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The Russian war in Ukraine has been accompanied, fuelled and legitimized by a Russian information war campaign that is unprecedented in its scope and nature. Increasingly lurid in form, sometimes su……続きを見る

Was hindert serbische Unternehmen daran ihre Potenziale in Produktionsmenge, Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und Weiterveredlung auszuschöpfen? Können Faktoren identifiziert werden, die den internationalen Obs……続きを見る

Angesichts aktueller Probleme wie Reform des Arbeitsmarktes, Umbau der Wohlfahrtsgesellschaft und Privatisierung öffentlicher Einrichtungen gibt der Staat erhebliche Teile seiner Verantwortung an so……続きを見る

Questions of class, power and distribution have reemerged as central concerns in the public discourse. When we talk about class, we don't always know what is meant. Is class about income or affect o……続きを見る

Prozesu bat da demokratizazioa, gizarte batek, autogobernuaren bidez, bere burua emantzipatzeko. Autogobernuaren bidezko emantzipazioak politizazioa eta eremu publikoaren zabaltzea eskatzen du, bain……続きを見る

Rising inequality of income and power, along with recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet few are attemptin……続きを見る

We’ve all seen the images from Abu Ghraib: stress positions, US soldiers kneeling on the heads of prisoners, and dehumanizing pyramids formed from black-hooded bodies. We have watched officials elec……続きを見る

Der politische Häftling Mikola Dziadok schrieb von 2010 bis 2015 Essays über das Innenleben der Gefängnisse in der Republik Belarus. Damals saß er aus politischen Gründen ein – die jüngste Repressio……続きを見る

This book explores changes in the values and ideas of a large part of the political Left in recent decades. The author identifies that a questioning of the merits of economic growth; an ideal of env……続きを見る

Verano de 1990, Inglaterra está al borde de una guerra contra Sadam Husein y Michael Owen, un joven escritor sin blanca, recibe el encargo de la anciana Tabitha Win shaw de escribir la biografía de ……続きを見る

Koivula examines the discursive space related to the use of military force by the European Union (EU). By examining the EU's relationship to its use of military force during the course of its histor……続きを見る

Of all the world s cinemas, Japan's is perhaps unique in its closeness to the nation's literature, past and contemporary. The Western world became aware of this when Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon was aw……続きを見る

This is a critical study of the major novels and short stories of Minako Oba (1930-) the undisputed leader in the resurgence of women writers in Japan. Oba is a postmodernist, rethinking gender and ……続きを見る

This theoretically and empirically grounded book uses case studies of political graffiti in the post-socialist Balkans and Central Europe to explore the use of graffiti as a subversive political med……続きを見る

This book considers local autonomy, measured as a multidimensional concept, from a cross-country comparative perspective, and examines how variations can be explained and what their consequences are……続きを見る

This book discusses the causes and nature of political differentiation in Europe. It deals with the normative problem of differentiated integration, both in its vertical and horizontal dimensions, a……続きを見る

South Africa is still the major-player in African diplomacy, its military resources far outstripping those of other nations on the continent. It also has traditionally taken the lead role in Africa'……続きを見る

The remarkable run of self-proclaimed "democratic socialist" Bernie Sanders for president of the United States has prompted-for the first time in decades and to the shock of many-a national conversa……続きを見る

The right to free movement is the one privilege that EU citizens value the most in the Union, but one that has also created much political controversy in recent years, as the debates preceding the 2……続きを見る

While Japanese pacifism is usually seen as a national policy or an ideology rooted in the provision of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, it cannot be adequately understood without grasping Jap……続きを見る

Democracy means rule by the people, but in practice even the most robust democracies delegate most rule making to a political class. The gap between the public and its public officials might seem un……続きを見る

A number of highly informative books have been written about what is often called the "Armenian Genocide". This book, written by a political scientist, offers a different approach: It doesn’t concen……続きを見る