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Sustainable Development in Europe
Edited by Uwe Schubert, Eckhard Störmer
Evaluating sustainable development is becoming increasingly important in policy making, evaluation practice and the scientific world in general. However, at present, there is neither a generally accepted set of measures and evaluation me...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies
Edited by Jaap de Koning
This book argues that active labour market policies are necessary to improve the position of the unemployed but have so far performed relatively poorly. The contributing authors seek ways to improve active labour market policy and consid...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Europe and Global Climate Change
Edited by Paul G. Harris
The core objective of this book is to better understand the role of foreign policy – the crossovers and interactions between domestic and international politics and policies – in efforts to preserve the environment and natural resources....eBook:Find out more$40.00
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International Environmental Liability and Barriers to Trade
Kareen L. Holtby, William A. Kerr, Jill E. Hobbs
Trade and the environment has become a major issue in international relations, yet the surrounding debate is polarised and hostile. On the one hand international trade is perceived as a major threat to environmental sustainability, whils... -
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The New Electronic Marketplace
George Christou, Seamus Simpson
This book breaks new ground by exploring governance strategies that the EU has been developing over the last decade for the growing electronic economy driven by the Internet. Through an analysis of key EU policy initiatives, the authors ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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China and the Global Energy Crisis
Tatsu Kambara, Christopher Howe
This book examines China’s record of oil and gas development, its refining capacity, and energy prospects. The authors conclude that there are no fundamental reasons for anxiety about China’s demands on the world energy economy, but they...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Economic Integration, Democratization and National Security in East Asia
Edited by Peter C.Y. Chow
The US policy of supporting a democratic Taiwan while simultaneously engaging China is a delicate and complex balance, with outcomes critical to economic, security and strategic interests in Asia. At the same time, rising Taiwanese ident...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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International Politics and Security in Korea
Jungsup Kim
This comprehensive book explains that while world politics has entered the post-Cold War era since the late 1980s, the Korean peninsula has not. Diplomatic relations have yet to be established between North Korea, the US and Japan, while...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Dynamics and Obstacles of European Governance
Edited by Dirk De Bièvre, Christine Neuhold
This book examines some of the major origins of change in institutions and policies in European governance. The authors combine a sophisticated institutional analysis with in-depth insights into European policies across a wide variety ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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ASEAN and East Asian International Relations
David Martin Jones, M. L.R. Smith
Academic and accepted orthodoxy maintains that Southeast Asia, and Asia generally, is evolving into a distinctive East Asian regional order. This book questions this claim and reveals instead uncertainty and incoherence at the heart of A...eBook:Find out more$62.36
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Privatization and Market Development
Edited by Graeme A. Hodge
This accessible book aims to inform readers interested in assessing privatization and market development concepts on a global scale, and outlines a range of thinking on how these policy ideas have moved around the globe. Bringing toget...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Public Sector Enterprise Resource Planning
Edited by Rainer A. Sommer
Worldwide, public sector organizations are implementing commercial packaged software solutions, or enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, to increase productivity and customer service as well as to deploy manageable business process...