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This book argues that the 21st century will witness a fundamental global shift in economic and military hegemonic power from the U.S.-European sphere to the U.S.-Asia-Pacific region. Geography, hegemony, and politics will represent the foundational pillars for change, progress, and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region.

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A definitive history of cooperation between the Royal Navy and Russian Navy from 1988 to 2014. It provides lessons learned by both sides and recommends a pathway to military dialogue, as political circumstances dictate. The book enhances our understanding of both the Russians and the Russian Navy and the threat the latter will continue to pose.

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A definitive history of cooperation between the Royal Navy and Russian Navy from 1988 to 2014. It provides lessons learned by both sides and recommends a pathway to military dialogue, as political circumstances dictate. The book enhances our understanding of both the Russians and the Russian Navy and the threat the latter will continue to pose.

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Bhutan represents a political system that coalesces the rhetorical acquiescence of democracy with illiberal authoritarian attributes under the former royalist shadow. The camouflage of this kind of authoritarian regime is not yet a democracy but is instead a new form of semi-authoritarian Jigmecracyan old Jigme system with new labels.

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Explores the complex and covert networks of power at work in the city-state of Singapore. The author argues that the contemporary networks of power are a deliberate project initiated and managed by Lee Kuan Yew - former prime minister and Singapore's 'founding father' - designed to empower himself and his family.

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This revised and updated edition of The Russian Dilemma is an outstanding survey and analysis of Russia's development from the end of Mongol rule to the present day.

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Since the fall of communism, public opinion in Russia has become a substantial factor in that country's policymaking process. This work studies what this opinion might be and how it responds to American actions.

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This book explores the process of Eurasian integration in the modern global world. The creation of the Eurasian Economic Union has become a key issue in modern Russian foreign policy. This book considers the role of the Eurasian Economic Union as a key element of regional and global integration.

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This book explores the process of Eurasian integration in the modern global world. The creation of the Eurasian Economic Union has become a key issue in modern Russian foreign policy. This book considers the role of the Eurasian Economic Union as a key element of regional and global integration.

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The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy, by Metta Spencer, traces the changing orientations toward peace and democracy among Soviet/Russian citizens since 1982, revealing the extreme influence of transnational civil society on Gorbachev's policies and on the social capital d...

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Who are we is a question that has haunted Russians for centuries. The crisis of identity that underlies Russia's efforts to answer that question and the country's attempts to grapple with modernity - the invention of an alien civilization - are explored in this text.

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"Little did we know ... when the idea of the book first took form, that just over two years later the volume would become a way of celebrating the life of Rene Girard, who died on November 4, 2015, while this manuscript was in production. Girard leaves an enormous intellectual legacy, which the present volume seeks to honour, interrogate, and keep alive."--Acknowledgments.

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The rise of strong nationalist and religious movements in postcolonial and newly democratic countries alarms many Western observers. In The Saffron Wave, Thomas Hansen turns our attention to recent events in the world's largest democracy, India.

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Includes an intellectual biography, historical context, critical exposition of the Salamanca School's work, reception and influence, contemporary relevance, bibliography including references to electronic resources and an index.

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This book examines same-sex unions policy (SSU) developments in eighteen western democracies and seeks to explain why the overwhelming majority of these countries has implemented a national law to recognise gay and lesbian couples since 1989. -- .

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The book looks at some of the central problems of political philosophy-such as fundamental rights and the common good-from the point of view of rabbinic Judaism.

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The book provides a comprehensive account of the scope and variety of the work performed by the departments which are responsible to the Scottish ministers.

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This path-breaking collection opens up the conversation about the sea and International Relations and probes the value of analyzing the sea in terms of International Relations.

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Al Qaeda is the most dangerous terrorist movement in history. Yet most people in the West know very little about it, or their view is clouded by misperceptions and half truths.

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One of the most common criticisms of current U.S. security policy is that it lacks an overarching strategy, leading to a tendency to address problems and crises individually and in isolation as they arise.

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This book addresses the crisis of development in Africa by locating it in its colonial historical past. Using Nigeria as a case study, it argues that the nature and practice of British colonialism in this populous African colony created social and economic deficiencies that have left a legacy of underdevelopment.