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  • China's Urban Future and the Quest for Stability China's Urban Future and the Quest for Stability
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    China's Urban Future and the Quest for Stability

    In recent decades, China has used urbanization as an economic development tool to reconstruct the country's traditional institutions, culture, and society. The downside of these many changes is that they have presented the country's government with a...
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  • Transhumanizing War Transhumanizing War
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    Transhumanizing War

    The concept of soldier enhancement often invokes images of dystopian futures populated with dehumanized military personnel. These futures serve as warnings in science fiction works, and yet the enhancement of soldiers' combat capability is almost as old...
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  • Diplomacy and the Arctic Council Diplomacy and the Arctic Council
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    Diplomacy and the Arctic Council

    The Arctic Council, created in 1996, has facilitated over twenty years of successful democracy and regional cooperation between Russia and the seven other Arctic states - the United States, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, and Finland. What has...
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  • Protecting Multiculturalism Protecting Multiculturalism
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    Protecting Multiculturalism

    In a post-9/11 sea of social and political discord, one state stands apart. As an increasingly powerful anti-Islamic social movement rises in the West, Canada alone remains a viable multicultural state. Employing survey and statistical data as well as a...
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  • At the Centre of Government At the Centre of Government
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    At the Centre of Government

    "Canada's prime minister is a dictator." "The Sun King of Canadian government." "More powerful than any other chief executive of any other democratic country." These kinds of claims are frequently made about Canada's leader - especially when the prime...
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  • Provincial Battles, National Prize? Provincial Battles, National Prize?
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    Provincial Battles, National Prize?

    In parliamentary systems like Canada, voters directly contribute to the election outcome only in their own riding. However, the focus of election campaigns is often national, emphasizing the leader rather than the local candidate, and national rather...
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  • Canadian Multimodal Transport Policy and Governance Canadian Multimodal Transport Policy and Governance
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    Canadian Multimodal Transport Policy and Governance

    Given its geographical expanse, Canada has always faced long-term transport policy issues and challenges. Canadian Multi-Modal Transport Policy and Governance explains how and why Canadian transportation policy and related governance changed from the...
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  • High Time High Time
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    High Time

    Canada has become the first G7 country to legalize cannabis, and the world is watching. The primary concern facing the Liberal government as it seeks to fulfill its 2015 campaign promise to "legalize, regulate, and restrict access to marijuana" is...
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  • Unveiling the Nation Unveiling the Nation
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    Unveiling the Nation

    Over the last few decades, politicians in Europe and North America have fiercely debated the effects of a growing Muslim minority on their respective national identities. Some of these countries have prohibited Islamic religious coverings in public...
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  • Canada and the Ethics of Constitutionalism Canada and the Ethics of Constitutionalism
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    Canada and the Ethics of Constitutionalism

    Canada is caught between two empires and between two constitutional systems. However, neither the British model of a "single sovereign" nor the American people's "sacred fire of liberty" matched the pluralistic identity of Canada, so Canadians engaged in...
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  • 100 Questions about Women and Politics
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    100 Questions about Women and Politics

    Both yesterday's suffragists and today's feminists have battled for women to vote and hold office, and their successes have made it possible for countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Iceland, Liberia, and the United Kingdom to have female heads...
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  • Divided Province Divided Province
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    Divided Province

    No government jurisdiction in Canada has so radically transformed its public policies over the past decades as Ontario, and yet the province has also maintained a striking degree of political stability in its party system. Since the 1990s, neoliberalism...
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  • Criminalization of Migration Criminalization of Migration
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    Criminalization of Migration

    With over 240 million migrants in the world, including over 65 million forced migrants and refugees, states have turned to draconian measures to stem the flow of irregular migration, including the criminalization of migration itself. Canada, perceived as...
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  • Citizenship as a Regime Citizenship as a Regime
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    Citizenship as a Regime

    State building is an ongoing process that first defines legitimate citizenship and then generates citizens. Political analysts and social scientists now use the concept of citizenship as a lens for considering both the evolution of states and the...
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  • Public Sector in an Age of Austerity Public Sector in an Age of Austerity
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    Public Sector in an Age of Austerity

    Following the 2008 global financial crisis, Canada appeared to escape the austerity implemented elsewhere, but this was spin hiding the reality. A closer look reveals that the provinces - responsible for delivering essential public and social services...
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  • Do Think Tanks Matter? Do Think Tanks Matter?
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    Do Think Tanks Matter?

