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A. Grove

Political Leadership in Foreign Policy

paperbackEngels9781349531318 13-10-2015

Challenging the standard views that individual leaders either have all the power or little room to move in the making of foreign policy, this book demonstrates various ways that leaders succeed by manipulating elements of their domestic and international environments. Meer

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E. Paus

Foreign Investment, Development, and Globalization

paperbackEngels9781349531523 13-10-2005

This book engages the question, hotly debated among theorists and policymakers alike, of how a developing country's pursuit of foreign direct investment (FDI) affects its development prospects in a globalized world. Meer

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S. Inness

Secret Ingredients

paperbackEngels9781349531646 19-12-2015

A series of fascinating chapters analyze cookery books through the ages. From the convenience-food cookbooks of the 1950s, to the 1980s rise in 'white trash' cookbooks, and the surprise success of the Two Fat Ladies books from the 1990s, leading author Sherrie Inness discusses how women have used such books over the years to protest social norms. Meer

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D. Davenport

Global Environmental Negotiations and US Interests

paperbackEngels9781349531844 15-12-2006

This book examines the question of why effective action has been taken to ameliorate some global environmental problems while no improvement has been made on others. Meer

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S. Gellar

Democracy in Senegal

paperbackEngels9781349531929 13-10-2005

Providing an in-depth comparative study of democracy formation, Gellar traces Senegal's movement from a pre-colonial aristocratic order towards a modern democratic political order. Meer

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Globalization, Women, and Health in the Twenty-First Century

paperbackEngels9781349532001 13-12-2005

We are still only beginning to understand the increasingly complex set of interdependencies among gender, health and globalization. This book brings together a diverse group of distinguished scholars and activists to explore the new risks and freedoms for men and women in a global society and their health determinants. Meer

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R. Vanita

Love’s Rite

paperbackEngels9781349532087 12-10-2005

This is the first book to examine the same-sex weddings and same-sex couple suicides reported in India over the last two decades. Ruth Vanita examines these cases in the context of a wide variety of same-sex unions, from Fourteenth-century narratives about co-wives who miraculously produce a child together, to Nineteenth-century depictions of ritualized unions between women, to marriages between gay men and lesbians arranged over the internet. Meer

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Raffaella A. Del Sarto

Contested State Identities and Regional Security in the Euro-Mediterranean Area

paperbackEngels9781349532308 25-8-2006

Del Sarto argues that internal disputes over national identity limit the ability of states to participate in regional forums. This is a close look at problems faced in negotiating the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP) as a regional security project, with particular attention to case studies of Israel, Egypt and Morocco. Meer

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S. Payaslian

United States Policy Toward the Armenian Question and the Armenian Genocide

paperbackEngels9781349532582 13-12-2005

This comprehensive analysis of U.S. policy toward the Armenian Question and the Armenian Genocide focuses on the important role big business played in keeping the United States from playing a more active role in opposing the genocide, notwithstanding broad public opinion calling for greater action. Meer

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J. Williams

Liberalism and the Limits of Power

paperbackEngels9781349532674 13-12-2005

This book provides the first critical assessment of important recent developments in Anglo-American liberal theorizing about limited government. Following a comparative study of canonical liberal philosophers Hayek and Rawls, the book reveals a new direction for conceptualizing limited government in the twenty-first century, highlighting the central role that democratic politics - rather than philosophical principles - should play in determining the uses and limits of state power in a liberal regime. Meer

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M. Salih

African Parliaments

paperbackEngels9781349532841 19-12-2015

This book offers in-depth analysis of parliamentary development set in a historical context informed by Africa's post-1990s democratic resurgence. In particular, it illustrates how African parliaments are caught between the twin processes of being part of the machinery of government while exercising the function of holding government accountable. Meer

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S. Folke

Aid Impact and Poverty Reduction

paperbackEngels9781349533183 21-4-2006

Developing broad, holistic notions of 'impact' to measure the effects of international development assistance, this book makes a significant contribution to understanding the international political economy. Meer

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The Philosophy of Chinese Military Culture

paperbackEngels9781349533268 21-4-2006

Drawing on ancient texts and modern interpretations, this work explores the foundations for war in China's strategic culture Shih, Li and Tao. The work uses Shih theory to explain the anomalies that continue to perplex Euro-American observers in modern China's uses of force. Meer

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A. Thomson

U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Apartheid South Africa, 1948–1994

paperbackEngels9781349533541 14-12-2015

This book charts the evolution of US foreign policy towards South Africa, beginning in 1948 when the architects of apartheid, the Nationalist Party, came to power. Meer

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Understanding Homeland Security

paperbackEngels9781349533718 17-4-2008

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the historical, social, psychological, technological, and political aspects that form the broad arena of homeland defence and security. Meer

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S. Fisher

Political Change in Post-Communist Slovakia and Croatia: From Nationalist to Europeanist

paperbackEngels9781349534104 23-10-2006

Revealing how the quest for independence and challenges of democratization created a contest between nationalists and Europeanists, two powerful forces in domestic politics, after the collapse of communism, Fisher sheds light on the nationalism and post-communist transitions. Meer

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F. Martín

Militarist Peace in South America

paperbackEngels9781349534364 23-12-2015

Martin derives several realist and liberal propositions on the causes of war and peace and tests them, utilizing evidence from the peace in South America, as well as developing and discussing the "Militarist Peace" hypothesis. Meer

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Political Violence and the Construction of National Identity in Latin America

paperbackEngels9781349534548 14-12-2015

This topical volume seeks to analyze the intimate but under-studied relationship between the construction of national identity in Latin America, and the violent struggle for political power that has defined Latin American history since independence. Meer

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M. Williams

The Impact of Radical Right-Wing Parties in West European Democracies

paperbackEngels9781349534708 19-12-2015

This book contends that far-right parties play pivotal roles in setting the tone of political debates, shaping the political party system, and structuring government policy. Meer

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Taiwanese Identity and Democracy

paperbackEngels9781349534890 24-10-2006

This book examines the issues of democracy, nationalism and strengthening Taiwan consciousness in the light of the campaign strategies employed in Taiwan's 2004 presidential and legislative election from the perspective of the Taiwanese people and Taiwanese culture. Meer

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