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The vast majority of the world's countries are experiencing a demographic revolution: dramatic, sustained, and likely irreversible population aging. States' median ages are steadily increasing as the number of people ages 65 and older skyrockets. Analysts and...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-06-23
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When, and how, might crises force institutions to change? Crisis management prompts expectations of exceptional behaviour, leaders raising their 'game', and of being empowered. The Greek crisis of 2009-18 was severe: threatening bankruptcy and Greece's exit from the...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-06-23
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Power and Powerlessness: The Liberalism of Fear in the Twenty-First Century examines whether the liberalism of fear - the negative and cautionary vein of liberal thinking, most famously articulated by Judith Shklar, which urges us to prioritize the avoidance of public...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-06-23
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This book interrogates the wars in Ukraine and in Gaza and asks whether meaningful distinctions can be made between just and unjust wars. The author analyses the global roots of both wars, including unresolved clashes of contending imperialisms, rooted in different...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-06-21
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The first half of the 20th century saw the rise of political organizations characterized by clearly identifiable ideologies rooted in local communities, the so-called mass parties; however, this organizational model is now widely assumed to belong to the past. Citizens...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-06-21
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This book provides a close analysis of the changes in the global oil and gas industry and the new energy industry. It offers a deep exploration of various sectors such as the global oil industry, natural gas industry, new energy industry, low-carbon market, and...
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Springer
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2025-06-21
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This monograph addresses the role of criminal non-state actors in South America. In a departure from traditional analysis, the author notes that non-state actors that affect political and social life in the Global South are not always terrorist actors or the result of...
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Springer
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2025-06-20
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This open access book points at some of the problematic aspects of international partnerships that continue to be shaped by colonialism.
A “global partnership for sustainable development” is the 17th of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-06-20
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Verschiedene Wirtschaftsmodelle bzw. Ökonomieschulen legen voneinander abweichende Ordnungen nahe. Klassischer Liberalismus und Neoliberalismus setzen auf weitgehend unregulierte Marktkräfte. Staatliche Einflussnahme auf die Ökonomie ist hingegen im...
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Springer Gabler
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2025-06-20
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Twenty-Two Football Shirts that explain the world, geopolitics and the biggest stories of our timeFootball is the world's most popular sport, and the shirts worn by teams and their supporters are its greatest means of cultural expression. Every year clubs launch new...
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Seven Dials
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2025-06-19
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Vigilante Islamists investigates the role that Pakistan's Islamist political parties have played since the 1990s as both collaborators and competitors with violent anti-state movements. Drawing on dozens of interviews with party insiders, Urdu-language publications, and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-06-19
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This book provides a theoretically informed, empirically grounded account of the origin, expansion, and institutionalization of the EU's action against food poverty and severe material deprivation. In doing so, the analysis spans more than three decades, from the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-06-19
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? This edited volume discusses the challenges of digital transformation in Latin America, specifically regarding the use of AI for government management in the public sector. This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners from the region to address the...
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Springer
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2025-06-18
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The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has played a pivotal role in the EU's approach to infectious diseases, but its journey toward empowerment has been anything but straightforward. Historically limited by member states' reluctance to relinquish...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-06-18
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This book offers a thorough examination and analysis of key developments in the Indo-Pacific region, providing valuable insights for foreign policy professionals, academics, and researchers in geopolitics and international relations. The editor, a long-time observer of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-06-18
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This book examines the evolution of the Catholic vote in the US and the role of Catholic voters in the 2024 national elections. There is a paucity of academic books on Catholic voters, even though they comprise nearly one-quarter of the US national popular vote (known...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-06-17
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Der Sammelband liefert komprimiertes Wissen über Strukturen, Akteure, Prozesse sowie wichtige landespolitische Politikthemen.Der Band ist die erste umfassende Darstellung der facettenreichen Politik und Verwaltung des Landes Berlin. Die Beiträge behandeln die...
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Springer VS
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2025-06-17
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Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Entwicklung und Zukunft der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft und den damit zusammenhängenden Ausprägungen der Freiheit. Es beschreibt und analysiert den Zustand der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft sowie die wirtschafts- und finanzpolitischen Fehler...
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Springer Gabler
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2025-06-17
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The book Comparative Area Studies (2018) laid out the distinctive features and value-added of "comparative area studies" (CAS) against the backdrop of ongoing methodological debates in the social sciences. Since that time, the editors of the first volume and other...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-06-17
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
On Election Day, citizens typically place a mark beside...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-06-17
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