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  • Terrorism, Security and Development in South Asia Terrorism, Security and Development in South Asia
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    Terrorism, Security and Development in South Asia

    This book provides a rich analysis of the actors and organizations to reflect on the antecedents and trajectories of terrorism and insurgency in South Asia, and the different countermeasures adopted by the countries to deal with the security and...
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  • Class Consciousness and Education in Sweden Class Consciousness and Education in Sweden
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    Class Consciousness and Education in Sweden

    Emerging from a Marxist perspective, this book focuses on the importance of social class and the role of education broadly in relation to the possibility of revolutionary change in Sweden and beyond. Critically tracing the celebrated so-called 'Swedish...
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  • Routledge Handbook of Science, Technology, and Society Routledge Handbook of Science, Technology, and Society
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    Routledge Handbook of Science, Technology, and Society

    Over the last decade or so, the field of science and technology studies (STS) has become an intellectually dynamic interdisciplinary arena. Concepts, methods, and theoretical perspectives are being drawn both from long-established and relatively...
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  • Hunger and Poverty in South Africa Hunger and Poverty in South Africa
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    Hunger and Poverty in South Africa

    Hunger and Poverty in South Africa: The Hidden Faces of Food Insecurity explores food insecurity as an issue of socioeconomic, political, cultural and environmental inequity and inequality. Based on extensive original research in Free State Province,...
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  • Public Participation in African Constitutionalism Public Participation in African Constitutionalism
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    Public Participation in African Constitutionalism

    During the last decade of the 20th century, Africa has been marked by a "constitutional wind" which has blown across the continent giving impetus to constitutional reforms designed to introduce constitutionalism and good governance. One of the main...
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  • Ethics in Governance in India Ethics in Governance in India
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    Ethics in Governance in India

    Governance and ethics are intertwined. A government functions within certain broad moral and ethical parameters, integrally linked with the sociological foundation of the polity in which it is articulated. The importance of ethics in governance has...
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  • Politics In Chile Politics In Chile
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    Politics In Chile

    The third edition of Politics in Chile provides significantly updated coverage of Chilean politics and economic development from the return to civilian rule in 1990 to the 2006 election and early administration of Socialist Michelle Bachelet, Chile's...
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  • Institutions And Democratic Statecraft Institutions And Democratic Statecraft
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    Institutions And Democratic Statecraft

    This volume of fifteen original essays examines the role of political institutions in establishing democratic stability around the globe. Leading scholars survey well-established democracies, such as the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia,...
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  • Freedom of Expression and Religious Hate Speech in Europe Freedom of Expression and Religious Hate Speech in Europe
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    Freedom of Expression and Religious Hate Speech in Europe

    In recent years, the Danish cartoons affair, the Charlie Hebdo murders and the terrorist attacks in Brussels and Paris have resulted in increasingly strident anti-Islamic speeches by politicians. This raises questions about the limits to freedom of...
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  • The Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World The Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World
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    The Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World

    The largely Arabo-centric approach to the academic study of tafsir has resulted in a lack of literature exploring the diversity of Qur'anic interpretation in other areas of the Muslim-majority world. The essays in The Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World...
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  • Tantawi Jawhari and the Qur'an Tantawi Jawhari and the Qur'an
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    Tantawi Jawhari and the Qur'an

    Shaykh Ṭanṭāwī Jawharī was an Egyptian exegete known for having produced a scientific interpretation of the Qurʾān. A pioneering scholar in terms of familiarising the people of his time with many previously neglected matters regarding Islam and science,...
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  • Imagining India as a Global Power Imagining India as a Global Power
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    Imagining India as a Global Power

    This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the various dimensions of India's international positioning and foreign relations. Already a dominant player in South Asian politics, India has gained a strong footing in the international pecking order...
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  • Social Exclusion and Justice in India Social Exclusion and Justice in India
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    Social Exclusion and Justice in India

    This book draws upon nearly seven decades of first-hand experiences from the ground to understand social exclusion, and movements and efforts for social justice in India. The author, a renowned champion of social justice for deprived social classes,...
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  • Decentralised Democracy in India Decentralised Democracy in India
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    Decentralised Democracy in India

    This book provides a vantage point of comparison, of the actual reality of decentralisation in India with Gandhi's vision of decentralised democracy, or what he referred to as Gram Swaraj. It looks at the historical evolution of panchayats from ancient...
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  • Policies and Politics in Malaysian Education Policies and Politics in Malaysian Education
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    Policies and Politics in Malaysian Education

    This book draws on elements of critical social theory, research on globalization, neo liberalism and education, and Malaysian Studies to understand the interplay of globalization, nationalism, cultural politics and ethnicized neoliberalism in shaping the...
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  • Japan's World Power Japan's World Power
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    Japan's World Power