    It is often assumed that think tanks carry enormous weight with lawmakers and other key stakeholders. In Do Think Tanks Matter? Donald Abelson argues that the question of how think tanks have evolved and under what conditions they can and do have an...
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  • Trojan-Horse Aid Trojan-Horse Aid
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    Trojan-Horse Aid

    In a compelling first-hand account of development assistance gone awry, Susan Walsh recounts how national, international, and multilateral organizations failed the Jalq'a people in the Bolivian Andes during the early millennium. Intent on assisting...
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  • Ethics in Public Management Ethics in Public Management
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    Ethics in Public Management

    This book presents cutting-edge commentaries by leading scholars that address issues of public ethics in the current period of broken politics and challenged legitimacy.
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  • No Second Prize No Second Prize
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    No Second Prize

    Take a flick through the pages of this book and see if something arouses your curiosity.This book represents 26 years of artwork and written material. It has been compiled in such a way as to be relevant 26 years ago and also today and into the future...
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  • The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault
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    The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault

    This book is the first to systematically reconstruct Foucault's political and philosophical thought across his career, arguing that Foucault had a consistent but ever-growing political and philosophical viewpoint.
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  • The Present Politics of the Past The Present Politics of the Past
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    The Present Politics of the Past

    This work applies Jacques Derrida's framework of "spectropolitics" to (post)coloniality in order to investigate the emergence of indigenous peoples' movements, advances a poststructural approach to the analysis of liberal politics based upon the...
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  • National Identity and the Conflict at Oka National Identity and the Conflict at Oka
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    National Identity and the Conflict at Oka

    Through readings of literature, canonical history texts, studies of museum displays and media analysis, this work explores the historical formation of myths of Canadian national identity and then how these myths were challenged (and affirmed during the...
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  • Walking Ghosts Walking Ghosts
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    Walking Ghosts

    In Walking Ghosts, Steven Dudley, a journalist who lived in Columbia for five years, expertly chronicles the life and death of the Patriotic Union (UP), the party established by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Colombia's largest...
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  • American Government and Popular Discontent American Government and Popular Discontent
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    American Government and Popular Discontent

    Popular distrust and the entrenchment of government by professionals lie at the root of America's most pressing political problems. This characterization of contemporary American politics stems from the transformations brought about from the 1950s to the...
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  • Third Party Blues Third Party Blues
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    Third Party Blues

    Third Party Blues presents a concerted effort to analyze the historical value of third parties while showing that minor party inclusion does prompt real-world positive consequences.
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  • French Political Travel Writing in the Interwar Years French Political Travel Writing in the Interwar Years
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    French Political Travel Writing in the Interwar Years

    This book studies travel writing produced by French authors between the two World Wars following visits to authoritarian regimes in Europe and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). It sheds new light on the phenomenon of French political...
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  • The Politics of Community Building in Urban China The Politics of Community Building in Urban China
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    The Politics of Community Building in Urban China

    This book aims to make sense of the recent reform of neighbourhood institutions in urban China. It builds on the observation that the late 1990s saw a comeback of the state in urban China after the increased economization of life in the 1980s had...
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  • The European Council and European Governance The European Council and European Governance
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    The European Council and European Governance

    In recent years, the failure of the constitutional process, the difficult ratification and implementation of the Lisbon Treaty, as well as the several crises affecting Europe have revitalized the debate on the nature of the European polity and the...
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  • Power in a Changing World Economy Power in a Changing World Economy
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    Power in a Changing World Economy

    This book is about power in a changing world economy. Though power is ubiquitous in the study of International Political Economy, the concept is underdeveloped in formal theoretical terms. This collection of essays analyses recent experience in East Asia...
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  • Understanding the Middle East Peace Process Understanding the Middle East Peace Process
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    Understanding the Middle East Peace Process

