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What Works in Improving Gender Equality : International Best Practice in Childcare and Long-term Care Policy by Rummery, Kirstein

Table of Contents: “…-- The Universal Model -- The Partnership Model -- What are the ideas, institutions and actors that make these models work? -- The Universal Model -- The Partnership Model -- What could make these models not work to improve gender equality? …”
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The impact of global drug policy on women : shifting the needle /

Table of Contents: “…Prelims -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: International drug policy in context -- Chapter 2: Gendering drug policy -- Chapter 3: Women and the politics of pleasure in critical drug studies -- Chapter 4: Fiona's story -- Chapter 5: Nexus of risk: the co-occurring problems of gender-based violence, HIV and drug use among women and adolescent girls -- Chapter 6: Risk behaviours among older women who use drugs -- Chapter 7: Women who use drugs and mental health -- Chapter 8: Access barriers to health services for women who use drugs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia -- Chapter 9: Suzanne's story -- Chapter 10: Sex work, justice and decriminalisation: beyond a politics of recognition in promoting a social justice response to women at the margins -- Chapter 11: Women incarcerated for drug-related offences: a Latin American perspective -- Chapter 12: Policing and sentencing practices in Russia and their impacts on women who use drugs -- Chapter 13: Women, drug policy and the Kenyan prison system -- Chapter 14: Drug policy and women prisoners in Southeast Asia -- Chapter 15: The increase in women who use drugs in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 16: Women as actors in the drug economy -- Chapter 17: Women's involvement in organised crime and drug trafficking: a comparative analysis of the Sinaloa and Yamaguchi-gumi organisations -- Chapter 18: From the Colombian Coca Fields: peasant women amid the war on drugs -- Chapter 19: 'Las Empoderadas' women coca growers building territorial peace -- Chapter 20: Unseen and unheard: the women in Duterte's war on drugs -- Chapter 21: Happy's story -- Chapter 22: Overdose risks and prevention strategies for pregnant women in New York City -- Chapter 23: Patterns of recreational drug use and harm reduction strategies among women at music festivals: the case of Hungary and Poland -- Chapter 24: Queer feminine identities and the war on drugs -- Chapter 25: Best practices in reaching 'hidden' populations and harm reduction service provision -- Chapter 26: A mother's story -- Chapter 27: Drug users as stakeholders in drug policy: questions of legitimacy and the silencing of the happy drug user -- Chapter 28: Improving drug policy metrics and advancements in measuring gender-based drug policy outcomes -- Chapter 29: Towards an abolitionist drug policy reform -- Chapter 30: Women who use drugs: resistance and rebellion -- References -- Index.…”
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A Small Nation in the Turmoil of the Second World War : Money, Finance and Occupation (Belgium, its Enemies, its friends, 1939-1945) / by Wee, Herman van der

Table of Contents: “…The Establishment of the Banque d'EmissionThe decisive negotiations; The bank and the banque d'emission; The principal actors of the two banks; Chapter 8. The Politics of Accommodation in Daily Reality; The distribution of responsibiliTies; The challenge to legal competence; The economic, social and political context in 1940 and 1941; Money circulation; The costs of occupation and their financing; Chapter 9. …”
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Observing Protest from a Place : The World Social Forum in Dakar (2011) /

Table of Contents: “…Women's issues and activists at the World Social Forum in Dakar -- 4.1 Transnational, but not only: the actors of women's issues in Dakar -- 4.2 Strategies, tensions, and blind spots around women's issues in Dakar…”
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What Works in Improving Gender Equality : International Best Practice in Childcare and Long-term Care Policy by Rummery, Kirstein

Table of Contents: “…-- The Universal Model -- The Partnership Model -- What are the ideas, institutions and actors that make these models work? -- The Universal Model -- The Partnership Model -- What could make these models not work to improve gender equality? …”
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Routledge handbook of NGOs and international relations /

Table of Contents: “…The emergence of NGOs as actors on the world stage / Norbert Götz -- NGOs' interactions with states / Sarah S. …”

Routledge handbook of NGOs and international relations /

Table of Contents: “…The emergence of NGOs as actors on the world stage / Norbert Götz -- NGOs' interactions with states / Sarah S. …”

Las regiones ante la globalización. : competividad territorial y recomposición sociopolítica /

