This new Routledge Handbook offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the meanings and uses of the term peacebuilding, and presents cutting-edge debates on the practices conducted in the name of peacebuilding. The term peacebuilding has had remarkable staying power. Other terms, such as conflict resolution have waned in popularity, while the acceptance and use of the term peacebuilding has grown to the extent that it is the hegemonic and over-arching term for many forms of mediatio...

Globalization and technological advances have had a dramatic impact on the relationship between media and politics. How can we understand the connection between the two in the present day? Alexa Robertson argues that we cannot understand the power of the one without taking the other into account. This exciting and accessible book provides fresh insight into our contemporary media landscape, adopting a truly comparative global approach.

In Media and Politics in a Globalizing World, Robertson e...

Negentiende-eeuws gedrag in de eenentwintigste eeuw, zo noemde de Amerikaanse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken John Kerry de inval van Rusland op de Krim. Legers worden nog steeds gebruikt om gebieden te veroveren. Tot voor kort werd de wereld geconfronteerd met westerse machtspolitiek. Nu doen ook opkomende landen aan landjepik. Zo kwam China recent met buren in conflict over grondstofrijke zeegebieden. In dit Elementaire Deeltje maakt Rob de Wijk duidelijk dat machtspolitiek een essentieel o...

This book shows that effectively managing in three dimensions means understanding the distinction between organizational management and the management of policy formulation and implementation

This workbook focuses on the practical training and development of intelligence analysts using a case-based and scenario methodology

Taalgrens en ruimtelijke wanorde, de industriële glorie van Wallonië en de ellende van Brussel, Verkavelingsvlaams en plat Gents, Philips ii en Willem i, zwart en wit, rechts pacifisme en links conservatisme, van Julius Caesar tot Bart De Wever, van Karel de Grote tot Elio Di Rupo; dit alles en nog veel meer vertelt, analyseert, vergelijkt, verklaart, vervloekt Geert van Istendael in dit boek. Hij is daarbij erudiet en grappig, soms keihard, dan weer vertederend, niet vies van krachtige st...

We tend to think of ourselves as living in a time when nations, for the most part, obey the rule of law - and where they certainly don't engage in the violent grabs for territory that have characterised so much of human history. But as Rob de Wijk shows in this book, power politics very much remains a force on the international scene. Offering analyses of such actions as Putin's annexation of the Crimea and China's attempts to claim large parts of the South China Sea, de Wijk explains why pow...

The third edition of European Business is published at a time of turbulence in Europe. This uncertainty puts Europe's unique business environment at risk. Key features of the new edition include:assessments of how individual member states affect the integration process and bring diversity to European business;new material on the links between Europe and the World's other main regions, including emerging economies;new case studies on topics such as the rise of the BRICs, the energy crisis, enl...

This book describes, in non-technical terms, the definition, history, process, management, and future trends of each intelligence collection source (INT).

This major new text on the theory and practice of public management moves away from descriptive accounts of its evolution to provide a systematic treatment of the key paradigms of public management today. It examines their competing outlooks, values, tools and assumptions and - using a wide range of examples from different areas of management around the world - their implications for practice. The text sets out three contrasting 'logics' for management - performance, professionalism and polit...