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This edited work explores piracy and surreptitious activities such as privateering, war-making, slave-hunting and raiding, focussing on Southeast Asia in the early modern period. Readers will discover nine essays studying the different sub-regions of the Malay...
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Springer
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2014-10-22
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The current crisis in Ukraine has revealed a striking lack of background knowledge about Ukraine’s history and politics among West European politicians, journalists, intellectuals and even many academics. In this book, experts from Poland, Ukraine, the US, Russia and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-16
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We need a world trade organization.We just don't need the one that we have. By pitching unequally matched states together in chaotic bouts of negotiating the global trade governance of today offers - and has consistently offered - developed countries more of the...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-10-07
Collection :
What's Wrong?
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Diese Untersuchung deutscher Außenpolitik beschäftigt sich mit drei sicherheitspolitischen Ereignissen des 21. Jahrhunderts, die noch andauern oder deren Auswirkungen noch heute aktuell sind: dem Irak-, Libyen- und Afghanistankonflikt. In allen drei Konflikten hat...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-10
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Where did it all go wrong for North Korea and right for South Korea?In no nation on earth has history accelerated with such speed as in Korea. South Korea is the greatest national success story of the 20th century. From the ashes of war, it transformed itself, against...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2014-08-29
Collection :
All That Matters
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An increasing number of scholars have begun to see science and technology as relevant issues in International Relations (IR), acknowledging the impact of material elements, technical instruments, and scientific practices on international security, statehood, and global...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-08-20
Collection :
Global Power Shift
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An increasing number of scholars have begun to see science and technology as relevant issues in International Relations (IR), acknowledging the impact of material elements, technical instruments, and scientific practices on international security, statehood, and global...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-08-20
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Global Power Shift
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This book reviews the global dilemma and tensions over whether to intervene or not to intervene in severe civil conflicts which test the validity of the new doctrine of Responsibility to Protect or R2P. It particularly assesses R2P’s relevance for Asia, which is defined...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-07-08
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Political Science
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This outstanding book is the first comprehensive introduction to the English School of International Relations. Written by leading ES scholar Barry Buzan, it expertly guides readers through the English School’s formative ideas, intellectual and historical roots, current...
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Polity
Parution :
2014-07-02
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This book provides an enlightening comparative analysis of Japan’s and Italy’s political cultures and systems, economics, and international relations from World War II to the present day. It addresses a variety of fascinating questions, ranging from the origins of the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-07-01
Collection :
Perspectives in Business Culture
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In this book, leading experts discuss innovative components of complexity theory and chaos theory in economics.The underlying perspective is that investigations of economic phenomena should view these phenomena not as deterministic, predictable and mechanistic but...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-06-26
Collection :
New Economic Windows
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Twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War, Euro-Atlantic security is under pressure. Faced with major geopolitical shifts, instability at its frontiers and financial crisis at home, the European nations and their American Allies will have to rethink how to design...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-17
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Deutet sich die Neuauflage des Ost-West-Konflikts oder das Entstehen einer multipolaren Machtstruktur an? Das Festhalten der USA an Hegemonialvorstellungen kann beides bewirken. Ist für Europas Zukunft die Ausrichtung auf Eurasien oder auf Nordamerika vorteilhafter?...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-17
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The European Union is in crisis. Crippled by economic problems, political brinkmanship, and institutional rigidity, the EU faces an increasingly uncertain future. In this compelling essay, leading scholar of European politics, Jan Zielonka argues that although the EU...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-06-05
Collection :
Global Futures
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The European Community (EC) has taken on an outward-looking dimension over the years since its first establishment, developing structures and tools which are unprecedented in the history of international relations.The original signatories of the Treaty of Rome accepted...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2014-04-29
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ÔEven if bilateral trade between India and China goes beyond $100 billion in the coming years, ChinaÕs posture towards India is adversarial and will perhaps remain so in the future, with Beijing viewing New Delhi through the prism of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan...
Editeur :
Hachette India
Parution :
2014-04-15
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The lifestyle, economic basis and political affiliations of the British upper class are the focus of this exciting new textbook. Combining a review of existing sociological theory on class and capitalism with material drawn from a great variety of sources it is likely...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-04-03
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This Handbook brings together 30 state-of-the-art essays covering the essential aspects of global security research and practice for the 21st century. Embraces a broad definition of security that extends beyond the threat of foreign military attack to cover new risks...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-03-20
Collection :
Handbooks of Global Policy
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Against the backdrop of China’s increasingly influential role in the international financial architecture, this book seeks to characterize and evaluate China’s financial power potential. It does so by analyzing the relationship between domestic financial repression and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-01-27
Collection :
Global Power Shift
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Public housing was once an important strand in western housing policies, but is seldom seen as a mainstream policy instrument for the future. In contrast, in many East Asian countries large public housing programs are underway. Behind these generalizations, there are...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-12-26
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