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This textbook is designed to be used by those tackling the complex and challenging issues of security sector reform (SSR). The questions of 'What is security?' and 'How can governments deliver it in the most efficient and effective manner?' are central...

How can social cohesion be achieved in a meritocratic and multicultural global city-state? Meritocracy poses a paradox: On one hand, it integrates individuals through frameworks of equal treatment, equal justice and opportunity regardless of race,...

This book, first published in 1989, explores the ideas, proposals and counterproposals surrounding the thorny issue of Cold War conventional force disarmament in Europe. European nations acknowledged the need to reduce military tensions, but divergences...

Congressman David Price is uniquely qualified to guide readers through the labyrinth of rules, roles, and representatives that is Congress. As a trained political scientist, he connects the practical politics on the Hill with the theories of the...

This book analyses institutional reforms implemented by Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzō, under his second administration from 2012 to 2020. Also examined is the evolution in the role of such actors in Japanese politics as bureaucrats, Liberal...

This book, first published in 1989, analyses Western and Soviet perceptions of each other's military thoughts and doctrines, a key part of the Cold War, where both sides planned to both win a possible conflict, and to avoid one. The work demonstrates...

This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to debates about expertise, policy-making and democracy. It uniquely combines an overview of recent research on the policy role of experts with discussions in political philosophy and the philosophy...

This book, first published in 1954, is a key analysis of the guiding policies, basic assumptions, fundamental principles and methods of the Red Army, in many respects the most powerful force in the Cold War. This analysis examines the strategy and...

This book discusses how to develop green transitions which benefit, include and respect marginalised social groups.Diversity and Inclusion in Environmentalism explores the challenge of taking into account issues of equity and justice in the green...

This book, first published in 1985, analyses the factors that have shaped the militarization of space. By examining in great detail the determinants of U.S. policy, it explains why for over 25 years space did not become the scene of an arms race, and why...

The Home in the Digital Age is a set of multidisciplinary studies exploring the impact of digital technologies in the home, with a shift of emphasis from technology to the people living and using this in their homes.The book covers a wide variety of...

This book reconstructs the connection between religion and migration, drawing on post-colonial perspectives to shed light on what religion can contribute to migrant encounters. Examining the resources and motives for hospitality as lived in Christian...

This handbook presents in a comprehensive, concise and accessible overview, the emerging field of international political sociology. It summarizes and synthesizes existing knowledge in the field while presenting central themes and methodologies that have...

Based on twelve months of in-depth ethnographic research in Japan with retailers, customers, wholesalers, writers and craftspeople, Selling the Kimono is a journey behind the scenes of a struggle to adapt to difficult economic conditions and declining...

This volume explores the role that republican political participation played in forging elite Roman masculinity. It situates familiarly "manly" traits like militarism, aggressive sexuality, and the pursuit of power within a political system based on...

This book offers a re-examination of art production in terms that understand the process of learning as the production of art itself. Drawing on the thought of Ranciere, Freire, Gramsci and Mouffe, it provides an account of the politics of art production...

Public Sector Strategy explores how strategic decisions are developed and implemented in the public sector, and examines the psychology underpinning strategic decision-making.Combining knowledge from traditional perspectives with contemporary insights on...

This book takes a practical approach to understanding and describing collaborative governance for resolving environmental problems. It introduces a new collaborative governance assessment model and recognizes that collaborations are a natural result of...

The #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a media and political phenomenon, but, as Christopher J. Lebron points out in this book, it is part of an older and richer tradition arguing for the equal dignity of black people. Lebron lays out the genesis of...

"A strange, wondrous, challenging, enriching book....Beautiful and powerful...you will not encounter another book like it."--National Review online In Digital Barbarism, bestselling novelist Mark Helprin (Winter's Tale, A Soldier of the Great War)...

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The FairTax Book offers a new look at the fast-growing populist tax reform movement that's poised to become a key campaign issue for 2008 In 2005, firebrand radio talk show host Neal Boortz and Georgia...

Having just emerged from a prolonged civil war and faced with the urgent tasks of establishing political stability and reinvigorating an economy in tatters, the Transitional Government of Ethiopia (1991-1995) had to set a new direction for the economic...

