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Democracy and Dissent
Frank Vibert
Frank Vibert expertly examines the fundamental issues involved in attempts to rethink international institutions and their rule making procedures. He analyses the basic problems with the existing system and the main approaches to its ref...eBook:Find out more$36.76
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Terrorism and Social Exclusion
Edited by David Wright-Neville, Anna Halafoff
Recent thinking on globalization places risk at the centre of contemporary life. Yet what if our perception of risk is misplaced? What if the greatest risk is not terrorism itself but the conditions that allow terrorism to flourish? This... -
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Global Threats, Global Futures
Thayer Scudder
Global threats can be expected to cause a global environmental crisis and declining living standards for most people. Threats analyzed include poverty, cultural, economic, political and religious fundamentalism, consumption, population i...eBook:Find out more$49.56
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Transnational Multi-Stakeholder Standardization
Kristina Tamm Hallström, Magnus Boström
This enriching book provides a novel analysis of the organizational processes behind the establishment, maintenance, and challenges of non-state authority. In doing so, it compares three transnational, multi-stakeholder standard-setting ... -
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The Militarization of the Persian Gulf
Hossein Askari, Amin Mohseni, Shahrzad Daneshvar
The Persian Gulf is arguably the most militarized region in the world. The authors of this insightful book examine military expenditures, arms imports and military deployment to analyze how and why this came to be. Muslim teachings have ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Explaining Civil War
Syed Mansoob Murshed
This book explores the pre-conditions for conflict in terms of growth failure and critically appraises the greed and grievance theories common to conflict literature. It is argued that various institutional mechanisms of restraint that c...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Nations of Immigrants
Edited by John Higley, John Nieuwenhuysen, Stine Neerup
This timely book examines the immense surges in immigration since the mid-1990s in Australia and the United States, two of the world’s most important settler-receiving countries.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Impact of the WTO
Trish Kelly
This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of the nine environmental and health disputes that have been adjudicated at the WTO since 1995. The investigation concludes that criticism of the WTO has been overstated and, s... -
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Foreign Policy Challenges in the 21st Century
Edited by Michael Heazle, Martin Griffiths, Tom Conley
This book explores the emerging challenges to foreign policymaking in liberal democracies and the adequacy of the ‘marketplace of ideas’ in responding to the challenges. Looking at foreign policy challenges as diverse as democratisation,... -
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A Grand Design for Peace and Reconciliation
Edited by Yoichiro Murakami, Thomas J. Schoenbaum
Scholars from Japan and a range of other countries explore in this book the still-unfinished effort to achieve the reconciliation of old enmities left over from past wars in East Asia. They present concrete policy proposals for a ‘grand ... -
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The Media and Political Change in Southeast Asia
Jonathan Woodier
Jonathan Woodier’s latest work considers what impact the media has upon the democratization process in Southeast Asia. Has the media had a liberalizing effect or become subject to elite control in Southeast Asia and, if so, why? What rol...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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International Terrorism and Threats to Security
Edited by Ronald J. Burke, Cary Cooper
This original collection examines the managerial and organizational implications of international terrorism and threats to security. When Islamic terrorists flew hijacked airplanes into the World Trade Center on 9/11, it changed much of ...eBook:Find out more$40.00