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Happiness is the Wrong Metric : A Liberal Communitarian Response to Populism
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This timely book addresses the conflict between globalism and nationalism. It provides a liberal communitarian response to the rise of populism occurring in many democracies. The book highlights the role of communities next to that of the state and the market. It spells out the policy implications of liberal communitarianism for privacy, f…
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- 978-3-319-69623-2
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- XXI, 304
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- Library of Public Policy and Public Administration (LPPP, volume 11)
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- 320 ETZ h
When Can Oil Economies Be Deemed Sustainable?
This open access book questions the stereotype depicting all Gulf (GCC) economies as not sustainable, and starts a critical discussion of what these economies and polities should do to guarantee themselves a relatively stable future. Volatile international oil markets and the acceleration of the energy transition has challenged the notion that oil revenues are sufficient to sustain oil eco…
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- 978-981-15-5728-6
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- The Political Economy of the Middle East
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- 324
Taxation, International Cooperation and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda
This open access volume addresses the link between international taxation, the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and the medium-term revenue strategy concept. It also analyses how countries and governments can reinforce this link in current and future initiatives in international taxation, including the base erosion profit shifting project initiated by the Organization for Economic Co-operati…
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- 978-3-030-64857-2
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- Springer Cham
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- United Nations University Series on Regionalism (UNSR, volume 19)
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- 337 TAX
Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey
What do struggles for women’s and LGBTI+ rights in Russia, Turkey and the Scandinavian countries have in common? And what can actors who struggle for rights and justice in these contexts learn from each other? Based on a multisited ethnography of feminist and LGBTI+ activisms across Russia, Turkey and the Scandinavian countries, this Open Access book explores transnational struggles on variou…
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- 978-3-030-84451-6
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Thinking Gender in Transnational Times
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Megatrends in Agriculture, Food Industry and Food Markets : An Empirical and …
This book offers a research-based, holistic overview of the entire value chain of the global food industry. It captures and defines over 80 contemporary ‘megatrends’ in agriculture and the food market that can be empirically documented and have a major impact on business, economies, industries, societies, and individuals. Today the world is characterized by more uncertainty and unpredict…
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- 9783031581526
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- XLV, 410 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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APCC Special Report: Strukturen für ein klimafreundliches Leben
Die Klimakrise betrifft uns alle - Doch wie kann ein klimafreundliches Leben für alle erreicht werden? Zahlreiche wissenschaftliche Sachstandsberichte bestätigen schon lange den umfassenden Handlungsbedarf, um die Klimaziele zu erreichen. Dieser betrifft alle Lebensbereiche: von Arbeit und Pflege über Wohnen bis zu Mobilität, Ernährung und Freizeit. Doch wie verwirklicht man solch eine …
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- 978-3-662-66497-1
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- XX, 715
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Siebenbürgen zwischen Großungarn und dem österreichischen Gesamtstaat
Die Edition des Briefwechsels von Guberniumspräsident Ludwig Folliot von Crenneville und Hofkanzler Franz von Nádasdy umfasst die Jahre 1861 bis 1863. Beide prägten die Politik ihrer Zeit. Ihre Korrespondenz ist eine bemerkenswerte Quelle zu den inneren Mechanismen von Verwaltung und Machtausübung im Habsburgerreich in der Endphase des gesamtstaatlichen Kaisertums Österreich. Mit dem Oktob…
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- 978-3-7329-9325-3
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- 438
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- DigiOst
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Emerging States and Economies: Their Origins, Drivers, and Challenges Ahead
This open access book asks why and how some of the developing countries have “emerged” under a set of similar global conditions, what led individual countries to choose the particular paths that led to their “emergence,” and what challenges confront them. If we are to understand the nature of major risks and uncertainties in the world, we must look squarely at the political and economic…
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- 9789811326349
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- X, 177hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Remembering Marielle Franco from a Theological Perspective
In this Open Access book, Katharina Merian discusses memories of Marielle Franco from the perspective of the concept of dangerous memory introduced by the political theologian Johann Baptist Metz. Franco was an Afro-Brazilian human-rights activist and city councilor of Rio de Janeiro who was assassinated on March 14, 2018. Her murder elicited worldwide protest and empathy. Today she is consider…
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- 978-3-031-65353-7
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- -
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- New Approaches to Religion and Power
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- XVIII, 299
European Union Support for Colombia's Peace Process
This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of the EU's crucial support for the implementation of the Havana Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP. It explores the use of new approaches and instruments that, despite some limitations and criticisms, could go beyond conventional liberal peace and provide useful lessons. Particular attention is paid to three …
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- 978-3-031-24797-2
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- -
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- Palgrave Macmillan Cham
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- XXI, 402
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