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How do interstate conflicts start, spread and escalate? Not all local or regional rivalries develop into devastating multistate wars, but those that do cause upheaval across the world. It is important, therefore, to study causal chains and pathways that can trigger a...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-05-16
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
In Connective Action and the Rise of the Far-Right:...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-05-16
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Shifting away from the journalistic representations of the discourse, this book delves into the various contours that characterize China's recent globalization of infrastructure development. It analyzes how this 'form of globalization' nuances our understanding of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-05-16
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An internationally recognized scholar provides a powerful explanation of the Breaking the Engagement: How China Won & Lost America between the United States and China.
For over five decades following the 1972 rapprochement between the United States and China, the...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-05-15
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This book, based on a systematic analysis of leaders' speeches, examines how regimes in Turkey, India, Russia, and China strategically weaponize the concept of 'civilization' along with emotional appeals, such as pride, fear, and nostalgia, to challenge global liberal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-05-15
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This book examines Max Weber's understanding of bureaucracy by applying his ideas to the development of officialdom from the ninth century to the present in six territories: England, Sweden, France, Germany, Spain, and Hungary. Edward Page takes a broad view of...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-15
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Regime complexity, which is characterized by overlap between international organizations (IOs) concerning both policy competencies and member states, has been increasing over time. It is a defining feature of today's international system. As the regime complexity...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-15
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While much of the political science literature on populism focuses on key political actors within the party system, a good deal less attention has been paid to forms of populist contention that feature ordinary citizens protesting against elite rule and championing the...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-15
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This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the political thought and practice of Raymond Plant (Professor Lord Plant of Highfield) and celebrates the three aspects of his public life which speak to his idea of the good society: scholarship, politics, and civil...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-15
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The situation of internally displaced persons has been a matter of international concern - and legal debate - since at least the late 1990s and early 2000s, and its salience has only increased in the context of extreme weather events produced by intensifying climate...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-15
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Internationale Verflechtungen durchblickenInternationale Politik hat heutzutage einen zentralen Stellenwert und beeinflusst aktiv den Alltag der Menschen – gleichzeitig ist sie sehr komplex und teilweise widersprüchlich. Johannes Varwick erklärt Ihnen, wie...
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Wiley-VCH
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2025-05-15
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Für Dummies
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Learning to Govern Together in Representative Democracy introduces a dynamic theory on coalition governance and circular regression for studying joint policy-making of coalition parties, which considers the “pro tempore” nature of representative democracy. Because...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-14
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International organizations are central actors on the global stage, yet their very existence is deeply shaped by their organizational nature. As entities with histories and environments, they navigate complex networks of members and stakeholders—often pursuing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-05-14
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A famous and frequently quoted sentence by Max Weber states: “Interests, not ideas, directly govern the actions of people. However, the ‘worldviews’ created by ‘ideas’ have often determined the paths in which the dynamics of interests...
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Springer
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2025-05-14
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Over the last twenty years, the protection of civilians (POC) has become central to the mandates of multidimensional peacekeeping operations, elevated as a core issue on the Security Council’s agenda, and designated as a priority among mandated tasks. This...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-05-14
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The idea of progress, one of the animating ideas of Western civilization, has now gone global. From Marxism and neoliberalism to today’s mutant identity politics, it offers a framework of knowledge and confidence: an assurance that things will get better and that...
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Polity
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2025-05-14
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Environmental politics 'as we know it' cannot deliver. Despite all efforts, politics is unable to bend the ecological trends. Maarten A. Hajer and Jeroen Oomen argue that this is because environmental politics is 'captured'. This capture doesn't just express itself in...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-14
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War is urbanising. From Mosul to Mumbai, Aleppo to Marawi, the largest and most intense battles of the twenty-first century have taken place in densely populated urban areas. In the Ukraine War, Russian and Ukrainian troops have converged on urban areas, Kyiv, Mariupol,...
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Polity
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2025-05-14
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In recent years, the concept of neoliberalism has been discarded as shrill and overspent.In Political Neoliberalism, Christian Joppke argues that it is a useful lens to make sense of a wide range of political phenomena--those pertaining to the order and governing of...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-05-13
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Electoral systems are sets of formal rules that create incentives for strategic behavior on the part of voters, (pre-) candidates, party elites, and elected representatives, including legislators and their chamber leaders. Most simply, they translate the choices made by...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-12
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