Public Relations category: 887 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
The Pan-American Games, begun officially in 1951 in Buenos Aires and held in every region of the western hemisphere, have become one of the largest multi-sport games in the world. 6,132 athletes from 41 countries competed in 48 sports in the 2015 Games in Toronto, Canada. The Games are simultaneously...
The Struggle for the European Constitution
A Past and Future History
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2008
The European Union (EU) Constitution was one of the most important developments in the history of the EU, aiming to make the EU more transparent, relevant and accountable to the citizens of its member states. Current anxieties over the pace and direction of EU integration place this comprehensive...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This volume seeks to re-energise the paradigm of the New International Labour Studies by detailing how struggles over the construction, reproduction, utilisation and restructuring of labour forces are the contested social foundations upon which the global economy stands.
Through a combination...
by Kam-wah Chan, Kim-wah Chung, Keqing Han
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Social Policy and Change in East Asia is a collection of essays from a group of indigenous East Asian social policy researchers who met bi-annually to discuss social development issues. The book’s focus is the policy responses of respective East Asian government since the 2008 financial tsunami...
Africa and Global Health Governance
Domestic Politics and International Structures
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Global health campaigns, development aid programs, and disaster relief groups have been criticized for falling into colonialist patterns, running roughshod over the local structure and authority of the countries in which they work. Far from powerless, however, African states play complex roles in...
The Pacific Insular Case of American Sāmoa
Land Rights and Law in Unincorporated US Territories
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This book is a researched study of land issues in American Sāmoa that analyzes the impact of U.S. colonialism and empire building in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Carefully tracing changes in land laws up to the present, this volume also draws on a careful examination of legal traditions,...
Dispatches from the Frontlines
Studies in Foreign Policy, Comparative Politics, and International Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Dispatches from the Frontlines analyzes some of the world’s most contentious hotspots. It focuses on such compelling global issues as Third World development, the role of the state, corporatism, and foreign aid. Dispatches from the Frontlines is a thought-provoking book for anyone interested in foreign policy, comparative politics, and international affairs.
Transnational Advocacy Networks in the Information Society
Partners or Pawns?
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
This book examines the role of transnational advocacy networks in enabling effective participation for individual citizens in the deliberative processes of global governance. Contextualized around the international conference setting of the United Nations-sponsored World Summit on the Information...
Counting Species
Biodiversity in Global Environmental Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2015
Three decades of biodiversity governance has largely failed to stop the ongoing environmental crisis of global species loss. Yet that governance has resulted in undeniably important political outcomes. In Counting Species, Rafi Youatt argues that the understanding of global biodiversity has produced...
Middle Powers in Global Governance
The Rise of Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
This volume summarizes, synthesizes, updates, and contextualizes Turkey’s multiple roles in global governance. As a result of various political, economic, cultural and technological changes occurring in the international system, the need for an effective and appropriate global governance is unfolding....
The Criminalization of States
The Relationship between States and Organized Crime
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
This volume examines the relationship between states and organized crime. It seeks to add to the theoretical literature for analyzing the criminalization of the state. The volume also explores the nature of organized crime in countries throughout the Americas from Central America to the Southern Cone.
Small Farms Are Real Farms
Sustaining People through Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Since the middle of the last century, American farm policy has taken the nation into the dead end of industrial farm production and food distribution. Farming, at its core a biological process, has been transformed into an industrial process, thus demolishing the economic and cultural values upon...
Identification and Registration Practices in Transnational Perspective
People, Papers and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
This collection examines the subject of identification and surveillance from 16th C English parish registers to 21st C DNA databases. The contributors, who range from historians to legal specialists, provide an insight into the historical development behind such issues as biometric identification, immigration control and personal data use.
by S. Aggarwal-Khan
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
This book questions the practices in the policy processes of international institutions. It looks at the formal and informal practices that are routinely undertaken as part of the structure of international policy processes, and analyses how people behave and with what outcome for international environmental governance.