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Successful Global Collaborations in Higher Education Institutions
This open access book presents deep investigation to the manifold topics pertaining to global university collaboration. It outlines the strategies King Abdulaziz University has employed to rise in global rankings, and the reasons chosen to collaborate with other academic and research institutes. The environment in which universities currently exist is considered, and subsequently how an innovat…
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- 9783030255251
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- XVII, 93 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Teaching Multiplication with Lesson Study : Japanese and Ibero-American Theor…
This open access book is intended to assist teachers, teacher trainers, curriculum designers, editors and authors of textbooks in developing strategies to teach the multiplication of natural numbers based on the experience of the Lesson Study in Japan. This approach to mathematics education dates back to the 1870s and reconciles the emphasis on problem solving with the treatment of the curricul…
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- 9783030285616
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- XVIII, 296 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Modern Japan’s Place in World History
This Open Access book includes chapters on the key turning points in modern Japanese history from the Meiji Restoration to Japan-China diplomatic normalization in the 1970s and beyond. The topics covered include the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, the First and Second World Wars, the Manchurian Crisis, the US Occupation, postwar Japan-China relations, and postwar decolonization…
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- 978-981-19-9592-7
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- XVIII, 211
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The Geopolitics of the Global Energy Transition
The world is currently undergoing an historic energy transition, driven by increasingly stringent decarbonisation policies and rapid advances in low-carbon technologies. The large-scale shift to low-carbon energy is disrupting the global energy system, impacting whole economies, and changing the political dynamics within and between countries. This open access book, written by leading energy…
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- 978-3-030-39066-2
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- XXV, 381
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- Lecture Notes in Energy (LNEN, volume 73)
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Russia-China Relations : Emerging Alliance or Eternal Rivals?
This open access book examines Russia-China relations across a variety of civilian and military areas of cooperation. Leading experts in the field present empirical case studies covering a wide range of strategic cooperation areas between Russia and China, such as technological, military, economic and political cooperation. The contributing authors shed new light on Chinese and Russian strategi…
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- 978-3-030-97012-3
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- XXI, 315
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- Global Power Shift (GLOBAL)
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Vor der Revolution : Die Vereinigten Staaten und die Permanente Intervention …
Dieses Open-Access-Buch setzt sich zum Ziel, eingebettet in historische Kontexte paralleler Kalter Kriege im globalen und regionalen Rahmen die historische Genese der amerikanisch-iranischen Sonderbeziehungen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg und deren Transformation in den drei anschließenden Jahrzehnten zu analysieren. In der Geschichte der Staatenwelt nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg gibt es wohl kaum e…
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- 978-3-658-33888-6
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- IX, 726
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- Globale Gesellschaft und internationale Beziehungen (GGIB)
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Trade and Women’s Economic Empowerment: Evidence from Small and Medium-Size…
This open access book examines the relationship between trade and women’s economic empowerment by focusing on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in six countries: Cambodia, Ghana, Madagascar, Nigeria, Senegal and Vietnam. The authors make use of both survey data and qualitative analysis to understand why and how trade can create more jobs for women, and how the jobs created are contributing …
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- 9783031390395
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- XV, 162
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PeaceTech: Digital Transformation to End Wars
Why are we willing to believe that technology can bring about war… but not peace? PeaceTech: Digital Transformation to End War is the world's first book dealing with the use of technological innovation to support peace and transition processes. Through an interwoven narrative of personal stories that capture the complexity of real-time peace negotiation, Bell maps the fast-paced development…
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- 9783031388941
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- XV, 239
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Preparing for Digital Disruption
This open access book offers an analysis of why preparations for digital disruption should become a stated goal of security policy and policies that aim to safeguard the continuity of critical infrastructure. The increasing use of digital technology implies new and significant vulnerabilities for our society. However, it is striking that almost all cyber-security measures taken by governments, …
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- 9783030778385
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- XIV, 74 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Security in an Interconnected World : A Strategic Vision for Defence Policy
This open access book follows the idea that security policy must be based on strategic analysis. Defence policy and the role of the armed forces can subsequently be determined on the grounds of said analysis. More than ever, internal and external security, and developments both in the Netherlands and abroad are interconnected. The world order is shifting, the cooperation within NATO and the EU …
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- 9783030376062
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- X, 183 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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