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  • New Directions in American Political Parties New Directions in American Political Parties
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    New Directions in American Political Parties

    Our portraits of voters, their relationship to parties, and the behavior of elected party members have changed significantly within the last 10 to 15 years. Characterizations of dealignment and decreased importance of parties have been fairly rapidly...
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  • Routledge Handbook of Public Policy Routledge Handbook of Public Policy
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    Routledge Handbook of Public Policy

    This Handbook provides a comprehensive global survey of the policy process. Written by an outstanding line up of distinguished scholars and practitioners, the Handbook covers all aspects of the policy process including:Theory - from rational choice to...
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  • Gender, National Security, and Counter-Terrorism Gender, National Security, and Counter-Terrorism
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    Gender, National Security, and Counter-Terrorism

    In the name of fighting terrorism, countries have been invaded; wars have been waged; people have been detained, rendered and tortured; and campaigns for "hearts and minds" have been unleashed. Human rights analyses of the counter-terrorism measures...
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  • Environmental Politics in Egypt Environmental Politics in Egypt
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    Environmental Politics in Egypt

    Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in Egypt from the late 1990s to 2011, this book shows how experts and activists used distinctive approaches to influence state and firm decision-making in three important environmental policy domains. These...
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  • Critical Theory of International Politics Critical Theory of International Politics
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    Critical Theory of International Politics

    This is first detailed account on the origins of critical theory and how it has developed and influenced international relations. Making complex ideas accessible to all, it discusses Marx and post-Marxist thinkers; the Frankfurt School; Adorno, Benjamin...
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  • Bureaucracy, Community and Influence in India Bureaucracy, Community and Influence in India
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    Bureaucracy, Community and Influence in India

    Offering a fresh approach to the issue of government and administrative corruption through 'everyday' citizen interactions with the state, this book explores changing discourses and practices of corruption in late colonial and early independent Uttar...
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  • Democratic Transformation and Obstruction Democratic Transformation and Obstruction
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    Democratic Transformation and Obstruction

    Although "democracy promotion" has become a popular term for policy makers and scholars, democratization is rarely a smooth or linear transition. While some countries quickly democratize, others lag behind despite a long period of democracy promotion...
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  • The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others
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    The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others

     The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others examines European mistranslations and misrepresentations of black freedom dreams and self-activity as monstrous in the period of modern imperial consolidation -roughly from 1750 to 1848. This book argues that...
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  • New Body Politics New Body Politics
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    New Body Politics

    In the increasingly multi-racial and multi-ethnic American landscape of the present, understanding and bridging dynamic cross-cultural conversations about social and political concerns becomes a complicated humanistic project. How do everyday embodied...
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  • The Middle East in World Politics (Routledge Revivals) The Middle East in World Politics (Routledge Revivals)
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    The Middle East in World Politics (Routledge Revivals)

    The Middle East is, and has always been, of major global economic and political importance. First published in 1981, this edited collection analyses many of the crucial issues that have had international repercussions during the second half of the...
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  • Statebuilding and Justice Reform Statebuilding and Justice Reform
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    Statebuilding and Justice Reform

    The book provides an updated account of justice reform in Afghanistan, which started in the wake of the US-led military intervention of 2001. In particular, it focuses on the role of international actors and their interaction with local stakeholders,...
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  • Military Media Management Military Media Management
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    Military Media Management

    This book examines the practices of actors involved in the media reportage of war, and the ways in which these practices may influence the conduct of modern military operations.
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  • The Circassian Diaspora in Turkey The Circassian Diaspora in Turkey
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    The Circassian Diaspora in Turkey

    A North Caucasian ethnic group that has been largely obscured in world history as a result of their expulsion from their homeland by Tsarist Russia in the 1860s, Circassians now comprise significant communities not only in the Northwest Caucasus but also...
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  • US Hegemony and International Legitimacy US Hegemony and International Legitimacy
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    US Hegemony and International Legitimacy

    This book examines US hegemony and international legitimacy in the post-Cold War era, focusing on its leadership in the two wars on Iraq.The preference for unilateral action in foreign policy under the Bush Administration, culminating in the use of force...
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  • Reconciliation after Terrorism Reconciliation after Terrorism
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    Reconciliation after Terrorism

    This book brings together scholars from the hitherto disparate fields of terrorism and reconciliation studies to examine whether reconciliation is a possible strategy for dealing with and ending a terrorist conflict.
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  • Insuring Life Insuring Life
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    Insuring Life

    This book is a contribution to the scholarly engagement with the wider problem of governing through risk and the politics of uncertainty. It takes life insurance as an empirical site from which to ask: what is the kind of governance created through...
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  • Resisting United Nations Security Council Resolutions Resisting United Nations Security Council Resolutions
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    Resisting United Nations Security Council Resolutions

    The United Nations Security Council has primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. In discharging its powers it must act in accordance with the Purposes and Principles of the UN, and observe the rules governing voting and...
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  • The Politics of Truth Management in Saudi Arabia The Politics of Truth Management in Saudi Arabia
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    The Politics of Truth Management in Saudi Arabia

    Exploring the management of 'truth' in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, this book aims to investigate the ways in which the official 'truth' is constructed and institutionalised in the country. The Politics of Truth Management in Saudi Arabia argues that...
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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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