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Aid, Power, and Privatization
Benedicte Bull
This book provides a comparative study of the telecommunication reform process in three Central American countries – Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras – focusing on the roles of the local private sector and international financial insti...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Networks, Security and Complexity
Sean P. Gorman
Networks, Security and Complexity goes on to address specific concerns such as determining criticality and interdependency, the most effective means of allocating scarce resources for defense, and whether diversity is a viable strategy. ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Lessons on Leadership by Terror
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
Lessons on Leadership by Terror attempts to discover what happens to people when they acquire power, and whether the abuse of power is inevitable. Manfred Kets de Vries examines the life of the nineteenth-century Zulu king Shaka Zulu in ...eBook:Find out more$40.76
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Political Crises, Social Conflict and Economic Development
Edited by Andrés Solimano
The contributors to this authoritative volume analyze the impact of political crises and social conflict on economic performance in the Andean region of Latin America.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Network Society
Edited by Manuel Castells
Manuel Castells – one of the world’s pre-eminent social scientists – has drawn together a stellar group of contributors to explore the patterns and dynamics of the network society in its cultural and institutional diversity. The book ana...eBook:Find out more$58.36
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America’s Changing Coasts
Edited by Diana M. Whitelaw, Gerald R. Visgilio
Following a comprehensive overview by the editors, this volume’s expert contributors provide detailed discussion of important legal, ecological and social issues associated with coastal resource management, as well as the most significan...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Environmental Policy in Japan
Edited by Hidefumi Imura, Miranda A. Schreurs
The book introduces Japan’s environmental history, its key environmental regulations and the forces that have driven Japan to introduce these environmental regulations and programs. It also examines the various formal and informal instit...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Politics of Regulation
Edited by Jacint Jordana, David Levi-Faur
This book suggests that the scope and breadth of regulatory reforms since the mid-1980s and particularly during the 1990s, are so striking that they necessitate a reappraisal of current approaches to the study of the politics of regulati...eBook:Find out more$71.96
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Leading Issues in Competition, Regulation and Development
Edited by Paul Cook, Colin Kirkpatrick, Martin Minogue, David Parker
The book draws together contributions from leading experts across a range of disciplines including economics, law, politics and governance, public management and business management. The authors begin with an extensive overview of the is...eBook:Find out more$71.96
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Globalization in the Asian Region
Edited by Gloria Davies, Chris Nyland
Bringing together contributors from both the university sector and business-centered research institutions, this comprehensive volume offers diverse perspectives on the impacts and consequences of globalization in different parts of the ...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Regionalism in the New Asia-Pacific Order
Joseph A. Camilleri
Regionalism in the Asia-Pacific is a complex, diverse, highly contested and still rapidly evolving phenomenon. Crucial to an understanding of this phenomenon is the relationship between globalization and regionalization, between states, ...eBook:Find out more$71.96
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Malaysian Economics and Politics in the New Century
Edited by Colin Barrow, Francis K.W. Loh
Malaysia is one of the fastest growing economies in the world today, and this book reflects current debates about the future directions of the national economy, polity and society in light of the late 1900s watershed period of financial ...