Studies have shown that the number of individuals being incarcerated for white-collar crime is on the rise, going hand-in-hand with an increase in support for punishment and imprisonment for white-collar offenders among the public. This book aims to discuss the role of the 'conv…
Literary history meets economic policy in this entertaining polemic on the ethical and potentially destructive power of terrible literature. --Publisher. "Literature can be used to disseminate ideas with devastating real-life consequences. In How Bad Writing Destroyed the World…
"This volume explores the nature of civil war in the modern world and in historical perspective. Civil wars represent the principal form of armed conflict since the end of the Second World War, and certainly in the contemporary era. The nature and impact of civil wars suggests t…
"This volume explores the nature of civil war in the modern world and in historical perspective. Civil wars represent the principal form of armed conflict since the end of the Second World War, and certainly in the contemporary era. The nature and impact of civil wars suggests t…
In Political Tribes, Amy Chua argues that we must rediscover an identity that transcends the tribalism we see in politics today. Enough false slogans of unity, which are just another form of divisiveness. When people are defined by their differences to each other, extremism beco…
This book provides a detailed review of terminations of ice ages, including a very attractive theory based on dust deposits on ice sheets. While other books on ice ages are mostly short, popular, and non-technical, the only book that attempts to deal with the broad issues of wha…
The papers in this volume examine the underlying social causes of criminal behaviour. The authors are concerned with both social-structural (e.g., age, sex, race, and family composition) and ecological (e.g., crowding, etc.) characteristics as important units of analysis of neig…
"Explores the causes of Brazil's numerous corruption scandals, the successes and failures of its anticorruption reforms, and the implications of the Brazilian experience for reform efforts in countries around the world"--.
"Explores the causes of Brazil's numerous corruption scandals, the successes and failures of its anticorruption reforms, and the implications of the Brazilian experience for reform efforts in countries around the world"--
List of Figures -- List of tables -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Understanding donor pursuit of foreign aid effectiveness -- How national structures shape foreign aid delivery: a theory -- Examining the causal mechanism across donors: the United States, the United Kingdom, S…
by Posch, Walter, Farkas, Barbara, Dengg, Anton, Berchtold, Johannes, Jureković, Predrag, Bilban, Christoph, Reiner, Stephan, Hainzl, Gerald, Gauster, Markus, Postl, Matthias
fromSchriftenreihe der Landesverteidigungsakademie
Europe is increasingly confronted with China's footprint in different geostrategic spaces. This publication offers analysis on major competitive dynamics. Accordingly, the team of the Institute for Peace Support and Conflict Management (IFK) examines soft power outreach, economi…
