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The Illusion of Risk Control

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.Managers and regulators need conceptual tools to help them develop risk ...

The Interconnected Arctic — UArctic Congress 2016

This book presents the most current research results and knowledge from five multidisciplinary themes: Vulnerability of ...

The Japanese Banking Crisis

This book provides a readable narrative of the bubbles and the banking crisis Japan experienced during the two decades between ...

The New Politics of Numbers : Utopia, Evidence and Democracy

This book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they ...

The Organized Crime Community : Essays in Honor of Alan A. Block

In his social investigative writings on "the serious crime community" which describes the loose merger of corporate interests, ...

The Palgrave Handbook of Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda Contested Collaboration

This handbook analyses the role of development cooperation in achieving the 2030 Agenda in a global context of ‘contested ...

The Politics of Diversity in Music Education

This book examines the political structures and processes that frame and produce understandings of diversity in and through ...

The Politics of Exchange Rates in Developing Countries

This book considers the issue of exchange rate policymaking from a political economy perspective. It illustrates both theoretically ...

The Prevent Duty in Education Impact, Enactment and Implications

This book explores the enactment, impact and implications of the Prevent Duty across a range of educational contexts. In ...

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Authoritarianism

This book critically reexamines the link of Puritanism and liberty in historical and comparative perspective. The book exposes ...

The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America

This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during ...

The State of Peacebuilding in Africa Lessons Learned for Policymakers and Practitioners

This book on the state of peacebuilding in Africa brings together the work of distinguished scholars, practitioners, and ...

The Technological and Economic Future of Nuclear Power

Discusses the eroding economics of nuclear power for electricity generation as well as technical, legal, and political acceptance ...

The Third Sector as a Renewable Resource for Europe

This book provides a critical account of the third sector and its future in Europe. It offers an original conceptualization ...

The Values of Independent Hip-Hop in the Post-Golden Era

Illuminates a subculture that is rarely explored, shining a light on independent hip-hop’s power to counter mainstream ...

Towards Resilient Organizations and Societies : A Cross-Sectoral and Multi-Disciplinary Perspective

This book brings together scholars in the fields of management, public policy, regional studies, and organization theory ...

Transformation and Development Studies in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Member States

This book features various studies on democratization, transformation, political and economic development, and security ...

Transnational Legal Activism in Global Value Chains The Ali Enterprises Factory Fire and the Struggle for Justice

This book documents and analyses the various interventions – legal, political, and even artistic – that followed the ...

Transnational Solidarity in Times of Crises Citizen Organisations and Collective Learning in Europe

This book is devoted to an in-depth, qualitative analysis of practices of cross-national solidarity in response to the current ...

United Nations Peace Operations in a Changing Global Order

This volume explores how UN peace operations are adapting to four trends in the changing global order: the rebalancing of ...

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