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The 2014 crisis in Ukraine sent a tottering U.S.-Russian relationship over a cliff - a dangerous descent into deep mistrust, severed ties, and potential confrontation reminiscent of the Cold War period. In this incisive new analysis, leading expert on Soviet and Russian...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-04-22
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This book provides a critical review of the achievements and challenges of European organizations promoting democracy in the Republic of Armenia. Armenia is a post-transition country and yet not a consolidated democracy. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-08
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"Penetrating, detailed, and very readable. . . . A splendid biography." -- Wall Street Journal Few figures in American history have held as many roles in public life as John Quincy Adams. The son of John Adams, he was a brilliant ambassador and secretary of state, a...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2016-03-22
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Is America still Number 1? A leading scholar of international politics and former State Department official takes issue with Paul Kennedy and others and clearly demonstrates that the United States is still the dominant world power, with no challenger in sight. But...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2016-03-01
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Picking his way through Andean cocaine fields, Central American prisons, Colorado pot shops, and the online drug dens of the Dark Web, Tom Wainwright provides a “a lively and engaging book, informed by both dogged reporting and gleanings from academic...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2016-02-23
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On 19 August 2014, a member of the jihadist rebel group known as ISIS uploaded a video to YouTube. Entitled 'Message to America', the clip depicted the final moments of the life of kidnapped American journalist James Foley - and the gruesome aftermath of his beheading...
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Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2015-11-05
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Wie mit Russland reden? Angesichts der aktuellen Ukraine-Krise identifiziert das Buch die strategische Kultur Russlands, zeigt deren Auswirkung auf die heutige Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik auf und zieht Folgerungen für den Umgang mit Russland. Neorealistische Analysen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-20
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The Handbook of Global Science, Technology, and Innovation This unique Handbook provides an overview of the globalization of science, technology, and innovation, including global trends in the way knowledge is produced and distributed, the development of institutions,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-06-29
Collection :
Handbooks of Global Policy
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This fully revised edition of Martin Shaw's classic, award-winning text proposes a way through the intellectual confusion surrounding genocide. In a thorough account of the idea's history, Shaw considers its origins and development and its relationships to concepts like...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-06-24
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In recent years there has been an increased public and academic interest in the new activism within Turkish foreign policy and Turkey's search for a more ambitious role. This book represents a new outlook, perception and conceptualization on Turkish Foreign Policy and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
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Au sortir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, des millions d’étrangers se trouvent sur le sol allemand : anciens travailleurs forcés, rescapés des camps nazis ou déracinés aux profils multiples. La plupart d’entre eux sont rapatriés après la capitulation allemande, mais...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2015-03-31
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China?s ambition is to rise peacefully. Avoiding fierce conflicts with its Asian neighbors is essential to this goal. Jonathan Holslag makes a brilliant case for the geopolitical dilemma facing the rising China, and his argument that China will likely enter into major...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-03-17
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During the Cold War the concept of international security was understood in military terms as the threat or use of force by states. The end of EastÐWest hostilities, however, brought ‘critical’ perspectives to the fore as scholars sought to explain the emergence of new...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-03-06
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For more than a century, the United States has been the world's most powerful state. Now some analysts predict that China will soon take its place. Does this mean that we are living in a post-American world? Will China's rapid rise spark a new Cold War between the two...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-03-05
Collection :
Global Futures
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Der Zweite Weltkrieg und die unmittelbare Nachkriegszeit hatten tiefgreifende Auswirkungen auf die Industrieunternehmen Mittel- und Osteuropas. Die Studie beschäftigt sich mit den Bemühungen des luxemburgischen ARBED-Konzerns zur Wahrung seiner dortigen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-02-20
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Since the field of International Relations was established almost a century ago, many different theoretical approaches have been developed, each offering distinctive accounts of the world, why it has come to be the way it is, and how it might be made a better place. In...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-02-12
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Future developments in war, armed conflict and international relations are central to our collective fate in this century. This book looks forward by considering the forces that will drive changes in military organizations, sources of conflict, the power of states and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-01-28
Collection :
Themes for the 21st Century
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No longer content to fade away into comfortable retirement, a growing number of former political leaders have pursued diplomatic afterlives. From Nelson Mandela to Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, to Tony Blair and Mikhail Gorbachev, this set of highly-empowered...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-12-11
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Make no mistake, the normative authority of the United States of America lies in ruins. Such is the judgment of the most influential thinker in Europe today reflecting on the political repercussions of the war in Iraq. The decision to go to war in Iraq, without the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-11-05
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This book provides an overview of the current state of the art in International Political Theory (IPT). It offers a coherent account of the field of IPT, placing both traditional and modern work in a clear and logical framework. The text moves from conventional...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2014-11-03
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