This volume assembles documents that illustrate the changing relations between authors and publishers in the nineteenth century, and the impact of copyright reform on publishing practices.
While proxy relationships can be an effective means international actors use to transfer risk and lower their costs to compete, they also enable actors to circumvent international norms as well as create moral hazards that can make the practice self-defeating if not simply unethical.
This book addresses two of the most relevant yet understudied questions in field of International Political Economy (IPE): 1) what explains the trade policy preferences of the organizations that represent economic producers in the political sphere?
En este número de Texturas se pueden encontrar textos de Roger Chartier, Mario Muchnik, Gabriela Torregrosa, Camilo Ayala Ochoa, Gonzalo Pasamar, Marta Simó Comas, Manuel Gil, Bernardo Jaramillo, Verónica Mendoza, Maica Rivera, Iñaki Vázquez-Álvarez y Constantino Bértolo.
This book examines public perceptions of the legitimacy of drones, and how this affects countries' policies on and the global governance of drone warfare.
Mise en œuvre depuis quatre ans pour accélérer les procédures, la réforme du droit d'asile a pour but de renforcer la sécurité du droit et faciliter l'intégration des réfugiés.
This book examines Canada's foreign policy in terms of China, pointing to the flaws and attitudes relating to the impracticality and lack of its pragmatic design.
The book examines how US media, public opinion, interest groups and think tanks respond to US Presidents' attempts to market their foreign policies in the MENA Region.
An introduction to Putins formidable intelligence and security organizationSince its founding in 1995, the FSB, Russias Federal Security Service, has regained the majority of the domestic security functions of the Soviet-era KGB.
Ask an American intelligence officer to tell you when the country started doing modern intelligence and you will probably hear something about the Office of Strategic Services in World War II or the National Security Act of 1947 and the formation of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Political Economy as Theodicy: Progress, Suffering and Denial proposes that political economics operates within a theological symbolic order that dictates modern sociopolitical and economic life as a whole.
This book demonstrates how populist security narratives served as the driving force behind the mobilization of Republican voters and the legitimation of an 'America First' policy agenda under the Trump presidency.
Los estudios del tema coinciden en que el conflicto desencadenado en Cuba por la presencia de misiles enviados por el líder de la Unión Soviética, Nikita Kruschov, constituyó el episodio de la Guerra Fría que más se acercó a un enfrentamiento directo entre las dos grandes potencias.
The book examines how US media, public opinion, interest groups and think tanks respond to US Presidents' attempts to market their foreign policies in the MENA Region.
This book focusses on the intersubjective character of status in order to understand the degree to which Brazil has been able to achieve an increase in its global status.
En 1996, lorsque les talibans fondent pour la première fois un Émirat islamique en Afghanistan, leur entreprise moralisatrice se heurte à une difficulté : la narcoéconomie florissante du pays, premier producteur d’opium au monde.
Using extensive documentation, this book examines how President Jimmy Carter's troop withdrawal and human rights policiesconceived in abstraction from East Asian realitiescontributed to the demise of Korean President Park Chung Hee.
En devenant membre de l'Union européenne le 1er mai 2004, la Pologne a mis officiellement fin à sa phase de transition vers la démocratie et l'économie de marché.
Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición del certificado de profesionalidad "SEAD0212 - VIGILANCIA, SEGURIDAD PRIVADA Y PROTECCIÓN DE EXPLOSIVOS".
Global Environmental Institutions provides the most accessible and succinct overview of the major global institutions attempting to protect the natural environment, describing their creation and operation, decision-making processes, interactions with other institutions, and impact.
This volume brings together key documents covering technologies of production that affected the British publishing industry during a significant period of change.
This volume analyzes what China's rise means for the transatlantic community in a new age of disruption-an age marked by great power rivalry, technological upheavals, and the diffusion of power.
This book explores why some episodes of mass political violence and genocide are so much deadlier than others and under what conditions perpetrators in government and society opt for brutality as a means of accomplishing their goals.
