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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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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781315798165
- Collation
- xvi, 267
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 327.1
Cyber Public Sphere and Social Movements : Calling to Cyber Spaces
The diversification and politicisation of the mass media within itself and also societal pressure created by the mass media at a social level have caused changes to our social structure. The first change began with the contextual changes to the mass media, and this change led to visible changes in societies. That transformation has almost erased the distinction between the private and the publi…
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- 1
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- 9783845291260
- Collation
- 132p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 303.484 COT
Disciplining interdisciplinarity: integration and implementation sciences for…
This book provides collaborative research teams with a systematic approach for addressing complex real-world problems like widespread poverty, global climate change, organised crime, and escalating health care costs. The three core domains are Synthesising disciplinary and stakeholder knowledge, Understanding and managing diverse unknowns, and Providing integrated research support for poli…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781922144287
- Collation
- 496 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 300.72 BAM d
China's race to global technology leadership
Last December the Chief Financial Officer of the leading Chinese telecommunication company Huawei was travelling from Hong Kong to Mexico when she was arrested while changing flights at Vancouver Airport by the Canadian authorities acting on an extradition request from the United States. Meng’s arrest and detention are a significant development in China-US relations, marking a dramatic ch…
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- 8
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9788867059928
- Collation
- ii, 199 p
- Series Title
- Pubblicazioni ISPI,
- Call Number
- 338.926
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
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781922144850
- Collation
- 318
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 338.9009953.MAC
Australia’s Fertility Transition : A study of 19th-century Tasmania
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most countries in Europe and English-speaking countries outside Europe experienced a fertility transition, where fertility fell from high levels to relatively low levels. England and the other English-speaking countries experienced this from the 1870s, while fertility in Australia began to fall in the 1880s. This book investigates the fertility tran…
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- 13
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760463373
- Collation
- 318
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 304.6309946.MOY
SDGs, transformation, and quality growth : insights from international cooper…
This is an Open Access book. The primary objective of this book is to seek out insights into the concept of high-quality growth (HQG). It explores the essential attributes of HQG, such as inclusiveness, sustainability, and resilience, as well as its relationship with transformation, by drawing principally on illustrative cases and instances of international cooperation. The United Nations docum…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789811697487
- Collation
- xv, 164.; ill.
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- Sustainable development goals series
- Call Number
- 338.927 SDG h
Through a Glass Darkly : The Social Sciences Look at the Neoliberal University
This collection of essays arose from a workshop held in Canberra in 2013 under the auspices of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia to consider the impact of the encroachment of the market on public universities. While the UK tripled fees in 2013 and determined that the teaching of the social sciences and the humanities would no longer be publicly funded, it was feared that Australia wou…
- Edition
- 17
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781925022148
- Collation
- 358
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 378.94.THO
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
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760464974
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 952.044092.HAT
Migrants with irregular status in Europe : evolving conceptual and policy cha…
This open access book explores the conceptual challenges posed by the presence of migrants with irregular immigration status in Europe and the evolving policy responses at European, national and municipal level. It addresses the conceptual and policy issues raised, post-entry, by this particular section of the migrant population. Drawing on evidence from different parts of Europe, the book tak…
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- 11
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030343248
- Collation
- XIII, 217 p. ; Ill.
- Series Title
- IMISCOE Research Series
- Call Number
- 342.082 TRI m
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