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183 produkter
Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World
Governance, Politics and Plural Perceptions
Inbunden, 2006
552 kr
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Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World is a powerful and original statement on why well-intended attempts to alleviate pressing social ills too often derail, and how effective, efficient and broadly acceptable solutions to social problems can be found.
Arming Conflict
The Proliferation of Small Arms
Av M. Bourne
Inbunden, 2007
1097 kr
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This book argues that the arming of conflict is complexly structured and highly dynamic. It uncovers and describes the construction and interaction of structures and dynamics at global and regional levels, which shape the arming patterns of both state and non-state actors.
'Non-Lethal' Weapons
Av N. Davison
Inbunden, 2009
1534 kr
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This book provides an up-to-date analysis of the development and deployment of 'non-lethal' weapons by police and military organizations. It reviews the key technologies, issues, and dangers, with particular attention to the development of drugs, lasers, microwaves, and acoustics as incapacitating …
Governance of Earth Systems
Science and Its Uses
Av R. Boardman
Inbunden, 2010
506 kr
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Science and politics are closely connected in today's global environmental issues. This book focuses on these links in relation to climate change, the threats to wildlife species, and natural hazards and disasters. Study of these reveals the need for more effective international cooperation and the …
Corporate Security Responsibility?
Corporate Governance Contributions to Peace and Security in Zones of Conflict
Av N. Deitelhoff, K. Wolf
Inbunden, 2010
1130 kr
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Corporate Security Responsibility? focuses on the role of private business in zones of conflict. The book contributes to closing the gap between research on Global Governance and Peace and Conflict Studies. It applies a systematic research design to the study of corporate governance contributions …
Role of Business in Global Governance
Corporations as Norm-Entrepreneurs
Inbunden, 2010
552 kr
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The Role of Business in Global Governance offers an empirically rich analysis of the new political role of corporations in the co-performance of governance functions beyond the state. Within comparative case studies, potential explanations of the political role of transnational corporations are …
State Failure
Av A. Taylor
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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Andrew Taylor provides an overview of the origins, evolution, and impact of state failure since the 1990s. Avoiding quickly outdated country-based case studies, he focuses on failure as a process rather than an event, putting contemporary usage in a wider historical context.
Just and Unjust Interventions in World Politics
Public and Private
Av C. Lu
Häftad, 2006
552 kr
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Taking insights and controversies from feminist political theory, Lu looks to illuminate alternative images of 'sovereignty as privacy' and 'sovereignty as responsibility', and to identify new challenges arising from the increased agency of private global civil society, and their relationship with …
Nuclear Weapons-Free World?
Britain, Trident and the Challenges Ahead
Av Nick Ritchie
Inbunden, 2012
552 kr
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President Obama and the UK Labour and Coalition governments have all backed the renewed momentum for serious progress towards a world free of nuclear weapons, whilst the UK finds itself embarked on a controversial and expensive programme to renew its Trident nuclear weapons system. What does the UK …
Clumsy Solutions for a Wicked World
How to Improve Global Governance
Inbunden, 2011
552 kr
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This follow-up to Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World (Palgrave, 2006) seeks to understand why even well-intended efforts to resolve pressing international and global problems so often appear to fail spectacularly and what can be done to remedy this. The author analyzes four of the biggest global …
Global Governance and Corporate Responsibility in Conflict Zones
Av M. Feil
Inbunden, 2011
552 kr
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Corporations in conflict zones and their provision of security are particularly relevant for understanding whether private actors are increasingly sources of governance contributions that regulate public goods. Feil highlights the discrepancies between political and theoretical expectations of …
Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World
Governance, Politics and Plural Perceptions
Häftad, 2006
552 kr
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Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World is a powerful and original statement on why well-intended attempts to alleviate pressing social ills too often derail, and how effective, efficient and broadly acceptable solutions to social problems can be found.
'The Chinese Century'?
