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100 days : claiming back New Zealand : what has gone wrong and how we can control our politicians by Amy Brooke.Hocken Library: JQ5881 .B766 2013
China's military challenge edited by Ashley J. Tellis and Travis Tanner ; with contributions from Dan Blumenthal ... [et al.].Central Library: UA835 .C44634 2012
Climate change negotiations : a guide to resolving disputes and facilitating multilateral cooperation edited by Gunnar Sjostedt and Ariel Macaspac Penetrante.Science Library: QC903 .C5627 2013
"As the Kyoto Protocol limps along without the participation of the US and Australia, on-going climate negotiations are plagued by competing national and business interests that are creating stumbling blocks to success. Climate Change Negotiations: A Guide to Resolving Disputes and Facilitating Multilateral Cooperation asks how these persistent obstacles..." BOOK JACKET.
Democracy in the age of globalization and mediatization by Hanspeter Kriesi, Chair in Comparative Politics, European University Institute, Florence, Sandra Lavenex Professor of International Politics, Department of Political Science, University of Lucerne,Central Library: JC423 .D38132 2013
"This book provides a comprehensive overview over the models of contemporary democracy, its social, cultural, economic and political prerequisites, empirically existing varieties, and the two major challenges - globalization and mediatization - confronting established democracies today. As the boundaries of the national political communities increasingly dissolve, democracy as we know it is..." BOOK JACKET.
European Union and the Arab Spring : promoting democracy and human rights in the Middle East edited by Joel Peters.Central Library: JZ1570.A55 E979 2012
Freedom versus necessity in international relations : human-centred approaches to security and development by David Chandler.Central Library: JZ1305 .C436 2013
Global environmental governance reconsidered edited by Frank Biermann and Philipp Pattberg.Science Library: GE170 .G5548 2012
Globalized Africa : political, social, and economic impact by Kwame A. Ninsin (editor).Central Library: JZ1318 .G679453 2012
Human rights in the world community : issues and action edited by Richard Pierre Claude and Burns H. Weston, with the assistance of Gavin H. Boyles and Jessica L. Downs.Central Library: KC200 .H8573 2006
International relations since the end of the Cold War : new and old dimensions edited by Geir Lundestad.Central Library: D860 .I58 2013
International struggle for new human rights edited by Clifford Bob.Central Library: JC571 .I6362 2009
"Why are certain global problems recognized as human rights issues while others are not? How do local activists transform long-standing problems into universal rights claims? When and why do human rights groups, governments, and international organizations endorse new rights? The International Struggle for New Human Rights is the first..." BOOK JACKET.
Looking north, looking south : China, Taiwan, and the South Pacific by editor Anne-Marie Brady.Hocken Library: JZ1730.A55 .L665 2010
"brings together the works of leading China, Taiwan, and Pacific politics specialists analysing a topic of growing importance: China and Taiwan's ever-growing involvement in the South Pacific ... This book will pinpoint China's involvement in the South Pacific within the context of China's wider foreign policy and the challenges it..." BOOK JACKET.
Nations : the long history and deep roots of political ethnicity and nationalism by Azar Gat ; with Alexander Yakobson.Central Library: JC311 .G44 2013
"What are the origins of nationalism and why is it capable of arousing such intense emotions? In this major study, Azar Gat counters the prevailing fashionable theories according to which nations and nationalism are modern and contrived or 'invented'. He sweeps across history and around the globe to reveal that..." BOOK JACKET.
Reflexive governance for global public goods edited by Eric Brousseau, Tom Dedeurwaerdere, and Bernd Siebenhuner.Central Library: JC330.15 .R45 2012
Hocken Library: JQ5841 .S93 2011
Voice for human rights by Mary Robinson ; edited by Kevin Boyle ; foreword by Kofi Annan ; afterword by Louise Arbour.Central Library: JC571 .R653 2007
Women in Israel : a state of their own by Ruth Halperin-Kaddari.Central Library: HQ1728.5 .H35 2004
"Women in Israel is the first comprehensive overview of discrimination in a state dominated by a patriarchal religious order, and brings fresh insights to the efficacy of the law in improving the status of women. Providing a sociolegal perspective on women in Israel, Ruth Halperin-Kaddari examines all aspects of..." BOOK JACKET.
Worldly ethics : democratic politics and care for the world by Ella Myers.Central Library: JC423 .M96 2013
