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What makes terrorism a unique form of political violence is its underground nature. According to the conceptualization of the phenomenon offered in this book, terrorism is the kind of violence carried out when the perpetrators lack territorial control. There is a strong...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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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.
In Shared Rule in Federal Theory and...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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The President's Dilemma in Asia provides one of the first comprehensive and comparative theory of presidential government formation. In the authoritarian era, presidents had greater control over key institutional actors in the process, such as the legislature, the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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The 2019 British general election saw a dramatic redrawing of the electoral map, with the Labour Party losing seats to the Conservatives in former heartlands in the North of England and Midlands. Yet this had been a long-term shift, with the opposite trend occurring in...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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Can humanity achieve collective self-government in a highly interdependent world? Catastrophic climate change, biodiversity loss, pandemics, war and displacement, the dangers of nuclear weapons and new technologies, and persistent poverty and inequality are among the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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Tolerance is usually regarded as a quintessential liberal value. This position is supported by a standard liberal history that views religious toleration as emerging from the post-Reformation wars of religion as the solution to the problem of religious violence....
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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Iris Murdoch is a celebrated philosopher and novelist. Was she a political theorist? Many say that she focused upon the personal and the moral at the expense of the social and the political. However, this book argues the contrary. Murdoch had lifelong interests in...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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How should broadly liberal democratic societies stop illiberal and antidemocratic views from gaining influence while honouring liberal democratic values? This question has become particularly pressing after the recent successes of right-wing populist leaders and parties...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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Asaf Siniver provides a systematic and comparative analysis of the role of international arbitration in the settlement of interstate territorial disputes. He engages with International Relations (IR) and International Law (IL) scholarships to locate the unique...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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States face multiple ongoing and emerging challenges, from climate change to global disease, mass atrocities to forced displacement, humanitarian crises to entrenched global poverty, and are constrained by material and political limits to the amount of resources that...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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At a time of change in the international system, this book examines how non-traditional leading nations from the Global South have fared to date and what the chances are of their rise to continue. In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the enthusiasm of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-07-12
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*Shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize*'A powerful prescription for change' Observer, Book of the Week'An eye-opening contribution to the global discourse on women's health and a call for change' The Lancet'Important, timely, often fascinating' Sunday...
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Virago
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2024-07-11
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The practice of "gender training" has gained widespread popularity among numerous professions in the last few decades. Designed to address a range of problems--from corporate advancement, to sexual assault, to economic development--gender training is reliably presented...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-07-11
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This open access book examines the roles of municipal chief executive officers in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Whilst it has long been recognised that local authorities in these countries are often more autonomous than most other local authorities...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-07-11
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This is an open access book. The 2nd International Conference on Advanced Research in Social and Economic Science (ICARSE) proudly announces its return as a beacon of intellectual dialogue and collaborative discovery.This year’s conference, themed “Harnessing Social...
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Atlantis Press
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2024-07-10
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Surveillance permeates every aspect of our lives today. Once a more limited and often remote aspect of social life, today surveillance is central to political, economic, and everyday life. Every click on the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-10
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This monograph discusses the concept of solidarity. Using Germany as a case study, the book investigates how political actors – political parties in specific – use the term solidarity in their programmatic documents. It maps out the attitudes, features, and behaviors...
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Springer
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2024-07-09
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Volatility is one of the most characteristic features of contemporary security.The level of threats increases or decreases, completely new phenomena appearand quickly disturb the global balance and threaten the durability of securitysystems. This dynamic nature of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-07-08
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The book explores the close relationship between media institutions and power elites in Arab societies. This relationship exists within an unprecedented state of competition among global powers for influence and control over necessary resources and consumer markets in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-07-07
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At a moment when our democratic abilities seem to have eroded, and political, economic, and technological forces have weakened the capacity for collective action, People, Power, Change is a once-in-a-generation book for anyone who wants to create real and lasting...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-07-05
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