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  • Regulation in Asia Regulation in Asia
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    Regulation in Asia

    Covering a wide variety of Asian countries, this book explores the complex economic and regulatory factors that generate social demand for state regulation and shows how local networks, courts, democratic processes and civil society have a huge influence...
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  • International Development and Global Politics International Development and Global Politics
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    International Development and Global Politics

    This textbook provides a historical survey of economic and political development theory and practice from 1945. Against the background of changes in global politics, it explores how the project of international development has been shaped in a series of...
    $409.81

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  • Taiwan's Security Taiwan's Security
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    Taiwan's Security

    This is the first explanation and evaluation of Taiwan's defence forces and infrastructure. It examines not only Taiwan's armed forces, but also its Ministry of National Defence, personnel issues, and civil-military relations.This book provides...
    $120.41

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  • The Czech Republic and the European Union The Czech Republic and the European Union
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    The Czech Republic and the European Union

    This book examines the relationship between the Czech Republic and the European Union (EU). The authors examine the Czech Republic's road to EU membership in 2004 and assess how EU accession has affected or changed the Czech Republic, including its...
    $384.20

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  • Postcolonial Politics, The Internet and Everyday Life Postcolonial Politics, The Internet and Everyday Life
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    Postcolonial Politics, The Internet and Everyday Life

    In this ground-breaking study M.I. Franklin explores the form and substance of everyday life online from a critical postcolonial perspective. With Internet access and social media uses accelerating in the Global South, in-depth studies of just how...
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  • Urban Governance and Democracy Urban Governance and Democracy
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    Urban Governance and Democracy

    The issue of local governance is high on the institutional agenda of many local and regional authorities throughout the OECD countries. This book explores the relationship between two key issues of urban governance - leadership and community involvement...
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  • Governance Stories Governance Stories
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    Governance Stories

    An incisive examination of Britain today, which breaks from traditional studies, and takes a new approach to account for massive changes in the make-up of the nation.Over the last twenty years Britain has changed from being governed as a unitary state to...
    $91.86

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  • Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments
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    Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments

    This book explores how intra-party politics affects government formation and termination in parliamentary systems, where the norm is the formation of coalition governments. The authors look beyond party cohesion and discipline in parliamentary...
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  • Radical Politics in Colonial Punjab Radical Politics in Colonial Punjab
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    Radical Politics in Colonial Punjab

    The actions of the radical left in Punjab in pre-Independence India during the 1920s and 30s have often been viewed as foreign and quintessentially un-Indian due to their widely vilified opposition to the Quit India campaign. This book examines some of...
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  • America, the EU and Strategic Culture America, the EU and Strategic Culture
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    America, the EU and Strategic Culture

    This book provides a provocative analysis of relations between Europe and America during the tempestuous years 1998-2004. Analysing EU foreign policy, it concludes that the lessons learnt in interacting with America have been crucial in shaping the...
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  • Sovereignty as Symbolic Form Sovereignty as Symbolic Form
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    Sovereignty as Symbolic Form

    This book is a critical inquiry into sovereignty and argues that the meaning and functions performed by this concept have changed significantly during the past decades, with profound implications for the ontological status of the state and the modus...
    $372.01

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  • Constructing Democracy in Southern Europe Constructing Democracy in Southern Europe
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    Constructing Democracy in Southern Europe

    Why are some regimes democratic while others are not? Specifically, how have Spain and Italy managed to become democratic while Turkey, which shares many similar characteristics, has not?Spain, Italy and Turkey have shared common historical features...
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  • Jordanian-Israeli Relations Jordanian-Israeli Relations
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    Jordanian-Israeli Relations

    Jordan's peace treaty with Israel was unique as it bore the promise of what was termed a "warm" peace between the two warring countries. With legitimacy provided by Madrid and Oslo, hopes for "true" peace, as the Israelis would describe it, were high...
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  • The New Social Theory Reader The New Social Theory Reader
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    The New Social Theory Reader

    This is the first anthology to thematize the dramatic upward and downward shifts that have created the new social theory, and to present this new and exciting body of work in a thoroughly trans-disciplinary manner. In this revised second edition...
    $486.65

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  • Minority Rights in Central and Eastern Europe Minority Rights in Central and Eastern Europe
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    Minority Rights in Central and Eastern Europe

    Minority rights is an important issue in all modern states, but for those countries hoping to join the European Union the protection of minorities is a key condition for success in the accession process. This book provides a comprehensive assessment of...
    $256.13

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  • War and Nationalism in South Asia War and Nationalism in South Asia
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    War and Nationalism in South Asia

    This book presents and analyses the oldest sub-national war of postcolonial South Asia, between the Indian state and the Nagas of Northeast India. It offers a serious and thorough political history on the Naga region over three periods, pre-colonial,...
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  • Syria's Kurds Syria's Kurds
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    Syria's Kurds

    This book is a decisive contribution to the study of Kurdish history in Syria since the mandatory period (1920-1946) up to nowadays. Avoiding an essentialist approach, Jordi Tejel provides fine, complex and sometimes paradoxical analysis about the...
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  • In Pursuit of Sustainable Development In Pursuit of Sustainable Development
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    In Pursuit of Sustainable Development

    The book explores how implementation strategies engage sub-national, regional and local actors in the promotion of sustainable development. Following the obligations incurred at the Rio Earth Summit and the related UNCED process, European states began to...
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  • Party System Change in South India Party System Change in South India
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    Party System Change in South India

    This book provides a systematic exploration of party system change. By applying the concept of political entrepreneurship and using a detailed case study of the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, it demonstrates how party leaders can exercise their agency...
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  • The Buraku Issue and Modern Japan The Buraku Issue and Modern Japan
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    The Buraku Issue and Modern Japan

