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The untold story of the mysterious company that shook the world'Authoritative... a tale that sits at the heart of the most significant geopolitical relationship today' Financial Times'Explosive' Sunday Times'Groundbreaking' Dan Wang'Riveting, robustly researched' TLS...
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Abacus
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2025-01-14
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"A beautifully written political-social page turner" (Joy-Ann Reid) about the legendary party hosted by Diahann Carroll for Shirley Chisholm's 1972 presidential campaign, which changed the playing field for Black women in politics. In 1972, New York...
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Legacy Lit
Parution :
2025-01-14
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China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) represents a monumental shift in the global power landscape. Through ambitious infrastructure projects and strategic economic investments, China has emerged as a formidable challenger to U.S. dominance in the modern Great...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-01-13
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Der Wohlstand auf der Welt war schon immer ungleich verteilt: Während vor allem die reichen Industrieländer in der Vergangenheit überproportional von der Globalisierung profitierten, leben auch heute noch Millionen von Menschen im globalen Süden zum Teil in bitterster...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-01-13
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Prime Ministers (PMs) are the most influential, powerful, and visible politicians in parliamentary democracies. Their prominent role has been increasing in Western democracies due to the 'presidentialization of politics'. But is this also true for new democracies, such...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-12
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The Politics of Unpaid Labour introduces the theory of the politics of unpaid labour to advance understanding of inequality within the context of precarious work. It understands unpaid labour as the time and effort people invest to undertake tasks which relate to the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-11
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What impact does UN peacekeeping have on the politics of authoritarianism in host countries? This book advances a theoretically innovative and empirically rich answer to this question: while the UN does not intentionally promote authoritarianism, it faces a number of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-11
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Countries all over the world make decisions of national and international importance in a national parliament. Today, for a country to have a national parliament is a global norm, but this has only been the case for the last few hundred years. The development of this...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-10
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Why did Volodymyr Zelensky doubt that Russia was preparing a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022?Why did British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain decide to 'do business with Herr Hitler' in Munich in 1938? And how was it that Israeli elites dismissed intelligence...
Editeur :
Polity
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2025-01-10
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This book examines the changing dynamics of political parties in Nigeria's Fourth Republic. It is a comprehensively study of these parties' development, character and systems in relation to everything from ideology, funding and crises to leadership, civil society,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-09
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This book focuses on gig work and organising among gig workers in the Indonesian online transport service, situated within the context of widespread precaritisation and digitalisation in today’s world of work. It addresses the challenges experienced by precarious gig...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-09
Collection :
Contestations in Contemporary Southeast Asia
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This handbook comprehensively covers topics in international relations, with a specific focus on China-Europe-Africa relations.This triangular relationship brings substantial contribution for the formation of an emergent new international order. With China being the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-09
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This edited collection of studies brings together a number of internationally distinguished scholars to provide a comprehensive and detailed examination of the usage and function of quotations and citations in political rhetoric in a variety of countries around the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-01-08
Collection :
The Language of Politics
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The Hand Behind Unmanned tells the fascinating story of the people, processes, and beliefs that led to the contemporary American unmanned arsenal. It takes an expansive look at automated and autonomous technologies, from mines and torpedoes, to guided bombs and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-01-08
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This open access book documents the critical thinking and political actions that generated one of the world’s most progressive national constitutions, presented to the Chilean public in 2022. Although that text was ultimately rejected in a national referendum, it drew...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-08
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The aim of the book is to reevaluate inner dymamics of, and tensions between, individuals who are active in the political process as members of interest groups. To that end, the author creates a model for the individual reasoning, preferences, and motivations made...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-01-08
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With the rise of ‘identity politics’ both in right-wing extremism as well as in activist academia, arts and feuilleton, major differences between the traditional left and the right have become blurred. This book addresses the ideological shifts from a vantage point of...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-01-07
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Medien- und Kulturwissenschaft
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This important and timely book assembles expert scientists from both sides of the debate to discuss Earth-based and space-based climate intervention technologies including the scale, deployment, risk management, and moral philosophy behind these technologies. The role...
Editeur :
Wiley-Scrivener
Parution :
2025-01-07
Collection :
Astrobiology Perspectives on Life in the Universe
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This book argues that not only has the present international relations (IR) paradigm failed to preserve global peace in our time, it has also proved to be an obstacle in this regard, and for this reason a paradigm shift is urgently required. With a view to demonstrating...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-07
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in International Relations
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This book weaves theoretical-empirical threads beyond pragmatic philosophy, quantum cosmology and world affairs. It offers a “quantum-social” approach to inquire solidarity configurations among transnational movements. The first part of the book develops an integrative...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-06
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