Offers a novel cross-disciplinary theoretical perspective on conflict and conflict transformation in world society, and integrates the study of conflicts in the Middle East region into a modern systems theoretical framework.
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Drawing on interviews conducted by the author with politicians, bureaucrats and citizens, alongside content analysis of government documents, the book explains how New Labour has consumerized public services and contributed to the anti-politics that it previously decried.
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This book seeks to renew and refocus the debate on the use of governance networks in public policy making. It raises and answers a series of questions about the... Læs mere
How do the environments, in which businesses operate, condition their success or failure? Such questions have long been of... Læs mere
This is a unique book-length accounts of the domestic impact of EU membership. Drawing on expert contributions, this volume provides a state of the art account of... Læs mere
Organised around a single question: is love possible?, Brown's book provides conceptualisations of love and its possibility from sociological,... Læs mere
Territory, Democracy and Justice brings together experts from six countries to ask what territorial decentralization does and what it means for democracy, policymaking and the welfare state.
The book turns the 'democratic peace' theme on its head: rather than investigating the reasons for the supposed pacifism of democracies, it... Læs mere
The Radical Attitude and Modern Political Theory focuses on the appearance of modernity that can be best described as radical. First appearing in the... Læs mere
This book sets the writings of Merimee, Le Fanu, Stoker and Verne in the context in which they... Læs mere