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The inclusion of marginalised groups is a problem of modern democratic societies as representative democracy is built on principles which favour the majority. Around the world, some sections of society are silenced and actively excluded--including women, migrants,...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-07-17
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Free Speech as Civic Structure: A Comparative Analysis of How Courts and Culture Shape the Freedom of Speech examines and explains the limited relevance of constitutional text to the scope and vibrancy of free speech rights within a particular national legal system....
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Oxford University Press
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2024-07-16
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This volume examines land and resource contestations in the East African Albertine region, where Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania intersect. It is one of the most biodiverse regions on the continent, and became highly contested when...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-07-16
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This book explores how unresolved questions of social justice shape the character of the political terrain and political actors, through the lens of social media. It treats communication as the medium through which social issues and processes are made visible. Given the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-07-16
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The European Union is in a state of revolution. In response to new global realities from the climate crisis to the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine to the emerging cold war with China, the EU is transforming into a federal superpower in a new world order. In...
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Polity
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2024-07-16
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This book analyses the role of Europarties in the deepening of integration and the debates on the future of Europe. It is guided by three fundamental research questions: What strategies do Europarties utilize to advance their visions of Europe? What is the relative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-07-16
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With keen insight, Vox journalist Zack Beauchamp traces how a reactionary antidemocratic ethos born and bred in America has come to infect democracies around the world. There is a fundamental contradiction at the heart of American politics that has endured since our...
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PublicAffairs
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2024-07-16
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Understanding climate obstruction is...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-07-16
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This book examines the geopolitical shifts triggered by Russia's military aggression against Ukraine from February 2022 onwards.This conflict has catalyzed unprecedented transformations in the Black Sea region's security landscape, reshaping the foundations of...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-15
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This book examines the various ways in which policymakers and political actors across different governmental levels have responded to the recent European refugee ‘crisis’, and the effects of these responses. Whereas previous studies have often focused on the discourses...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-15
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Das Buch geht der Frage nach, welche Bedeutung der Legitimität der liberalen Demokratie, der Anerkennung des multikulturellen Gemeinwesens und dem Zusammenspiel dieser regime- und gemeinschaftsbezogenen Wertorientierungen für die Resilienz liberaler Demokratien zukommt....
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Springer VS
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2024-07-15
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This book discusses the maxim of industrialization with a human face or social upgrading, which currently dominates the academic and actual policy discourses, particularly in late-comer economies of the Global South such as Ethiopia. To understand industrialization with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-14
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This book examines the international forums in which states develop cyber norms—“rules of the road” for how governments use information and communication technologies. To understand the dynamics in this emerging field of diplomacy, the book focuses on an...
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Springer
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2024-07-13
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This book asks what it means to think globally about world politics. In an attempt to contextualise the recent ‘globalising turn’ in International Relations (IR), it takes stock of more than 30 years of efforts at addressing IR’s Eurocentric limitations, and explores...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-13
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This book offers a novel and interdisciplinary exploration of revolution as situated protest in Tunisia. Larbi Sadiki and Layla Saleh present extensive local evidence to demonstrate that popular resistance has been a mainstay of modern Tunisia before, during, and after...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-07-12
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This book explores the challenges that international law faces in curtailing human rights violations arising from mineral exploitation. Beginning with the specific dynamics between mineral exploitation and human rights abuses, the analysis progressively uncovers the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-12
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The Oxford Handbook of Nuclear Security provides a comprehensive examination of efforts to secure sensitive nuclear assets and mitigate the risk of nuclear terrorism and other non-state actor threats. It aims to provide the reader with a holistic understanding of...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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This book sheds light on a particularly complex aspect of post-conflict security reform: the transformation of the Kosovo Liberation Army into the Kosovo Security Force, a unique political and legal process. The authors demonstrate how different international and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-07-12
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Climate change, rapid urbanisation, pandemics, as well as innovations in technologies such as blockchain, AI and IoT are all impacting urban space. One response to such changes has been to make cities ecologically sustainable and 'smart'. The 'eco smart city' for...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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Through an analysis of the recent political history of Tanzania and Uganda, Wealth, Power, and Authoritarian Institutions offers a novel explanation of why authoritarian parties and legislatures vary in strength, and why this variation matters. Michaela Collord...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-07-12
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