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    Radio's Digital Dilemma

    Radio's Digital Dilemma is the first comprehensive analysis of the United States' digital radio transition, chronicling the technological and policy development of the HD Radio broadcast standard. A story laced with anxiety, ignorance, and hubris, the...
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    US-China Cold War Collaboration

    After more than four decades the Cold War ended with the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union. Almost simultaneously China emerged as the new potential disruptor of international stability, with Beijing replacing Moscow as the key source of Western...
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    Living with Transition in Laos

    Based on extensive original research, this book assesses how economic transition and marketisation are being translated into progress (or not) at the local level, and at the resulting impact on poverty, inequality and livelihoods.
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    Kwame Nkrumah's Politico-Cultural Thought and Politics

    This study critically synthesizes and analyses the relationship between Kwame Nkrumah's politico-cultural philosophy and policies as an African-centered paradigm for the post-independence African revolution. It also argues for the relevance of his...
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    Enlightenment Political Thought and Non-Western Societies

    Frederick G. Whelan, a leading scholar of Enlightenment political thought, provides an illuminating and incisive interpretation of key eighteenth and nineteenth century European political thinkers' accounts and assessments of the societies and political...
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  • Entrepreneurship, Small Business and Public Policy
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    Entrepreneurship, Small Business and Public Policy

    Public policy interventions aimed at encouraging, supporting and developing small businesses are important for understanding entrepreneurship and small business management. This textbook is the first to provide teachers and students with a resource that...
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    Politics and the Internet in Comparative Context

    This book charts the shifting sands of political activity in the digital age and features a range of international and comparative case studies presenting reseach on the UK, US, Italy, France, Spain, Romania, Africa and China.
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  • Global Movement
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    Global Movement

    Scholar-activists involved in the broader Anti-/Alter-Globalization movement share critical reflections on transnational labor organizing, the World Social Forum, economic justice, anti-war, climate activism, feminism, indigenous struggles,...
    $246.40

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    Putin Redux

    This political biography of Vladimir Putin builds on the strengths of the previous volumes by the same author to provide the most detailed and nuanced account of the man, his politics and his profound influence on Russian politics, foreign policy...
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    Claiming the International

    This book examines the problem of difference in the study of global politics by exploring the limits and possibilities of distinct forms of worlding and the global imaginaries they give rise to, both within academia and beyond it.
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  • Parties and Parliaments in Southeast Asia
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    Parties and Parliaments in Southeast Asia

    Using Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand as case studies, this book traces the historical context for institutional designs, the intentions behind them and their implementation through at least one full parliamentary term. It investigates...
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    The State and Governance in India

    This book presents an innovative investigation of the policies of the Indian Congress during the late colonial period. Departing from the existing historiography of Indian nationalism, it analyses the extent to which Congress elites engaged in processes...
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    The Colour Revolutions in the Former Soviet Republics

    During the first decade of the 21st century, a remarkable phenomenon swept through the former Soviet Union changing the political, social and cultural landscape. Popularly known as the 'Colour Revolutions', these non-violent protests overthrew autocratic...
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    The Construction of History and Nationalism in India

    Most studies on nations and nationalism argue that history, or more precisely a 'common past', is crucial for the process of national identity building. However, the existence of one or more concurrent narratives for the construction of this identity is...
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  • The International History of East Asia, 1900-1968
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    The International History of East Asia, 1900-1968

    This book provides a broad account of the international history of East Asia from 1900 to 1968 - a subject that is essential to any understanding of the modern epoch. Whereas much of the scholarship on this subject has focused purely on the immediate...
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    Redefining Regional Power in International Relations

    This book examines the concept of regional power in international relations. Using the emerging powers of India and South Africa as the case studies, it explores how regional powers simultaneously differ and share common features.The book develops a...
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    International Mediation in Civil Wars

    This book evaluates the role of international mediators in bringing civil wars to an end and makes the case for 'powerful peacemaking' - using incentives and sanctions - to leverage parties into peace.As internal violence within countries is a hugely...
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    1989 as a Political World Event

    This book is not about the events of 1989, but about 1989 as a world event. Starting with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet bloc it examines the historical significance and the world brought about by 1989. When the Cold War ended...
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  • America and Iraq
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    America and Iraq

    This edited volume provides an overview on US involvement in Iraq from the 1958 Iraqi coup to the present-day, offering a deeper context to the current conflict. Using a range of innovative methods to interrogate US foreign policy, ideology and culture,...
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    Coalition Government and Party Mandate

    Which kind of decisions are passed by Cabinet in coalition governments? What motivates ministerial action? How much leeway do coalition parties give their governmental representatives? This book focuses on a comparative study of ministerial behaviour in...
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    Citizens in the Making in Post-Soviet States

    This book, based on extensive original research, including new survey research amongst young people, examines the political attitudes of Russian and Ukrainian adolescents without any firsthand experience with communism.
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    Political Evil in a Global Age

    Hannah Arendt is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most powerful political theorists. The purpose of this book is to make an innovative contribution to the newly emerging literature connecting Arendt to international political theory and...
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  • The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem
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    The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem

