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United Nations Peace Operations in a Changing Global Order
This open access book explores how UN peace operations are adapting to four transformational trends in the changing global order: (1) the rebalancing of relations between states of the global North and the global South; (2) the rise of regional organisations as providers of peace; (3) the rise of violent extremism and fundamentalist non-state actors; and (4) increasing demands from non-state ac…
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- 9783319991061
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- XXV, 334hlm; ill., lamp.,
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East-West Dialogue
This Open access book is a collection of interviews published by China News Service, a Beijing-based news agency, in its “West-East Talk” column. It has been divided into five sections: “Mutual Learning Among Civilizations,” “Hot Issues,” “About China,” “Sino-U.S. Relations” and “Cultural Collision”. The interviews are with more than 50 eminent scholars, scientists, poli…
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- 1
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- 978-981-19-8057-2
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- XV, 363
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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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- 1
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- 978-3-658-40031-6
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- XIX, 388
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Transnational Entrepreneurship in South East Asia
Professor Yokoyama is the Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration, Toyo Gakuen University, Tokyo, Japan, where she supervises research in the field of human resource management in Japanese companies by drawing comparisons between Japanese-style employment management and the merit-based systems. Her recent research is concerned with Japanese self-initiated expatriate entrepreneurs…
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- 9789813292529
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- XXI, 220, hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Performing Citizenship
This open access book discusses how citizenship is performed today, mostly through the optic of the arts, in particular the performing arts, but also from the perspective of a wide range of academic disciplines such as urbanism and media studies, cultural education and postcolonial theory. It is a compendium that includes insights from artistic and activist experimentation. Each chapter investi…
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- 978-3-319-97502-3
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- Performance Philosophy
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- XII, 318
Foreign Aid and its Unintended Consequences
Foreign aid and international development frequently bring with it a range of unintended consequences, both negative and positive. This book delves into these consequences, providing a fresh and comprehensive guide to understanding and addressing them. The book starts by laying out a theoretical framework based on complexity thinking, before going on to explore the ten most prevalent kinds o…
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- 1st Edition
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- 9781003356851
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- 236
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Globalisation, environmental law and sustainable development in the global so…
Volume ini mengkaji dampak globalisasi terhadap hukum lingkungan internasional dan penerapan pembangunan berkelanjutan di Negara-negara Berkembang. Terdiri dari kontribusi dari para pengacara dari Negara-negara Berkembang atau yang memiliki pengalaman di Negara-negara Berkembang, volume ini disusun menjadi tiga bagian, dengan penyelidikan tematik yang dijalin melalui setiap bab untuk menanyakan…
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- 9781003160236
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- 1 online resource. (348 Pages)
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- 330.12 JUN g
Globalisation and its economic consequences : looking at apec economies
Mengingat meningkatnya kritik dan keraguan tentang globalisasi, buku yang disunting tepat waktu ini membahas globalisasi dan dampak ekonominya terhadap delapan negara di kawasan Asia dan Pasifik, yaitu Australia, Tiongkok, Indonesia, Jepang, Malaysia, Thailand, Amerika Serikat (AS), dan Vietnam. Delapan negara yang dipilih adalah anggota forum Kerja Sama Ekonomi Asia-Pasifik (APEC) dan ekonomi …
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- 9781003138501
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- 1 online resource.(264 Pages)
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- 330.12 URA g
Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance
This book addresses how sexual practices and identities are imagined and regulated through development discourses and within institutions of global governance. The underlying premise of this volume is that the global development industry plays a central role in constructing people’s sexual lives, access to citizenship, and struggles for livelihood. Despite the industry’s persistent insis…
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- 1st Edition
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- 9780203868348
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- p. 240
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Environmental change in South-East Asia: people, politics and sustainable dev…
Environmental Change in South-East Asia brings together scholars, journalists, consultants and NGO activists to explore the interaction of people, politics and ecology. Ostensibly "green" activities - plantation forestry, eco-tourism, hydro-electricity - are revealed as guises used by elites to promote their own political and economic interests. Highlighting fatal flaws in presently exclusive …
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- 9780203983003
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