With the completion of the ASEAN Charter, ASEAN needs to fully appreciate and work out the issues connected with its implementation. It is also important for ASEAN and its business sector to understand and implement the two newly completed key...

The Curse of Demagogues: Lessons Learned from the Presidency of Donald J. Trump is a collection of thirty-two essays by twenty-two writers that makes the case that the pathway back to a healthy American democracy is for citizens, first, to understand...

• Essential reading for policy makers and practitioners alike • Seeks to address juvenile delinquency by advocating new government policies regarding youth socialization. • Takes the youth crime debate further by looking for answers in societies other...

Conheça os 46 presidentes dos Estados Unidos.Este livro lhe ensinará tudo sobre os presidentes americanos, incluindo suas histórias e realizações, de George Washington a Joe Biden. Você também aprenderá alguns fatos pouco conhecidos sobre eles!Se você...

The rise of China and its wider implications for international politics form the most important issue in our time. China’s economic miracle has contributed to growth and development both at home and abroad. China’s economic growth has also...

West European leaders had good reasons to oppose US Vietnam war policy. It threatened to alter the global balance of power while igniting unrest at home. Such turbulence led to a radicalized political atmosphere domestically. In this new environment, the...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich BWL - Wirtschaftspolitik, Note: 1,3, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In den letzten Jahren hat eine andere Art und Weise des Wirtschaftens ein breiteres Echo sowohl...

The ‘post Keynesian’ shift in the welfare settlement involves the emergence of ‘workfare’ as a dominant policy regime. Social benefits are increasingly conditional on the unemployed participating in activation programmes and major aspects of labour...

Compared to the West, Africa appears ignored in the SMME/Business Social Responsibility (BSR) research. This would suggest that BSR is not taken seriously by African SMMEs. This book debunks this myth by providing empirical evidence to the contrary. The...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich BWL - Wirtschaftspolitik, Note: 1,7, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Institut für Finanz- und Wirtschaftspolitik), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Bei der aktuellen öffentlichen Diskussion über die...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich BWL - Wirtschaftspolitik, Note: 1,7, Universität Duisburg-Essen (Allgemeine Wirtschaftspolitik), Veranstaltung: Stabilitätspolitik, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Seit dem Jahr 1999 hat Europa mit dem Euro eine...

In spite of decades of diversity policy and practice, America is in many ways more divided than ever when it comes to issues of identity. Critics from the political left argue that we simply need more diversity to overcome the division, while critics...

What are the real thoughts inside the mind of President Biden? What scheme does he know about the coronavirus crisis and the Obama administration's close ties with Beijing? How are the extreme severity of the coronavirus's spread in America, Beijing's...

Dr. Alan Carlin is an economist and physical scientist with degrees from Caltech and MIT and publications in both economics and climate/energy, who became actively involved in the environmental movement in the 1960s. This led to an almost 39 year career...

Claims around 'who deserves what and why' moralise inequality in the current global context of unprecedented wealth and its ever more selective distribution. Ethnographies of Deservingness explores this seeming paradox and the role of moralized...

The UNESCO World Heritage Convention is one of the most widely ratified international treaties, and a place on the World Heritage List is a widely coveted mark of distinction. Building on ethnographic fieldwork at Committee sessions, interviews and...

Now more than ever, "recognition" represents a critical concept for social movements, both as a strategic tool and an important policy aim. While the subject's theoretical and empirical dimensions have usually been studied separately, this...

On November 8, 2016, nearly 63 million Americans from around the country chose Donald J. Trump to be the 45th President of the United States. Now, less than a year before the next presidential election, 231 House Democrats in Washington, D.C., are trying...

This Soldier's Manual of Common Tasks (SMCT), Warrior Skill Level (SL)1, contains the individual tasks that are essential to the Army's ability to win on the modern battlefield. In an operational environment, regardless of job or individual MOS, each...

Making the decision to write this book was no small undertaking. Not only would I be telling my story in the aftermath of a controversial firing, but I would also be telling it in the aftermath of one of the more controversial administrations in US...

**INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING KEY SPEECHES BY BARACK OBAMA ** Speech Against Going to War With Iraq, October 2, 2002 ** Keynote Address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, July 27, 2004 ** Announcement That He Will Run for the Office of the President...