    Asima Ghazi-Bouillon examines the Middle East peace process since Oslo and how Israel's sense of national identity has changed and been interpreted. In particular the book analyzes the highly contentious academic debates between the "New Historians",...
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  • The European Union's Foreign Economic Policies The European Union's Foreign Economic Policies
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    The European Union's Foreign Economic Policies

    This volume offers a fresh look at the EU's foreign economic policies using a principal-agent approach. It provides insights into the EU's trade policy, its role in international financial governance, and its involvement in the G8 and the International...
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  • Theorising Transnational Migration Theorising Transnational Migration
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    Theorising Transnational Migration

    Societal transformations have recently stimulated political debates and policies on the integration of migrants and minorities in most Western European countries. While transnational migration studies have documented migrants' cross-border activities...
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  • The United States and NATO since 9/11 The United States and NATO since 9/11
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    The United States and NATO since 9/11

    The US decision not to work through NATO after 9/11 left many European members of the alliance feeling deflated. This decision reflected not only the unilateralism of the Bush Administration, but also the belief that US operational freedom and...
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  • Gramsci and Global Politics Gramsci and Global Politics
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    Gramsci and Global Politics

    The aim of this book is to explain and assess the relevance of the ideas of Gramsci to a world fundamentally transformed from that in which his thought was developed. It takes some of Gramsci's best-known concepts - hegemony, civil society, passive...
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  • The European Union and Occupied Palestinian Territories The European Union and Occupied Palestinian Territories
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    The European Union and Occupied Palestinian Territories

    This book analyses the present European Union (EU) approach to state-building, both in policy and operation. It offers a review of the literature on peace-building, EU state-building and conflict resolution, before examining in detail the EU's role as a...
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  • Civil Disobedience and Deliberative Democracy Civil Disobedience and Deliberative Democracy
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    Civil Disobedience and Deliberative Democracy

    Civil disobedience is a public, nonviolent, conscientious yet political act, contrary to law, carried out to communicate opposition to law and policy of government. This book presents a theory of civil disobedience that draws on ideas associated with...
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  • Improving Intelligence Analysis Improving Intelligence Analysis
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    Improving Intelligence Analysis

    This book on intelligence analysis written by intelligence expert Dr. Stephen Marrin argues that scholarship can play a valuable role in improving intelligence analysis. Improving intelligence analysis requires bridging the gap between scholarship...
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  • Role Theory in International Relations Role Theory in International Relations
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    Role Theory in International Relations

    Role Theory in International Relations provides a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of recent theoretical scholarship on foreign policy roles and extensive empirical analysis of role behaviour of a variety of states in the current era of eroding American...
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  • Genocide Matters Genocide Matters
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    Genocide Matters

    This edited book provides an interdisciplinary overview of recent scholarship in the field of genocide studies. The book examines four main areas:The current state of research on genocide New thinking on the categories and methods of mass violence...
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  • Transnational Financial Regulation after the Crisis Transnational Financial Regulation after the Crisis
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    Transnational Financial Regulation after the Crisis

    The global financial crisis that began in 2007 was the most destructive since the 1930s. The rapid spread of the crisis across borders and the complexity of these cross-border linkages highlighted the importance for authorities of working together in...
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  • The EU and Military Operations The EU and Military Operations
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    The EU and Military Operations

    This book is a comparative study of the EU´s first military operations which aims to answer the question: under what circumstances does the EU undertake military operations?
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  • Suicide Protest in South Asia Suicide Protest in South Asia
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    Suicide Protest in South Asia

    The radical act of suicide protest is undertaken by social movement participants in order to demand a particular previously articulated political outcome. This book examines the history and impact of suicide protest, which has been increasingly used as a...
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  • Naval Modernisation in South-East Asia Naval Modernisation in South-East Asia
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    Naval Modernisation in South-East Asia

    This edited volume analyses the naval arms race in South-East Asia, and reviews the content, purposes and consequences of the naval policies and development of the main countries of the region. The rise of naval capability in the countries of the...
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  • Indigenous Nations and Modern States Indigenous Nations and Modern States
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    Indigenous Nations and Modern States

    Rudolph C. Ryser reveals in documentary detail how since the 1970s indigenous peoples politically formed governing authorities over peoples, territories and resources raising important questions and offering new solutions to profound challenges to human...
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