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China’s Urban Century
Edited by François Gipouloux
The achievements of China’s urbanization should not be evaluated solely in terms of adequate infrastructures, but also in their ability to implement sound governance practices to ensure social, environmental and economic development. Thi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The EU’s Role in Fighting Global Imbalances
Edited by Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, Moa Mårtensson, Lars Oxelheim, Thomas Persson
The EU’s Role in Fighting Global Imbalances looks at the role of the European Union in addressing some of the greatest challenges of our time: poverty, protectionism, climate change, and human trafficking. Contributions from ten leading ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Research Handbook on Climate Governance
Edited by Karin Bäckstrand, Eva Lövbrand
The 2009 United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen is often represented as a watershed in global climate politics, when the diplomatic efforts to negotiate a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol failed and was replaced by a fr...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Comparative Politics
Edited by Dietmar Braun, Martino Maggetti
What are the conceptual and methodological challenges facing comparative politics today? This informative book discusses four main challenges that create stress for disciplinary reproduction and advancement, while providing potential sol...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Political Economy of Sustainable Development
Timothy Cadman, Lauren Eastwood, Federico Lopez-Casero Michaelis, Tek N. Maraseni, Jamie Pittock, Tapan Sarker
Since the Rio ‘Earth’ Summit of 1992, sustainable development has become the major policy response to tackling global environmental degradation, from climate change to loss of biodiversity and deforestation. Market instruments such as em...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Rule of Law
Christopher May
This timely book explores the complexities of the rule of law – a well-used but perhaps less well understood term – to explain why it is so often appealed to in discussions of global politics. Ranging from capacity building and the role ...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Handbook of the Politics of China
Edited by David S.G. Goodman
The Handbook of the Politics of China is a comprehensive resource introducing readers to the very latest in research on Chinese politics. David Goodman provides an introduction to the key structures and issues, providing the foundations ...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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The Arab Spring
Antoni Abat i Ninet, Mark Tushnet
Approaching the concept of Islamic constitutionalism from a comparative perspective, this thought-provoking study by Antoni Abat i Ninet and Mark Tushnet uses traditional Western political theory as a lens to develop a framework for anal...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Restructuring Welfare Governance
Edited by Tanja Klenk, Emmanuele Pavolini
This innovative book explores the introduction and impact of marketization and managerialism in social policy by adopting a dual perspective, considering both governance and human resources. Welfare governance (e.g. welfare mix, regulati...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Property, Labour and Legal Regulation
Mark Findlay
In this revealing comparative study, Mark Findlay examines the problematic nexus between undervalued labour and vulnerable migration status in dis-embedded markets. It highlights the frustrations raised by timeless regulatory failure and...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The End of Laissez-Faire?
Damien Cahill
When the global financial crisis hit in 2007, many commentators thought it heralded the end of neoliberalism. Several years later, neoliberalism continues to dominate policy making. This book sets out why such commentators got it so wron...eBook:Find out more$29.56
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Research Handbook on International Energy Law
Edited by Kim Talus
International energy law is an elusive but important concept. There is no body of law called ‘international energy law’, nor is there any universally accepted definition for it, yet many specialised areas of international law have a dire...eBook:Find out more$67.96