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The field of diplomacy has seen a significant transition in an age marked by quick technical breakthroughs and linked global networks. Diplomacy itself has been redefined as the once solely physical domain of international interactions has entered the digital era. The aim of ""The...

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Author: B. a. DablaISBN-10: 9351281507ISBN-13: 9789351281504Publisher: Gyan BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2016Pages: 216Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d

'The apple doesn't fall far from the tree', 'Like father like son', 'Chip off the old block'. All these idioms seem to suggest that offspring resemble their parents and this also applies to criminal behaviour. This dissertation investigates mechanisms that might explain why children...

Author: Arthur PetersenISBN-10: 9055892858ISBN-13: 9789055892853Publisher: Het SpinhuisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/2007Pages: 160Format: Paperback

For the first time in the history of Dutch National Drug Policy, we have access to reliable and detailed national drug use data. This report publishes the data of a 1997 national study on drug use among the population of 12 years and older...

Llibre Bilingüe Català-Anglès - Bilingual Catalan-English bookLa Sagrada Família aspira a ser el temple de la Catalunya actual. Antoni GaudíVaig estar detingut quatre hores. (...) Em van detenir arbitràriament i amb violència. Van insultar-me. (...) Per què tanta agressivitat va contra Catalunya i contra...

China invaded Tibet in 1950. Its occupation has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Tibetans and the imprisonment and torture of thousands more. After a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959, Tibet's political and spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, fled...

This book shows that foreign policy decision-making is not as "cool-minded" as it is deemed to be. It analyses how the lessons of history influence decision-making and argues that, during crises, a decision-maker's affect (anger and fear) can bias him towards straightforward responses of...

After 1991, numerous explanations of Yugoslavia's violent dissolution appeared. Most named nationalism as the driving force fueling the Yugoslav inferno. However, countless events from the 1991-1995 period offer alternative point of view. While acknowledging the complexity of Yugoslavia's demise, this book shows that nationalism...

Author: Joan FrommeISBN-10: 3639084756ISBN-13: 9783639084757Publisher: VDM VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/12/2008Pages: 84Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d

France and Germany in the early 20th century were communities of faith. In the national rhetoric of the time they appeared not only as countries but as beliefs. To each of them a national gospel was closely linked, which this innovative study sets out...

This project is a deconstruction both of the liberal mechanisms employed by contemporary political founders to approximate their goals, and the grouping of these mechanisms into totalizing wholes which are designed to constitute the terms of social, political and legal organization. In so doing,...

In recent years, Anglo-Saxonists have widened the scope of their studies to include not only various aspects of Anglo-Saxon society and literature, but also their own discipline. Studying the scholarship on The Wife's Lament and Wulf and Eadwacer, Åström examines the roles of these...

Sustainable Development is a much misused term; many think it an oxymoron, other think it is about maintaining current developments. Despite these abuses, the term still has currency, perhaps because people see it as a guide for surviving the massive growth in human population...

There are many attempts coming from EU institutions aiming at har-monizing EU labor immigration policy. These efforts have faced many blockages from EU member states and a common labor immigration policy does not exist. The main question this thesis attempts to answer is why...

This book seeks to demonstrate how the experience of exile was reflected in the work of 20th century Czech writers. It does so by way of an examination of the respective responses of Jan Drabek and Jaroslav Vejvoda to two historical traumas: the 1948...

Author: Martin AbelISBN-10: 3639017080ISBN-13: 9783639017083Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Language: EnglishPublished: 05/26/2008Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d

Constitutions of the R.W. Grand Lodge, Subordinate - and Rebekah Degree Lodges, I.O.O.F. of Nevada is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1881. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions,...

The conditions for security in Europe in the 21st century differ from those in the second half of the 20th century. The consequences of the East-West conflict no longer determine the security agenda. Due to the pan-European process of integration and cooperation, European countries...

This book offers an original analysis of the primacy of media spectacle in the politics, social history, and major events of the 21st century which highlights the importance of critical analysis and interpretation of broadcasting, the Internet, and social meaning in understanding the key...

A friend recommended an interesting news article to you that changed your view on the topic. Later, you find out that the information in the article was false. Did you learn something, even though the information was not correct? From the subjective perspective at...

The Bible and politics unite in a new non-fiction book which discovers that finding the answers to the Biblical mysteries leads to understanding that politics and the Bible must come together for our country of freedom to survive.Hidden within the Bible are many creatively...

Thomas J. Erickson is a poet and attorney in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he sometimes works on his poems while sitting in court waiting for his cases to be called. A Pushcart Prize nominee, he has published two chapbooks and one collection called The Biology...

Globalization and its impact are of foremost concern in today's world. The media reports that planet Earth is rapidly becoming smaller and more interconnected. Many government policies, ideas, and institutions of the past are weakening in the face of the new challenges of globalization....

Australia has a new political, cultural, and economic elite. The class divides of yesteryear have been replaced new divisions between Inners and Outers. This divide is ripping apart our political parties, national debate, and social fabric.Inners are highly educated inner-city progressive cosmopolitans who value...

