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Comparative Government and Politics / 12th edition
2022 || Hardcover || Professor John McCormick || Bloomsbury Publishing
Offering a comprehensive introduction to the comparison of governments and political systems, this new edition helps students to understand not just the institutions and political cultures of their own countries but also those of a wide range of democracies and authoritarian regimes from around the world. This new edition offers:-A revised structure to aid navigation and understanding-New learning features, 'Using Theory' and 'Exploring Problems', designed to help students think comparatively...
Media and Politics in a Globalizing World
2015 || Hardcover || Alexa Robertson || Wiley
Globalization and technological advances have had a dramatic impact on the relationship between media and politics. How can we understand the connection between the two in the present day? Alexa Robertson argues that we cannot understand the power of the one without taking the other into account. This exciting and accessible book provides fresh insight into our contemporary media landscape, adopting a truly comparative global approach.
In Media and Politics in a Globalizing World, Robertson e...
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Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World
2023 || Hardcover || Schulz || SAGE
A diverse collection of regional experts explore contemporary trends, alternative visions, and new directions for sociological research, raising issues that reflect the complexity of challenges facing future projects on a shared planet.
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Comparing Democracies / Druk 4
2023 || Hardcover || LeDuc || SAGE
Taking a global, comparative look at voting and elections, this Fourth Edition has new chapters on authoritarian elections and regime change, electoral integrity, and voting behaviour
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An Experts' Guide to International Protocol (Heruitgave)
Best Practice in Diplomatic and Corporate Relations
2021 || Hardcover || Gilbert Monod de Froideville e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
Too Late to Awaken
What Lies Ahead When There is no Future?
2023 || Hardcover || Slavoj Zizek || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The most provocative philosopher of our times returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis of our global predicament
We hear all the time that it's five minutes to global doomsday, so now is our last chance to avert disaster. But what if the only way to prevent a catastrophe is to assume that it has already happened - that we're already five minutes past zero hour?
Why do we seem unable to avert our course to self-destruction? Too Late to Awaken sees Slavoj Žižek deliver his most fo...
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Populism Versus the New Globalization
2023 || Hardcover || Axford || SAGE
This is an interdisciplinary examination of populism as a factor in global change, drawing on international politics, sociology, and global studies.
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How to Stop Fascism
History, Ideology, Resistance
Hardcover || Paul Mason || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The far right is on the rise across the world. From Modi's India to Bolsonaro's Brazil and Erdogan's Turkey, fascism is not a horror that we have left in the past; it is a recurring nightmare that is happening again - and we need to find a better way to fight it.
In The Truth Is Not Enough, Paul Mason offers a radical, hopeful blueprint for resisting and defeating the new far right. The book is both a chilling portrait of contemporary fascism, and a compelling history of the fascist phenomeno...
Diplomacy Ends at Midnight
he Long Return of Hong Kong to China
Hardcover || Delena Wright || Allen Lane
The compelling story of the inescapable return of Hong Kong to China, published for the 25th anniversary of the handover
British Hong Kong ended in the last minutes of 30 June 1997. Diplomacy Ends at Midnight traces the extraordinary twists and turns of Hong Kong's long drawn out, but unavoidable, reunion with China, when its 99-year leasehold on much of the colony's territory expired. 25 years ago, Britain did not want to return Hong Kong to its once and future owner, and most Hong Kongers d...
Leadership
five Studies in World Strategy
2022 || Hardcover || Henry Kissinger || Allen Lane
Kissinger's six leaders are Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, Lee Kuan Yew, and Margaret Thatcher. All of them were formed in a period when established institutions collapsed all over Europe, colonial structures gave way to independent states in Asia and Africa, and a new international order had to be created from the vestiges of the old. Kissinger penetratingly analyses each of these leaders' careers through the highly individual strategies of statecraft which h...