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Iranian Regime's Nuclear Duplicity: An Analysis of Tehran's Trickery in Talks with the P 5+1
ISBN: 9780990432753 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. International negotiators have been engaged in talks with the Iranian regime on its nuclear program since 2002. The current approach, led by the United States as part of the so-called P5]1, is now in its final stages. While opinions may vary as to the contents and wisdom of the deal that may be taking shape, all understand that the success of any agreement will be dependent on whether the Iranian regime can be trusted to curtail its decades-long quest for a nuclear weapon. As President Obama has suggested, if this agreement results in Iran becoming a nuclear power, history will judge the... International negotiators have been engaged in talks with the Iranian regime on its nuclear program since 2002. The current approach, led by the Un... |
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42,95 |
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Social Geography of British Elections 1885-1910
ISBN: 9781349003037 / Angielski / Miękka / 455 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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201,24 |
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Direct Elections to the European Parliament: A Community Perspective
ISBN: 9781349044566 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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402,53 |
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Military Rule and Transition in Ecuador, 1972-92
ISBN: 9781349089246 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interprets the Ecuadorian transition to civilian rule following a prolonged period of military dictatorship (1972-79), and assesses the difficulties posed by efforts to consolidate democracy during the decade that followed. It focuses on civilian opposition to the policies of the regime.
Interprets the Ecuadorian transition to civilian rule following a prolonged period of military dictatorship (1972-79), and assesses the difficulties p...
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201,24 |
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Terrorism and Democracy: Some Contemporary Cases
ISBN: 9781349124541 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Terrorism is here to stay and it will probably beset the newly emerging democracies of eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. However such political violence can be combatted and this is a study of terrorism and how it has been successfully contained in contemporary first world democracies.
Terrorism is here to stay and it will probably beset the newly emerging democracies of eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. However such political vio...
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201,24 |
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Direct Elections to the European Parliament 1984
ISBN: 9781349180929 / Angielski / Miękka / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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157,80 |
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The New Institutional Architecture of Eastern Europe
ISBN: 9781349230778 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book is concerned with the formation of new institutions in Eastern Europe following the events of 1989. Two comparative chapters discuss the problems of institution building arising from the communist legacy and the difficulties of a successful transition to liberal democracy. In the remainder of the book, country-specific chapters deal with the institutional characteristics of countries in the region - Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, East Germany. Attention is focused on constitutions, executive and parliament relations, and parties and electoral...
The book is concerned with the formation of new institutions in Eastern Europe following the events of 1989. Two comparative chapters discuss the prob...
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201,24 |
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Democracy, Capitalism and Empire in Late Victorian Britain, 1885-1910
ISBN: 9781349246908 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Late Victorian Britain witnessed three challenges to its eighteenth-century Republican Ideal: democracy, capitalism and ethnic nationalism. Calling upon the languages and debates of the period, the book examines contending images of the social order with new data analytic techniques and information. Joining the contextual study of history to advanced analytic techniques refutes standard interpretations and provides a more complete portrait of the period. The conclusions on democratic transition have important implications for understanding today's efforts to reap democracy's rewards.
Late Victorian Britain witnessed three challenges to its eighteenth-century Republican Ideal: democracy, capitalism and ethnic nationalism. Calling up...
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201,24 |
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Democratization and Bureaucratic Neutrality
ISBN: 9781349248100 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book focuses on the mutual implications of bureaucratic neutrality and democracy from the perspective of societies formerly under authoritarian regimes. It explores the impact of democratization on bureaucratic neutrality as well as the implications of neutral bureaucracies for democracy. Theoretical and conceptual dimensions of the subject are spelled out, and specialists discuss case studies from Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia, therefore compounding a broad panel of the challenges and opportunities confronting the democratization process throughout the world.
The book focuses on the mutual implications of bureaucratic neutrality and democracy from the perspective of societies formerly under authoritarian re...
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402,53 |
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The Democratic Implications of Civil Society in China
ISBN: 9781349255764 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses the roles of civil society in the initiation stage of democratization in China. It argues that there is a semi-civil society in China and that this quasi-civil society that plays dual roles in the initial stage of democratisation in China. It makes a contribution to existing theories on democratic functions of civil society by applying, testing, revising and developing these theories in the context of Chinese democratization.
This book discusses the roles of civil society in the initiation stage of democratization in China. It argues that there is a semi-civil society in Ch...
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805,10 |
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The Transition to Democracy in Paraguay
ISBN: 9781349257690 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The transition to democracy in Paraguay has been one of the most difficult in Latin America. This book highlights the limitations of the process of democratisation in a country which lacked a previous democratic tradition and where the legacy of the harsh regime of Alfredo Stroessner (1954-89) is enduring. The book describes the nature of the Stroessner regime, examines the actors in the democratisation process, and shows how they influenced the policies of the transition governments.
The transition to democracy in Paraguay has been one of the most difficult in Latin America. This book highlights the limitations of the process of de...
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201,24 |
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Marketing Leadership in Government: Communicating Responsiveness, Leadership and Credibility
ISBN: 9781349949182 / Angielski / Twarda / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores how contemporary governing leaders can overcome the typical trend of losing a public support in power by following more effective communication strategies. It shows how new forms of communication that emphasise acknowledgement and respect for public criticisms and concerns can be used by governing leaders to show the public that they still have the leadership qualities they entered office with, despite the extra challenges that political office presents. The book outlines a new model, The Contemporary Governing Leaders' Communication Model, through which leaders can...