This is a compendium of case studies that seek to describe the best uses of military power, particularly airpower, in response to genocide. The writers examine recent instances of genocide in Somalia, Rwanda, and Côte d'Ivoire to draw out useful generalizations concerning the nature...

Conflict between Africans and Indians has undermined social and economic development in Guyana. Virtual civil war in the 1960s, rigged elections, authoritarian government, and economic collapse has led thousands of Guyanese to emigrate. Seecoomar shows how Guyana has arrived at this impasse, arguing that...

The Organic Act of Guam and related federal laws provide the framework for the government of Guam. This publication presents the fundamental laws creating the Territory of Guam and its government.Author: Charles H. TroutmanISBN-10: 1878453564ISBN-13: 9781878453563Publisher: University of Hawaii PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2007Pages: 86Format: PaperbackWeight:...

This is a collection of papers by senior Māori academics who are experts and have considerable mana in their chosen fields. The ten contributing authors, who are academics at Massey University, discuss the Māori language, marae, religion, the Treaty of Waitangi, the State and...

Children on the Boundaries of Time and Space in sub-Saharan Africa has come at the time when children's well-being is on the agendas of governments, policy makers, schools and community organisations. It provides an in-depth analysis of the relation between official children's rights and...

First published in 1973. From the preface: "This monograph describes U.S. Army Riverine planning and operations in the Republic of Vietnam during the years 1966 through 1969. Since the personal experience of the author was with preparations for riverine operations and the initial operations...

First published in 1973. From the preface: """"Cedar Falls-Junction City: A Turning Point has been written at the request of General William C. Westmoreland, Chief of Staff of the Army, who, concerned about the lack of authoritative accounts of various actions and activities in...

This set of letters, written daily last year to his grandchildren by Reinhold Knoll, emeritus professor of sociology in Vienna, began as an attempt to maintain his relationships with them during the enforced separation of the pandemic of 2021. But as the themes accumulated...

On December 11,2019 the Narendra Modi government in India enacted the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 (CAA) which makes it easier to grant Indian citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from the named Islamic countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan where they...

America is a great country. I'm very lucky to be blessed by the Almighty God, himself. I remember growing up in Africa that I always wished I would come to America. On December 25th, 1999, my dreams came true. I landed in the United...

This book contains 7 academic publications by Richard DeShay Elliott: Impact of the Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights on Police Transparency & Accountability. Published 09/10/2020 The Tea Party: Grassroots Conservatism in the Obama Years & Into the Trump Presidency. Published 09/10/2020 The Tea...

This book provides a balanced account of the role of Christians, Christian organizations, and churches in sociopolitical transformation over the bedrock of colonial and nationalist politics in the past century in Zimbabwe. The work explores the broader social and political impact of prominent African...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, in full Charlotte Anna Perkins Stetson Gilman, née Charlotte Anna Perkins, also called Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman, (born July 3, 1860, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.--died August 17, 1935, Pasadena, California), American feminist, lecturer, writer, and publisher who was a leading theorist of...

Concerning the Thoughts of man, I will consider them first Singly, and afterwards in Trayne, or dependance upon one another. Singly, they are every one a Representation or Apparence, of some quality, or other Accident of a body without us; which is commonly called...

Author: Throat II II Deep Throat,DeepISBN-10: 1599266040ISBN-13: 9781599266046Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/05/2006Pages: 168Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.28h x 6.38w x 0.73d

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Your Time Is Done Now tells the story of the Maroons (runaways slaves) of Dominica and their allies through the transcripts of trials held in 1813 and 1814 during the Second Maroon War. Using the evidence to explain how the Maroons waged war against...

The Caribbean Perspectives series began as a response to the need for scholarly investigations into social, scientific, and economic conditions affecting the least understood, or written about, part of the Americas. In this second volume the authors have included explorations of aspects of management...

This 19th volume in the series discusses a variety of topics in the field of symbolic interaction.Author: Norman K. DenzinISBN-10: 1559389850ISBN-13: 9781559389853Publisher: Jai Press Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 02/21/1996Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.14w x 0.56d

THE WAVES OF SOCIAL PROTEST in Israel and around the world have led to a heated public debate on questions of obeying the law. Chemi Ben-Noon's inspiring book describes the actions of individuals and organizations in Israel that have broken the law for ideological...

Ontario receives the majority of newcomers to Canada, and its cities are a locus of diversity. Recognizing that the building and sustenance of "welcoming communities" is as much a local project as a national and provincial one, this volume explores the activities of municipal...

Uganda has had a troubled history, and there seems to be no light at the end of the dark tunnel. Right from the time of its inception as a country in 1891, those who have led the country have used violence, deception, and foreign...

The intended audience is all the people of the world who are concerned about the oppressed and suffering people deprived of justice and struggling under colonial oppression. The context of the book is the aggression and tyranny the British Southern Cameroonians are undergoing as...

The book examines Crimeas case and its accession to the Russian Federation (RF) in light of the Kosovo independence. It relies on academic sources including journals and archives from the Soviet Union, RF, Ukraine, Former Yugoslavia, Serbia, and Kosovo as well as current media...