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Africa's Challenge to International Relations Theory
ISBN: 9781349423583 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Africa has been noticeably absent in international relations theory. This new collection of essays by contemporary Africanists convincingly demonstrates the importance of the continent to every theoretical approach in international relations. This collection breaks new ground in how we think about both international relations and Africa, re-examining such foundational concepts as sovereignty, the state, and power; critically investigating the salience of realism, neo-liberalism, liberalism in Africa, and providing new thinking about regionalism, security and identity.
Africa has been noticeably absent in international relations theory. This new collection of essays by contemporary Africanists convincingly demonstrat...
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230,06 |
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Richard Titmuss; Welfare and Society: Welfare and Society
ISBN: 9781349420599 / Angielski / Miękka / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard Titmuss, Professor at the London School of Economics, adviser to governments, prolific author, was instrumental in shaping the new disciplines of Social Policy and Administration. He made a valuable contribution to social philosophy through his attempt to integrate welfare into its broad social context. In this revised edition of his well-known book, Professor Reisman relies on the whole of Titmuss's work, unpublished as well as published, to explain and evaluate the theories of this provocative but often difficult author.
Richard Titmuss, Professor at the London School of Economics, adviser to governments, prolific author, was instrumental in shaping the new disciplines...
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A Social Theory of the Wto: Trading Cultures
ISBN: 9781349433001 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traditional theories suggest that developing countries lack influence in the trade regime. In this text, Jane Ford uses a social theory or constructivist approach to show that developing countries played a critical role in strengthening multilateralism in the World Trade Organization.
Traditional theories suggest that developing countries lack influence in the trade regime. In this text, Jane Ford uses a social theory or constructiv...
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Governing Global Production: Resource Networks in the Asia-Pacific Steel Industry
ISBN: 9781349438099 / Angielski / Miękka / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Northeast Asian steel industries have developed global production networks, but by spanning multiple national spaces, these networks unite many national economies while belonging exclusively to none. Who, therefore, is in control? Jeffrey D. Wilson examines how states and firms coordinate their activities to govern global production.
Northeast Asian steel industries have developed global production networks, but by spanning multiple national spaces, these networks unite many nation...
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State, Anarchy, Collective Decisions: Some Applications of Game Theory to Political Economy
ISBN: 9781349418299 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. State, Anarchy and Collective Decisions provides an introduction to the applications of game theory to a series of questions that are fundamental in political economy. These questions include: Why do we need states? What might happen without protection for life and property? How might tribes or criminal gangs behave in struggles over material possessions? Would people tell the truth if asked what they wanted?
State, Anarchy and Collective Decisions provides an introduction to the applications of game theory to a series of questions that are fundamental in p...
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Marginalization in Urban China: Comparative Perspectives
ISBN: 9781349315123 / Angielski / Miękka / 313 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book covers social inequalities in Chinese cities and provides comparative perspectives on inequality and social polarization, neoliberalization and the poor, the change of property rights, rural to urban migration and migrants' enclaves, deprivation and residential segregation, state social security and reemployment training programs.
This book covers social inequalities in Chinese cities and provides comparative perspectives on inequality and social polarization, neoliberalization ...
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Development Finance in the Global Economy: The Road Ahead
ISBN: 9781349300532 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A positive chapter has begun in finance for poor countries. Yet progress remains tentative. This book looks at how to make international finance better serve the needs of poor countries and poor people. It contains contributions by economists and political scientists who have been at the centre of the international policy debate.
A positive chapter has begun in finance for poor countries. Yet progress remains tentative. This book looks at how to make international finance bette...
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Iceland and the International Financial Crisis: Boom, Bust and Recovery
ISBN: 9781349461523 / Angielski / Miękka / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eirikur Bergmann explains the exceptional case of Iceland's fantastical boom, bust and rapid recovery after the Crash of 2008 and explores the lessons for the wider EU crisis and for over-reaching economies that over-rely on financial markets.
Eirikur Bergmann explains the exceptional case of Iceland's fantastical boom, bust and rapid recovery after the Crash of 2008 and explores the lessons...
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South-South Cooperation: Africa on the Centre Stage
ISBN: 9781349320561 / Angielski / Miękka / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book critically analyses the ways in which Africa has shifted from the periphery of global trade, international relations and politics to the centre of the world stage because of its existing and potential economic prowess and purchasing power that the continent has to offer.
This book critically analyses the ways in which Africa has shifted from the periphery of global trade, international relations and politics to the cen...
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201,24 |
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Wealth, Power, and the Crisis of Laissez Faire Capitalism
ISBN: 9781349296149 / Angielski / Miękka / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This forcefully argued book offers a provocative picture of the political, intellectual, and economic forces that have shaped the history of the United States, offering an extensive and in-depth critique of laissez-faire doctrine and a novel reformulation of the work of American System writers, Gibson traces America's rise to global supremacy.
This forcefully argued book offers a provocative picture of the political, intellectual, and economic forces that have shaped the history of the Unite...
