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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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  • Social Democracy and European Integration Social Democracy and European Integration
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    Social Democracy and European Integration

    What kind of Europe do social democratic parties prefer? What is the origin of their preferences? Are they shaped by interests, institutions or ideas? If so, how? Why do social democratic political parties respond differently to the crucial question of...
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  • Legislatures of Small States Legislatures of Small States
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    Legislatures of Small States

    This book provides a comparative study of the legislatures of small nations, states and territories, to explore the extent to which size is a factor in how they function and fulfil the roles and responsibility of a legislature.Though the physical nature...
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  • Palestinian Women and Popular Resistance Palestinian Women and Popular Resistance
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    Palestinian Women and Popular Resistance

    This book explores Palestinian women's views of popular resistance in the West Bank and examines factors shaping the nature and extent of their involvement. Despite the signing of the Oslo peace accords in 1993 and 1995, the Occupied Palestinian...
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  • Comparative Renewables Policy Comparative Renewables Policy
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    Comparative Renewables Policy

    Challenging one-eyed technology-focused accounts of renewables policy, this book provides a ground-breaking, deep-diving and genre-crossing longitudinal study of policy development. The book develops a multi-field explanatory approach, capturing...
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  • Parliamentary Candidates Between Voters and Parties Parliamentary Candidates Between Voters and Parties
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    Parliamentary Candidates Between Voters and Parties

    This book offers the first comprehensive, comparative and coherent perspective on parliamentary candidates in contemporary representative democracy. Based on the unique database of the 'Comparative Candidate Survey' project which interrogated...
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  • Gendered Struggles against Globalisation in Mexico Gendered Struggles against Globalisation in Mexico
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    Gendered Struggles against Globalisation in Mexico

    Teresa Healy here examines resistance within Mexican society during a period of sustained crisis at the regional and national level, as well as at the level of world order. She analyzes how working class men organized to fight for the recognition of...
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  • Encountering the Transnational Encountering the Transnational
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    Encountering the Transnational

    When Muslim women from diverse national and cultural contexts meet one another through transnational dialogue and networking, what happens to their sense of identity and social agency? Addressing this question, Meena Sharify-Funk encountered women...
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  • Green Leviathan Green Leviathan
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    Green Leviathan

    The US, Switzerland and Canada are wealthy democracies that should be conducive to effective decentralized or cooperative environmental policy-making. However, a closer examination of their environmental policy over many decades finds no evidence that...
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  • Federalism, Feminism and Multilevel Governance Federalism, Feminism and Multilevel Governance
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    Federalism, Feminism and Multilevel Governance

    Until recently, few gender scholars took notice of the impact of state architecture on women's representation, political opportunities, and policy achievements. Likewise scholars of federalism, devolution and multilevel governance have largely ignored...
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  • Transnational Environmental Policy Transnational Environmental Policy
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    Transnational Environmental Policy

    Transnational Environmental Policy analyses a surprising success story in the field of international environmental policy making: the threat to the ozone layer posed by industrial chemicals, and how it has been averted. The book also raises the more...
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  • Regional Security Structures in Asia Regional Security Structures in Asia
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    Regional Security Structures in Asia

    Kapor argues that explanations of international relations in Asia in the post-Second World War period have relied too much on the Cold War as a key explanatory factor, and have not given enough emphasis to the useful concepts of 'regional power...
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  • State and Society in China's Democratic Transition State and Society in China's Democratic Transition
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    State and Society in China's Democratic Transition

    This study aims to fill the gap in the existing literature on China's Democratic development, by presenting a comprehensive and detailed examination of the key factors that have created and sustained state domination over society in China.
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  • Women and Militant Wars Women and Militant Wars
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    Women and Militant Wars

    This book explores women's militant activities in insurgent wars and seeks to understand what women 'do' in wars.In International Relations, inter-state conflict, anti-state armed insurgency and armed militancy are essentially seen as wars where...
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  • Christians and the Middle East Conflict Christians and the Middle East Conflict
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    Christians and the Middle East Conflict

    Christians and the Middle East Conflict deals with the relationship of Christians and Christian theology to the various conflicts in the Middle East, a topic that is often sensationalized but still insufficiently understood. Political developments over...
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  • Arms Diffusion Arms Diffusion
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    Arms Diffusion

