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  • - Science and Its Uses
    af Robert Boardman
    570,95 - 792,95 kr.

    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 limits of global governance.

  • - Power in the Everyday Life of Mexican Tomato Workers
    af Gabriel Torres
    511,95 kr.

    As part of the "Global Issues" series, this volume examines such areas as: searching for new ways of understanding farmworkers; plunging into the garlic - methodological issues and challenges; tomato work; and the politics of tomato work - agribusiness in Autlan history.

  • - Identity, Difference and Australian Cultural Practice
    af Judith Kapferer
    527,95 - 1.649,95 kr.

    In a postcolonial age of globalizing economies, the political quest for national identity has become increasingly urgent. This text traces the ways the Australian state and people struggle to represent social and cultural practices to which class, gender and ethnicity are fundamental.

  • - Racism and the End of Anthropology
    af Peter Rigby
    531,95 - 1.793,95 kr.

    Features an African response to the stereotyping of African people and people of African descent by prominent white scholars. This work highlights how the media contributes to the growth of racist ideas, and demonstrates how some of America's revered intellectuals cloak racist ideologies in ostensibly egalitarian discourses.

  • af Robert Deliege
    598,95 - 1.772,95 kr.

    Addresses the problem of untouchability by providing an overview of the subject as well as insights into its social and religious origins. This book demonstrates that untouchability is a deeply ambiguous condition: neither inside nor outside society, reviled yet indispensable, untouchables constitute an original category of social exclusion.

  • - Food, Symbol and Conflict of Knowledge in Ecuador
    af Eduardo P. Archetti
    510,95 - 1.819,95 kr.

    Presents a description of the range of cultural practices surrounding the guinea pig, ranging from the way the animals are reared, through a cuisine, to their role in ritual life. This book highlights the way the gender dimension is central to understanding resistances to 'modernization' and the power of 'experts'.

  • - The Rwandan Genocide of 1994
    af Christopher C. Taylor
    514,95 - 1.793,95 kr.

    In the early months of 1994, it became clear that the government of Rwanda had not acted in good faith in signing peace accords with its adversary, the Rwandan Patriotic Front. Acts of government-sponsored violence grew more frequent. This text attempts to understand the atrocities of the genocide.

  • - Towards a Politically Engaged Anthropology
    af Gavin Smith
    555,95 kr.

    Shrinking distances and old forms of difference melt as global forces give rise to new processes of differentiation and new possibilities for political collectivities. How does this affect the way we might design a politically relevant anthropology?

  • - Football, Polo and the Tango in Argentina
    af Eduardo P. Archetti
    539,95 - 1.801,95 kr.

    The relationship between nationalism and masculinity has been explored with one conclusion: male concepts of courage and virility are at the core of nationalism. This text questions and explores this through an empirical analysis of masculinity in the contexts of same-sex and cross-sex relations.

  • - Corporations as Norm-Entrepreneurs
    af K. Wolf, A. Flohr, L. Rieth & mfl.
    880,95 kr.

    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 systematically tested.

  • - Corporate Governance Contributions to Peace and Security in Zones of Conflict
     
    1.112,95 kr.

    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 to peace and security across a number of cases.

  • - Adapting Multilateral Arms Control for the 21st Century
    af A. Kelle, K. Nixdorff & M. Dando
    1.102,95 kr.

    Scientific and technological is currently transforming the problem of preventing biological warfare and biological terrorism. Examples from the areas of immunology, the neurosciences and the neuroendocrine-immune system are used to show the magnitude of the problem. The book outlines the measures required to control biochemical weapons today.

  • - Responsibilities of States and Non-State Actors
     
    409,95 kr.

    This edited book by Mills and Karp brings together political, legal and moral perspectives on the responsibilities of human rights protection in world politics today. It critiques a narrow focus on states' 'violations' of human rights, incorporates non-state actors, and looks beyond the 'Responsibility to Protect' policy framework.

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    577,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Governance, Politics and Plural Perceptions
     
    571,95 kr.

    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.

  • af NA NA
    1.114,95 kr.

    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 approaches.

  • - Responsibilities of States and Non-State Actors
     
    855,95 kr.

    This edited book by Mills and Karp brings together political, legal and moral perspectives on the responsibilities of human rights protection in world politics today. It critiques a narrow focus on states' 'violations' of human rights, incorporates non-state actors, and looks beyond the 'Responsibility to Protect' policy framework.

  •  
    1.117,95 kr.

    Global Governance in the Twenty-first-century aims to open a number of new areas for further analysis, and in particular, to begin a process of cross-fertilization between different disciplines examining issues related to global governance.

  • - A Fourth Way?
    af Roy Carr-Hill & John Lintott
    1.106,95 - 1.431,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Governance, Politics and Plural Perceptions
     
    571,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Ethnicity, Nation-building and Compromise in Mauritius
    af Thomas Hylland Eriksen
    512,95 - 1.811,95 kr.

    Mauritius is the focus for this study of social identity and political culture. The book seeks to enhance comparative understanding of ethnicity, to refine theories of nationalism, and to contribute to ongoing debates on multiculturalism, identity politics and creolization.

  • - Corporate Governance Contributions to Peace and Security in Zones of Conflict
     
    1.070,95 kr.

    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 to peace and security across a number of cases.

  • - Governance, Politics and Plural Perceptions
     
    990,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Adapting Multilateral Arms Control for the 21st Century
    af A. Kelle, K. Nixdorff & M. Dando
    1.109,95 kr.

    Scientific and technological is currently transforming the problem of preventing biological warfare and biological terrorism. Examples from the areas of immunology, the neurosciences and the neuroendocrine-immune system are used to show the magnitude of the problem. The book outlines the measures required to control biochemical weapons today.

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    1.112,95 kr.

    This book expands the framework for understanding the HIV/AIDS pandemic, not only as a humanitarian catastrophe, but also as a threat to state and international security. This collection shows that the pandemic represents one of the most complex security problems confronting individual states and the international system today.

  • af H. Jeong
    855,95 kr.

    Contributors focus on designs and models of peacebuilding, functions of peacekeeping, capacity building through negotiations, reconciliation, the role of gender in social reconstruction, and policy coordination among different components of peacebuilding.

  • - Infectious Disease and International Policy
     
    802,95 kr.

    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.

  • - The Failure of American Leadership
    af Malcolm R. Dando
    569,95 - 990,95 kr.

    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. On 25 July 2001 the United States entirely rejected the final text which would probably have been acceptable to most other states.

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    1.177,95 kr.

    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.

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    990,95 kr.

    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.

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