ilość książek w kategorii: 37601
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Rise of Megacities, The: Challenges, Opportunities and Unique Characteristics
ISBN: 9781786344267 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Megacities of over 10 million inhabitants are unique entities in their own right, both challenging and supporting the policies, governance and cohesion of states.
Megacities of over 10 million inhabitants are unique entities in their own right, both challenging and supporting the policies, governance and cohesio...
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783,64 |
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China's Naval Operations in the South China Sea: Evaluating Legal, Strategic and Military Factors
ISBN: 9781898823674 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book seeks to examine the evolving perception of the People's Republic of China's (PRC) of the South China Sea (SCS), and Beijing's accompanying maritime strategy to claim them, particularly in the context of the strategies of the neighboring stake-holding nations. In addition to long-standing territorial disputes over the islands and waters of the SCS, China and the other littoral states--Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Indonesia--have growing and often mutually exclusive interests in the offshore energy reserves and fishing grounds. Each chapter on the littoral...
This book seeks to examine the evolving perception of the People's Republic of China's (PRC) of the South China Sea (SCS), and Beijing's accompanying ...
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475,03 |
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The Politics of Islamism: Diverging Visions and Trajectories
ISBN: 9783319622552 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The very existence of this diversity within and among Islamist movements, and their general willingness to partake in mainstream politics, signals an important transformation in the Muslim world over recent decades.
The very existence of this diversity within and among Islamist movements, and their general willingness to partake in mainstream politics, signals an ...
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563,56 |
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Global America: The United States in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780190279905 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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427,10 |
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Russia Against the Rest: The Post-Cold War Crisis of World Order
ISBN: 9781107160606 / Angielski / Twarda / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines how Putin's Russia emerged as one of the great powers, demanding recognition of its status in international politics.
This book examines how Putin's Russia emerged as one of the great powers, demanding recognition of its status in international politics.
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414,61 |
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War in International Thought
ISBN: 9781108410496 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As scholars and citizens, we are predisposed to think of war as a profoundly destructive activity that ideally should be abolished altogether. Yet before the twentieth century, war was widely understood as a productive force in human affairs that should be harnessed for the purposes of creating peace and order. Analyzing how the concept of war has been used in different contexts from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth century, Jens Bartelson addresses this transition by inquiring into the underlying and often unspoken assumptions about the nature of war, and how these have shaped our...
As scholars and citizens, we are predisposed to think of war as a profoundly destructive activity that ideally should be abolished altogether. Yet bef...
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154,78 |
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War in International Thought
ISBN: 9781108419352 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As scholars and citizens, we are predisposed to think of war as a profoundly destructive activity that ideally should be abolished altogether. Yet before the twentieth century, war was widely understood as a productive force in human affairs that should be harnessed for the purposes of creating peace and order. Analyzing how the concept of war has been used in different contexts from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth century, Jens Bartelson addresses this transition by inquiring into the underlying and often unspoken assumptions about the nature of war, and how these have shaped our...
As scholars and citizens, we are predisposed to think of war as a profoundly destructive activity that ideally should be abolished altogether. Yet bef...
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396,06 |
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Russia Against the Rest: The Post-Cold War Crisis of World Order
ISBN: 9781316613511 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines how Putin's Russia emerged as one of the great powers, demanding recognition of its status in international politics.
This book examines how Putin's Russia emerged as one of the great powers, demanding recognition of its status in international politics.
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117,66 |
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Re-Emerging Russia: Structures, Institutions and Processes
ISBN: 9789811052989 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the evolution, contexts and politics of the structures and institutions that shape contemporary Russia. This book assesses the continuities and changes with the Soviet past and the way the Russian regimes of the past two decades have reinvented and reshaped them.
This book examines the evolution, contexts and politics of the structures and institutions that shape contemporary Russia. This book assesses the cont...
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483,04 |
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The Eu's Power in Inter-Organisational Relations
ISBN: 9781137409072 / Angielski / Twarda / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book studies inter-organisational relations from a new angle: power. Drawing on examples that highlight how the EU relates to NATO and to the UN, it shows how consequential inter-organisational relations are for the functioning and nature of the organisations, and how important it is to detect the forms of power exerted in these relations.
This book studies inter-organisational relations from a new angle: power. Drawing on examples that highlight how the EU relates to NATO and to the UN,...
