Power in global governance

Secrets in Global Governance

Scholars have long argued that transparency makes international rule violations more visible and improves outcomes. Secrets in Global Governance revises this claim to show how equipping international organizations (IOs) with secrecy can be a critical tool

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Secrets in Global Governance

What makes international rules effective? Transparency provided by international organizations has been a common answer. This book offers multi-method

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Corporate Actors in Global Governance

What part should corporate actors play in global governance? With regard to concerns over such issues as public health, education, human rights, and t

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School Governance in Global Contexts

The edited volume provides multiple lens to view school governance practices, exploring its modernization, ethical review, future trend, as well as th

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Environment in Global Sustainability Governance

With Agenda 2030, the UN adopted wide-ranging Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that integrate development and environmental agendas. This book has

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China and Global Governance

This book proposes a new concept of “International Leadership with Chinese Characteristics” (ILCC) to interpret China’s role in global governance.

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Neo-Liberalism, State Power and Global Governance

This volume explores some of the ways in which neo-liberalism has affected both the exercise of state power and the conduct of global governance in th

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International Regimes in Global Health Governance

By analyzing the roles and problems faced by international regimes as major players in global health governance, this book looks into the root causes

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International Organization and Global Governance

Concise chapters from a diverse mix of established and emerging global scholars offer accessible, in-depth coverage of the history and theories of int

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International Organizations in Global Social Governance

Our knowledge about the involvement of IOs varies significantly by policy fields, and we know comparatively little about the specific roles of IOs in

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Corporate Governance

In the wake of the recent global financial collapse the timely new edition of this successful text provides students and business professionals with a

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Rethinking Global Governance Taylor & Francis Ltd

Rethinking Global Governanceargues that long-ignored, non-western political systems from the distant and more recent past can provide critical insights into improving global governance. This book will be of interest both to those seeking to apply archaeological and ethnographic data to issues of broad contemporary concern as well as to academics, politicians, policy ma...

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Regional Integration and Migration Governance in the Global South

This topical volume deals with the major challenges of migration in the Global South and their governance, which are traditionally much less considere

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Global Governance and Corporate Responsibility in Conflict Zones

Corporations in conflict zones and their provision of security are particularly relevant for understanding whether private actors are increasingly sou

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European Union and the United Nations in Global Governance

Written by a leading expert in the field, this book analyses the complex relations between the European Union (EU) as a regional organization and the

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Democratic Legitimacy in the European Union and Global Governance

This book addresses one of the most relevant challenges to the sustainability of the European Union (EU) as a political project: the deficit of citize

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Power and Authority in Internet Governance

Power and Authority in Internet Governance investigates the hotly contested role of the state in today's digital society. The book asks: is the state

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Agency in Earth System Governance

This volume synthesizes a decade of multidisciplinary research into how diverse actors, from local to global levels, exercise authority in environment

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Understanding Chinese Corporate Governance

In a complex political and environmental global landscape, it has never been more critical for global organizations to understand the past, present, a

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AI Ethics and Governance

This book deeply analyzes the theoretical roots of the development of global artificial intelligence ethics and AI governance, the ethical issues in A

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A-level Geography Topic Master: Global Governance

Master the in-depth knowledge and higher-level skills that A-level Geography students need to succeed; this focused topic book extends learning far be

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Governance and Policy in Sport Organizations

Introducing readers to the power and politics of sport organizations, this book explores the managerial activities essential to governance and policy

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Reconceptualising the Rule of Law in Global Governance, Resources, Investment and Trade

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Business, Power and Sustainability in a World of Global Value Chains

Essential reading on sustainability governance in the twenty-first century

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Power and Global Economic Institutions

Major shifts in economic power, marked by the rise of the Brazil, Russia, India, China and other emerging economies, have recently affected key multil

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Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance

Now in paperback, this essential handbook delves into corporate law and governance and its role in the global landscape. A comprehensive study, it pro

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Russian Grand Strategy in the Era of Global Power Competition

This book offers a nuanced and detailed examination of two of the most important current debates about contemporary Russia's international activity: i

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Russian Grand Strategy in the Era of Global Power Competition

This book offers a nuanced and detailed examination of two of the most important current debates about contemporary Russia's international activity: i

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Global Legitimacy Crises

Global Legitimacy Crises addresses the consequences of legitimacy in global governance, specifically: when and how do legitimacy crises affect interna

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Rethinking Global Health

This book presents its readers with the workings of power in the field of global health. The author makes use of case studies to understand how power

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Spatial Justice, Contested Governance and Livelihood Challenges in Bangladesh Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book analyses the key livelihood and governance challenges that the urban poor experience while navigating public spaces in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Using data collected through extensive fieldwork in Bangladesh, the book contributes to the emerging scholarship of resilient cities, gendered space, spatial justice, and poverty in cities of the Global South. Exploring debate...

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All About Energy

From atomic power to solar power, find out all about energy and what it does in this fascinating book, including what lies ahead for our use of energy

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Wind Energy

Wind energy harnesses the power of the wind. This clean, renewable energy is growing in its technology and popularity. Readers will learn how it is us

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Data Power in Action

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licenceDrawing on the study of different cities in the Global South, this book explores how data

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A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power - James Walvin

<p>A major study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern worldFor the best part of four centuries, enslaved Africans were the human cogs in a vast machine which transformed the face of the Americas, enhanced the well-being of the Western world, and created cultural habits we are familiar with today. In A World Transformed, celebrated historian James Wal...

