Public Relations category: 887 books
Foreclosing the Future
The World Bank and the Politics of Environmental Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
World Bank PresidJim Yong Kim has vowed that his institution will fight poverty and climate change, a claim that World Bank presidents have made for two decades. But if worldwide protests and reams of damning internal reports are any indication, too often it does just the opposite. By funding developmprojects...
The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century
Race, Power, and Politics of Place
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and investments) in shaping cities and metropolitan regions; the costs and consequences of uneven urban and regional growth patterns; suburban sprawl and public...
Oil, Illiberalism, and War
An Analysis of Energy and US Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
An argument that America's addiction to crude oil has driven a foreign policy of intervention and exploitation hidden behind a facade of liberal internationalism.
The United States is addicted to crude oil. In this book, Andrew Price-Smith argues that this addiction has distorted the conduct...
Think Tanks and Foreign Policy
The Foreign Policy Research Institute and Presidential Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Think tanks have become increasingly important in American politics foreign policy. In the last thirty years think tanks have emerged as major actors on the political stage, comparable in influence to large interest groups, political parties, and government agencies. In the same time span these think...
Digital DNA
Disruption and the Challenges for Global Governance
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Innovation in information and production technologies is creating benefits and disruption, profoundly altering how firms and markets perform. Digital DNA provides an in depth examination of the opportunities and challenges in the fast-changing global economy and lays out strategies that countries...
What Can and Can't Be Said
Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
An original study of monuments to the civil rights movement and African American history that have been erected in the U.S. South over the past three decades, this powerful work explores how commemorative structures have been used to assert the presence of black Americans in contemporary Southern society....
Understanding Systems of e-Government
e-Federalism and e-Centralism in the United States and Kazakhstan
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The main purpose of the book was to analyze heterogeneous political and institutional aspects in the development of such an arguably universal tool of modern democracy as e-government from the perspectives of two nations with completely different systems of governance and traditions of public administration...
by Dalia Gavriely-Nuri
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
The Normalization of War in Israeli Discourse, 1967-2008, by Dalia Gavriely-Nuri opens a window to how Israelis talk, write, and think about war. In the post-World War II period, Israel has taken part in eight wars, more than almost any other western democracy. In addition to “official” wars,...
The Politics of PublicPrivate Partnerships in Western Europe
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
This comprehensive book provides a comparative policy analysis of public-private partnerships in 14 Western European countries from Scandinavia to Greece, bringing together insights from government, economics and politics. Thomas Krumm describes and analyses the forms and extents of collaboration between...
Borderlands
Comparing Border Security in North America and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2007
Border security has been high on public-policy agendas in Europe and North America since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York City and on the headquarters of the American military in Washington DC. Governments are now confronted with managing secure borders, a policy...
Owls and Eagles
Ending the Foreign Policy Flights of Fancy of Hawks, Doves, and Neo-Cons
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2005
Leading national security strategist Harlan K. Ullman is well known for his aggressive, no nonsense approach to U.S. foreign policy. By his own description, he demands a smarter, realistic policy, one that is 'informed by fact and reason and not ideology and tough when it must be.' The time span of...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Despite remarkable economic advances in many societies during the latter half of the twentieth century, poverty remains a global issue of enduring concern. Poverty is present in some form in every society in the world, and has serious implications for everything from health and well-being to identity...
Computational Propaganda
Political Parties, Politicians, and Political Manipulation on Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
Social media platforms do not just circulate political ideas, they support manipulative disinformation campaigns. While some of these disinformation campaigns are carried out directly by individuals, most are waged by software, commonly known as bots, programmed to perform simple, repetitive, robotic...
The Politics of Expertise
Competing for Authority in Global Governance
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Experts dominate all facets of global governance, from accounting practices and antitrust regulations to human rights law and environmental conservation. In this study, Ole Jacob Sending encourages a critical interrogation of the role and power of experts by unveiling the politics of the ongoing competition...