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Networks and geographies of global social policy diffusion : culture, economy…
This open access book analyses the global diffusion of social policy as a process driven by multiplex ties between countries in global social networks. The contributions analyze links between countries via global trade, colonial history, similarity in culture, and spatial proximity. Networks are viewed as the structural backbone of the diffusion process, and diffusion is anlaysed via several su…
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- 14
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- 978-3-030-83403-6
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- xvi; 272p;
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- 361.61 NET M
Russia, The European Union And NATO; Is A “New Normal” Possible?
Russia, the European Union, and NATO still share some important common interests that need to be given greater attention. A return to strategic partnership is not conceivable without resolving the Ukraine confl ict, but prudent management of the antagonism in order to keep open the prospect of a peaceful new normal is crucial. At the same time, it is important to keep in mind that the persisten…
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- 9783847421771
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- Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
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Beyond NATO; A New Security Architecture For Eastern Europe
In this new Brookings Marshall Paper, Michael O’Hanlon argues that now is the time for Western nations to negotiate a new security architecture for neutral countries in eastern Europe to stabilize the region and reduce the risks of war with Russia. He believes NATO expansion has gone far enough. The core concept of this new security architecture would be one of permanent neutrality. The count…
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- 9780815732587
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Taking the EU to Court : Annulment Proceedings and Multilevel Judicial Conflict
This open access book provides an exhaustive picture of the role that annulment conflicts play in the EU multilevel system. Based on a rich dataset of annulment actions since the 1960s and a number of in-depth case studies, it explores the political dimension of annulment litigation, which has become an increasingly relevant judicial tool in the struggle over policy content and decision-making …
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- -
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- 9783030216290
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- xxi, 250 p.
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- 341.2422 TAK C
Marxisms in the 21st century : crisis, critique & struggle
The current resurgence of Marxism is based on new sources of inspiration and creativity from movements that seek democratic, egalitarian and ecological alternatives to capitalism. The Marxism of many of these movements is neither dogmatic nor prescriptive, but rather, open, searching, utopian. It revolves around four primary factors: the importance of democracy for an emancipatory project; the …
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- 13
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- 9781776147052
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- vi, 304p.
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- 307.14 BON m
Motivational profiles in TIMSS mathematics : exploring student clusters acros…
This open access book presents a person-centered exploration of student profiles, using variables related to motivation to do school mathematics derived from the IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) data. Statistical cluster analysis is used to identify groups of students with similar motivational profiles, across grades and over time, for multiple participating…
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- -
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- 9783030261832
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- xi, 144 p.
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- 510.71 MOT M
Smart Universities : Education's Digital Future
Institutions of learning at all levels are challenged by a fast and accelerating pace of change in the development of communications technology. Conferences around the world address the issue. Research journals in a wide range of scholarly fields are placing the challenge of understanding "Education's Digital Future" on their agenda. The World Learning Summit and LINQ Conference 2017 proceeding…
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- 4
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- 9783832545956
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- 162p.; ill.
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- -
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- 370 SMA s
The Image of Africa in Ghana's Press: the influence of global news organisations
The Image of Africa in Ghana’s Press is a comprehensive and highly analytical study of the impact of foreign news organisations on the creation of an image of Africa in its own press. Identifying a problematic focus on the Western media in previous studies of the African media image, Serwornoo uses the Ghanaian press as a case study to explore the effects of centuries of Afro-pessimistic disc…
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- -
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- 9781800640436
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- x, 242p.; ill.
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- -
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- 363.80963 MIC t
Imperial incarceration : detention without trial in the making of British col…
For nineteenth-century Britons, the rule of law stood at the heart of their constitutional culture, and guaranteed the right not to be imprisoned without trial. At the same time, in an expanding empire, the authorities made frequent resort to detention without trial to remove political leaders who stood in the way of imperial expansion. Such conduct raised difficult questions about Britain's …
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- -
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- 9781009004848
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- xii, 450p.
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- Studies in legal history
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- 345.960231 LOB i
Taxing profit in a global economy
This book undertakes a fundamental review of the existing international system of taxing business profit. It steps back from the current political debates on how to combat profit shifting and how taxing rights over the profits of the digitalized economy should be allocated. Instead, it starts from first principles to ask how we should evaluate a tax on business profit—and whether there is any…
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- 1
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- 9780198808060
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- 370p
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- -
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- 336.2 DEV t
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