    This book examines the politics of Jerusalem since 1967 and the city's decline as an Arab city. Covering issues such as the Old City, the barrier, planning regulations and efforts to remove Palestinians from it, the book provides a broad overview of...
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  • Parliaments and Citizens
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    Parliaments and Citizens

    The relationship between parliaments and citizens is one of the least studied subjects in legislative studies, yet this is a crucial dimension to understand parliaments and the role they play in our political systems. Furthermore, this relationship...
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    The UN Human Rights Council

    The UN Human Rights Council provides a detailed insight into this important organization. The UN was founded in the hope that lasting peace would be built on the foundations of human rights and economic and social progress. In 2006 the Commission on...
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    China and Orientalism

    This book argues that there is a new, Sinological form of orientalism at work in the world. It has shifted from a logic of 'essential difference' to one of 'sameness' or general equivalence. "China" is now in a halting but inevitable process of...
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    US-China Relations

    This book explores relations between the U.S. and China, focusing in particular on China policy in the U.S. Congress, which has been unusually active in the development of this relationship, and the most controversial issues in US-China relations:...
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  • The Globalization of NATO The Globalization of NATO
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    The Globalization of NATO

    This book examines NATO's transition from a Cold War mutual defence organization into a global alliance, and puts the recent crisis over the Afghanistan mission in the context of long-standing debates over out-of-area interventions.
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  • The Politics of Rural Reform in China The Politics of Rural Reform in China
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    The Politics of Rural Reform in China

    Based on a treasure trove of information collected through fieldwork interviews and painstaking documentary research through the Chinese and Western language presses, this book analyzes one of the most important reforms implemented in China over the past...
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  • Islands and International Politics in the Persian Gulf Islands and International Politics in the Persian Gulf
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    Islands and International Politics in the Persian Gulf

    The position of the Persian Gulf as the main highway between East and West has long given this region special significance both within the Middle East and in global affairs more generally. This book examines the history of international relations in the...
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  • Armed Drones and the Ethics of War Armed Drones and the Ethics of War
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    Armed Drones and the Ethics of War

    This book assesses the ethical implications of using armed unmanned aerial vehicles ('hunter-killer drones') in contemporary conflicts. The American way of war is trending away from the heroic and towards the post-heroic, driven by a political preference...
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  • Turkey between Nationalism and Globalization Turkey between Nationalism and Globalization
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    Turkey between Nationalism and Globalization

    Turkish society has been going through institutional and ideological change that has affected its social, cultural and political practices. This book examines these contemporary tensions, which have led to a re-appraisal of Turkey as a nation and Turkish...
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  • History Education and Post-Conflict Reconciliation History Education and Post-Conflict Reconciliation
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    History Education and Post-Conflict Reconciliation

    This book analyses the role of history education in conflict and post-conflict societies, describing common history textbook projects in Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Far East and the Middle East. Ever since the emergence of the modern school...
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  • Hard Questions for Democracy Hard Questions for Democracy
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    Hard Questions for Democracy

    The recent financial and economic crisis has forced governments and people from around the globe to ask some hard questions about how democracy has evolved. Some of these are old questions; others are new. Is democracy really the most desirable form of...
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  • Bourdieu in International Relations Bourdieu in International Relations
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    Bourdieu in International Relations

    This book rethinks the key concepts of International Relations by drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu.The last few years have seen a genuine wave of publications promoting sociology in international relations. Scholars have suggested that Bourdieu's...
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  • Human Rights and Development in the new Millennium Human Rights and Development in the new Millennium
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    Human Rights and Development in the new Millennium

    In recent years human rights have assumed a central position in the discourse surrounding international development, while human rights agencies have begun to more systematically address economic and social rights. This edited volume brings together...
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  • American Foreign Policy and Postwar Reconstruction American Foreign Policy and Postwar Reconstruction
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    American Foreign Policy and Postwar Reconstruction

    On the eve of the invasion of Iraq, President G.W. Bush argued that if setting up democracy in Japan and Germany after WW II was successful, then it should also be successful in Iraq. This book provides a detailed comparison of the reconstruction of...
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  • Nationalism and Conflict Management Nationalism and Conflict Management
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    Nationalism and Conflict Management

    Ethno-national conflict is one of the central issues of modern politics. Despite the emergence of approaches to managing it, from nation-building to territorial autonomy, in recent years, the application of these approaches has been uneven. Old conflicts...
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  • Religion, Identity and Human Security Religion, Identity and Human Security
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    Religion, Identity and Human Security

    This work seeks to provide a fresh examination of the relationship between religion, identity and security in a globalizing world, arguing that in order to address human security issues we must seek a reconceptualization of human security along...
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  • The Trickster and the System The Trickster and the System
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    The Trickster and the System

    This book offers an analytical paradigm to examine relationships between tricksters and systems, change and stability, in a range of contexts.
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  • Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt
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    Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt

    The aim of this book is to bring together geographers, and Schmitt experts who are attuned to the spatial dimensions of his work, to discuss The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum (Schmitt, 1950 [2003]).
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