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Im Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Selbst- und Fremdverstehen
Dieser Open-Access-Sammelband hinterfragt, wie sich internationale Kulturzusammenarbeit zwischen Ländern unterschiedlicher Kultursysteme und -traditionen erreichen lässt. In Deutschland ist Auswärtige Kulturpolitik von dem Gedanken geleitet, dass globale Herausforderungen Multilateralismus erfordern. Im chinesischen Diskurs dagegen finden andere Kernbegriffe wie z.B. „Tianxia“ Verwendung…
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- 978-3-658-40031-6
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- XIX, 388
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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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NGOs Mediating Peace
This book explores the role of nongovernmental mediators in promoting “inclusive peace” to negotiating parties in Myanmar’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) negotiations from 2011-2015. The influx of NGO mediators directly engaging with the negotiating parties and promoting the inclusivity norm coupled with the salience of discourse around “all-inclusiveness” at the end of the NCA…
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- 978-3-031-42174-7
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- Twenty-first Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict
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- XXI, 218
Adaptive Peacebuilding
This open access book responds to the urgent need to improve how we prevent and resolve conflict. It introduces Adaptive Peacebuilding through evidence-based research from eight case studies across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. It also considers how China and Japan view and practice peacebuilding. The book focuses on how peacebuilders design, implement and evaluate programs …
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- 978-3-031-18219-8
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- Twenty-first Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict
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- XXVII, 321
Resilience and Food Security in a Food Systems Context
This open access book compiles a series of chapters written by internationally recognized experts known for their in-depth but critical views on questions of resilience and food security. The book assesses rigorously and critically the contribution of the concept of resilience in advancing our understanding and ability to design and implement development interventions in relation to food securi…
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- 978-3-031-23535-1
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- Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy
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- XXI, 413
The Forum of Federations Handbook on Local Government in Federal Systems
This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners from around the globe to examine the current roles of and future trends in local government structures and mechanisms in 16 different federal and federal-type countries. In doing so, this volume explores pressing topics such as the institutions of local government, constitutional recognition, financial management, intergovernmental re…
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- 9783031412820
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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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- Palgrave Macmillan Cham
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- XXI, 402
The Impact of Protracted Peace Processes on Identities in Conflict
This open access book discusses the impact of protracted peace processes on identities in conflict. It is concerned with how lingering peace processes affect, in the long-term, patterns of othering in protracted conflicts, and how this relates with enduring violence. Taking Israel and Palestine as a case study, the book traces different representations of success and failure of the protracted p…
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- 978-3-031-16567-2
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- Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
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- XXI, 256
Security, Disinformation and Harmful Narratives: RT and Sputnik News Coverage…
It is a well-known fact both among scholars of propaganda and disinformation, and among political leaders that Sputnik and RT are using their news coverage for disinformation purposes to harm Western and European societies. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which enhanced the security threat by disinformation, the EU decided to ban these two media. Against this backdrop, the study asks…
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- 978-3-031-58747-4
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- The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication
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- XIX, 293
The Non-radicalisation of Muslims in Southern Europe
This open access book explains why southern European countries with significant Muslim communities have experienced few religiously inspired violent attacks – or have avoided the kind of securitised response to such attacks seen in many other Western states. The authors provide a unique contribution to the literature on violent extremism – which has traditionally focused on countries such a…
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- 978-3-031-71996-7
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- Rethinking Political Violence
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- XV, 124
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