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The tragic death in Baghdad in 2003 of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, brought into bitter relief the challenges faced by peacekeepers and humanitarian aid workers. The contributors to this book, all leading...

"This valuable edition of essays represents the Chinese view of what is wrong with China's economy. . . . A well-rounded analysis of problems of economic production."--<i>Current History</i>

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...

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...

"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...

• 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Social Policy for Child and Family Development: A Systems/Dialectical Perspective is designed to help students think critically and dialectically about social policies that affect children and families. Based on the belief that no single...

This book considers the ability and capacity of the food supply system in Australia to provide food security for the ever-increasing domestic and international population in the face of growing challenges in production, resource supply and failures...

Our lives as human beings are characterized by production and use of social resources, material (e.g., money and physical possessions) as well as immaterial (such as love, knowledge, and power). Distribution and exchange of these resources are central to...

General Theory.- Firms' Governance Structure in the Chinese State Sector.- Firms' Governance Structure in the Chinese Private Sector.- Foreign Direct Investment, Technology Transfer, and Dual Convergence in the Dual-Structured Chinese Market Economy.

The Economics of Immigration is written as a both a reference for researchers and as a textbook on the economics of immigration. It is aimed at two audiences: (1) researchers who are interested in learning more about how economists approach the study of...

This book is a collection of articles that present the most recent cutting edge results on specification and estimation of economic models written by a number of the world's foremost leaders in the fields of theoretical and methodological econometrics...

RURAL FAMILIES and WORK OVERVIEW.-THEORIES FOR STUDYING RURAL FAMILIES AND WORK.-RURAL DOES MATTER: UNDERSTANDING THE RURAL CONTEXT.-MAKING RURAL EMPLOYMENT WORK.-PHYSICAL HEALTH, FOOD SECURITY, AND ECONOMIC WELL-BEING: THE RURAL PERSPECTIVE.-INVISIBLE...