Public Relations category: 887 books
International Aid and China's Environment
Taming the Yellow Dragon
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2006
Rapid economic growth in the world's most populous nation is leading to widespread soil erosion, desertification, deforestation and the depletion of vital natural resources. The scale and severity of environmental problems in China now threaten the economic and social foundations of its modernization.
Using...
Cases of Conflict
Transboundary Disputes and the Development of International Environmental Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Cases of Conflict focuses on times of dispute as important moments in the development of international environmental law. Conflict tests international law—both its content and its relevance become clearer in times of controversy—but conflict can also help shape the law.
Drawing from a growing...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
This book explores whether the co-existence of (partially) overlapping and sometimes competing layers of authority, which characterizes today's global order, undermines or rather strengthens efforts to promote the rule of law on a global scale. Heupel and Reinold argue that whether multi-level governance...
The Islam/West Debate
Documents from a Global Debate on Terrorism, U.S. Policy, and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
In 2002, sixty prominent American intellectuals released an open letter defending the use of military force against al-Qa'ida. The letter sparked an impassioned international debate unlike any other, in which jihadists, journalists, liberal Muslims, and German pacifists engaged one another on the...
Fighting for Status
Hierarchy and Conflict in World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
There is widespread agreement that status or standing in the international system is a critical element in world politics. The desire for status is recognized as a key factor in nuclear proliferation, the rise of China, and other contemporary foreign policy issues, and has long been implicated in...
International Politics
Political Issues Under Debate - Vol. 1
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This volume analyses the historical background of violent international conflicts. Starting with an analysis of the conflict and cooperation structures in post-communist Eastern Europe and the eastern expansion of the European Union, the author discusses the problem of acts of intervention in response...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
This book focuses on both North-South and South-South relations to reveal an understanding of major climate change and climate change management issues through practices and narratives of environmental security in a specific regional context.
by G. Kütting
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
This book examines how local and global environment-society relations play out in coastal communities dependent on tourism for economic survival. It analyzes the consequences of social and economic policies on remote areas and makes a case for studying the role of environmental values in global environmental governance.
China-EU
Green Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
This book offers a selection of views from Chinese and European experts and scholars on the most pressing environmental challenges — air quality, global warming, climate change, energy security, urbanisation — faced by Europe and China in 2014. The contributors also discuss possibilities of technical...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
This book examines the role of institutions in China’s recent large-scale economic, social and political transformation. The book argues that, although the importance of institutions in China’s rapid economic growth and social development over the past 30 years is widely acknowledged, exactly...
by Michelle Murray Yang
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Despite the U.S. and China’s shared economic and political interests, distrust between the nations persists. How does the United States rhetorically navigate its relationship with China in the midst of continued distrust? This bookpursues this question by rhetorically analyzingU.S. news and political...
Syndicalistes ou voyous?
Nos années à la FTQ-Construction
Language: French
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Est-il vrai qu'au Québec, le travail fait chaque année deux fois plus de victimes que tous les meurtriers réunis? Pourquoi le placement est-il si important pour les syndicats? Qu'est-il advenu des milliards de dollars recueillis à même les contributions des travailleurs et disparus...
Inside Affirmative Action
The Executive Order That Transformed America's Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Affirmative action is still a reality of the American workplace. How is it that such a controversial Federal program has managed to endure for more than five decades? Inside Affirmative Action addresses this question.
Beyond the usual ideological debate and discussions about the effects of...
Say It Plain
A Century of Great African American Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2006
A moving portrait of how black Americans have spoken out against injustice—with speeches by Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, and more.
In “full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul”, this unique anthology collects the transcribed speeches of the...