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  • HANDBOOK OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
    CACIOPPO / TASSINARY / BERNTSON
    The Handbook of Psychophysiology has been the authoritative resource for more than a quarter of a century. Since the third edition was published a decade ago, the field of psychophysiological science has seen significant advances, both in traditional measures such as electroencephalography, event-related brain potentials, and cardiovascular assessments, and in novel approaches ...
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    65,00 €

  • THE CAMBRIDGE WORLD HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, I
    FAGAN, G. / FIBIGER, L. / HUDSON, M.
    The first in a four-volume set, The Cambridge World History of Violence, volume I provides a comprehensive examination of violence in prehistory and the ancient world. Covering the period through to the end of classical antiquity, the chapters take a global perspective spanning sub-Saharan Africa, the Near East, Europe, India, China, Japan and Central America. Unlike many previ...
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    192,40 €

  • THE CAMBRIDGE WORLD HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, II
    GORDON, M. / KAEUPER, R. / ZURNDORFER, H.
    Violence permeated much of social life across the vast geographical space of the European, American, Asian and Islamic lands and through the broad sweep of what is often termed the Middle Millennium (roughly 500 to 1500). Focusing on four contexts in which violence occurred across this huge area, the contributors to this volume explore the formation of centralised polities thro...
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    192,40 €

  • THE CAMBRIDGE WORLD HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, III
    ANTONY, R. / CARROLL, S. / PENNOCK, C.
    In the period from 1500 to 1800 the problem of violence necessitated asking fundamental questions and formulating answers about the most basic forms of human organisation and interactions. Violence spoke to critical issues such as the problem of civility in society, the nature of political sovereignty and the power of the state, the legitimacy of conquest and subjugation, the p...
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    192,40 €

  • THE CAMBRIDGE WORLD HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, IV
    EDWARDS, L. / PENN, N. / WINTER, J.
    This book explores one of the most intractable problems of human existence - our propensity to inflict violence. It provides readers with case studies of political, social, economic, religious, structural and interpersonal violence from across the entire globe since 1800. It also examines the changing representations of violence in diverse media and the cultural significance of...
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    192,40 €

  • GREAT CHRISTIAN JURISTS IN SPANISH HISTORY
    DOMINGO, R.
    The Great Christian Jurists series comprises a library of national volumes of detailed biographies of leading jurists, judges and practitioners, assessing the impact of their Christian faith on the professional output of the individuals studied. Spanish legal culture, developed during the Spanish Golden Age, has had a significant influence on the legal norms and institutions th...
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    145,60 €

  • LA AGONIA DEL PENSAMIENTO POLITICO OCCIDENTAL
    DUNN, J.
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    16,85 €

  • INTERNATIONAL TAX POLICY. BETWEEN COMPETITION AND COOPERATIO
    DAGAN, T.
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    145,60 €

  • A GLOBAL ANALYSISI OF TAX TREATY DISPUTES (2 VOLS.)
    BAISTROCCHI, E.
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    436,80 €

  • THE POLITICS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
    LELIEVELDT, H. /   / PRINCEN, S.
    The European Union is a key player in determining policies and politics in Europe, and yet understanding how it works remains a challenge. The Politics of the European Union introduces students to its functioning by showing the similarities and differences between the EU and national political systems. Fully revised and updated in its third edition, this introductory textbook u...
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    49,00 €

  • THE UNITED NATIONS IN GLOBAL TAX COORDINATION
    TEO, N.
    "The United Nations in Global Tax Coordination fills the decade-long knowledge gap in international tax history concerning the UN Fiscal Commission that functioned as the overarching fiscal authority in the early years of the post-World War II economic order. With insights from political economy and international relations scholarship, this critical archival examination present...
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    185,00 €

  • COMPLETING A GENUINE ECONOMIC AND MONETARY UNION
    BEGG, I.
    This Element examines efforts to strengthen Economic and Monetary Union in the European Union, especially over the last decade, asking if enough has been done to render it more sustainable and resilient. Drawing on a survey of 111 leading experts on the economics and politics of EMU, this Element reviews the wide-ranging reforms undertaken since the crises of the early 2010s an...
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    32,00 €

  • UNDERSTANDING ACCOUNTABILITY IN DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE
    PAPADOPOULOS, Y.
    This Element comprehensively scrutinizes the key issue of the accountability of policy-makers in democratic governance. The electoral punishment of the incumbents, parliamentary control of the government, and sanctions in the case of administrative misconduct or negligence are the most visible manifestations of accountability in politics. However, the phenomenon is much more co...
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    31,00 €

  • THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO MONTESQUIEU
    CALLANAN, K. /   / KRAUSE, S.
    Montesquieu was among the most influential writers of the eighteenth century, and the study of his thought enriches and complicates our understanding of the Enlightenment. Following renewed interest in his writings over the last three decades, the Cambridge Companion to Montesquieu brings together the variety of disciplinary and interpretive approaches that have shaped the scho...
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    49,00 €

  • ALBERT VENN DICEY: WRITINGS ON DEMOCRACY AND THE REFERENDUM
    DICEY, A.
    What are the limits to parliamentary sovereignty? When should the people be able to vote directly on issues? The constitutional theorist Albert Venn Dicey (1835-1922) was a cogent advocate of the referendum. While his enthusiasm for the institution was widely acknowledged in his own day, thereafter this dimension of his career has been largely neglected. This fall into obscurit...
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    42,00 €

  • THE SCARCE STATE
    NATHAN, N.
    States are often minimally present in the rural periphery. Yet a limited presence does not mean a limited impact. Isolated state actions in regions where the state is otherwise scarce can have outsize, long-lasting effects on society. The Scarce State reframes our understanding of the political economy of hinterlands through a multi-method study of Northern Ghana alongside shad...
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    49,00 €

