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Every year, the United States authorizes dozens of bureaucracies to craft and implement foreign policy. This fragmentation of authority can result in chaos and infighting when agencies fail to communicate or outright undermine each other. Conventional wisdom considers...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-07-25
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This edited volume discusses civil-military relations in Latin America. Written by regional experts, the chapters take a multifaceted approach, combining a general overview of the situation in the region, a historical analysis of its evolution and its causes, and an...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-07-25
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This open access book provides a comparative analysis of the deployment of the military in domestic operations, the use of the armed forces during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact of that deployment on civil-military relations in 26 countries worldwide. The book...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-07-24
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Released shortly after the 2024 European Parliament elections, this book gathers contributions that analyze the elections from various perspectives. The main objective is to offer a timely assessment of different facets such as electoral systems, electoral campaigns,...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-07-24
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This book is, primarily, a historical study that investigates why Mao’s thought took root in Italy, how it developed, and its emergence in opposition to the Italian Communist Party, with a focus on the years 1956–1976. The book also prompts reflection on how dissent has...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-07-24
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Set against the rapid aging of the world's population, Human Rights and the Care of Older People explores the potential for the rule against torture and ill-treatment in international human rights law to better protect older people from care-related mistreatment. The...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-07-24
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This book demonstrates that premodern elite and royal women were critical to the geopolitical success of late medieval territorial monarchies, the progenitors of early modern states. It aims to communicate the 'un-exceptionality' of female political influence in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-23
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Based on the Datawar research program developed by three French academic institutions, this book seeks to explore the following research question: how do social practices of data collection and analysis in quantitative conflict studies influence researchers’ and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-23
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Our understanding of the interaction between courts and political branches in modern democracies is incomplete. Courts are traditionally seen as passive but moderating forces in politics, with lawmakers expected to avoid pursuing policies likely to fail constitutional...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-07-23
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This edited volume documents through its 75 years post-independence, the developmental complexities, economic achievements and challenges unique to India, given its vast population and regional, cultural, and climatic diversities, with simple illustrations, making them...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-07-23
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Drawing on original research, this book introduces the concept of the Foreign Policy Commentariat and explains the significance of the foreign policy commentary articulated in the pages of Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs magazines. This...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-23
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The central questions shaping this book revolve around how the Church of England’s engagement in the public sphere has changed over time, and how Anglicans more broadly have participated in public debates over military intervention.The established church has...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-22
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This book analyses China’s foreign policy from 1949 to 1976 through a cognitive-perceptual lens, emphasise Mao Zedong’s central role as the primary decision making authority. Moving beyond realist frameworks, it highlights how Mao’s ideological...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-22
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This book focuses on exploring the profound interplay between China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the international rules system. As the most ambitious and far-reaching infrastructure and development initiative of the twenty-first century, the BRI holds...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-07-22
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This book offers several European perspectives on Indo-Pacific dynamics by a set of internationally recognized experts who have collaborated in the Franco-German Observatory of the Indo-Pacific. The observatory was established in 2021 by the Centre for International...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-22
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China’s economic rise over the last four decades has been as confounding as it has been impressive. Few economies have grown as fast and changed the lives of so many people in such a short time. How is it that a nominally Communist state has been able to achieve this...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-07-21
Format(s) : ePub
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This first-of-its-kind book illuminates the powerful oratory of African leaders, activists, and intellectuals, exploring speeches that have shaped the continent's history. From Patrice Lumumba's call to end oppression in Africa to Nana Akufo-Addo’s critique of economic...
Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2025-07-18
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This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the 2024 elections to the European Parliament, the first to be held since Brexit, COVID, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It offers a clear, concise and timely appraisal of the key issues raised in the elections both...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-17
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This book offers a novel account of the normative foundations of abortion rights informed by political theory and feminist theory. Stanley revisits the debate between privacy and equality as rationales for abortion rights that erupted after Roe v. Wade. First, Stanley...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-17
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This book examines peace and conflict processes in Madagascar from the royal period (c. 1540–1897) to 2022, offering a detailed narrative of conflict recurrence and peacebuilding in the country. Through the lens of trans-,multi-, cross-scalar and hybrid governance...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-17
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