Politics and International Relations - Research
Narrating China and Europe in Uncertain Times
Unravelling the narratives surrounding EU–China relations, this book sheds light on how these diverse and often contradictory perspectives can play a crucial role in shaping decisions and warns of their influence on policy making.
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Shaping Peacebuilding in Colombia
International Frames and Spatial Transformation
This book explores the involvement of the international community in peacebuilding efforts in Colombia since 2016. In particular, it examines how interventions were framed in order to promote and sustain their involvement, and questions whether these frames reflected reality within Colombia.
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North Korean Women and Defection
Human Rights Violations and Activism
Presenting in-depth accounts of North Korean women defectors living in the UK, this book examines how the harrowing experiences they endured and their utopian dream of a better future for fellow North Korean women have become an impetus for their activism.
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Studying Political Parties as Organizations
Four Perspectives on Denmark’s Alternative Party
This book unveils the evolution of the Alternative Party in Denmark, a young political entity that defied traditional structures. Dissecting the unprecedented organisational dynamics of this novel party through a cultural lens, the author opens a new area of enquiry to scholars in the field of management and organization studies.
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Migration, Crisis and Temporality at the Zimbabwe–South Africa Border
Governing Immobilities
This insightful book explores the governance of immobilities and temporality in African migration. It shares lessons from the experiences of Zimbabwean migrants fleeing economic crisis to the South African town of Musina and asks what the work of state and non-state actors there tell us about the management of immobile people and places.
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Evidence versus politics
Exploiting research in UK drug policy making?
This book provides a new model for evidence-based policy in UK drug policy and will be essential reading for students and researchers in public policy and criminology.
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The Challenge of Sustainability
Linking Politics, Education and Learning
Exploring the links between politics, learning and sustainability this book argues that if we are to successfully meet the challenges of climate change and sustainability we need to embed a lifelong commitment to sustainability in all learning.
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Resilience in the Post-Welfare Inner City
Voluntary Sector Geographies in London, Los Angeles and Sydney
Moving beyond theoretical notions of ‘resilience’ this is the first book to offer a conceptual and empirical approach to exploring and comparing the process of resilience across service ‘hubs’ in three complex but different global inner-city regions: London, Los Angeles and Sydney.
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Religious Literacy in Policy and Practice
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New Philanthropy and Social Justice
Debating the Conceptual and Policy Discourse
Explores the politics and ideology behind a new form of philanthropy whereby wealthy capitalists and private corporations establish initiatives to reduce poverty, disease and food security. Is this new philanthropy just a sticking plaster without long-term results as it fails to tackle inequality?
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Communicative Capacity
Public Encounters in Participatory Theory and Practice
This unique book explores the growing practice of participatory democracy and uses comparative analysis of cases in the UK, the Netherlands and Italy to show how policy makers, practitioners, students and academics can communicate more effectively.
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Policy reconsidered
Meanings, politics and practices
This book identifies key topics in the policy arena, subjecting them to sustained theoretical and practical appraisal. It shows the advantage of applying a cross-disciplinary lens to the study of 'policy', presenting critical and reflective engagements with theory and practice at all levels of political organisation within a range of contexts.
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