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Capitalism and Confrontation offers current, original analyses of the crisis in its financial, ecological, and political dimensions and the ways people are fighting back.The contributors, from a variety of scholarly, political, and activist perspectives,...

The primary focus of the Resistance Operating Concept (ROC) is developing a nationally authorized, organized resistance capability prior to an invasion and full or partial occupation resulting in a loss of territory and sovereignty. Resistance, as a form...

As the field of public administration has been changing due to globalization, government reforms, and increasing governance practices within intergovernmental networks, research and teaching in public administration also adapted itself to these changes...

Existing research understands co-production as leading to shifts in roles of the public sector institutions and their staffs. The shift is seen in the way that a discursive use of the term service provision with embedded logics encompassing fiscal...

Though conflicts continue to arise over land use and land cover changes, the conversion of forest land to cropland or other land uses such as housing and urban development have been on the rise in recent years. Decisions regarding land use and land cover...

Mass shootings have become more prevalent in the past few decades, especially within the United States. Whilst the United States has suffered from hundreds of mass shootings over the years, policy change relating to guns has been limited in scope,...

Much like different lenses will give a camera a different view, different forms of media portray different aspects of political relations. Without conveyed messages through audiovisual media, individuals would lose those conveyed messages through...

Updated and revised for 2021. Fear Unmasked 2.0 provides more resources to kill the spirit of fear and giving YOU an action plan to save America.The headlines aren't telling the whole truth.Fear Unmasked gives you the essential information you need to...

A surprising new explanation for the radical growth of income inequality—and a new strategy for stopping it.Income inequality has risen dramatically since the 1970s. But why, exactly? In Rents, Gerrit De Geest argues that the main cause is advances...

A fresh look at the resistance of US troops to the American war in VietnamEven if you don't know much about the war in Vietnam, you've probably heard of "The Hanoi Hilton," or Hoa Lo Prison, where captured U.S. soldiers were held. What they did there and...

Based on archival research, this is a history of the Russo-Chinese border which examines Russia's expansion into the Asian heartland during the decades of Chinese decline and the 20th-century paradox of Russia's inability to sustain political and...

First Published in 2015. This ambitious ten-volume series develops a comprehensive analysis of the evolving world role of the post-Soviet successor states. Each volume considers a different factor influencing the relationship between internal politics...

Since the 2008 international economic crisis in the Eurozone countries and North America, much of the debate about a country job creation has been confined to government spending and austerity. Some argue that government spending plays an important role...

Original and comprehensive examination of Chilean political and economic development since the end of the Pinochet military regime in 1990.

Traces the six-decade struggle for power within the Federal Reserve System from the perspective of the central bankers who shaped the Fed.

America is facing its worst fiscal crisis in decades. If we keep doing nothing, we will soon be hurled into the dungeons of European austerity. That will hurt everyone, especially the poor. In his new book, Sven R Larson presents a five-step plan that...

This book uses critical race theory to examine key social policies. Chapters give primacy to addressing the experiences of African Americans in navigating systems that are flawed by structural racism and yet too often attribute individual pathology...

Bringing together studies from across the Nordic region, this book examines vaccine hesitancy in Scandinavia, investigating the cross-border debates surrounding the COVID-19 vaccines and their presumed side effects through the lens of trust, whether in...

This book examines public policies on cybersecurity and their evolution over the past few decades in India.

This book argues that citizens have a moral right to decide by which criteria they grant migrants citizenship. In developing this argument, it critically engages numerous objections, providing the reader with a thorough overview of the debate on the...

This book provides, for the first time, a concise study of the constraints and opportunities that the Blue Economy offers for southern Africa and the role that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) could play in fostering a sustainable use of...

This book discusses and illustrates how deservingness can be approached as discursively and rhetorically accomplished phenomenon having varied empirical consequences with regard to welfare, poverty, class and care arrangements.

The international trade negotiations that were launched throughout Latin America in the 1990s created significant challenges for developing countries because of their complexity. In order to make informed decisions and successfully legitimize negotiating...

Families in Asia provides a unique sociological analysis of family trends in Asia. Stella R. Quah uses demographic and survey data, personal interviews and case studies from China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines,...

An anthropologist among aid workers. Her objective: to study that exotic tribe, humanitarian and development workers, along with their state and non-state partners, as they "export democracy" to post-soviet countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Her...

This edited volume brings together a range of essays by individuals who are centrally involved in the debate about the role and utility of theory in intelligence studies. The volume includes both classic essays and new articles that critically analyse...

The articles in this collection provide an alternative view of Middle Eastern history by focusing on the oppressed and the excluded, offering a challenge to the usual elite narratives. The collection is unique in its historical depth - ranging from the...

Taking Morocco as its focus, this book looks at the political change in the country since 1990. It places particular emphasis on key topics, such as civil society, human rights and reform, as vital issues for understanding the developments in the...

In the last decade of his career, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu became involved in a series of high-profile political interventions, defending the cause of striking students and workers, speaking out in the name of illegal immigrants, the...

This volume demonstrates the development of Roman military bureaucracy during the Middle Republic, expanding on recent research to examine these administrative systems that made possible Rome's expansion in this period.

As we witness a series of social, political, cultural, and economic changes/disruptions this book examines the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the way emerging technologies are impacting our lives and changing society.The Fourth Industrial Revolution is...

This book collects the main papers written by George Borjas on the economics of immigration during a decades-long career. Although there was little interest in immigration issues among economists before the 1980s, the literature has exploded since. The...

The Hyperwar era is upon us.The fusion of distributed artificial intelligence with highly autonomous military systems ushers in a type of lightning-quick conflict that has never been seen before. Yet this is more than a revolution in military affairs; it...

அறிமுகம்: குடிபெயர்வின் பயணம், புதிய உலகில் செல்வதுகுடிபெயர்வு என்பது ஒரு நபர் அல்லது குடும்பம் ஒரு நாட்டிலிருந்து மற்றொரு நாட்டிற்கு செல்லும் செயல்முறையாகும். இது பல்வேறு காரணங்களுக்காக மேற்கொள்ளப்படலாம், அவை பொருளாதார, அரசியல், அல்லது சமூக காரணிகளை...

Esta pesquisa estuda a influência do nomadismo na cultura, estabelecendo-o como elemento informacional e aglutinador entre as diferentes etnias que co

Em sua obra o autor utiliza leveza na linguagem ao focalizar as áreas do Direito Político abordando temas como a organização do Estado, a estrutura do

É uma obra de ficção, que traz inúmeras situações corriqueiras em diversos sistemas de governo, onde a política se tornou uma nuvem de gafanhotos e os

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich BWL - Wirtschaftspolitik, Note: 1,0, Leibniz Akademie Hannover - Verwaltungs- und Wirtschaftsakademie Hannover, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Stabilitätsgesetz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland von 1967 ist...

Der Philosoph Ernst Bloch deutet am Ende seines berühmten Buches DasPrin­ zip Hoffnung auf einen noch nicht begangenen Weg menschlicher Geschichte hin: Morgenland Natur. Der Gedanke, daß die Versöhnung von Mensch und Natur das...

Gilbert Ziebura l Nach der Arbeit von Gustav Schmidt über die britische Appeasement-Politik legt Traute Rafalski nun die zweite grundlegende Monographie vor, die im Rahmen des von mir geleiteten Forschungsprojektes über die...