This book explores how contemporary governing leaders can overcome the typical trend of losing a public support in power by following more effective c...
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201,24 |
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Campaign Finance: What Everyone Needs to Know
ISBN: 9780190274689 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2015, well over half of the money contributed to the presidential race came from roughly 350 families. The 100 biggest donors gave as much as 2 million small donors combined. Can we still say we live in a democracy if a few hundred rich families provide a disproportionate shares of campaign funds? Congress and the courts are divided on that question, with conservatives saying yes and liberals saying no. The debate is about the most fundamental of political questions: how we define democracy and how we want our democracy to work.
The debate may ultimately be about political theory, but... In 2015, well over half of the money contributed to the presidential race came from roughly 350 families. The 100 biggest donors gave as much as 2 mil...
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56,66 |
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The American Political Pattern: Stability and Change, 1932-2016
ISBN: 9780700623266 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Politicians are polarized. Public opinion is volatile. Government is gridlocked. Or so journalists and pundits constantly report. But where are we, really, in modern American politics, and how did we get there? Those are the questions that Byron E. Shafer aims to answer in The American Political Pattern. Looking at the state of American politics at diverse points over the past eighty years, the book draws a picture, broad in scope yet precise in detail, of our political system in the modern era. It is a picture of stretches of political stability, but also, even more, of political...
Politicians are polarized. Public opinion is volatile. Government is gridlocked. Or so journalists and pundits constantly report. But where are we, re...
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406,51 |
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The American Political Pattern: Stability and Change, 1932-2016
ISBN: 9780700623273 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Politicians are polarized. Public opinion is volatile. Government is gridlocked. Or so journalists and pundits constantly report. But where are we, really, in modern American politics, and how did we get there? Those are the questions that Byron E. Shafer aims to answer in The American Political Pattern. Looking at the state of American politics at diverse points over the past eighty years, the book draws a picture, broad in scope yet precise in detail, of our political system in the modern era. It is a picture of stretches of political stability, but also, even more, of political...
Politicians are polarized. Public opinion is volatile. Government is gridlocked. Or so journalists and pundits constantly report. But where are we, re...
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117,50 |
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American Burke: The Uncommon Liberalism of Daniel Patrick Moynihan
ISBN: 9780700623495 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) may be best known as a statesman. He served in the administrations of presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford; was ambassador to India and the United Nations; and represented New York in the U.S. Senate for four terms. But he was also an intellectual of the first order, whose books and papers on topics ranging from welfare policy and ethnicity in American society to international law stirred debate and steered policy. Moynihan was, journalist Michael Barone remarked, "the nation's best thinker among politicians since Lincoln and its best politician...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) may be best known as a statesman. He served in the administrations of presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford...
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117,50 |
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Flourishing Thought: Democracy in an Age of Data Hoards
ISBN: 9780472130108 / Angielski / Twarda / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Challenging the posthumanist canon that celebrates the preeminence of matter, Ruth Miller, in Flourishing Thought contends that what nonhuman systems contribute to democracy is thought. Drawing on recent feminist theories of nonhuman life and politics, Miller shows that reproduction and flourishing are not antithetical to contemplation and sensitivity. After demonstrating that processes of life and processes of thought are indistinguishable, Miller finds that four menacing accumulations of matter and information global surveillance, stored embryos, human clones, and...
Challenging the posthumanist canon that celebrates the preeminence of matter, Ruth Miller, in Flourishing Thought contends that what no...
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211,11 |
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The Labour Party in Scotland: Religion, the Union, and the Irish Dimension
ISBN: 9781137588432 / Angielski / Twarda / 103 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book makes a timely contribution to our understanding of the dramatic political changes that have recently affected Scotland and thrown into doubt the country s future position within the United Kingdom. Its focus is on the Labour Party and the loss of its traditional electoral support base. This theme is related to religion and its relevance to Scotland s identity politics. The author examines how Labour was able to appeal across the ethno-religious divide in Scotland for many decades, before considering the impact of the new political context of devolution in the 21st... This book makes a timely contribution to our understanding of the dramatic political changes that have recently affected Scotland and thrown into d... |
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201,24 |
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Civil Society, Conflict Resolution, and Democracy in Nigeria
ISBN: 9780815634447 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. African nations have watched the recent civic dramas of the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street asking if they too will see similar civil society actions in their own countries. Nigeria Africa s most populous nation has long enjoyed one of the continent s most vibrant civil society spheres, which has been instrumental in political change. Initially viewed as contributing to democracy s development, however, civil society groups have come under increased scrutiny by scholars and policymakers. Do some civil society groups promote democracy more effectively than others? And if so, which ones,... African nations have watched the recent civic dramas of the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street asking if they too will see similar civil society ac... |
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195,91 |
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Conciliatory Democracy: From Deliberation Toward a New Politics of Disagreement
ISBN: 9781137577429 / Angielski / Twarda / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, MartinEbeling discusses how we ought to react to our persistent politicaldisagreement with other citizens.
In this book, MartinEbeling discusses how we ought to react to our persistent politicaldisagreement with other citizens.
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442,79 |