The Challenge to Global Order
Av D. Scott
Inbunden, 2008
552 kr
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This book looks ahead to consider the most likely results of the encounter between China and the international system. Environmental, cultural and perceptual matters are considered as well as more traditional economic and military issues. Underpinning the book is the question will the 21st century …
New International Policing
Av B. Greener
Inbunden, 2009
1098 kr
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Police personnel have increasingly been deployed outside their own domestic jurisdictions to uphold law and order and to help rebuild states. This book explores the phenomenon of a 'new international policing' and outlines the range of challenges and opportunities it presents to both practitioners …
UNSCOM Saga
Chemical and Biological Weapons Non-Proliferation
Inbunden, 2000
1098 kr
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This authoritative account details the doggedly persistent work of the UNSCOM (United Nations Special Commission) on Iraq which has during the past eight years, in the face of continued Iraqi deception, gradually uncovered more and more of the scope of the Iraqi chemical and biological weapons …
Regeneration of War-Torn Societies
Av NA NA, Michael Pugh
Inbunden, 2000
1082 kr
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Four issues are highlighted in particular:- the legacies of modern conflict in the transitions to relative peace- the question of ownership and accountability in the interactions between internal and external actors- the need for coherent responses to regeneration - the importance of case-specific …
UNSCOM Saga
Chemical and Biological Weapons Non-Proliferation
Inbunden, 2000
1098 kr
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This authoritative account details the doggedly persistent work of the UNSCOM (United Nations Special Commission) on Iraq which has during the past eight years, in the face of continued Iraqi deception, gradually uncovered more and more of the scope of the Iraqi chemical and biological weapons …
Global Environmental Policies
Institutions and Procedures
Av H. Jeong
Inbunden, 2001
552 kr
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The worst chemical disaster ever could be happening right now. In India and Bangladesh between forty and eighty million people are at risk of consuming too much arsenic from well water that might have already caused one hundred thousand cancer cases and thousands of deaths. Many millions elsewhere …
Analytical Issues in Participatory Natural Resources
Av B. Vira, R. Jeffery
Inbunden, 2001
552 kr
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Attempts to manage natural resources through collaboration rather than competition, by agreements rather than conflict, have become the touchstone for many who see these efforts as the harbinger of global sustainable development. The received wisdom suggests that participatory natural resource …
Conflict and Cooperation in Participating Natural Resource Management
Av R. Jeffery, B. Vira
Inbunden, 2001
1098 kr
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Over the past one hundred years in particular, there has been a steady process by which natural resources (such as ground-water, forests, fishing grounds and grazing land) have been increasingly managed by centralised institutions. Governments and other national agencies have argued that this …
Preventing Biological Warfare
The Failure of American Leadership
Inbunden, 2002
552 kr
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The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention entirely prohibits biological warfare, but it has no effective verification mechanism to ensure that the 140-plus States Parties are living up to their obligations. From 1995-2001 the States Parties attempted to negotiate a Protocol to the Convention to …
Govering for the Environment
Global Problems, Ethics and Democracy
Av B. Gleeson, N. Low
Inbunden, 2001
1098 kr
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Governing for the Environment explores one of the dimensions of the value-knowledge system needed in any movement towards humane governance for the planet: the ecological sustainability and integrity of the Earth's environment. The book begins from the premise that whilst environmental knowledge …
Consumption, Jobs and the Environment
A Fourth Way?
Inbunden, 2002
1130 kr
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Consumption, Jobs and the Environment argues that the present pattern of development, based on everlasting economic growth, is completely unsatisfactory from a welfare point of view. It threatens ecological catastrophe while perpetuating poverty. Roy Carr-Hill and John Lintott propose an …
Maintaining Order, Making Peace
Av O. Richmond
Inbunden, 2001
1098 kr
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This study explores three generations of approaches to ending conflict and examines how, in the context of the failings of the Westphalian international system, their peacekeeping, mediation and negotiation, conflict resolution and peacebuilding approaches as well as UN peace operations, and asks …
Plagues and Politics
Infectious Disease and International Policy
Inbunden, 2001
569 kr
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Infectious diseases once thought to be controlled (such as malaria and tuberculosis) are now spreading rapidly across the globe, and lethal new disease agents (HIV/AIDS, ebola and BSE) continue to emerge at an ominous pace. Policymakers must consider the implications of disease proliferation for …
Adapting the United Nations to a Post-Modern Era
Lessons Learned
Inbunden, 2001
1098 kr
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This volume addresses the central theme of adjusting the United Nations system in light of, firstly, the broadening definition of security, secondly, a perceived shift from modernity to post-modernity and finally, the contemporary debate about reform, adaptation and institutional learning in …
Changing United Nations
Multilateral Evolution and the Quest for Global Governance
Inbunden, 2000
552 kr
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The United Nations is at a critical juncture. It is faced with two distinct choices: to remain a 'decision frozen in time' or to develop a long-term adaptation agenda (and strategy) that would allow it to be a relevant institution of global governance for the twenty-first century. Reform and …
Health Impacts of Globalization
Towards Global Governance
Av K. Lee, Lee Kelley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
1130 kr
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This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers to analyse specific case studies that provide an empirical analysis of the impact of globalization on health. The range of issues covered - AIDS, tobacco control, BSE/CJD, nutrition, cholera, antimicrobial resistance, WTO, global …
Globalization and Health
An Introduction
Av K. Lee
Inbunden, 2003
1130 kr
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There is widespread recognition that globalization is changing the world around us, but so far there has been no systematic analysis of how it is impacting on human health. Such impacts are diverse, encompassing global economic, political, sociocultural, technological and environmental changes. …
Global Governance in the Twenty-first Century
Av J. Clarke, G. Edwards
Inbunden, 2004
1098 kr
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The key challenges of globalization are diffuse and outside the control of any one state. In its most ambitious and forward looking form, global governance seeks to create an international social fabric, albeit imperfect, which cumulatively, amounts to more than the sum of its parts. Global …
