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Diplomacy Ends at Midnight
he Long Return of Hong Kong to China
2022 || Hardcover || Delena Wright || Allen Lane
The compelling story of the inescapable return of Hong Kong to China, published for the 25th anniversary of the handover
British Hong Kong ended in the last minutes of 30 June 1997. Diplomacy Ends at Midnight traces the extraordinary twists and turns of Hong Kong's long drawn out, but unavoidable, reunion with China, when its 99-year leasehold on much of the colony's territory expired. 25 years ago, Britain did not want to return Hong Kong to its once and future owner, and most Hong Kongers d...
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Public Human Resource Management: Strategies and Practices in the 21st Century
2023 || Hardcover || Battaglio || CQ Press
A comprehensive introduction to contemporary public human resource management, this text incorporates analysis of the impact of the private sector-oriented reforms over the last few decades that have aimed to bring greater efficiency and productivity to the public sector.
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Singapore’s State-Led Capitalism in a Rules-Based World Order
2024 || Hardcover || Lee Khuay Khiang || Leiden University Press
At the heart of Singapore’s political economy is the PAP government, which controls the levers of control. The accumulation of power occurs through a recurring pattern of state collectivisation and economic liberalisation, while the nation’s wealth expands through state investment vehicles adapting to shifts in geopolitics and trends in international trade and finance. Overshadowing the bicameral capitalistic system is the corridor of power, where ideas are developed to drive growth and p...
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Het spook van het confederalisme
België met vier
2023 || Hardcover || Philippe Destatte || Doorbraak
In het politiek debat rond de aanpassing van de Belgische instellingen aan de evolutie van de samenleving, wordt het begrip ‘confederalisme’ op grote schaal geframed als een bedreiging, een nachtmerrie, die stilaan een soort institutioneel spook wordt. Voorbijgaand aan allerlei vooroordelen, analyseert de historicus Philippe Destatte de begrippen federalisme en confederalisme door te wijzen op hun constante aanwezigheid in het recente verleden van België. Beginnend bij het einde van de 1...
Risk Management for Security Professionals
2017 || Hardcover || C. A. Roper || Butterworth-Heinemann
This book describes the risk management methodology as a specific process, a theory, or a procedure for determining your assets, vulnerabilities, and threats and how security professionals can protect them. Risk Management for Security Professionals is a practical handbook for security managers who need to learn risk management skills. It goes beyond the physical security realm to encompass all risks to which a company may be exposed.
Risk Management as presented in this book has several goal...
International Organizations / 5th edition
Politics, Law, Practice
2024 || Hardcover || Ian Hurd || Cambridge University Press
Fifth edition of the leading textbook on international organizations that mixes international law, politics, and case studies in an accessible package. It presents the most important global institutions, from the UN to the WTO and FIFA and the International Olympic Committee, explaining the legal treaties and their political controversies for each.
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What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Authoritarian Regimes?
2023 || Hardcover || Natasha Lindstaedt || SAGE
An expert and accessible exploration of the increasing number and influence of authoritarian regimes. It explains the realities of recent trends to ‘autocratization’, the tools these regimes use, what we can do to resist, and why we might even allow ourselves some optimism.
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The Next Public Administration
2023 || Hardcover || Peters || SAGE
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The Politics of Fear / Druk 2
2023 || Hardcover || Wodak || SAGE
The Politics of Fear traces the trajectory of far-right politics from the margins of the political landscape to its very center. It explores the social and historical mechanisms at play, and expertly ties these to the "micro-politics" of far-right language and discourse.
Introduction to Urban Science
Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
2021 || Hardcover || Luis M. A. Bettencourt || MIT Press Ltd
A novel, integrative approach to cities as complex adaptive systems, applicable to issues ranging from innovation to economic prosperity to settlement patterns.
Human beings around the world increasingly live in urban environments. In Introduction to Urban Science, Luis Bettencourt takes a novel, integrative approach to understanding cities as complex adaptive systems, claiming that they require us to frame the field of urban science in a way that goes beyond existing theory in such tradition...