    Since the end of the 1960s, Japan's power in the world has largely been linked to its economic successes, while it has pursued a decidedly pacifist post-war foreign policy. Recently, however, there has been talk of Constitutional reform, especially since...
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  • International Mediation in a Fragile World International Mediation in a Fragile World
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    International Mediation in a Fragile World

    Contributions to this volume consider the importance of mediation in violent conflict. Practical and applied, this publication will be of interest to scholars, academics, policymakers and practitioners. It was originally published as a special issue of...
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  • The Twelfth Hour of Capitalism The Twelfth Hour of Capitalism
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    The Twelfth Hour of Capitalism

    First published in 1932. In this book, a well-known German authority on economics analyzes the present world situation and points the way out. His contention is that reparations are not in themselves enough to account for the crisis, which is rather due...
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  • Federal Challenges and Challenges to Federalism Federal Challenges and Challenges to Federalism
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    Federal Challenges and Challenges to Federalism

    Discussing what we may learn from thinking about the EU in federal terms represents a two-fold challenge. It is on the one hand a matter of establishing 'how federal' the EU is (the EU's federal challenge). On the other, the EU has federal features but...
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  • Federalism and Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa Federalism and Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa
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    Federalism and Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa

    The 1990s were marked by democratic reforms throughout Africa, which went in tandem with decentralization reforms. The chapters of the volume all highlight the gradual changes that have taken place since. Long-term structural uncodified factors - be it...
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  • Re-Envisioning Conflict Resolution Re-Envisioning Conflict Resolution
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    Re-Envisioning Conflict Resolution

    This book explores the process of assessing success in the field of conflict resolution, with a focus on the Action Evaluation method pioneered by the author. Since the early days of the field of conflict resolution, researchers and practitioners have...
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  • Understanding the Humanitarian World Understanding the Humanitarian World
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    Understanding the Humanitarian World

    Conflict and disaster have been part of human history for as long as it has been recorded. Over time, more mechanisms for responding to crises have developed and become more systematized. Today a large and complex 'global humanitarian response system'...
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  • Sport, Community Regeneration, Governance and Development Sport, Community Regeneration, Governance and Development
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    Sport, Community Regeneration, Governance and Development

    Sporting mega events are playing an increasingly important role in the governance of community regeneration and development across the globe. This book examines the ways in which sporting organisations engage with local communities through projects that...
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  • Islamic Banking in Pakistan Islamic Banking in Pakistan
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    Islamic Banking in Pakistan

    Islamic Banking and Finance (IBF) has become a growing force over the past three decades, with Pakistan being one of the IBF pioneers by converting to an 'interest-free' banking system in 1985. However, since independence in 1947, there has been...
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  • Europe's Union in Crisis Europe's Union in Crisis
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    Europe's Union in Crisis

    The European Union faces a set of inter-related crises that it struggles to contain and address. By exploring how the EU responds to crises and conflict, this volume addresses both its resilience and vulnerability. The EU faces significant challenges:...
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  • China's Housing Middle Class China's Housing Middle Class
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    China's Housing Middle Class

    Home ownership plays a significant role in locating the middle class in most western societies, associated with market, consumerism, democracy and "people like us", the significant features of the middle class for any society. In China, private home...
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  • Election Administration and the Politics of Voter Access Election Administration and the Politics of Voter Access
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    Election Administration and the Politics of Voter Access

    Democratic countries vary widely in the extent to which the administration of the electoral process facilitates voter participation, showing a great deal of variation in everything from voter registration to the casting of ballots.This book is the first...
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  • Feminism, Prostitution and the State Feminism, Prostitution and the State
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    Feminism, Prostitution and the State

    This edited volume focuses on charting the rise of neo-abolitionism and offering a critique of the idea, its logics and consequences. A model of state policy which aims to abolish prostitution through legislation, Neo-abolitionism criminalises the buyer...
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  • A Genealogy of the Torture Taboo A Genealogy of the Torture Taboo
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    A Genealogy of the Torture Taboo

    This book examines the historical genealogy of the torture taboo. The dissonance between the absolute prohibition against torture and its widespread violation raises important questions about the torture taboo in world politics. Does the torture taboo...
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  • Why Women Rebel Why Women Rebel
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    Why Women Rebel

    Why Women Rebel presents a global analysis of the extent to which women are engaged in armed, organized rebellions, and why they choose to join such rebellions. Henshaw has collected and analyzed data on women's participation in over 70 post-Cold War...
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  • Gender Transitions Along Borders Gender Transitions Along Borders
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    Gender Transitions Along Borders

    In recent decades, women living in border cities have taken on new roles and have become one of the most vulnerable population groups; experiencing the effects of the economic crisis of the early 21st century and the consequent increase in social...
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  • Chinese Labour in the Global Economy Chinese Labour in the Global Economy
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    Chinese Labour in the Global Economy

