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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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Tracing the atom : nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia
This book brings together scholarship in history of Eastern Europe with inter-disciplinary inquiries drawing on social anthropology, science and technology studies (STS), and studies of literary and artistic productions. Conceptualizing this multidisciplinary volume, we foregrounded different modes and scales of tracing: from the analysis of nuclear imaginaries and memorializations to …
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- 9781003246893
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- x, 230 p. ill;
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- 333.79240947 TRA S
Bordering intimacy : Postcolonial Governance and the Policing of Family
Bordering intimacy is a study of how borders and dominant forms of intimacy, such as family, are central to the governance of postcolonial states such as Britain. The book explores the connected history between contemporary border regimes and the policing of family with the role of borders under European and British empires. Building upon postcolonial, decolonial and black feminist theory, the …
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- 9781526146946
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- xii, 312 p.
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- 320.12 BOR J
African identities and international politics
Using the lenses of realism, liberalism, the English School and constructivism, this book explains how the divisions and differences in African identities affect African international politics. This book explores the African condition in the twenty-first century. It analyses how geographical, racial, ethnic, linguistic, religious and power differences shape continental and intercontinental rela…
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- 9781003176732
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- xvi; 176p;
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- 327.6 AFR F
Capitalis'm Crises Class struggles in South Africa and the world
"The contributors to this volume draw on a non-dogmatic Marxist approach to explain the systemic and conjunctural dynamics of crisis inherent in global capitalism. Their analysis asks what is historically specific to capitalism's crises while avoiding catastrophic or defeatist claims. At the same time the volume situates left agency within actual patterns of resistance and class struggle to cla…
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- 9781868149261
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- xii, 312 p. ;
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Mobilizing global knowledge : refugee research in an age of displacement
An examination of, and guide to, the challenges and responsibilities of doing research with displaced peoples while respecting their complex needs. In 2018, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees documented a record high 71.4 million displaced people around the world. As states struggle with the costs of providing protection to so many people and popular conceptions of refugees have be…
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- 9781773850870
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- vii, 336p.; ill.
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- 305.906914072 MOB m
Women and the UN : a new history of women's international human rights
This book provides a critical history of influential women in the United Nations and seeks to inspire empowerment with role models from bygone eras. The women whose voices this book presents helped shape UN conventions, declarations, and policies with relevance to the international human rights of women throughout the world today. From the founding of the UN and the Latin American feminist move…
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- 9781003036708
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- xviii, 200 p.
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- 323.34 WOM R
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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- 9781776147052
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- vi, 304p.
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- 307.14 BON m
Humanitarian Intervention In The Long Nineteenth Century
This book is a comprehensive presentation of humanitarian intervention in theory and practice during the course of the nineteenth century. Through four case studies, it sheds new light on the international law debate and the political theory on intervention, linking them to ongoing issues, and paying particular attention to the lesser known Russian dimension. The book begins by tracing the gene…
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REBUILDING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT
Educational assessment is important. But in the twenty-first century it is easy to feel that schooling and other phases of education are shaped entirely by certain assessments, and that assessment is only about exam results. The idea that test grades can accurately describe the aims and outcomes of education is unfair and reductive. Yet it is a pervasive and persuasive discourse. This book is a…
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- 9781787357242
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- xii, 135p.; ill.
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- 371.26 REB r
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