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Sustainability and the Insurance Market: Trends and Challenges
This open access book focuses on the regulatory framework for the sustainability of the insurance market. It analyzes its potential impact on insurance undertakings governance and product design. The book is structured into three parts. It firstly explores the general framework on the sustainability for the insurance market, focusing on the regulation at the European Union level. Secondly, it e…
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- 978-3-031-72186-1
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- VI, 261
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Stochastic Dynamic Response Analysis and Performance-Based Seismic Safety Eva…
This open access book provides a complete probabilistic analysis method and a performance-based seismic safety evaluation for high concrete faced rockfill dam (CFRD). Combined with random sample generation and reliability analysis methods, the dynamic response characteristics and reliability level of CFRD under various random factors are comprehensively described. In Chapter 2, a random ground …
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- 978-981-97-7198-1
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- VIII, 197
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State-Managed International Voluntary Service
People stopped moving across borders during the COVID-19 pandemic. Travelers, businesspeople, students, migrants, refugees, diplomats, and aid workers all stayed home. Volunteers working abroad were not an exception. Volunteers of the United States Peace Corps (USPC) and Australian Volunteers International (AVI) were, for example, compelled to return home or were no longer deployed to host …
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- 9789819736157
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- XVIII, 277
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The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine
This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Maidan massacre in Ukraine. It uses a theoretical framework of rational choice, moral hazard, state- repression backfire, and Weberian ideas about rational action to explore the massacre. The book draws on publicly available videos, photos and audio recordings of the massacre in English, Ukrainian, Russian, Polish and other langu…
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- 978-3-031-67121-0
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Rethinking Political Violence
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The School of Salamanca: A Case of Global Knowledge Production
Over the past few decades, a growing number of studies have highlighted the importance of the ‘School of Salamanca’ for the emergence of colonial normative regimes and the formation of a language of normativity on a global scale. According to this influential account, American and Asian actors usually appear as passive recipients of normative knowledge produced in Europe. This book proposes…
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- 9789004516441
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- 296 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Thomas Duve, José Luis Egío, and Christiane Birr
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Taking the EU to Court
This open access book provides an exhaustive picture of the role that annulment conflicts play in the EU multilevel system. Based on a rich dataset of annulment actions since the 1960s and a number of in-depth case studies, it explores the political dimension of annulment litigation, which has become an increasingly relevant judicial tool in the struggle over policy content and decision-making …
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- 978-3-030-21629-0
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
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Solidarity in Europe
This open access volume provides evidence-based knowledge on European solidarity and citizen responses in times of crisis. Does the crisis of European integration translate into a crisis of European solidarity, and if yes, what are the manifestations at the level of individual citizens? How strongly is solidarity rooted at the individual level, both in terms of attitudes and practices? And whic…
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- 978-3-319-73335-7
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- Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
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Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development
This book explores the impact that professional volunteers have on the low resource countries they choose to spend time in. Whilst individual volunteering may be of immediate benefit to individual patients, this intervention may have detrimental effects on local health systems; distorting labour markets, accentuating dependencies and creating opportunities for corruption. Improved volunteer dep…
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- 978-1-137-55833-6
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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Social Accountability Initiatives in Morocco, Tunisia, and Lebanon
The Middle East and North Africa region has been absent form stocktaking exercises on social accountability initiatives (SAI), an umbrella term to designate citizen-led tools aimed at socio-political change. We argue that this sidelining is unwarranted, given the proliferation of participatory governance initiatives, civic associations and popular mobilisation in Arab societies after 2…
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- 9783031513220
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- XIII, 210
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De garoeda en de ooievaar
Deze nieuwe beschrijving van het wordingsproces van de Indonesische staat gaat ervan uit, dat die staat zijn ontstaan niet alleen dankt aan de nationale vrijheidsbeweging maar ook aan de Nederlandse heerschappij waar die beweging zich tegen keerde. Daarom gaat het boek uitdrukkelijk in op voornaamste ontwikkelingen van het door Nederland in de kolonie Nederlands-Indië gevoerde beleid. Hier slu…
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- 978-90-04-25374-2
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Volume: 266
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