    Chinese development is widely considered to be an example of successful developmental catch-up with double-digit growth rates year on year. Some even talk of an emerging power, which may in time replace the US as the global economy's hegemon. And yet...
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  • UN Global Compacts UN Global Compacts
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    UN Global Compacts

    UN Global Compacts is a concise introduction to the key concepts, issues, and actors in global migration governance and presents a comprehensive analysis of the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, the Global Compact on Refugees, and the...
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  • Ukraine in Crisis Ukraine in Crisis
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    Ukraine in Crisis

    In this comprehensive volume, Canadian, Ukrainian, and American scholars examine various aspects of the Ukrainian crisis, and consider its impact on Europe. The chapters include topics such as: Russian narratives about Ukraine; the conflicting...
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  • The United States and the Developing Countries The United States and the Developing Countries
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    The United States and the Developing Countries

    First Published in 1977. Part of The Atlantic Council Policy Series. It is customary for policy papers produced by the Atlantic Council Working Groups to direct attention primarily to issues that confront the countries of Western Europe, North America,...
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  • Yugoslavia In The 1980s Yugoslavia In The 1980s
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    Yugoslavia In The 1980s

    The opening years of 1980 were difficult for Yugoslavia: Open revolt has occurred in Kosovo province and economic hardship has added to a general crisis of confidence. The system of self-management, once the pride of Yugoslav ideologists, has come...
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  • Who's At The Helm? Who's At The Helm?
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    Who's At The Helm?

    The author underlines what he considers to be the "lessons of Lebanon" for US foreign policy in the greater Middle East and in the world at large. He suggests that the President must take the lead in policy formulation and interagency coordination;...
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  • War In The Gulf War In The Gulf
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    War In The Gulf

    A study by a team of researchers at the Jaffee Centre for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. It assesses the strategic ramifications for Israel of military, political, economic and social aspects of the Gulf War, and concludes with a set of policy...
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  • U.s.-cuban Relations In The 1990s U.s.-cuban Relations In The 1990s
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    U.s.-cuban Relations In The 1990s

    The contributors and editors purpose in this book is to sketch where and why the United States and Cuba differ; to identify the issues where differences are likely to endure because they stem from the central values and interests of such different...
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  • Tropical Rain Forests And The World Atmosphere Tropical Rain Forests And The World Atmosphere
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    Tropical Rain Forests And The World Atmosphere

    This book, the result of a AAAS symposium organized to explore the ramifications of tropical deforestation, emphasizes the relationship of biosphere to troposphere, aiming to set tropical forest ecology in the context of the global ecosystem.
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  • Toward Empowerment Toward Empowerment
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    Toward Empowerment

    Analyzing Indian women's groups as one sector of a complex of new grass-roots, non-party political movements, Dr. Caiman considers why and how a women's movement evolved in India when it did. She describes the nature, origins, and meanings of the...
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  • Sovereignty and the Denial of International Equality Sovereignty and the Denial of International Equality
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    Sovereignty and the Denial of International Equality

    This book asks whether sovereignty can guarantee international equality by exploring the discourses of sovereignty and their reliance on the notions of civilisation and savagery in two historical colonial encounters: the French explorations of Canada in...
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  • Transboundary Resources Law Transboundary Resources Law
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    Transboundary Resources Law

    Originally published in 1987, this is a collection of articles on Transboundary Resources Law. From the preface: "Migratory transboundary resources by their nature of being divided by political boundaries raise unusual challenges to their prudent use...
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  • Toward A Just World Order Toward A Just World Order
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    Toward A Just World Order

    This text is designed to provide students with a solid theoretical and methodological base for understanding how the present international system works, how that system is likely to evolve given current world trends, and what realistically can be done to...
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  • Public Security and Governance in Contemporary China Public Security and Governance in Contemporary China
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    Public Security and Governance in Contemporary China

    The recent rise in reported public security issues in China is one of the most repeated concerns amongst the Chinese authorities. During the past 30 years of reform in China, stability maintenance as a governance strategy has in fact laid a solid...
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  • Governing HIV in China Governing HIV in China
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    Governing HIV in China

    HIV and AIDS have long been problematized in the People's Republic of China as objects of governance in political frameworks and institutions. The state's attitudes towards health programs have, nevertheless, changed significantly during the 21st century...
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  • Civil Society in China and Taiwan Civil Society in China and Taiwan
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    Civil Society in China and Taiwan

    The concept of 'civil society' has often been used as a devise for differentiating China from other cultures. Though sometimes portrayed as a growing phenomenon, Chinese civil society is frequently said to be non-existent. Definitional deficiencies have,...
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