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The Politics of Inclusive Development: Policy, State Capacity, and Coalition Building
ISBN: 9781349715619 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates the political conditions and policies most likely to bring about progress toward inclusive development, drawing on four cases studies with distinct development trajectories. It argues that this progress is primarily a political struggle, one requiring a committed leadership with broadly based societal support. This book investigates the political conditions and policies most likely to bring about progress toward inclusive development, drawing on four case... |
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Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
ISBN: 9781583676011 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world s first significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society. According to Marxist economist Samir Amin, the great upheaval that once produced the Soviet Union has also produced a movement away from capitalism a long transition that continues even today. In seven concise, provocative chapters, Amin deftly examines the trajectory of Russian capitalism, the Bolshevik Revolution, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the possible future of Russia and, by extension, the future of socialism itself. Amin manages to combine an analysis of class...
Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world s first significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society. According to Marxist economis...
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The Unmaking of Arab Socialism
ISBN: 9781783084401 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conditions of malnutrition, conflict, or a combination of both characterize many Arab countries, but this was not always so. As in much of the developing world, the immediate post-independence period was an age of hope and relative prosperity. But imperialism did not sleep while these countries developed, and it soon intervened to destroy these post-independence achievements. The two principal defeats and losses of territory to Israel in 1967 and 1973, as well as the others that followed, left in their wake more than the destruction of assets and the loss of human lives: the Arab... Conditions of malnutrition, conflict, or a combination of both characterize many Arab countries, but this was not always so. As in much of the deve... |
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African Coalitions and Global Economic Governance
ISBN: 9781107140196 / Angielski / Twarda / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The proliferation of international institutions with overlapping scope and authority over issue areas creates strategic dilemmas for all states. While African states are often considered marginalised in world politics and global markets, Michael Byron Nelson shows how coalitions can form a crucial part of African strategies to influence international institutions and achieve results. Building a bottom-up analysis of global governance, through legal analysis, content analysis, and in-depth interviews, Nelson illuminates institutional and coalition dynamics through case studies of three key...
The proliferation of international institutions with overlapping scope and authority over issue areas creates strategic dilemmas for all states. While...
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A Post-Colonial Enquiry Into Europe's Debt and Migration Crisis
ISBN: 9789811022111 / Angielski / Twarda / 155 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important and topical volume is composed around the debt and migration crisis in Europe in 2015 (known as the Greece crisis), and written almost concurrently as the two crises developed in quick succession.
This important and topical volume is composed around the debt and migration crisis in Europe in 2015 (known as the Greece crisis), and written almost ...
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The Czech and Slovak Republics: Twenty years of Independence, 1993–2013
ISBN: 9789633861530 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in the book compare the Czech Republic and Slovakia since the breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1993. The papers deal with the causes of the divorce and discuss the political, economic and social developments in the new countries.
The essays in the book compare the Czech Republic and Slovakia since the breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1993. The papers deal with the causes of the div...
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Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
ISBN: 9781583676028 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world's first significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society. According to Marxist economist Samir Amin, the great upheaval that once produced the Soviet Union has also produced a movement away from capitalism - a long transition that continues even today. In seven concise, provocative chapters, Amin deftly examines the trajectory of Russian capitalism, the Bolshevik Revolution, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the possible future of Russia - and, by extension, the future of socialism itself. Amin manages to combine an analysis...
Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world's first significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society. According to Marxist economis...
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479,90 |
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Interessengeleitete Unternehmensbewertung: Ein Ökonomisch-Soziologischer Zugang Zu Einem Neuen Objektivismusstreit
ISBN: 9783658149017 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kaum eine Disziplin der BWL unterliegt derart kontroversen Diskussionen wie die der Unternehmensbewertung - Tobias Quill wertet diese Auseinandersetzung als neuen Objektivismusstreit und widmet sich dessen Analyse. Er legt zunachst die Geschichte des Fachs dar und arbeitet dessen derzeitige Lage heraus, die gepragt ist von einem Streit konkurrierender Stromungen: der investitionstheoretisch-funktionalen und der marktwertorientierten Schule. Diese Konstellation analysiert der Autor mithilfe sozialwissenschaftlicher Instrumente. Er modelliert Akteure sowie deren Interessen und arbeitet... Kaum eine Disziplin der BWL unterliegt derart kontroversen Diskussionen wie die der Unternehmensbewertung - Tobias Quill wertet diese Auseinanderse... |
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The Politics of Inclusive Development: Interrogating the Evidence
ISBN: 9780198788829 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is now widely accepted that politics plays a significant role in shaping the possibilities for inclusive development. However, the specific ways in which this happens across different types and forms of development, and in different contexts, remains poorly understood. This collection provides a state of the art review regarding what is currently known about the politics of inclusive development. Leading academics offer systematic reviews of how politics shapes development across multiple dimensions, including through growth, natural resource governance, poverty reduction, service...
It is now widely accepted that politics plays a significant role in shaping the possibilities for inclusive development. However, the specific ways in...
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Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability: A Political Economy Analysis
ISBN: 9780198788836 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Food price volatility is one of the major challenges facing current and future global food systems. Since 2006, global food prices have fluctuated greatly around an increasing trend and price spikes were observed for key food commodities such as rice, wheat, and maize. The full or partial transmission of these global food price changes to individual developing countries, together with domestic food price changes, caused by domestic factors such as extreme weather events and market disruptions, caused governments to respond in a variety of ways. While there is ample description of the nature,...
Food price volatility is one of the major challenges facing current and future global food systems. Since 2006, global food prices have fluctuated gre...
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