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Global Challenges, National Initiatives, and Institutional Responses
In this book we aim to discuss and reflect on how HEIs are coping with the demands placed on them and how the various dimensions of change are intertwined. In particular, we aim to discuss the following questions: How do governance regimes steer higher education institutions? This part of the book focuses its attention on how higher education and research institutions operate under differen…
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- 978-94-6300-675-0
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- VIII, 272
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- 370 GLO
Global Challenges and the Emerging World Order
This book offers a fascinating overview of the challenges posed by the world’s new geostrategic order and likely future directions. It opens with an unconventional view of the Arab Spring, identifying its origins in the relative US withdrawal from the Middle East caused by both the need for military disengagement for economic reasons and the discovery of shale gas and tight oil in the heart o…
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- 978-3-319-15623-1
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- IX, 79
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- 330 SAP g
European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-1957
Who thought of Europe as a community before its economic integration in 1957? Dina Gusejnova illustrates how a supranational European mentality was forged from depleted imperial identities. In the revolutions of 1917–1920, the power of the Hohenzollern, Habsburg, and Romanoff dynasties over their subjects expired.
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- 9781316343050
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- 325.30940 GUS e
Drugs Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Iran has one of the world’s highest rates of drug addiction, estimated to be between two and seven per cent of the entire population. This makes the questions this book asks all the more salient: what is the place of illegal substances in the politics of modern Iran?
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- 9781108567084
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- 362.29 GHI d
Encounters between Foreign Relations Law and International Law: Bridges and B…
Foreign relations law and public international law are two closely related academic fields that tend to speak past each other. As this innovative volume shows, the two are closely interrelated and depend on each other for their mutual construction and identity.
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- 9781108942713
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- 341 AUS e
Global Banking Crises and Emerging Markets
This timely reader of seminal papers published by Palgrave on behalf of Comparative Economic Studies, examines how and why foreign banks enter emerging markets and the positive benefits they bring to the host countries.
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- 978-1-349-56185-8
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- XI, 301
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- 330 GLO
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.
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- 9781108914642
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- 340.9 KRI e
Economics without Borders: Economic Research for European Policy Challenges
If treated as a single economy, the European Union is the largest in the world, with an estimated GDP of over 14 trillion euros. Despite its size, European economic policy has often lagged behind the rest of the world in its ability to generate growth and innovation. Much of the European economic research itself often trails behind that of the United States, which sets much of the agenda in mai…
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- 9781316636404
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- 337.142 MAT e
Education and Well-Being An Ontological Inquiry
This book explores how contemporary educational research and curriculum occlude the vital and enduring relationship between education and well-being. Beginning with the consequences of the reductive tendencies of educational research and moving through the consequences of the technical and instrumental tendencies of curriculum, this book challenges how contemporary education as a whole reduces …
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- 9781137602756
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- xxii, 116 pages ; 22 cm
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- 370.1
Education and the Arab Spring : resistance, reform, and democracy
Education and the Arab Spring: Resistance, Reform, and Democracy explores the current debate about education in the Middle East and North Africa post-Arab Spring. It draws from a variety of conceptual frameworks rooted in different disciplines and fields, such as education, religious and cultural studies, political science, and Arab studies. The book is, in part, a response to an increased dema…
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- 9789463004718
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- xxv, 160 pages
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- 370.956
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