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Developing Countries and the Multilateral Trade Regime
Hart Publishing Limited 2010; US$ 88.20This book explores the way in which 'development' has functioned within the multilateral trade regime since de-colonisation. In particular, it investigates the shift from early approaches to development under the GATT to current approaches to development under the WTO. It argues that a focus on the creation and transformation of a scientific... more...
The Reasons for Underdevelopment
Springer 2011; US$ 94.99The history of Italian colonial affairs has recently attracted renewed interest from historians and economists. It is a complex and involved question. Over the last few years, though perhaps slightly later than the more mature historiography of other European countries, the work of some important scholars has opened up new fields of investigation and... more...
Trust, Social Relations and Engagement
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 95.00Explains how all institutions have to turn their relationship with stakeholders into a 'social' one, which involves designing new Trust and Engagement strategies. A specific indication on how to build and measure value out of these strategies is offered by the innovative 'Value for Engagement Model'. more...
Women Political Leaders and the Media
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 90.00This book analyzes how the media covers women leaders and reinforces gendered evaluations of their candidacies and performance. It deals with current transformations in political communication that may change the nature and scope of leadership in contemporary democracies with implications for relations between female leaders, media and citizens. more...
The Policing of Transnational Protest
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 130.00Bringing together researchers from a variety of disciplines, this volume examines developments in the policing of transnational protest since the late 1990s. Using case studies from a number of countries in North America and Europe, the authors examine the new forms of political protest and the manner in which the authorities have reacted. more...
Another Europe
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 120.00Given the recent focus on the challenges to representative democracy, and the search for new institutions and procedures that can help to channel increasing participation, this book offers empirical insights on alternative conceptions of democracy and the actors that promote them. With a focus on the conceptions and practices of democracy within... more...
Democracy in Social Movements
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 105.00This collection explores conceptions and practices of democracy of social movement organizations involved in global protest. Focusing on the global justice movement this book shows how they adopt radical new democratic approaches and thus provide a fundamental critique of conventional politics. more...
Social Movements, Political Violence, and the State
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 48.00This book presents empirical research on the nature and structure of political violence. more...
Filming the Nation
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 34.95Italian neo-realism has inspired film audiences and fascinated critics and film scholars for decades. This book offers an original analysis of the movement and its defining films from the perspective of the cultural unconscious. Combining a Jungian reading with traditional theorizations of film and national identity, Filming the Nation reinterprets... more...
Clandestine Political Violence
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 30.00Compares four types of clandestine political violence: left-wing, right-wing, ethnonationalist and religious fundamentalist. more...









