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  • av Alex J. Bellamy, Paul D. Williams & Stuart Griffin
    288 - 930,-

    Peace operations are now a principal tool for managing armed conflict and building world peace. The fully revised, expanded and updated second edition of Understanding Peacekeeping provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the theory, practice and politics of contemporary peace operations.

  • - People, History, Politics
    av Gareth Stansfield
    250 - 846,-

    Few countries can claim to have endured such a difficult and tortuous history as that of Iraq. Its varied peoples have had to contend with externally imposed state-building at the end of the First World War, through to the rise of authoritarian military regimes, to the all-encompassing power of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship.

  • - Changing Patterns of Inequality
    av Harriet Bradley
    362 - 846,-

    The gap between rich and poor, included and excluded, advantaged and disadvantaged is steadily growing as inequality becomes one of the most pressing issues of our times. The new edition of this popular text explores current patterns of inequality in the context of increasing globalization, world recession and neoliberal policies of austerity.

  • av Helga Nowotny
    200 - 786,-

    Uncertainty is interwoven into human existence. It is a powerful incentive in the search for knowledge and an inherent component of scientific research. We have developed many ways of coping with uncertainty. We make promises, manage risks and make predictions to try to clear the mists and predict ahead.

  • av Gwyn Prins
    247,-

  • av Markus Gabriel
    195 - 858,-

    This new book of popular philosophy is a major bestseller in Germany, where it sold over 40,000 copies in the first few weeks after publication Gabriel argues that the world does not exist because what is, in fact, includes not simply so-called facts, but also views of those facts, dreams, projects, works of art and perspectives.

  • av A Wood
    748,-

  • av David Held
    781,-

    The world is becoming deeply interconnected, whereby actions in one part of the world can have profound repercussions elsewhere. In a world of overlapping communities of fate, there has been a renewed enthusiasm for thinking about what it is that human beings have in common, and to explore the ethical basis of this.

  • av Bryson
    254,-

    Draws together some of the most prominent and influential authors of recent methodological debates in the field of art history.

  • - Society And Politics in England, Ireland, Scotland And Wales
    av Clodagh Tait
    338 - 812,-

    * Innovative textbook on the social and cultural history of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales during the period when they came under the rule of a single monarch. * Provides an accessible and engaging introduction to a key and turbulent period in British history.

  • - 1914 to the Present
    av Lawrence Rainey
    238 - 751,-

  • av Marc Weller
    215 - 628,-

    Developments in international politics since the end of the Cold War point to a new international order in the twenty-first century. At its heart is international law. Global community values have been recognised as providing the basis for formal legal obligations, maintained and implemented by an international constitutional order.

  • av Loic Wacquant
    668,-

    Exploring the rise of prison populations in the US, Europe and Latin America, this study begins with an account of being inside the Central Jail in Los Angeles. It goes on to point out the connections between neoliberalism as a political doctrine, and incarceration as a social policy.

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