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'TEN, NINE, EIGHT, SEVEN . . .' On April 12, 1961, the Soviet Union begins its countdown. From the steppes of Kazakhstan, the first human - Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin - launches into space.In that moment, another countdown begins. How could it be that a single...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2025-11-11
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Russia, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, North Korea and India are engaged in foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) in the democratic practices of countries in Europe, America, Africa and Asia. The Ukraine, in particular, has borne the brunt of...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-11-10
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The term dogwhistle, meaning a political message with a hidden or coded meaning, only entered mainstream usage in the mid-1990s, but today it seems to be everywhere. Accusations of dogwhistling fly in every political direction, and the meaning of the term has broadened...
Editeur :
Polity
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2025-11-10
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This volume seeks to apply creative and thoughtful insights about polycentric orders to the fields of interpolity relations and libertarian & classical liberal studies. Classical liberal thinkers such as Ludwig von Mises, Vincent Ostrom, and F.A. Hayek have all...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-10
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This book analyzes peacebuilding operations in Southeast Asia, focusing on socio-economic improvement for conflict resolutions. Peacebuilding in Southeast Asia always faces dilemmas between development imperatives and the non-interference principle because of the...
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Springer
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2025-11-08
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This open access volume examines current threats to democracy with a focus on Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. These small democracies face unique challenges from climate change, hybrid security threats, and geopolitical tensions. The book examines how these nations have...
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Springer
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2025-11-08
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Dieses Buch beleuchtet den Einfluss des demografischen Wandels und generationenspezifischer Wertehaltungen auf die Arbeit in der Polizei. Es zeigt, wie der bevorstehende Ruhestand der Babyboomer, die Etablierung der Generation X, der spürbare Wertewandel durch die...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
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2025-11-08
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In recent years, political scandals involving nepotism, sexual harassment, coercion, and abuses of power have captured global attention. This book sheds light on this phenomenon, highlighting the transformations in media and journalism in the digital age and broader...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-11-07
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This Brief revisits the question of whether states tend to resist a threatening adversary. It begins by assessing one influential contribution to the debate that offers an elegant reformulation of the problem, and then advances a plausible alternative analytical...
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Springer
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2025-11-07
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Few countries are more haunted by the darker aspects of their history than Germany. Nazi crimes continue to cast a long shadow at home and abroad. Germans have nevertheless managed to put their violent, genocidal past behind them, creating a peaceful and prosperous...
Editeur :
Polity
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2025-11-07
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Polity Histories
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This open access book examines migrant settlement in regional Australia, offering policy recommendations and conceptual frameworks for sustainable integration. With a focus on key areas such as socio-political contexts, employment, education, health, and family...
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Springer
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2025-11-06
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In this book, Elizaveta Firsova-Eckert examines the effects of German-Israeli youth exchange programs on political education processes related to the Middle East conflict. To answer the research question, a mixed-method approach was used to develop a suitable...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-05
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Non-Indigenous citizens of the United States and Canada often argue that it is unfair for Indigenous peoples to have distinctive political and property rights within countries purportedly dedicated to equal treatment. Yet Indigenous nations in the United States and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-05
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A large literature describes the benefits of federalism and regional autonomy for fostering peace and democracy in countries experiencing conflict among ethnic groups. Political leaders are often reticent about devolution, because they fear empowering political...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-05
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This methodological, theoretical and empirical contribution focuses on how the classical political-economic and sociological approaches that have long prevailed in studies on the state and authoritarianism reproduce or update themselves in the particularity of Turkey....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-05
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With the design of the pension system critically dependent on objectives and context, and many objectives and trade-offs to consider, real-world pension schemes are complex and rich in institutional detail. Ongoing demographic changes also challenge pension systems,...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-05
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Global norms form the core infrastructure of economic and political globalization. To be influential, these norms need to be codified into policy scripts that spell out how they are to be applied in practice. This process of developing scripts is a key job of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-04
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A NATIONAL BESTSELLER! Bestselling sports and politics commentator Clay Travis explains how Democrats are alienating men and why Trump really won. And it all comes back to sports. Democrats don’t have a Trump problem. They have a man problem. And Trump was...
Editeur :
Center Street
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2025-11-04
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Governance of intellectual property (IP) at the international level has in recent decades become one of the most contentious issues in international political economy. It is also enormously complex and dynamic. In The Global Battle Over Intellectual Property, the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-03
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Seit der Gründung des Bundesministeriums für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) im Jahr 1961 wurde die deutsche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (EZ) durch 14 Minister*innen unterschiedlicher politischer und biographischer Prägung gestaltet....
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Springer VS
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2025-11-03
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