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The future of transatlantic relations perceptions, policy and practice /

Table of Contents: “…Transatlantic relations : a theoretical framework / Serena Simoni -- The future of trans-atlantic relations : a view from Canada / David Rudd -- The United States and the transatlantic relationship : a test for US foreign and national security policy / Joyce P Kaufman -- Transatlantic relations and the United Kingdom / Andrew Dorman -- France and transatlantic relations / Adrian Treacher -- Germany : from civilian power to international actor / Gale Mattox -- Turkey and the US : a transatlantic future? …”
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Business and climate policy the potentials and pitfalls of private voluntary programs /

Table of Contents: “…Tables and figures -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Marrying climate policy and private voluntary programs / Karsten Ronit -- Cross-sectoral and multi-sectoral programs -- Private voluntary programs in environmental governance : climate change and the financial sector / Jennifer Clapp and Jason Thistlethwaite -- Private voluntary programs on climate change : US federal government as the sponsoring actor / Lily Hsueh and Aseem Prakash -- Sectors -- The role of private voluntary climate programs affecting forests : assessing their direct and intersecting effects / Laura Bozzi, Benjamin Cashore, Kelly Levin, and Constance McDermott -- Emerging private voluntary programs and climate change : the blind spots of the agrifood sector / Doris Fuchs and Frederike Boll -- Climate change, private voluntary programs and the automobile industry / Tony Porter -- Conclusions -- Private voluntary programs in climate policy : potentials and pitfalls / Karsten Ronit -- Index.…”
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Globalization and organization world society and organizational change /

Table of Contents: “…Drori -- The worldwide diffusion of business education, 1881-1999 : historical trajectory and mechanisms of expansion / Hyeyoung Moon and Christine Min Wotipka -- The making and expansion of international management standards : the global diffusion of ISO 9000 quality management certificates / Peter Mendel -- Transparent accounting as a world societal rule / Yong Suk Jang -- Dynamics of corporate responsibility / Suzanne Shanahan and Sanjeev Khagram -- The spread of a 'human resources' culture : institutional individualism and the rise of personal development training / Xiaowei Luo -- Turning the university into an organizational actor / Georg Krücken and Frank Meier.…”
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The Future of ISIS : Regional and International Implications /

Table of Contents: “…-- Theoretical observations about the ISIS intelligence failure / James J. Wirtz -- Local actors -- Syria and Iraq : ISIS and other local actors in historical context / Kevin Martin -- Islamic State-Khurasan Province / Amin Tarzi -- Joint action : U.S. and regional powers -- International and regional responses : an appraisal / Hussein Banai -- Regional constraints on the U.S. confrontation of ISIS / Feisal Amin Rasoul al-Istrabadi -- U.S. interests -- ISIS's territorial sanctuary and the risk of complex terrorist attacks in the United States / Risa Brooks -- A state, an insurgency, and a revolution : understanding and defeating the three faces of ISIS / Peter Krause.…”
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The Future of ISIS : Regional and International Implications /

Table of Contents: “…-- Theoretical observations about the ISIS intelligence failure / James J. Wirtz -- Local actors -- Syria and Iraq : ISIS and other local actors in historical context / Kevin Martin -- Islamic State-Khurasan Province / Amin Tarzi -- Joint action : U.S. and regional powers -- International and regional responses : an appraisal / Hussein Banai -- Regional constraints on the U.S. confrontation of ISIS / Feisal Amin Rasoul al-Istrabadi -- U.S. interests -- ISIS's territorial sanctuary and the risk of complex terrorist attacks in the United States / Risa Brooks -- A state, an insurgency, and a revolution : understanding and defeating the three faces of ISIS / Peter Krause.…”
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The international law on foreign investment / by Sornarajah, M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The shaping factors -- Actors in the field of foreign investment -- Risks in foreign investment -- Sources of the international law on foreign investment -- Multilateral instruments on foeign investment -- Settlement of investment disputes : contract-based arbitration -- Treaty-based investment arbitration : jurisdictional issues -- Causes of action : breaches of treatment standards -- The taking of foreign property -- Compensation for national isation of foreign investments -- Defences to responsibility.…”

Climate governance and development

Table of Contents: “…Development, non-state actors, and climate governance : private sector and NGOs -- pt. 5. …”
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Climate governance and development

Table of Contents: “…Development, non-state actors, and climate governance : private sector and NGOs -- pt. 5. …”
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Open Data and the Knowledge Society / by Wessels, Bridgette, Noorman, Merel E., Nativi, Stefano, Bigagli, Lorenzo, Sveinsdottir, Thordis, Wadhwa, Kush, Finn, Rachel L.

Table of Contents: “…Defining a 'knowledge society' -- Visions of open data -- Mobilising open data -- Institutions in the data ecosystem : actors in the public knowledge domain and in private data companies -- Mobilising data : scientific disciplines, scientific practice and making research data open -- Mobilising data : environmental data, technical and governance issues -- Navigating legal and ethical frameworks -- Big data, open data and the commercial sector.…”
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The international law on foreign investment / by Sornarajah, M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The shaping factors -- Actors in the field of foreign investment -- Risks in foreign investment -- Sources of the international law on foreign investment -- Multilateral instruments on foeign investment -- Settlement of investment disputes : contract-based arbitration -- Treaty-based investment arbitration : jurisdictional issues -- Causes of action : breaches of treatment standards -- The taking of foreign property -- Compensation for national isation of foreign investments -- Defences to responsibility.…”

Open Data and the Knowledge Society / by Wessels, Bridgette, Noorman, Merel E., Nativi, Stefano, Bigagli, Lorenzo, Sveinsdottir, Thordis, Wadhwa, Kush, Finn, Rachel L.

