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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • German Perspectives on Right-Wing Extremism German Perspectives on Right-Wing Extremism
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    German Perspectives on Right-Wing Extremism

    This book discusses right-wing extremism by analysing Germanophone research on this topic for the first time in English, including unique survey data from Germany and Austria. Highlighting how questions of terminology can become complicated when country...
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  • Real Democracy Occupy Real Democracy Occupy
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    Real Democracy Occupy

    The liberal representative model of democracy is in a crisis. In protest camps, neighbourhood assemblies and through other non-hierarchical initiatives, the Occupy movement as well as other recent anti-austerity movements are redefining democracy as a...
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  • Evaluating Progress in International Relations Evaluating Progress in International Relations
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    Evaluating Progress in International Relations

    This edited volume offers a systematic evaluation of how knowledge is produced by scholarly research into International Relations. The contributors explore three key questions: To what extent is scientific progress and accumulation of knowledge possible?...
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  • 21st Century Cooperation 21st Century Cooperation
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    21st Century Cooperation

    This edited volume explains the importance of regional public goods (RPGs) for sustainable development and shows why they are particularly important in the context of 21st-century international relations. By presenting a new and original data set and by...
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  • Peace Leadership Peace Leadership
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    Peace Leadership

    This book examines the concept of peace leadership, bringing together scholars and practitioners from both peace and conflict studies and leadership studies.The volume assesses the activities of six peace leaders, the place and role of women and...
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  • Russian Foreign Policy in Eurasia Russian Foreign Policy in Eurasia
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    Russian Foreign Policy in Eurasia

    How has Russia increased its strength and power over the last 15 years? By what means did the Kremlin bring Armenia back into its orbit? Why did Azerbaijan and Georgia try to avoid antagonizing Moscow? Can we conclude that Russia has restored its sphere...
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  • Power Relations in the Twenty-First Century Power Relations in the Twenty-First Century
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    Power Relations in the Twenty-First Century

    This volume critiques contemporary power trends by examining key bilateral dynamics between five putative 'poles' of the multipolar order in the twenty-first century.Written by emerging scholars and established academics, this work provides a timely and...
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  • The Labour Church The Labour Church
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    The Labour Church

    This book aims to unpack the core message of the Labour Church and question the accepted views of the movement by pursuing an alternative way of analysing its history, significance and meaning. The religious influences on...
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  • Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Human Rights and Conflict Resolution
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    Human Rights and Conflict Resolution

    Human rights and conflict resolution have been traditionally perceived as two separate fields, sometimes in competition or in tension and occasionally with contradictory approaches towards achieving a lasting peace. Although human rights norms have been...
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  • Challenging Austerity Challenging Austerity
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    Challenging Austerity

    This book analyses social movements and radical political parties' strategies in Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy from 2008 to today. Events in 2011 such as the Arab Spring and the indignados movement in Spain initiated a new cycle of social protest...
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  • The Political Psychology of Attitudes towards the West The Political Psychology of Attitudes towards the West
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    The Political Psychology of Attitudes towards the West

    Why do some individuals from the imagined "non-West" view the "West" favorably and others do not? Grounded in psychological authoritarianism and the psychological reactions to experiences of rejection, Björn Goldstein provides a theoretical model to...
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  • Politics and Revolution in Egypt Politics and Revolution in Egypt
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    Politics and Revolution in Egypt

    In the years since the 2011 revolutions, Egypt and the Arab countries in general have moved from a profound moment of hope and democratic potential to deepened authoritarianism and outright war. Among the many political actors who have seen their...
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  • The Israeli Path to Neoliberalism The Israeli Path to Neoliberalism
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    The Israeli Path to Neoliberalism

    In recent years, Israel has deeply and quickly transformed itself from a self-perceived social-democratic regime into a privatized and liberalized "Start-Up Nation" and a highly divided society. This transition to neoliberalism has been coupled with the...
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  • The Tyranny of the Majority The Tyranny of the Majority
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    The Tyranny of the Majority

    Tamás Nyirkos provides a timely and essential reassessment of the concept of the "tyranny of the majority" for the study of democracy today. The analysis is divided into three parts: the first discusses the "prehistory" of majority tyranny; the second...
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  • Changing Landscapes of Urban Citizenship Changing Landscapes of Urban Citizenship
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    Changing Landscapes of Urban Citizenship

    Since the 2008 financial crisis, politics of austerity in Europe have engendered far-reaching socioeconomic and political transformations. The recent refugee 'crisis' has also deeply affected the sociopolitical terrain. Contrary to past arguments about...
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  • Christianity and American State Violence in Iraq Christianity and American State Violence in Iraq
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    Christianity and American State Violence in Iraq

    The world continues to be threatened by non-state, religiously-rationalized violence. While some fail to the see the connections between the United States' intervention in the Middle East and this ongoing threat, the non-state perpetrators of terror...
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  • Creative Involvement Creative Involvement
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    Creative Involvement

    With the enhancement of national power, China's relationship with the outside world is evolving from simple follow-up and passive adaptation to strong participation, proactive engagement and active leadership. That will not only bring about major changes...
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  • Transforming the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Transforming the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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    Transforming the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

    This book is a collection of essential essays on resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by eminent social psychologist Herbert C. Kelman.Few experts or practitioners know the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as well as Kelman, and for over forty years he...
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  • EU Human Rights and Democratization Policies EU Human Rights and Democratization Policies
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    EU Human Rights and Democratization Policies

    Though the EU has tried to place human rights and democracy at the heart of its external action, there are serious concerns about its capacity to have a significant impact on the situation of human rights and human rights defenders as well as on the...
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  • New Perspectives on the End of the Cold War New Perspectives on the End of the Cold War
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    New Perspectives on the End of the Cold War

    This collection of essays makes a significant contribution to the historiography of the end of the Cold War. Research on the causes and consequences of the end of the Cold War is constantly growing. Initially, it was dominated by fairly simplistic, and...
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  • The Media and Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa The Media and Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa
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    The Media and Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa

    News coverage on Africa is closely connected not only with how Western audiences see the continent, but also with how a wide Western audience builds its opinion on issues that carry consequences for the public's and governments' support and policy...
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  • Equal Recognition, Minority Rights and Liberal Democracy Equal Recognition, Minority Rights and Liberal Democracy
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    Equal Recognition, Minority Rights and Liberal Democracy

    Multiculturalism is not à la mode nowadays. It is attacked by both right-wing populists and mainstream politicians and leaders of liberal democracies. Indeed, conflicts surrounding cultural diversity and recognition are among the most salient issues in...
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  • Aesthetics and Political Culture in Modern Society Aesthetics and Political Culture in Modern Society
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    Aesthetics and Political Culture in Modern Society

    Do aesthetic appeals to senses and emotions in political debate necessarily marginalise political reason and reduce citizens to consumers - thus dangerously undermining democracy? Or is sensuous-emotional engagement, on the contrary, a basic fact of the...
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  • Power in Contemporary Zimbabwe Power in Contemporary Zimbabwe
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    Power in Contemporary Zimbabwe

    In recent years, the Zimbabwe crisis rendered the country and its citizens to be a typical case of 'failed states', the world over. Zimbabwean society was and is still confronted with different challenges which include political, economic and social...
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  • State Interest and the Sources of International Law State Interest and the Sources of International Law
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    State Interest and the Sources of International Law

    This book addresses the disparity between positive non-treaty law and its scholarly assessment in the area of moral concepts, understood as altruistic as opposed to reciprocal legal obligations. It shows how scholars are generously willing to assert the...
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