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    Pakistan's Stability Paradox

    Pakistan, with the second largest Muslim population in the world, is a crucial country in the international system.  This book identifies the factors that contribute both to Pakistan's perceived instability and its resilience. It examines the...
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  • Party Government in the New Europe Party Government in the New Europe
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    Party Government in the New Europe

    This truly comparative volume examines the "life cycle" of party governments in Europe from 1990 onwards, and analyses its role and function in contemporary European parliamentary democracies.The life and the performance of party governments in Europe...
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  • The Politics of Social Exclusion in India The Politics of Social Exclusion in India
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    The Politics of Social Exclusion in India

    Social exclusion and inclusion remain issues of fundamental importance to democracy. Both exclusion and inclusion relate to the access to participation in the public realm, public goods and services for certain groups of people who are minorities,...
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  • State Reform and Development in the Middle East State Reform and Development in the Middle East
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    State Reform and Development in the Middle East

    The economies of Turkey and Egypt, remarkably similar until the early 1980s, have since taken divergent paths. Turkey has successfully implemented a policy of export led industrialisation whilst Egypt's manufacturing industry and exports have stagnated...
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  • China and International Relations China and International Relations
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    China and International Relations

    Despite Beijing's repeated assurance that China's rise will be "peaceful", the United States, Japan and the European Union as well as many of China's Asian neighbours feel uneasy about the rise of China. Although China's rise could be seen as inevitable,...
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  • Israel in the World Israel in the World
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    Israel in the World

    Since independence, Israel has lived with a paradox, needing and seeking legitimacy, understanding, and empathy from the world community while simultaneously also discounting the world. This volume reflects upon Israel's troubled attempts to balance its...
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  • National Pasts in Europe and East Asia National Pasts in Europe and East Asia
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    National Pasts in Europe and East Asia

    With the rise of industrial capitalism in Europe and the related imposition of colonial rule in much of East Asia, both Europe and East Asia have intertwined histories that continue to shape their political thinking and political decision making. The...
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  • The Politicization of Europe The Politicization of Europe
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    The Politicization of Europe

    This book examines how mass media debates have contributed to the politicization of the European Union. The public controversies over the EU's attempted Constitution-making (and its failure) sowed the seeds for a process of politicization that has...
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  • Ending Terrorism in Italy Ending Terrorism in Italy
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    Ending Terrorism in Italy

    Ending Terrorism in Italy analyses processes of disengagement from terrorism, as well as the connected issues of reconciliation, truth and justice.
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  • Situating Global Resistance Situating Global Resistance
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    Situating Global Resistance

    The book examines some of the ways in which contemporary forms of political dissent are situated within processes of global ordering. Grounded in analysis of concrete practices of discipline and dissent in specific contexts, it explores the ways in...
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  • Promoting Party Politics in Emerging Democracies Promoting Party Politics in Emerging Democracies
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    Promoting Party Politics in Emerging Democracies

    This book offers a critical and comparative examination of international support to political parties and party systems in emerging and prospective new democracies in several world regions. It combines the insights of a strong international grouping of...
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  • NATO, Security and Risk Management NATO, Security and Risk Management
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    NATO, Security and Risk Management

    This new volume explores the crisis in transatlantic relations and analyses the role of NATO following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The book offers a unified theory of cooperation in the new security paradigm to explain the current state of...
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  • Deleuze & Fascism Deleuze & Fascism
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    Deleuze & Fascism

    This edited volume deploys Deleuzian thinking to re-theorize fascism as a mutable problem in changing orders of power relations dependent on hitherto misunderstood social and political conditions of formation. The book provides a theoretically distinct...
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  • Politics of the Event Politics of the Event
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    Politics of the Event

    Despite occupying a central role and frequently being used in the study of international politics, the concept of the "event" remains in many ways unchallenged and unexplored. By combining the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and his concept of the event...
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  • The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China
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    The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China

    Focusing on contemporary Tibetan Buddhist revivals in the Tibetan regions of the Sichuan and Qinghai Provinces in China, this book explores the intricate entanglements of the Buddhist revivals with cultural identity, state ideology, and popular...
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  • The Council of Europe The Council of Europe
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    The Council of Europe

    The book provides a succinct and much needed introduction to the Council of Europe from its foundation through the early conventions on human rights and culture to its expansion into the fields of social affairs, environment and education. Founded in...
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