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Cities and local governments in Central Asia: administrative, fiscal, and pol…
This book presents the changing roles of urban governments and how local governments struggle to gain administrative, fiscal, and political power to combat current urban challenges in Kazakhstan. Focusing on the cities and regions selected by the national government of Kazakhstan to be the drivers of national economic development, the author analyses the impact of decentralization on the rol…
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- 9780429298752
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- 146 p
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- 337 JUN c
Projecting Russia in a mediatized world : recursive nationhood
This book presents a new perspective on how Russia projects itself to the world. Distancing itself from familiar, agency-driven International Relations accounts that focus on what ‘the Kremlin’ is up to and why, it argues for the need to pay attention to deeper, trans-state processes over which the Kremlin exerts much less control. Especially important in this context is mediatization, defi…
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- 9780429293061
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- 208 p
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- 320 HUT p
Regional Government Competition
ABSTRACT This monograph provides a coherent and systematic explanation of China’s regional economic development from the perspective of regional government competition. It gives an almost unknown exposition of the mechanisms of China's regional economic development, with numerous supporting cases drawn from both China and elsewhere. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested t…
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- 9780429453014
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- 250 p
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Electoral politics in crisis after the great recession: change, fluctuations …
ABSTRACT This book examines to what extent politics in Iceland have been transformed in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. The book focuses on whether the short-term sudden shock caused by the Great Recession has permanently transformed politics, political behaviour and the Icelandic party system or whether its effect was primarily transitory. These questions remain highly relevant…
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- 9780429436345
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- 198 p
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The Adoption and Diffusion of Imported Technology: The Case of Korea
ABSTRACT This book, first published in 1988, considers the problems that developing countries face when importing technology from abroad. The major issues - technical, economic, political - are analysed in the case of one particular country: Korea. The book describes the negotiations with the foreign companies that controlled the desired technology, the building of the plants, the training of …
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- 9780429430084
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- 290 p
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China's new role in African politics: from non-intervention towards stabiliza…
ABSTRACT China's rise to global power status in recent decades has been accompanied by deepening economic relationships with Africa, with the New Silk Road's extension to Sub-Saharan Africa as the latest step, leading to much academic debate about the influence of Chinese business in the continent. However, China's engagement with African states at the political and diplomatic level has receiv…
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- 9780429422393
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- 256 p
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Islam and Evolution : Al-Ghazālī and the Modern Evolutionary Paradigm
ABSTRACT This book attempts to equip the reader with a holistic and accessible account of Islam and evolution. It guides the reader through the different variables that have played a part in the ongoing dialogue between Muslim creationists and evolutionists. This work views the discussion through the lens of al-Ghazālī (1058-1111), a widely-known and well-respected Islamic intellectual fr…
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- 9780429345753
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- 362 p
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Rethinking migration and return in Southeastern Europe: Albanian mobilities t…
ABSTRACT This book provides an important new analytical framework for making sense of return, remigration and circular mobility, conceptualising them as different phases of a wider migration process. Using an in-depth case study of Albania and its two main destination countries, Italy and Greece, the book demonstrates that instead of being viewed as a linear path between origin and destinat…
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- 9780429344343
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- 156 p
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Rethinking Governance in Europe and Northeast Asia: Multilateralism and Natio…
ABSTRACT This book explores how nationalism and multilateralism transform international society and global governance. It does so by comparing the governance model of the EU – a constitutionalised and increasingly polycentric form of multilateralism – with Northeast Asia. There nationalist administrations have resisted multilateral commitments and are locked into rivalries instead of pursu…
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- 9780429317125
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- 236 p
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Women’s Lived Landscapes of War and Liberation in Mozambique : Bodily Memor…
ABSTRACT This book tells the history of the changing gendered landscapes of northern Mozambique from the perspective of women who fought in the armed struggle for national independence, diverting from the often-told narrative of women in nationalist wars that emphasizes a linear plot of liberation. Taking a novel approach in focusing on the body, senses, and landscape, Jonna Katto, through …
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