Politics -- International Relations

Security studies: an introduction

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"Security Studies: An Introduction, 3rd edition is the most comprehensive textbook available on the subject, providing students with an essential grounding in the debates, frameworks and issues on the contemporary security agenda. This new edition has been comprehensively revise…

No one's world: the west, the rising rest, and the coming global …

by Kupchan, Charles A.

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The world is on the cusp of a global turn. Between 1500 and 1800, the West sprinted ahead of other centers of power in Asia and the Middle East. Europe and the United States have dominated the world since. But today the West's preeminence is slipping away as China, India, Brazil…

Assignment Moscow: reporting on Russia from Lenin to Putin

by Rodgers, James

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"James Rodgers was a foreign correspondent based in Moscow in the periods 1991-1993; 1998-2000 and 2006-2009. As such, he witnessed Russia's transformation from the Soviet Union to today's Putin State. Each of those periods, from the 1980s until today, saw significantly differen…

Fascist modernism in Italy: arts and regimes

by Billiani, Francesca

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"Between 1917 to 1975 Germany, Italy, Portugal, the Soviet Union, and Spain shifted from liberal parliamentary democracies to authoritarian and totalitarian dictatorships, seeking total control, mass consensus, and the constitution of a 'new man/woman' as the foundation of a mod…

Street fights in Copenhagen: Bicycle and car politics in a green mobility city

by Henderson, Jason, Gulsrud, Natalie Marie

fromAdvances in Urban Sustainability

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With 29 percent of all trips made by bicycle, Copenhagen is considered a model of green transport. This book considers the underlying political conditions that enabled cycling to appeal to such a wide range of citizens in Copenhagen and asks how this can be replicated elsewhere.…

Foreign policy in post-apartheid South Africa: security, diplomacy and trade

fromPolitics & international relations (Bloomsbury Publishing)

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"After the Second World War, with much of Europe in ruins, the victorious Winston Churchill swore to build a peace across Europe that would last a generation.Fighting against the new 'Iron Curtain' which had fallen across the world, and battling the person disappointment of losi…

Public policy: Politics, analysis, and alternatives

by Kraft, Michael E.

fromCore textbook

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"Kraft and Furlong provide students with a conceptual understanding of public issues and how the public policy process functions. This book also provides a forum for discussions of social, economic, and sustainable development issues; their characteristics; and impacts on human …

Feminist judgments in international law

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"The emergence of feminist rewriting of key judgments has been one of the most interesting recent developments in legal methodology. This unique enterprise has seen scholars collaborate in the {u2018}real world{u2019} task of reassessing jurisprudence in light of feminist perspe…

Perspectives on international relations: Power, institutions, and ideas

by Nau, Henry R.

fromCore textbook

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"Nau clarifies that which is complicated, thereby allowing students to make better sense of their world and to become better global citizens." - Stewart Dippel, University of the Ozarks. Henry R. Nau's best-selling book, Perspectives on International Relations, is admired for it…

The Costs of Inequality in Latin America: Lessons and Warnings for the Rest of the World

by Sánchez-Ancochea, Diego

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"From the United States to the United Kingdom and from China to India, growing inequality has led to social discontent and the emergence of populist parties, also contributing to economic crises. We urgently need a better understanding of the roots and costs of growing income ga…

Structured analytic techniques for intelligence analysis

by Heuer, Richards J.

fromCore textbook

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"Excellent publication for the study of intelligence analysis, structured analytical techniques and their application in this increasingly dangerous environment. A must read for anyone entering the intelligence community as an analyst, practitioner, stakeholder and leader." - Ch…

Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence: Action, Motivations and Dynamics

fromRoutledge studies in genocide and crimes against humanity

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"As the most comprehensive edited volume to be published on perpetrators of mass violence, the volume sets a new agenda for perpetrator research by bringing together contributions from such diverse disciplines as political science, sociology, social psychology, history, anthropo…

This thesis traces the experiences of urban working-class groups in the cities of El Alto and Santa Cruz during the government of Evo Morales through the dynamics of state formation, class formation and the production of space. Using material gather in over 100 semi-structured i…

Rethinking Ideology in the Age of Global Discontent: Bridging Divides

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"Over the last decade, anti-government demonstrations worldwide have brought together individuals and groups that were often assumed unlikely to unite for a common cause due to differences in ideological tendencies. They have particularly highlighted the role of youth, women, so…