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  • Geology and Landscapes of the Eastern Pyrenees

    A Field Guide with Excursions

    by Marc Calvet, Magali Delmas, Yanni Gunnell, Bernard Laumonier ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides a synthesis of the physiography and geodynamics of the entire Pyrenean orogen and its foreland basins, providing the "big picture" (structure of the orogen and chronology of its formation, overview of its post-orogenic evolution, and Quaternary and recent landscape history). One part of the book proposes a 6–7 day itinerary across the eastern and east-central Pyrenees, two areas ... Read more

    $47.39 CAD

  • Defensive Federalism

    Protecting Territorial Minorities from the "Tyranny of the Majority"

    Edited by Ferran Requejo, Marc Sanjaume-Calvet ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Federalism and Decentralization
    Defensive Federalism presents an original contribution to the field of federalism and multinational democracies, exploring the concept of defensive federalism as a protection of self- government against the "tyranny of the majority".The empirical evidence on federal and regional polities often shows critical imbalances in the territorial division of powers beyond what has been formally established ... Read more

    $75.57 CAD

  • The Politics of Independence Referendums

    Never Mind the Ballots

    by Jean-Baptiste Harguindéguy, Marc Sanjaume-Calvet ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores governmental decision-making processes in democratic states where secessionist movements have proposed referendums on independence. Drawing on an original dataset that analyses 130 independence referendums held worldwide since 1945, it demonstrates that the decision of national governments to agree to an independence referendum largely depends on two factors: the proximity of ... Read more

    $51.29 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to International Law

    Edited by James Crawford, Martti Koskenniemi ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Law
    This intellectually rigorous introduction to international law encourages readers to engage with multiple aspects of the topic: as 'law' directing and shaping its subjects; as a technique for governing the world of states and beyond statehood; and as a framework within which several critical and constructivist projects are articulated. The articles situate international law in its historical and ... Read more

    $54.39 CAD

  • political science is for everybody

    an introduction to political science

    Edited by amy l. atchison ...
    political science is for everybody is the first intersectionality-mainstreamed textbook written for introductory political science courses. While political science and politics are for everybody, political institutions are neither neutral nor unbiased. When we write political science textbooks that obscure the differences in how groups experience and interact with political institutions, we do ... Read more

    $53.59 CAD

  • World Politics

    Progress and its Limits

    by James Mayall ...
    Series series Themes for the 21st Century
    At the end of the Cold War, there was much talk of a new world order in which the sovereign state would be held to democratic account, fundamental rights would be respected, and conflict would be replaced by cooperation based on the rule of law. At the start of the new millenium most of this optimism has evaporated.This book examines why it is so difficult to improve standards of international ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Strangers in Our Midst

    The Political Philosophy of Immigration

    by David Miller ...
    How should Western democracies respond to the many millions of people who want to settle in their societies? Economists and human rights advocates tend to downplay the considerable cultural and demographic impact of immigration on host societies. Seeking to balance the rights of immigrants with the legitimate concerns of citizens, Strangers in Our Midst brings a bracing dose of realism to this ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • Democracy

    by Charles Tilly ...
    Democracy identifies the general processes causing democratization and de-democratization at a national level across the world over the last few hundred years. It singles out integration of trust networks into public politics, insulation of public politics from categorical inequality, and suppression of autonomous coercive power centres as crucial processes. Through analytic narratives and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • European Citizenship after Brexit

    Freedom of Movement and Rights of Residence

    by Patricia Mindus ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This Open Access book investigates European citizenship after Brexit, in light of the functionalist theory of citizenship. No matter its shape, Brexit will impact significantly on what has been labelled as one of the major achievements of EU integration: Citizenship of the Union. For the first time an automatic and collective lapse of status is ... Read more

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  • Melancholy Order

    Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders

    by Adam McKeown ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in International and Global History
    As Adam M. McKeown demonstrates, the push for increased border control and identity documentation is the continuation of more than 150 years of globalization. Not only are modern passports and national borders inseparable from the rise of global mobility, but they are also tied to the emergence of individuals and nations as the primary sites of global power and identity.McKeown's detailed history ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of Regionalism & Federalism

    Edited by John Loughlin, John Kincaid, Wilfried Swenden ...
    Almost all states are either federal or regionalized in some sense. It is difficult to find a state that is entirely unitary and the Routledge Handbook of Regionalism and Federalism necessarily takes in almost the entire world. Both federalism and regionalism have been subjects of a vast academic literature mainly from political science but sometimes also from history, economics, and geography. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Law and Social Policy in the Global South

    Brazil, China, India, South Africa

    Edited by Ulrike Davy, Albert H.Y. Chen ...
    The book is an in-depth study of the origins and the trajectories of the law governing social policies in Brazil, China, India, and South Africa, four middle-income countries in the global South with a history in social policy making that starts in the 1920s.The policies of these countries affect almost half of the world’s population. The book takes the legal framework of the policies as a ... Read more

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