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Globalization and capitalist geopolitics : sovereignty and state power in a m…
In a period of increasing geopolitical insecurity and economic instability this title provides an authoritative yet accessible commentary on debates on capitalism and globalization in the wake of the financial crisis.
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- 9781315798165
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- xvi, 267
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- 327.1
Securing Village Life : Development in Late Colonial Papua New Guinea
Securing Village Life: Development in Late Colonial Papua New Guinea examines the significance for post-World War II Australian colonial policy of the modern idea of development. Australian officials emphasised the importance of bringing development for both the colony of Papua and the United Nations Trust Territory of New Guinea. The principal form that development took involved securing small…
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- 13
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- 9781922144850
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- 318
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- 338.9009953.MAC
Japan at War and Peace : Shidehara Kijūrō and the Making of Modern Diplomacy
The question of how to maintain the continuity of diplomacy while developing democracy without military intervention is an old and new issue. The challenge can be described as a dilemma between democracy and diplomatic coherence. This dilemma is not unique to the twenty-first century; it has been a constant challenge to the development of democracy. In non-Western countries, democratisation ori…
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- 11
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- 9781760464974
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- -
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- 952.044092.HAT
Japan's Future in East Asia and the Pacific
Japan’s Future in East Asia and the Pacific takes a ’big-picture‘ approach to Japan’s economic place in East Asia alongside that of China. It analyses Japan’s successes and experiments in trade policy as well as its failures in macro-economic policy. Japan’s diplomatic and economic integration strategies are also examined for their impact on East Asia and on Australia. The collectio…
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- 23
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- 9781921313622
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- 293
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- 337.52.PAN
Framing the global economic downturn: crisis rhetoric and the politics of r…
The global economic downturn that followed the collapse of major US financial institutions is no doubt the most significant crisis of our times. Its effects on corporate and governmental balance sheets have been devastating, as have been its impacts on the employment and well being of tens of millions of citizens. It continues to pose major challenges to national policymakers and institutions a…
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- 9781921666056
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- 352.3 HAR f
The family firm : monarchy, mass media and the British public
The Family Firm presents the first major historical analysis of the transformation of the royal household’s public relations strategy in the period 1932-1953. Beginning with King George V’s first Christmas broadcast, Buckingham Palace worked with the Church of England and the media to initiate a new phase in the House of Windsor’s approach to publicity. This book also focuses on audience …
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- 9781909646940
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- 446
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- 659.29941084 EDW t
Performance Measurement, Reporting, Obstacles and Accountability : Recent Tre…
This monograph identifies the ways that ‘politics’ enters into the creation of performance measurement systems, the selection of the official and unofficial aims of such systems, the selection of performance criteria and measures, the interpretation of findings, the responses to such findings and the implications of performance reporting for the accountability of both politicians and public…
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- 9781920942793
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- 658.3125.THO
Xinjiang Year Zero
Since 2017, the Chinese authorities have detained hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities in ‘reeducation camps’ in China’s northwestern Xinjiang autonomous region. While the official reason for this mass detention was to prevent terrorism, the campaign has since become a wholesale attempt to remould the ways of life of these peoples—an experiment in social…
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- 9781760464950
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- 338 p
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- 951.6 INI X
The Invention of Palestinian Citizenship
Explores the colonial, social and political history of the creation of citizenship in mandate Palestine In the two decades after the First World War, nationality and citizenship in Palestine became less like abstract concepts for the Arab population and more like meaningful statuses integrated into political, social and civil life and as markers of civic identity in a changing society. This boo…
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- 9781474415514
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- Knowladge Unlatched (KU)
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- -
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- 323.6095694 LAU t
Re-Configurations : Contextualising Transformation Processes and Lasting Cris…
This edited volume is an open access title and assembles both the historical consciousness and transformation of the MENA region in various disciplinary and topical facets. At the same time, it aims to go beyond the MENA region, contributing to critical debates on area studies while pointing out transregional and cultural references in a broad and comparative manner.
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- 9783658311605
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- xiii, 277 p
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- Politik und Gesellschaft des Nahen Ostens,
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- 320.956 OUA r
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