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Learning to Govern Together in Representative Democracy introduces a dynamic theory on coalition governance and circular regression for studying joint policy-making of coalition parties, which considers the “pro tempore” nature of representative democracy. Because...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-14
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International organizations are central actors on the global stage, yet their very existence is deeply shaped by their organizational nature. As entities with histories and environments, they navigate complex networks of members and stakeholders—often pursuing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-05-14
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A famous and frequently quoted sentence by Max Weber states: “Interests, not ideas, directly govern the actions of people. However, the ‘worldviews’ created by ‘ideas’ have often determined the paths in which the dynamics of interests...
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Springer
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2025-05-14
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Over the last twenty years, the protection of civilians (POC) has become central to the mandates of multidimensional peacekeeping operations, elevated as a core issue on the Security Council’s agenda, and designated as a priority among mandated tasks. This...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-05-14
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The idea of progress, one of the animating ideas of Western civilization, has now gone global. From Marxism and neoliberalism to today’s mutant identity politics, it offers a framework of knowledge and confidence: an assurance that things will get better and that...
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Polity
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2025-05-14
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Environmental politics 'as we know it' cannot deliver. Despite all efforts, politics is unable to bend the ecological trends. Maarten A. Hajer and Jeroen Oomen argue that this is because environmental politics is 'captured'. This capture doesn't just express itself in...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-14
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War is urbanising. From Mosul to Mumbai, Aleppo to Marawi, the largest and most intense battles of the twenty-first century have taken place in densely populated urban areas. In the Ukraine War, Russian and Ukrainian troops have converged on urban areas, Kyiv, Mariupol,...
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Polity
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2025-05-14
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In recent years, the concept of neoliberalism has been discarded as shrill and overspent.In Political Neoliberalism, Christian Joppke argues that it is a useful lens to make sense of a wide range of political phenomena--those pertaining to the order and governing of...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-05-13
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Electoral systems are sets of formal rules that create incentives for strategic behavior on the part of voters, (pre-) candidates, party elites, and elected representatives, including legislators and their chamber leaders. Most simply, they translate the choices made by...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-12
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China and African Parliaments maps the political controversies surrounding the designing, making, and utilisation of three parliament buildings in Southern Africa that were financed and constructed by the People's Republic ofChina (China). The book is the first to...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-12
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China seeks geopolitical space in the Western Pacific . The spearhead of China's expansion is the navy which is now the world's largest with an expanding carrier force to enforce its maritime claims in the SouthChina Sea and elsewhere. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-05-12
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This book profiles Simon Dalby’s academic contributions in the fields of critical geopolitics, environmental security and the intersection of international relations and the Anthropocene. It includes reprints of key essays that highlight innovations in critical thought...
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Springer
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2025-05-10
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Although a lot has been said about the stunning success of the marriage equality movement, not much is known about why the global struggle over gay marriage has varied across countries with respect to the severity of the conservative backlash and the legacy for LGBTQ...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-05-09
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This book sheds light on the intricate history of Indigenous America's struggle for identity and sovereignty. Examining the utilization of a divide-and-conquer strategy through "federal recognition" in the United States, the book offers a profound analysis of the...
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Springer
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2025-05-09
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This research investigates the development of conservatism in Turkey through a historical comparison, focusing on the role of conservative intellectuals and their contributions to the reproduction and sustenance of conservative ideology during two key periods....
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Springer VS
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2025-05-09
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The book offers an in-depth analysis of how ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) is portrayed in the Chinese media, focusing on the multifaceted dynamics of economic cooperation, regional connectivity, cultural exchange, and non-traditional security...
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Springer
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2025-05-09
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This edited collection aims to bring new contexts and research innovations to study the changing nature of gender in diplomacy. Whilst historically most diplomats were men, in the twenty-first century, the proportion of women (and others of diverse backgrounds) has...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-05-09
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This edited collection brings together the work of practitioners, civil society actors, and academics, either located in the Caribbean, or involved in Caribbean-based work on public policy making and its implementation. The compendium challenges traditional dichotomies...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-05-08
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Before his murder at 25, Tupac Shakur rose to staggering artistic heights as the preeminent storyteller of the 90s, building, in the process, one of the most iconic public personas of the last half century. He recorded several platinum-selling albums, starred in major...
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White Rabbit
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2025-05-08
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
How do non-governmental organizations...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-07
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