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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
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781921313622
- Collation
- 293
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 337.52.PAN
The Distance to China: Twentieth-Century Italian Travel Narratives of Patriot…
«As Italy tends to be studied increasingly in transnational and transcultural perspective, there is an ever-greater need for studies that explore the country's relationship with other geographical areas and cultural configurations. Linetto Basilone's work is an important contribution to research of this kind. The work provides a panoramic view of how journalists and travel writers from the lat…
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- 42
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781789975116
- Collation
- 336p
- Series Title
- Italian Modernities
- Call Number
- 850.9 LIN
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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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781921666056
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- -
- Series Title
- -
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- 352.3 HAR f
Education Policies in the 21st Century Comparative Perspectives
The nation-state has assumed its current form after having undergone significant transformations. In the developmental and transformational process of the nation-state, the definition and expected functions of education as well as the forms of educational intervention have also transformed. This transformation became much more saturated starting in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Thi…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978981916045
- Collation
- XIV, 292p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 379 EDU a
Kingdom of Nokia : how a nation served the needs of one company
Kingdom of Nokia tells a fascinating story of corporatism in Finland. How did the mobile phone giant Nokia make the Finnish elite willing to serve the interests of the company? Nokia became a global player in mobile communications in the 1990s, and helped establish Anglo-Saxon capitalism in Finland. Through its success and strong lobbying, the company managed to capture the attention of Finnish…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789523690318
- Collation
- x + 265 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 338.76213094897 CAR k
Antiracism Inc : why the way we talk about racial justice matters
"Antiracism Inc. traces the ways people along the political spectrum appropriate, incorporate, and neutralize antiracist discourses to perpetuate injustice. It also examines the ways organizers continue to struggle for racial justice in the context of such appropriations. Antiracism Inc. reveals how antiracist claims can be used to propagate racism, and what we can do about it. While related to…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781950192236
- Collation
- 382 hlm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 305.8
Cyber security politics : socio-technological transformations and political f…
This book examines new and challenging political aspects of cyber security and presents it as an issue defined by socio-technological uncertainty and political fragmentation. Structured along two broad themes and providing empirical examples for how socio-technical changes and political responses interact, the first part of the book looks at the current use of cyber space in conflictual setting…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781003110224
- Collation
- xiv + 272 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 005.8 DUN c
AI in the age of cyber-disorder : actors, trends, and prospects
The rise of Artificial Intelligence applications is accelerating the pace and magnitude of the political, securitarian, and ethical challenges we are now struggling to manage in cyberspace and beyond. So far, the relationship between Artificial Intelligence and cyberspace has been investigated mostly in terms of the effects that AI could have on the digital domain, and thus on our societies. Wh…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9788855263832
- Collation
- ix, 154 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 006 RUG
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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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781909646940
- Collation
- 446
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 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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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781920942793
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 658.3125.THO
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