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Domestic politics and norm diffusion in international relations : ideas do no…
This book collects Thomas Risse's most important articles together in a single volume. Covering a wide range of issues – the end of the Cold War, transatlantic relations, the "democratic peace," human rights, governance in areas of limited statehood, Europeanization, European identity and public spheres, most recently comparative regionalism – it is testament to the breadth and excellence o…
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- 17
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- 9781315623665
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- x, 328 p. : ill.
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- 327 RIS d
Decolonisation of e-government research and practice: exploring contextual is…
With the rapid increase in the implementation of e-Government in Africa and across the world, the need to investigate the key bottlenecks (issues) caused by the failure of a large number of e-Government projects cannot be ignored. The main purpose of this book is to contribute to the current scholarly and intellectual discourse on different aspects of e-Government such as understanding the crit…
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- -
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- 9781928396772
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- 360 p.
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- 351.02854678 BWA d
Opposing democracy in the digital age : the Yellow Shirts in Thailand
Opposing Democracy in the Digital Age is about why ordinary people in a democratizing state oppose democracy and how they leverage both traditional and social media to do so. Aim Sinpeng focuses on the people behind popular, large-scale antidemocratic movements that helped bring down democracy in 2006 and 2014 in Thailand. The yellow shirts (PAD—People’s Alliance for Democracy) that are the…
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- 13
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- 9780472128563
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- xiii, 270 p.
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- -
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- 322.4209593 SIN o
Do-gooders at the end of aid : scandinavian humanitarianism in the twenty-fir…
Scandinavian countries are routinely considered exceptional for their commitment to development cooperation, peace mediation, and humanitarian action. This book highlights how the political culture of Scandinavia is indeed characterized by the idea of doing good on the world stage, but then shows how this 'Scandinavian humanitarian brand' is an asset that policymakers and others can capitalize …
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- -
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- 9781108772129
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- xix, 296 p. ; ill
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- -
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- 361.260948 PUY d
Balancing power without weapons : state intervention into cross-border merger…
Why do states block some foreign direct investment on national security grounds even when it originates from within their own security community? Government intervention into foreign takeovers of domestic companies is on the rise, and many observers find it surprising that states engage in such behaviour not only against their strategic and military competitors, but also against their closest a…
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- -
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- 9781316855430
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- xv, 378 p. ; ill
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- 327.111 LEN b
No truth without beauty : god, the Quran, and women's rights
In this comprehensive open access book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. Never before has anyone taken on every last claim relating to Islam and women and countered it not just with Qur’anic evidence to the contrary, but with easy-to-use tools available to all. How can a woman’s testimony be worth half of a man’s? How can men…
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- 4
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- 9783030835828
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- xxxii, 306 p.
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- -
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- 297.082 ELA n
Policy controversies and political blame games
In modern, policy-heavy democracies, blame games about policy controversies are commonplace. Despite their ubiquity, blame games are notoriously difficult to study. This book elevates them to the place they deserve in the study of politics and public policy. Blame games are microcosms of conflictual politics that yield unique insights into democracies under pressure. Based on an original framew…
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- -
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- 9781108860116
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- xiv, 264 p. ; ill
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- -
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- 306.2091821 HIN p
The right-wing critique of Europe : nationalist, souverainist and right-wing …
The Right-Wing Critique of Europe analyses the opposition to the European Union from a variety of right-wing organisations in Western, Central and Eastern Europe. In recent years, opposition to the processes of globalisation and the programme of closer European integration, understood as a threat to the sovereignty of individual member states, has led to an intensification of Eurosceptic sentim…
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- 2
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- 9781003226123
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- x, 290 p. : ill.
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- -
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- 341.2422 SON t
The DARPA model for transformative technologies: perspectives on the U.S. def…
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has played a remarkable role in the creation new transformative technologies, revolutionizing defense with drones and precision-guided munitions, and transforming civilian life with portable GPS receivers, voice-recognition software, self-driving cars, unmanned aerial vehicles, and, most famously, the ARPANET and its successor, the Inte…
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- -
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- 9781783747931
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- xix, 485 p. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 338.064 DAR d
Gallucci's commentary on dürer's 'four books on human proportion': renaissan…
In 1591, Giovanni Paolo Gallucci published his Della simmetria dei corpi humani, an Italian translation of Albrecht Dürer’s Four Books on Human Proportion. While Dürer’s treatise had been translated earlier in the sixteenth-century into French and Latin, it was Gallucci’s Italian translation that endured in popularity as the most cited version of the text in later Baroque treatises, cov…
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- -
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- 9781783748617
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- xi. ; 205 p.
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- -
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- 704.942 JAM g
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