    Weapons proliferation is one of the most pressing global concerns following the end of the Cold War. Despite the absence of an overarching superpower conflict, armaments and related technologies have continued to spread throughout the international...
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  • Young Citizens Young Citizens
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    Young Citizens

    Recent years have witnessed growing concerns about the disengagement of young people from conventional politics both in Britain and internationally. Their non-participation is often viewed as reflecting both a deeper political alienation and 'apathy'...
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  • Cosmopolitanism, Religion and the Public Sphere Cosmopolitanism, Religion and the Public Sphere
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    Cosmopolitanism, Religion and the Public Sphere

    Although emerging scholarship in the social sciences suggests that religion can be a potential catalyst of cosmopolitanism and global citizenship, few attempts have been made to bring to the fore new theoretical positions and empirical analyses of how...
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  • Interrogation in War and Conflict Interrogation in War and Conflict
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    Interrogation in War and Conflict

    This edited volume offers a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of interrogation and questioning in war and conflict in the twentieth century. Despite the current public interest and its military importance, interrogation and questioning in...
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  • Post-Conflict Studies Post-Conflict Studies
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    Post-Conflict Studies

    This book examines how the violence of conflict is transformed in the post-conflict period.Post-conflict studies seek to illuminate, theorise, and narrate the processes by which societies transition from periods of overt and violent conflict to periods...
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  • Muslims and Political Participation in Britain Muslims and Political Participation in Britain
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    Muslims and Political Participation in Britain

    This new volume showcases the latest research into Muslim political participation both in terms of electoral politics and civil society initiatives.Muslims play a prominent role in British political life yet what do we actually know about the involvement...
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  • Socio-Economic Rights in Emerging Free Markets Socio-Economic Rights in Emerging Free Markets
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    Socio-Economic Rights in Emerging Free Markets

    In the last decade or so, China and India have emerged on the global stage as two powerful free market economies. The tremendous economic growth in China and India has meant that they have been able to lift millions of people out of the poverty trap...
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  • Europe Anti-Power Europe Anti-Power
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    Europe Anti-Power

    The EU seeks to define a role for itself in power politics while remaining firm in its rejection of power politics. In order to make power compatible with the European project, EU debate has appended a number of progressive adjectives to the word...
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  • Cultural Politics of Targeted Killing Cultural Politics of Targeted Killing
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    Cultural Politics of Targeted Killing

    The deployment of remotely piloted air platforms (RPAs) - or drones - has become a defining feature of contemporary counter-insurgency operations. Scholarly analysis and public debate has primarily focused on two issues: the legality of targeted killing...
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  • Sovereignty Revisited Sovereignty Revisited
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    Sovereignty Revisited

    This book explores the new debates on Basque sovereignty and statehood that have emerged in the post-violence Basque political scenario. It deciphers how sovereignty is understood or imagined by a revitalized civil society after the unilateral cessation...
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  • Post-Communist Aesthetics Post-Communist Aesthetics
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    Post-Communist Aesthetics

    In this book, Anca Pusca seeks to extend the aesthetic and cultural turn in international relations to an analysis of post-communist transitions in Central and Eastern Europe. Building on the philosophy of Walter Benjamin and Jacques Ranciere, the work...
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  • Shifting Centres of Gravity in Human Rights Protection Shifting Centres of Gravity in Human Rights Protection
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    Shifting Centres of Gravity in Human Rights Protection

    This book brings together researchers from the fields of international human rights law, EU law and constitutional law to reflect on the tug-of-war over the positioning of the centre of gravity of human rights protection in Europe. It addresses both the...
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  • The Radical Left in Europe in the Age of Austerity The Radical Left in Europe in the Age of Austerity
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    The Radical Left in Europe in the Age of Austerity

    The complex trajectory of Europe after the 2008 global financial crisis, has led to the catastrophic failure of deep austerity measures that swept across the Union, and is reflected in the rise of some radical left parties such as SYRIZA as well as an...
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  • The Politics of Migration in Italy The Politics of Migration in Italy
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    The Politics of Migration in Italy

    Migration represents one of the key issues in both Italian and European politics, and it has triggered EU-wide debates and negotiations, alongside alarmist and often sensationalist news reporting on the activities of government, party and social movement...
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