Table of Contents: “…Defining a 'knowledge society' -- Visions of open data -- Mobilising open data -- Institutions in the data ecosystem : actors in the public knowledge domain and in private data companies -- Mobilising data : scientific disciplines, scientific practice and making research data open -- Mobilising data : environmental data, technical and governance issues -- Navigating legal and ethical frameworks -- Big data, open data and the commercial sector.…”
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Whiting up whiteface minstrels and stage Europeans in African American performance / by McAllister, Marvin Edward, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : whiting up work -- Liberatory whiteness : early whiteface minstrels, enslaved and free -- Imitation whiteness : James Hewlett's stage Europeans -- Low-down whiteness : a trip to coontown -- Trespassing on whiteness : Negro actors and the Nordic complex -- Estranging whiteness : queens, clowns, and beasts in 1960s Black drama -- White people be like-- : Black solo and racial difference -- Conclusion : problems and possibilities of whiting up.…”
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Corruption as a last resort : adapting to the market in Central Asia / by McMann, Kelly M., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…An absence of alternatives : a new framework for understanding corruption -- Alternatives to corruption and the impact of market reform : the arguments and their theoretical implications -- Bribery, favoritism, and clientelism : evidence from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan -- Market actors as an unrealized alternative : the impact of market reforms -- Islamic institutions and secular charities : obstacles to providing substitute resources -- Families : the uneven impact of market reforms -- Reducing corruption : policy recommendations -- Appendix : statistical analysis.…”
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Whiting up whiteface minstrels and stage Europeans in African American performance / by McAllister, Marvin Edward, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : whiting up work -- Liberatory whiteness : early whiteface minstrels, enslaved and free -- Imitation whiteness : James Hewlett's stage Europeans -- Low-down whiteness : a trip to coontown -- Trespassing on whiteness : Negro actors and the Nordic complex -- Estranging whiteness : queens, clowns, and beasts in 1960s Black drama -- White people be like-- : Black solo and racial difference -- Conclusion : problems and possibilities of whiting up.…”
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Corruption as a last resort : adapting to the market in Central Asia / by McMann, Kelly M., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…An absence of alternatives : a new framework for understanding corruption -- Alternatives to corruption and the impact of market reform : the arguments and their theoretical implications -- Bribery, favoritism, and clientelism : evidence from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan -- Market actors as an unrealized alternative : the impact of market reforms -- Islamic institutions and secular charities : obstacles to providing substitute resources -- Families : the uneven impact of market reforms -- Reducing corruption : policy recommendations -- Appendix : statistical analysis.…”
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Corruption as a Last Resort : Adapting to the Market in Central Asia / by McMann, Kelly M., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…An absence of alternatives : a new framework for understanding corruption -- Alternatives to corruption and the impact of market reform : the arguments and their theoretical implications -- Bribery, favoritism, and clientelism : evidence from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan -- Market actors as an unrealized alternative : the impact of market reforms -- Islamic institutions and secular charities : obstacles to providing substitute resources -- Families : the uneven impact of market reforms -- Reducing corruption : policy recommendations -- Appendix : statistical analysis.…”
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Spectacular Disappearances : Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 / by Fawcett, Julia H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The celebrity emerges as the deformed king: Richard III, the king of the dunces, and the overexpression of Englishness -- The growth of celebrity culture: Colley Cibber, Charlotte Charke, and the overexpression of gender -- The canon of print: Laurence Sterne and the overexpression of character -- The fate of overexpression in the age of sentiment: David Garrick, George Anne Bellamy, and the paradox of the actor -- The memoirs of Perdita and the language of loss: Mary Robinson's alternative to overexpression -- Coda: overexpression and its legacy.…”
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Corruption as a Last Resort : Adapting to the Market in Central Asia / by McMann, Kelly M., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…An absence of alternatives : a new framework for understanding corruption -- Alternatives to corruption and the impact of market reform : the arguments and their theoretical implications -- Bribery, favoritism, and clientelism : evidence from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan -- Market actors as an unrealized alternative : the impact of market reforms -- Islamic institutions and secular charities : obstacles to providing substitute resources -- Families : the uneven impact of market reforms -- Reducing corruption : policy recommendations -- Appendix : statistical analysis.…”
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Spectacular Disappearances : Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 / by Fawcett, Julia H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The celebrity emerges as the deformed king: Richard III, the king of the dunces, and the overexpression of Englishness -- The growth of celebrity culture: Colley Cibber, Charlotte Charke, and the overexpression of gender -- The canon of print: Laurence Sterne and the overexpression of character -- The fate of overexpression in the age of sentiment: David Garrick, George Anne Bellamy, and the paradox of the actor -- The memoirs of Perdita and the language of loss: Mary Robinson's alternative to overexpression -- Coda: overexpression and its legacy.…”
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Courting democracy in Mexico party strategies and electoral institutions / by Eisenstadt, Todd A.

Table of Contents: “…1. Electoral Courts and Actor Compliance: Opposition-Authoritarian Relations and Protracted Transitions -- 2. …”
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