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Power Vacuums and Global Politics Taylor & Francis Ltd

In this book, Hanna Samir Kassab develops a theoretical framework that explains the formulation of power vacuums and examines their impact on the international system....

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How the Army Made Britain a Global Power

An examination of the British Army during the long 18th century, how it became a world-operating force and its part in imperial expansion and preserva

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Global Seven Years War 1754–1763

In this new edition of The Global Seven Years War, Daniel Baugh emphasises the ways that sea power hindered French military preparations while also fu

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Global Historical Sociology of Race and Racism

In this volume of Political Power and Social Theory, a special collection of papers reconsiders race and racism from global and historical perspective

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Identity, Power and Influence in the Boardroom

Drawing from theories in the field of social psychology, the author uniquely examines the human side of corporate governance, recognising the role tha

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Opportunities Global Beginner Students' Book NE

* New Everyday English sections motivate students to speak in English. * New culture corners give students a taste of life in Britain * Grammar and skills development give students a solid base for learning * Learner Power sections teach students how to become better learners. * Extra Time! Provides more practice for fast finishers.

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Maoism : A Global History - Lovellová Julia

Anotace: Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao`s revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism. But Mao and his ideas remain central to the People`s Republic. With disagreements between China and the West on the rise, the need to understand the political legacy of Mao is urgent and growing.A crucial motor of the Cold War: Maoism sha...

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Media Power and Hegemony in South Africa

This book explores how meanings of ‘independence’ are constructed and reconfigured by public service broadcasters in the global south, and focuses o

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Media Power and Hegemony in South Africa

This book explores how meanings of ‘independence’ are constructed and reconfigured by public service broadcasters in the global south, and focuses o

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Trading Power

Highlights how West Germany leveraged its economic power to become a key pillar of NATO, the European Community, and the global economy in the 1960s a

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New Opportunities Global Beginner Students´ Book NE - Harris Michael

Anotace: New Opportunities Beginner Students Book - učebnice angličtiny, pro střední školy, Pearson, maturitaVíce o titulu na: http://www.venturesbooks.cz/pro-stredni-skoly/new-opportunities* New Everyday English sections motivate students to speak in English. * New culture corners give students a taste of life in Britain * Grammar and skills development give students a ...

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Taking Power Back

This important book asks where should power and governance lie in our democracy? Simon Parker, a leading expert on public services and government, cla

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Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing Taylor & Francis Ltd

This handbook provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of global land and resource grabbing. The handbook will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in land and resource grabbing, agrarian studies, development studies, critical human geography, global studies, and natural resource governance....

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FINISH Power All in 1, 120 ks (5997321735559)

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Power of Necessity

Exploring reason of state in a global monarchy, The Power of Necessity examines how thinkers and agents in the Spanish monarchy navigated the tension

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Transformative Power of Language

With contributions from a team of global scholars, the book highlights the role of language in sociocultural, academic and economic advancement, in po

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Power of Identity

In this second volume of The Information Age trilogy, with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, Manuel Castells dea

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Restraining Great Powers : Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era - Paul T. V.

Anotace: How subtler forms of balance-of-power politics can help states achieve their goals against aggressive powers without wars or arms races At the end of the Cold War, the United States emerged as the world`s most powerful state, and then used that power to initiate wars against smaller countries in the Middle East and South Asia. According to balance-of-power theor...

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Restraining Great Powers : Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era - T. V. Paul

<p>How subtler forms of balance-of-power politics can help states achieve their goals against aggressive powers without wars or arms races At the end of the Cold War, the United States emerged as the world's most powerful state, and then used that power to initiate wars against smaller countries in the Middle East and South Asia. According to balance-of-power theo...

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Beijing Rules: China´s Quest for Global Influence - Allen Bethany

Anotace: `Allen has shown remarkable courage in writing this . . . A disturbing, insightful book about China`s hidden, multitiered war-and how the West can fight back` Kirkus Reviews The remarkable story of China`s two-decade quest for global dominance.For several decades China`s ascendancy has been supported by an astonishingly broad and deep portfolio of quie...

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Beijing Rules: China´s Quest for Global Influence - Bethany Allen

<p>'Allen has shown remarkable courage in writing this . . . A disturbing, insightful book about China's hidden, multitiered war-and how the West can fight back' Kirkus Reviews The remarkable story of China's two-decade quest for global dominance.For several decades China's ascendancy has been supported by an astonishingly broad and deep portfolio of quiet...

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Free Speech: A Global History from Socrates to Social Media - Jacob Mchangama

<p>The first global history of free speech shows we need to understand the past to address the challenges of the future.Hailed as the "first freedom," free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Today, in democracies and authoritarian states around the world, it is on the retreat.In F...

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Hell Bent: The global sensation from the creator of Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo

Anotace: Alex Stern returns in another tale of murder and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite. Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell. Find a gateway to the underworld. Steal a soul out of hell. A simple plan, except people who make this particular journey rarely come back. But Galaxy "Alex" Stern i...

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Hell Bent: The global sensation from the creator of Shadow and Bone - Bardugo Leigh

Anotace: Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell. Find a gateway to the underworld. Steal a soul out of hell. A simple plan, except people who make this particular journey rarely come back. But Galaxy "Alex" Stern is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory?even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale. Fo...

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Hell Bent: The global sensation from the creator of Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo

<p>Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell. Find a gateway to the underworld. Steal a soul out of hell. A simple plan, except people who make this particular journey rarely come back. But Galaxy "Alex" Stern is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory?even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at...

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