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Navigating neutrality : early american governance in the turbulent atlantic
History of the Americas;Naval forces and warfare;General and world history;Central / national / federal government
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- 9780813946450
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- 224p. : ill
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- 327.42073 SAN n
Algorithmic reason : the new government of self and other
Are algorithms ruling the world today? Is artificial intelligence making life-and-death decisions? Are social media companies able to manipulate elections? As we are confronted with public and academic anxieties about unprecedented changes, this book offers a different analytical prism to investigate these transformations as more mundane and fraught. Aradau and Blanke develop conceptual and met…
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- 9780192859624
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- ix; 288 pg; ill.
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- 363.230285 ALG a
Changing south pacific
The texts collected in this volume take an anthropological approach to the variety of contemporary societal problems which confront the peoples of the contemporary South Pacific: religious revival, the sociology of relations between local groups, regions and nation-States, the problem of culture areas, the place of democracy in the transition of States founded on sacred chiefdoms, the role of c…
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- 9781921536151
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- 305.800995 CHA c
Failed states and fragile societies : a new world disorder?
Since the end of the Cold War, a new dynamic has arisen within the international system, one that does not conform to established notions of the state’s monopoly on war. In this changing environment, the global community must decide how to respond to the challenges posed to the state by military threats, political and economic decline, and social fragmentation. This insightful work considers …
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- 9780821444887
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- 171p. : ill
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- 327.1 FAI f
Vote Buying in Indonesia : The Mechanics of Electoral Bribery
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book investigates the impact of vote buying on the accountability of democratic institutions and policy representation in newly democratic countries, with a focus on Indonesia. In doing so, the book presents a wide-ranging study of the dynamics of vote buying in Indonesia’s young democracy, exploring the nature, extent, determinants, ta…
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- 9789811367793
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- vi, 318 p , : ill
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- 364.1324 BUR v
A samaritan state revisited : historical perspectives on canadian foreign aid
Canada’s foreign aid programs are an area of ongoing interest, yet there is little knowledge of Canada’s 70-year aid history, the historic forces that have shaped Canadian aid policy, and the many complex factors that affect Canada’s future foreign aid policy. A Samaritan State Revisited brings together a refreshing group of emerging and leading scholars to reflect on the history of Canad…
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- 9781773850412
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- 377p. : ill
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- 338.917101724 GRE s
How creativity is changing China
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. The question Professor Li Wuwei investigates is not 'whether' creativity is changing China - but 'how' creativity is changing China. The outcome will have a profound impact on how China develops and its economic role in the world. Creative industries maintain and…
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- 9781849666572
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- xxviii; 160 pg; ill.
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- 330.95106 WUW
Lives in peace research
This open access book explains how PRIO, the world’s oldest peace research institute, was founded and how it survived through crises. In this book, twenty-four of its researchers and associates, including Johan Galtung, Ingrid Eide, and Mari Holmboe Ruge, who founded the institute back in 1959, tell the stories of their roles in inventing and developing peace research. They reflect on their p…
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- 9789811647178
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- xx; 508 PG; ill.
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- Evidence-Based Approaches to Peace and Conflict Studies
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- 327.172072 LIV l
Knlowledge and Civil Society
This open access book focuses on the role of civil society in the creation, dissemination, and interpretation of knowledge in geographical contexts. It offers original, interdisciplinary and counterintuitive perspectives on civil society. The book includes reflections on civil and uncivil society, the role of civil society as a change agent, and on civil society perspectives of undone science. …
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- 9783030711474
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- 317p. : ill
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- 320.05 KNL k
At the edges of states; Dynamics of state formation in the Indonesian borderl…
Set in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, this study explores the shifting relationships between border communities and the state along the political border with East Malaysia. The book rests on the premises that remote border regions offer an exciting study arena that can tell us important things about how marginal citizens relate to their nation-state. The basic assumption is that central st…
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- 9789004253469
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- xv, 356p. : ill
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 275
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- 959.832 MIC e
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