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After 9/11 : leading political thinkers about the world, the U.S. and themsel…
After 9/11 presents 17 interviews with America´s leading political thinkers. Renowned experts such as Zbigniew Brzezinski, Francis Fukuyama, and Noam Chomsky discuss the nation’s foreign policy in the post-9/11 world. Yet, they also comment on their own role in US society – and the mounting challenges they face today. The conversations illustrate the hopes and expectations, the anger and f…
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- Edition 11
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- 9783866496859
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- 219 p.
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- 327.73 END a
Media Infrastructures And The Politics of Digital Time; Essays on Hardwired T…
Digital media everyday inscribe new patterns of time, promising instant communication, synchronous collaboration, intricate time management, and profound new advantages in speed. The essays in this volume reconsider these outward interfaces of convenience by calling attention to their supporting infrastructures, the networks of digital time that exert pressures of conformity and standardization…
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- 9789048550753
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Island fantasia : imagining subjects on the military frontline between China …
The Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan, for long an isolated outpost off southeast China, was suddenly transformed into a military frontline in 1949 by the Cold War and the Communist-Nationalist conflict. The army occupied the islands, commencing more than 40 long years of military rule. With the lifting of martial law in 1992, the people were confronted with the question of how to move…
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- 4
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- 9781009023481
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- xviii; 310p; ill.
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- -
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- 951.249 ISL W
Entangled legalities beyond the state
Law is usually understood as an orderly, coherent system, but this volume shows that it is often better understood as an entangled web. Bringing together eminent contributors from law, political science, sociology, anthropology, history and political theory, it also suggests that entanglement has been characteristic of law for much of its history. The book shifts the focus to the ways in which …
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- 5
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- 9781108914642
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- xviii; 502p; ill.
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- 340.9 ENT N
Science policy under Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher was prime minister from 1979 to 1990, during which time her Conservative administration transformed the political landscape of Britain. Science Policy under Thatcher is the first book to examine systematically the interplay of science and government under her leadership. Thatcher was a working scientist before she became a professional politician, and she maintained a close…
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- 9781787353411
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- viii, 304p.; ill.
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- 509.42 SCI a
The law and practice of the Ireland-Northern Ireland protocol
The Ireland-Northern Ireland Protocol, part of the Withdrawal Agreement concluded between the European Union and the United Kingdom, is intended to address the difficult and complex impact of Brexit on the island of Ireland, North and South, and between Ireland and Great Britain. It has become an exceptionally important, if controversial, part of the new architecture that governs the relationsh…
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- 6
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- 9781009109840
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- 204p
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- -
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- 341.37094 LAW C
Migrants' rights, populism, and legal resilience in Europe
Bringing together scholars of migration and constitutional law, this volume analyses the problematic relationship between the rise of populism, restrictions of migrants' rights and democratic decay in Europe. By offering both constructive and critical accounts, it creates a nuanced debate on the possibilities for and limitations of legal resilience against populist erosion of migrants' rights. …
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- 4
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- 9781009040396
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- xiv; 394p, ill.
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- -
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- 342.4082 MIG V
“Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruits” A Mixed Methods Study on Corruption…
Why are historically Catholic countries and regions generally more corrupt and less competitive than historically Protestant ones? How has institutionalization of religion influenced the prosperity of countries in Europe and the Americas? This open access book addresses these critical questions by elucidating the hegemonic and emancipatory religious factors leading to these dissimilarities b…
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- -
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- 9783030784980
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- XXXVI, 407 p ; ill
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- 201.73 SHA J
Women, Migration and Gendered Experiences : The Case of Post-1991 Albanian Mi…
This open access book focuses on Albanian internal and international female migration and places gender at the heart of postsocialist transformation. It explores the vulnerabilities that arise for female citizens from the contradictory policies produced by the Albanian state. By illuminating the intersection of gender and migration, it shows how Albanian women are likely to embed themselves in …
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- -
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- 9783030920920
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- x, 192 p.
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- 304.8094965 WOM E
Hizmet in Transitions : European Developments of a Turkish Muslim-Inspired Mo…
In this open-access monograph, Paul Weller explores how the movement known as Hizmet (meaning “service”) is undergoing a period of transitions in Europe. Inspired by the teaching and practice of the Turkish Islamic scholar, Fethullah Gülen, Hizmet has been active in Europe (and other continents) for several decades. It has always been subject to some degree of contestation, which has inten…
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- -
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- 9783030937980
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- xxi, 253 p.
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- -
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- 297.272 HIZ P
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