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483,04 |
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A Promising Reality: Reflections on Race, Gender, and Culture in Cuba
ISBN: 9781433133077 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Promising Reality: Reflections on Race, Gender, and Culture in Cuba is a compilation of the reflections of a group of chief diversity officers, faculty, and educators from the United States about Cuba.
A Promising Reality: Reflections on Race, Gender, and Culture in Cuba is a compilation of the reflections of a group of chief diversity officers, facu...
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245,25 |
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A Promising Reality: Reflections on Race, Gender, and Culture in Cuba
ISBN: 9781433133084 / Angielski / Twarda / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Promising Reality: Reflections on Race, Gender, and Culture in Cuba is a compilation of the reflections of a group of chief diversity officers, faculty, and educators from the United States about Cuba.
A Promising Reality: Reflections on Race, Gender, and Culture in Cuba is a compilation of the reflections of a group of chief diversity officers, facu...
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517,13 |
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Globalization and Sovereignty: Beyond the Territorial Trap
ISBN: 9781538105184 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This provocative and important text offers a new way of thinking about sovereignty, both past and present. Distinguished geographer John Agnew boldly challenges the widely popular story that state sovereignty is in worldwide eclipse in the face of the overwhelming processes of globalization. He argues that this perception relies on ideas about sovereignty and globalization that are both overstated and misleading. Agnew contends that sovereignty-state control and authority over space is not necessarily neatly contained in state-by-state territories, nor has it ever been so. Yet the dominant...
This provocative and important text offers a new way of thinking about sovereignty, both past and present. Distinguished geographer John Agnew boldly ...
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416,30 |
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The Sword's Other Edge: Trade-Offs in the Pursuit of Military Effectiveness
ISBN: 9781108404136 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first work to build a conceptual framework describing how the pursuit of military effectiveness can present military and political tradeoffs, such as undermining political support for the war, creating new security threats, and that seeking to improve effectiveness in one aspect can reduce effectiveness in other aspects. Here are new ideas about military effectiveness, covering topics such as military robotics, nuclear weapons, insurgency, war finance, public opinion, and others. The study applies these ideas to World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the 1973...
This book is the first work to build a conceptual framework describing how the pursuit of military effectiveness can present military and political tr...
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145,50 |
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The Sword's Other Edge: Trade-Offs in the Pursuit of Military Effectiveness
ISBN: 9781108416726 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first work to build a conceptual framework describing how the pursuit of military effectiveness can present military and political tradeoffs, such as undermining political support for the war, creating new security threats, and that seeking to improve effectiveness in one aspect can reduce effectiveness in other aspects. Here are new ideas about military effectiveness, covering topics such as military robotics, nuclear weapons, insurgency, war finance, public opinion, and others. The study applies these ideas to World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the 1973...
This book is the first work to build a conceptual framework describing how the pursuit of military effectiveness can present military and political tr...
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368,21 |
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Over the Horizon: Time, Uncertainty, and the Rise of Great Powers
ISBN: 9781501707568 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do established powers react to growing competitors? The United States currently faces a dilemma with regard to China and others over whether to embrace competition and thus substantial present-day costs or collaborate with its rivals to garner short-term gains while letting them become more powerful. This problem lends considerable urgency...
How do established powers react to growing competitors? The United States currently faces a dilemma with regard to China and others over whether to em...
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210,60 |
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The Boundaries of Europe: From the Fall of the Ancient World to the Age of Decolonisation
ISBN: 9783110555073 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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84,78 |
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Russia's New Ground Forces: Capabilities, Limitations and Implications for International Security
ISBN: 9781138563704 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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205,65 |
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Allies or Adversaries: Ngos and the State in Africa
ISBN: 9781316615034 / Angielski / Miękka / 291 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores how rise of NGOs in developing countries has affected service provision, governance, state-society relations, and state development.
This book explores how rise of NGOs in developing countries has affected service provision, governance, state-society relations, and state development...
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150,09 |
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African security in the twenty-first century: Challenges and opportunities
ISBN: 9781526122735 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores and analyzes the evolving African security paradigm in light of the multitude of diverse threats and challenges facing the continent and the international community. It challenges current thinking and traditional security constructs as woefully inadequate to meet the real security needs of African governments and their 1 billion plus citizens in an increasingly globalized and interdependent world. Through the lens of human security the authors' examine the continent's most pressing security challenges - from identity conflict and failing states to terrorism, disease, and...
This book explores and analyzes the evolving African security paradigm in light of the multitude of diverse threats and challenges facing the continen...
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438,22 |