  • RECIPROCITY IN PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
    WHELAN, A.
    There is a common perception of reciprocity as a concept that is opposed to the communitarian interests that characterise contemporary international law, or merely a way of denoting reactions to unfriendly or wrongful conduct. This book disputes this approach, and highlights how reciprocity is instead linked to the structural characteristic of sovereign equality of States in in...
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    150,00 €

  • THE USE OF FORCE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
    HENDERSON, CH.
    Newly revised, this textbook provides an authoritative conceptual and practical overview of international law governing the resort to force. Following an introductory chapter, with a section on the key issues in identifying the law and actual and potential changes to it, the book addresses the breadth and scope of the prohibition of the threat or use of force and the meaning of...
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    66,00 €

  • DEMOCRACY UNDER GOD
    AHMED, D. /   / ZUBAIR ABBASI, M.
    State recognition of Islam in Muslim countries invites ?erce debate from scholars and politicians alike, some of whom assume an inherent con?ict between Islam and liberal democracy. Analyzing case studies and empirical data from several Muslim-majority countries, Ahmed and Abbasi ?nd, counterintuitively, that in many Muslim countries, constitutional recognition of Islam often o...
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    48,00 €

  • THE QUANTIFIED WORKER
    AJUNWA, I.
    The information revolution has ushered in a data-driven reorganization of the workplace. Big data and AI are used to surveil workers and shift risk. Workplace wellness programs appraise our health. Personality job tests calibrate our mental state. The monitoring of social media and surveillance of the workplace measure our social behavior. With rich historical sources and conte...
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    48,00 €

  • ENMITY AND VIOLENCE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
    CARROLL, S.
    In this original study Stuart Carroll transforms our understanding of Europe between 1500 and 1800 by exploring how ordinary people felt about their enemies and the violence it engendered. Enmity, a state or feeling of mutual opposition or hostility, became a major social problem during the transition to modernity. He examines how people used the law, and how they characterised...
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    54,00 €

  • ENERGY IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW
    ANNA-ALEXANDRA MARHOLD
    Against the backdrop of energy markets that have radically changed in recent decades, this book offers an in-depth study of energy regulation in international trade law. The author seeks to clarify what we define as 'energy' in the context of the applicable international trade rules, and gives the reader a thorough analysis of the concepts, history and law of the various legal ...
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    43,50 €

  • TRANSNATIONAL LAWMAKING COALITIONS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
    NINA REINERS
    Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions is the first comprehensive analysis of the role and impact of informal collaborations in the UN human rights treaty bodies. Issues as central to international human rights as the right to water, abortion, torture, and hate speech are often only clarified through the instrument of treaty interpretations. This book dives beneath the surface of t...
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    43,50 €

  • ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN FOREIGN RELATIONS LAW AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
    HELMUT PHILIPP AUST / THOMAS KLEINLEIN
    Foreign relations law and public international law are two closely related academic fields that tend to speak past each other. As this innovative volume shows, the two are closely interrelated and depend on each other for their mutual construction and identity. A better understanding of this relationship is of vital importance for upholding important constitutional values like ...
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    52,50 €

  • THE GOVERNMENT OF CHANCE
    SINTOMER, Y.
    Electoral democracies are struggling. Sintomer, in this instructive book, argues for democratic innovations. One such innovation is using random selection to create citizen bodies with advisory or decisional political power. 'Sortition' has a long political history. Coupled with elections, it has represented an important yet often neglected dimension of Republican and democrati...
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    140,00 €

  • THE WORLD CRISIS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
    PAUL B. STEPHAN
    The knowledge economy, a seeming wonder for the world, has caused unintended harms that threaten peace and prosperity and undo international cooperation and the international rule of law. The world faces threats of war, pandemics, growing domestic political discord, climate change, disruption of international trade and investment, immigration, and the pollution of cyberspace, j...
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    31,50 €

  • TOKEN FORCES
    COLEMAN, K. /   / LI, X.
    Token forces - tiny national troop contributions in much larger coalitions - have become ubiquitous in UN peacekeeping. This Element examines how and why this contribution type has become the most common form of participation in UN peace operations despite its limited relevance for missions' operational success. It conceptualizes token forces as a path-dependent unintended cons...
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    30,00 €

  • WOMEN, GENDER AND RELIGIOUS NATIONALISM
    BASU, A. /   / SARKAR, T.
    "This volume studies the ways in which Hindu nationalism is gendered today and juxtaposes the Sangh Parivar's shifting gender notions to the ways in which women's organisations construct their own modes of public and domestic politics. It addresses questions of the present state of organizational and ideological activities of women who belong to the many affiliates of the Sangh...
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    160,00 €

  • LEGITIMACY POLITICS
    DELLMUTH, L. /   / TALLBERG, J.
    Once staunch advocates of international cooperation, political elites are increasingly divided over the merits of global governance. Populist leaders attack international organizations for undermining national democracy, while mainstream politicians defend their importance for solving transboundary problems. Bridging international relations, comparative politics, and cognitive ...
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    130,00 €

  • THE GOVERNANCE CYCLE IN PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACIES
    DE MARCHI, S. /   / LAVER, M.
    Parliamentary democracy involves a never-ending cycle of elections, government formations, and the need for governments to survive in potentially hostile environments. These conditions require members of any government to make decisions on a large number of issues, some of which sharply divide them. Officials resolve these divisions by 'logrolling'- conceding on issues they car...
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    48,00 €