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This book covers social inequalities in Chinese cities and provides comparative perspectives on inequality and social polarization, neoliberalization and the poor, the change of property rights, rural to urban migration and migrants' enclaves, deprivation and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-10-28
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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North Korea's foreign policy behavior has long intrigued scholars, puzzled laymen, frustrated negotiators, and aggravated policy-makers. This book brings together the work of ten of the world's foremost scholars onNorth Korea to critically analyze the key factors that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-10-25
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This book focuses on how the political, cultural, and technical networks within the field of engineering provided the space within which an important professional middle class prospered in the city of São Paulo and made lasting contributions to the development of modern...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-10-25
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This book examines Chinese Communist activities in Hong Kong from the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the handover in 1997. It reveals a peculiar part of Chinese Communist history, and traces six decades of astounding united front between the Chinese...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-10-25
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Understanding why inequality is so great and has persevered for centuries in a number of Latin American countries requires tools that go beyond economics. Investigating the case of Peru, this book explores how inequality is embedded in institutions that constitute the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-10-20
Collection :
Conflict, Inequality and Ethnicity
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This book examines the origin, nature, the portfolio, organizational structure and operation of the seven largest SWFs from the perspective of the holding countries. Uniquely it tackles the issues from the perspectives of those non-OECD countries whose access to funds...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-10-13
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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This book is an analysis and a set of tools of analysis to explain and understand why, when, where, and how the United States and its major NATO allies will agree or disagree on a collective policy regarding using military force abroad.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-10-11
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Looking at a range of themes and regions, this book provides a challenging basis for rethinking America's international leadership. Chatham House experts assess current US policy and the country's ability to continue to play an international leading role. A timely...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2010-10-01
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An analysis of the German Question's influence on the origins of the Cold War, arguing that the legal and diplomatic intercourse between the Allies regarding the treatment of the German Question brought forward the elements of intervention and coexistence which formed...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-09-30
Collection :
Global Conflict and Security since 1945
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This book explores the evolution of international punishment from a natural law-based ground for the use of force and conquest to a series of jurisdictional and disciplinary practices in international law not previously seen as being conceptually related.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-09-27
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This book analyses the role power sharing, social movements, economic regeneration, urban space, memorialisation and symbols play in transforming divided societies into shared peaceful ones. It explains why some projects are counterproductive while others assist...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-09-17
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Can a soldier be held responsible for fighting in a war that is illegal or unjust? This is the question at the heart of a new debate that has the potential to profoundly change our understanding of the moral and legal status of warriors, wars, and indeed of moral agency...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-08-19
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Why was NAFTA not extended, even after fulfilling several stated objectives? Investigating a number of roadblocks and utilizing James Rosenau's state-multi-centric models, the book's conclusions shed light not just on why North American integration is not working, but...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-08-17
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International competition and skills shortages caused by technological advancement have raised entirely new issues for workers, not least how responsibility is increasingly being transferred to them. This book looks at how workers are expected to survive unstable job...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-08-17
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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Sustainable Diplomacies looks at how to create conditions for the reconciliation of rival ways of living, the formation of durable relationships and the promotion of global peace and security. The authors draw inspiration from the history of diplomatic thought as well...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-08-11
Collection :
Studies in Diplomacy and International Relations
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In this incisive new book, Michael Mandelbaum argues that the era marked by an expansive American foreign policy is coming to an end. During the seven decades from the U.S. entry into World War II in 1941 to the present, economic constraints rarely limited what the...
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PublicAffairs
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2010-08-10
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In 2008, the economic relationship between the United States and China almost collapsed due to a crisis at two American mortgage corporations, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. This book explains how that crisis came about, and analyzes the consequences and implications.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-08-04
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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Globalization has pushed China and India to the centre of the stage but what has been the impact on workers in these countries? This book demonstrates the complexity of the processes and responses at play. There are signs that both states are shifting their role in a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-08-04
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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In 60 years the nuclear tipped South Asian enduring rivals, India and Pakistan have fought four wars and were close to a fifth one in 2001. Indo-Pak dyad has been the focal point of countless studies and while discord and conflict are the focus of most studies there...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-07-19
Collection :
Palgrave Series in Asian Governance
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