    Casting new light on majority-minority relations and the struggle for Buraku liberation, this book focuses on Matsumoto Jiichiro, arguably the most important Buraku leader of the twentieth century, locating his experience within the broader developments...
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  • The West Bank and Gaza Strip The West Bank and Gaza Strip
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    The West Bank and Gaza Strip

    Written in a clear and easy-to-follow style, this revealing text examines the contemporary political geography of the West Bank and Gaza strip. Descriptive in nature, it documents the changes and developments since 1967 right up to the disengagement...
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  • The Power of Sovereignty The Power of Sovereignty
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    The Power of Sovereignty

    The Power of Sovereignty explores the religio-political and philosophical concepts of Sayyid Qutb, one of the most influential political thinkers for contemporary Islamists and who has greatly influenced the likes of Osama Bin Laden. Executed by the...
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  • The European Union and International Development The European Union and International Development
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    The European Union and International Development

    The European Union is a leading actor in international development, providing more than half of the world's foreign aid, but also a unique case, combining the characteristics of a bilateral and a multilateral donor. Despite the general acknowledgment...
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  • Combating Terrorism in Northern Ireland Combating Terrorism in Northern Ireland
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    Combating Terrorism in Northern Ireland

    The essays in this volume unite analysis and practice in exploring both the conflict in Northern Ireland and the internationally applicable counter-terrorism lessons which can be drawn from the response to it.
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  • The WTO The WTO
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    The WTO

    Rorden Wilkinson explores the factors behind the collapse of World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerials - as in Seattle in 1999 and Cancun in 2003 - and asks why such events have not significantly disrupted the development of the multilateral...
    $89.38

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  • The Extreme Nationalist Threat in Russia The Extreme Nationalist Threat in Russia
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    The Extreme Nationalist Threat in Russia

    This book examines the nature of the extreme right in contemporary Russia, arguing in particular that, alongside a continuing tradition which emphasizes Russia's orthodox and traditional past, an increasingly important intellectual current is drawing on...
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  • The United States and the Atlantic Community The United States and the Atlantic Community
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    The United States and the Atlantic Community

    The restiveness among some members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as to its structure and functions was an indication not of the failure of NATO, but of a need for a new adjustment to the changes that had developed in world conditions since...
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  • Progressive Cities Progressive Cities
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    Progressive Cities

    Although the commission government movement is often treated by historians as an element of the reform surge of the Progressive Era, this is the first full-scale study of the origins, spread, and decline of the commission idea.Commission government...
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  • Enforcement at the EPA Enforcement at the EPA
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    Enforcement at the EPA

    The only published work that treats the historical evolution of EPA enforcement, this book provides a candid inside glimpse of a crucial aspect of the work of an important federal agency. Based on 190 personal interviews with present and former...
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  • Domestic Intelligence Domestic Intelligence
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    Domestic Intelligence

    The 1970s revealed a number of infamous and sometimes illegal practices used by federal law enforcement agencies to monitor political dissent in the United States. In the aftermath of Watergate the revelation of serious abuses created distrust of...
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  • American Extremes American Extremes
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    American Extremes

    In this notable collection of essays, written in the middle of the twentieth century, a towering Mexican thinker discusses both Latin America's internal problems and its relations with the United States, Russia, and the rest of the world. This perceptive...
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  • American Arms Supermarket American Arms Supermarket
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    American Arms Supermarket

    U.S. arms sales to Third World countries rapidly escalated from $250 million per year in the 1950s and 1960s to $10 billion and above in the 1970s and 1980s. But were these military sales, so critical in their impact on Third World nations and on...
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    la bataille de la plaine

    Un certain regard à travers des textes courts et des photos de la lutte des habitants de la Plaine, à Marseille, contre le projet d'aménagement d'une place centrale qui selon eux va tuer la vie de ce quartier populaire.
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    L'Italia in un mondo che cambia

    Tredici narrazioni che si combinano per descrivere un soggetto complesso: l'Italia. Dal miracolo economico alla grande crisi, passando attraverso il compromesso straordinario, la prima, la seconda, la terza Repubblica, la paleo e la neotelevisione, mani...
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    Mending the Flag, Healing the World

    Can Canada lead the world in making democracy work for everyone, including for your benefit? Can democracies be redesigned to meaningfully solve even the most challenging problems such as climate change? The answer, CREDIBLY PROVEN by Andy Bilik, is a...
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    Save Your City

    "Save Your City is an inspired and powerful must-read. Our democracy is in peril and this book delivers the right message, by the right person, at the right time." -IRA BASEN, CBC Radio Toxic culture is eroding our sense of belonging, community and...
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  • New Media and Revolution New Media and Revolution
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    New Media and Revolution

    The Arab Spring did not arise out of nowhere. It was the physical manifestation of more than a decade of new media diffusion, use, and experimentation that empowered ordinary people during their everyday lives. In this book, Billie Jeanne Brownlee offers...
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  • People's Republic of Amnesia People's Republic of Amnesia
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    People's Republic of Amnesia

    Finalist for the 2015 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismLonglisted for the Lionel Gelber Award for the Best Non-Fiction book in the world on Foreign AffairsAn Economist Book of the Year, 2014A New York Times Book Review Editor's...
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  • Defense of Rule Defense of Rule
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    Defense of Rule

    At its core, politics is all about relations of rule. Accordingly one of the central preoccupations of political theory is what it means for human beings to rule over one another or share in a process of ruling. While political theorists tend to regard...
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  • Good Life on a Finite Earth Good Life on a Finite Earth
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    Good Life on a Finite Earth

    The potential conflict among economic and ecological goals has formed the central fault line of environmental politics in the United States and most other countries since the 1970s. The accepted view is that efforts to protect the environment will...
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