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Russia?s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world and overturned assumptions that large-scale conventional war was inconceivable in the twenty-first century. On the other side of the planet, democratic Taiwan faces the rising threat of a military takeover...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-09-16
Format(s) : ePub
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Insurgent movements around the world vary widely in their military efficacy, from little-known and short-lived organizations to the Taliban, which completed its takeover of Afghanistan in 2021. What accounts for this variation in insurgent military power and success on...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-09-16
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Race and Racism: A Decolonial Approach argues that the topics of race and racism need a decolonial framing if we are to understand their genealogy in the modern world, and explores their current iterations and the path forward.
The chapters develop this argument in...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-09-16
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Governance becomes ever more interconnected and multilevel, and polycentric governance has been developed as a lens to analyze this complexity. At an aggregate level, it explores whether multiple autonomous actors are able to coordinate across interdependent sectors,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-09-15
Format(s) : ePub
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Statistics show that deportation rates in the European Union remain strikingly low and are decreasing. However, successfully resisting deportation does not guarantee a residence permit, often leaving migrants in legal limbo-unable to return home yet unable to gain legal...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-09-15
Format(s) : ePub
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In 2020, the European Union faced the COVID-19 crisis. This book tells the unlikely story of how the European Union survived a crisis that arrived on the heels of a difficult decade during which the EU wrestled with repeated crises, from the Euro Area, to refugees,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-09-15
Format(s) : ePub
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This Open Access book presents the evolution of diplomacy from its historical roots to its modern-day practices. It explores how diplomacy has been shaped by key events, such as the Congress of Vienna (1815), and the establishment of the United Nations (1945). It...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-09-13
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An immersive and authoritative history of the school choice movement--from its idealistic roots among Black activists to the costly unaccountable programs of today.
Seventy years after Brown v. Board of Education and demands to desegregate public schools, race and...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-09-12
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Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2025-09-11
Format(s) : ePub
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A thrilling first-hand account by husband-and-wife CIA operatives who, against all odds, triumphed in a deadly cat-and-mouse game against a mole within the intelligence agency - an unprecedented insider view of 21st-century spycraft.Andrew and Jihi Bustamante were a...
Editeur : Headline Press
Parution : 2025-09-09
Format(s) : ePub
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This book bridges historical analysis and strategic studies to explore the complex interplay between legal reform, secularization, and military strategy in both the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. Beyond institutional transformation, it critically examines the...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2025-09-09
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In 1956, six months after the start of the Montgomery bus boycott, Alabama Attorney General John Patterson obtained from state circuit court judge Walter B. Jones, an ardent defender of segregation, an order banning the National Association for the Advancement of...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-09-03
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Is the breakup of an increasingly polarized America into separate red and blue countries even possible?
There is a growing interest in American secession. In February 2023, Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted that "We need a national divorce...We need to separate by red...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-09-03
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At the end of the Cold War, analysts, advocates, and policymakers believed that violent dictatorships were on a path toward extinction. The theory was that economic liberalization would constrain abusive regimes by reducing their economic power. But despite decades of...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-09-02
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How do non-state armed groups change when states look the other way? States rarely engage in total war with militants, even during long-running conflicts. In Ordinary Rebels, Kolby Hanson argues that these periods of state toleration do not simply change armed groups'...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-09-02
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The inability to envision political alternatives – or, to use Arendt’s terminology, to make new beginnings – is a key component of today’s democratic crisis. In its first part, this study shows that this situation results from the growing...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2025-09-02
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This book explores the decoupling process between the US and China from a number of perspectives. The rise of China, a country that is very different from the dominating West headed by the USA, in terms of both political systems and civilizational traditions, is...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-02
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This open access book delves into the politics of oppression and dispossession driven by global neoliberalism and state authoritarianism. Challenging liberal biases, it introduces the concept of "neoliberal authoritarianism," highlighting how the Russian state has...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-01
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This book proposes an original reading of Foucault’s political thought. Far from setting aside the question of the State to focus on the relationships of power “from below”, the Foucauldian approach offers a radical anti-substantialist theory of the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-01
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This book analyses Pareto’s social and political thought a hundred years after his death, showing how the structure of the scholar’s works is generally quite clear (contrary to what is commonly presumed), and how the maintenance of the social and political...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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