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Télécharger le livre :  China's Governance
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China's Governance


Peijie Wang


This book elucidates fundamental governance features and issues in contemporary China. While especially focusing on principal governance areas, it offers comprehensive coverage, capturing the dynamics of governance across vertical and horizontal connexions. The...

Parution : 2016-11-29
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Télécharger le livre :  The Mixed Member Proportional System: Providing Greater Representation for Women?
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The Mixed Member Proportional System: Providing Greater Representation for Women?


Tracy-Ann Johnson-Myers


This Brief discusses the adoption of the mixed member proportional (MMP) electoral system in New Zealand and its subsequent effect on representation for women. Concerns about the homogeneity of the legislature under the Single Member Plurality electoral system and the...

Parution : 2016-11-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Internationalization of Consumer Law
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Internationalization of Consumer Law


Mateja Durovic , Hans W. Micklitz


This book examines the institutions that are producing consumer law at the international level, the substantive issues enshrined in these laws, and the enforcement mechanisms meant to ensure effective protection. The majority of existing research is devoted to the...

Parution : 2016-11-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Symbols and the Image of the State in Eurasia
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Symbols and the Image of the State in Eurasia


Anita Sengupta


This book discusses the significance of cultural symbols/‘images’ in the nation-building of Eurasian states that emerged out of the former Soviet Union. It particularly focuses on the cases of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan in the post-Soviet era and argues that the...

Parution : 2016-10-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Socioeconomic Effects of the National Flood Insurance Program
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Socioeconomic Effects of the National Flood Insurance Program


James P. Howard, Ii


This Brief presents a benefit-cost analysis of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) as well as an evaluation of its cumulative socioeconomic effects. Created by Congress in 1968, the NFIP provides flood insurance protection to property owners, in return for local...

Parution : 2016-04-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary Famine Analysis
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Contemporary Famine Analysis


Olivier Rubin


This Brief provides some answers as to why famines continue to torment humankind here in the 21st century despite all our progress in food production, logistics, information dissemination and relief work. Contemporary famines are inherently political, and so the...

Parution : 2015-12-11
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Télécharger le livre :  The Digital Galactic Complex
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The Digital Galactic Complex


Trevor Brown


This Brief discusses the current policy environment in which the United States space program operates and proposes an industry-government partnership as a long-term policy solution. Since the Reagan administration, American space policy has increasingly sought to...

Parution : 2015-08-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Boko Haram
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Boko Haram


Lucky E. Asuelime , Ojochenemi J. David , Hakeem Onapajo


This book investigates the socio-economic determinants of the emergence and persistence of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria. Since 2009, Boko Haram continues to capture mainstream news headlines, as well as the imagination of aspiring young Salafi-jihadists around the...

Parution : 2015-06-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Time Policies for a Sustainable Society
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Time Policies for a Sustainable Society


Lucia A. Reisch


?This book explores time use, time policy, well-being and sustainable development using concepts and findings from time policy research, socio-ecological sustainability research, behavioral economics, consumer research, and research into prosperity and "the good life". ...

Parution : 2015-05-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Environment and Society
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Environment and Society


Manuel Arias-Maldonado


This short book sets out to explore the concept of nature in the context of a changing reality, in which the extent of our transformation of the environment has become evident: What is nature and to what extent has humanity transformed it? How do nature and society...

Parution : 2015-03-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Geopolitics, Development, and National Security
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Geopolitics, Development, and National Security


Andrew R. Thomas , Sebastian Vaduva


This volume focuses on the spotlight on Romania and Moldova, two distinct nations that share a common language, history and culture. Romania is a NATO member since 2004 and a fully integrated nation into the European Union since 2007, while The Republic of Moldova (a...

Parution : 2014-12-05
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Télécharger le livre :  The Politics of Pharmaceutical Policy Reform
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The Politics of Pharmaceutical Policy Reform


Elize Massard Da Fonseca


Brazil is renowned worldwide for its remarkable reforms in pharmaceutical regulation, which have enhanced access to essential medicines while lowering drug costs. This book innovates by analysing the generic drug  reform in Brazil, demonstrating that pharmaceutical...

Parution : 2014-11-17
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Télécharger le livre :  School Funding and Student Achievement
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School Funding and Student Achievement


Andy Spears


This Brief explores school funding reform in the states of Kentucky and Tennessee. In 1990, Kentucky passed the Kentucky Education Reform Act designed to overhaul that state’s education system. Two years later, Tennessee passed the Education Improvement Act which...

Parution : 2014-10-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Disaster Management in China in a Changing Era
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Disaster Management in China in a Changing Era


Yi Kang


This book shows how Chinese officials have responded to popular and international pressure, while at the same time seeking to preserve their own careers, in the context of disaster management. Using the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake as a case study, it illustrates how...

Parution : 2014-10-03
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Télécharger le livre :  A Theory of Contestation
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A Theory of Contestation


Antje Wiener


The Theory of Contestation advances critical norms research in international relations. It scrutinises the uses of ‘contestation’ in international relations theories with regard to its descriptive and normative potential. To that end, critical investigations into...

Parution : 2014-08-14
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Télécharger le livre :  The Geopolitics of Intervention
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The Geopolitics of Intervention


Yang Razali Kassim


This book reviews the global dilemma and tensions over whether to intervene or not to intervene in severe civil conflicts which test the validity of the new doctrine of Responsibility to Protect or R2P. It particularly assesses R2P’s relevance for Asia, which is defined...

Parution : 2014-07-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Terrorism and Violent Conflict
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Terrorism and Violent Conflict


Candice D. Ortbals , Lori Poloni-Staudinger


This book explores how gender intersects with political violence, and particularly terrorism.  We ask how gender relations and understandings of femininity and masculinity influence political violence, which includes politics related to terrorism, state terrorism, and...

Parution : 2014-07-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Color Revolutions in Eurasia
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Color Revolutions in Eurasia


Julia Gerlach


Why have large-scale protests and mass demonstrations in some post-socialist Eurasian states led to the fall of autocratic leaders, whereas similar other regimes prevail? This book addresses the question by providing an overview of eight cases of so-called Color...

Parution : 2014-06-21
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Télécharger le livre :  China's Road Ahead
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China's Road Ahead


Roland Benedikter , Verena Nowotny


This book provides a critical commentary on China's situation and future outlook from the perspective of the 2012-13 generational power transfer. In this power transfer, taking place against the background of an increasingly unstable domestic situation, an apparently...

Parution : 2013-11-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Secularism and Religion in Multi-faith Societies
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Secularism and Religion in Multi-faith Societies


Caroline Howarth , Ragini Sen , Wolfgang Wagner


This Brief looks at the illustrative case of the Hindu-Muslim conflict in India, with the aim of understanding the dynamics of lived secularism as it exists in traditional multi-faith societies such as India. The data analyzed in this Brief comprise many interviews,...

Parution : 2013-09-30
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