Table of Contents: “…El surgimiento del empresariado en la Rusia poscomunista / Tatiana Sidorenko -- Espacios de crecimiento y flexibilidad en Europa / Daniele Leborgne -- Las regiones como actores económicos: Pennsylvania (Estados Unidos) con referencias generales a los casos Nuevo León, Mexico y Westfalia del Rhin del norte, Alemania / Jose Luis Mendez -- El contraste social y macroeconómico de dos ajustes: Corea del sur y Mexico en los ochenta / Enrique Valencia Lomelí -- Competitividad de subdesarrollo y flexibilidad del trabajo en el norte de Mexico / Jaime Marques-Pereira -- Dinámica territorial, localización y sistemas productivos locales: algunas indicaciones teóricas / Christian Azaïs -- Los distritos industriales de Las Marcas, Italia: evolución y perspectivas / Pietro Alessandrini y Giuseppe Canullo -- Legitimidad y cambio político en Chihuahua / Ilán Bizberg -- La construcción de un gobierno estatal de oposición: rompimiento temporal del regimen de partido de Estado? …”
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Las regiones ante la globalización. : competividad territorial y recomposición sociopolítica /

Table of Contents: “…El surgimiento del empresariado en la Rusia poscomunista / Tatiana Sidorenko -- Espacios de crecimiento y flexibilidad en Europa / Daniele Leborgne -- Las regiones como actores económicos: Pennsylvania (Estados Unidos) con referencias generales a los casos Nuevo León, Mexico y Westfalia del Rhin del norte, Alemania / Jose Luis Mendez -- El contraste social y macroeconómico de dos ajustes: Corea del sur y Mexico en los ochenta / Enrique Valencia Lomelí -- Competitividad de subdesarrollo y flexibilidad del trabajo en el norte de Mexico / Jaime Marques-Pereira -- Dinámica territorial, localización y sistemas productivos locales: algunas indicaciones teóricas / Christian Azaïs -- Los distritos industriales de Las Marcas, Italia: evolución y perspectivas / Pietro Alessandrini y Giuseppe Canullo -- Legitimidad y cambio político en Chihuahua / Ilán Bizberg -- La construcción de un gobierno estatal de oposición: rompimiento temporal del regimen de partido de Estado? …”
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Evolution in investment treaty law and arbitration

Table of Contents: “…Investment treaty arbitration as global administrative law: what this might mean in practice Daniel Kalderimis; Part III. Actors in International Investment Law: 8. Sovereign wealth funds and international investment law Markus Burgstaller; 9. …”
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The Three Ages of Government : From the Person, to the Group, to the World / by Raadschelders, J. C. N.

Table of Contents: “…-- Governing as process: Negotiable authority and multisource decision-making -- The role and position of career civil servants in democratic political systems -- The nature of public authority -- Negotiable authority as key to understanding what democratic government is today -- The nature of public decision-making -- Multisource decision making as standard in democratic government -- The governing we can take for granted -- Citizens and government have come a long way in a very short time -- Democracy: Thriving by self-restraint, vulnerable to human instinct, tribal community, and global society -- The position and role of government in society -- The influence of human instinct -- The influence of tribal community -- The influence of global society -- Democracy as ideal and as vulnerable: Challenges from human behavior -- Democracy as ideal political system -- Declining trust in government -- Rent-seeking behavior by private actors: Business principles in the public realm -- Personality politics and populism: The enduring power of emotions -- Na-na-na-na-boo-boo politics: The price of polarization and partisanship -- The need for continuous civics education -- Democracy and bureaucracy: The delicate interplay of fairness and efficiency -- Democracy, self-restraint, and true guardians.…”
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Evolution in investment treaty law and arbitration

Table of Contents: “…Investment treaty arbitration as global administrative law: what this might mean in practice Daniel Kalderimis; Part III. Actors in International Investment Law: 8. Sovereign wealth funds and international investment law Markus Burgstaller; 9. …”
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The Three Ages of Government : From the Person, to the Group, to the World / by Raadschelders, J. C. N.

Table of Contents: “…-- Governing as process: Negotiable authority and multisource decision-making -- The role and position of career civil servants in democratic political systems -- The nature of public authority -- Negotiable authority as key to understanding what democratic government is today -- The nature of public decision-making -- Multisource decision making as standard in democratic government -- The governing we can take for granted -- Citizens and government have come a long way in a very short time -- Democracy: Thriving by self-restraint, vulnerable to human instinct, tribal community, and global society -- The position and role of government in society -- The influence of human instinct -- The influence of tribal community -- The influence of global society -- Democracy as ideal and as vulnerable: Challenges from human behavior -- Democracy as ideal political system -- Declining trust in government -- Rent-seeking behavior by private actors: Business principles in the public realm -- Personality politics and populism: The enduring power of emotions -- Na-na-na-na-boo-boo politics: The price of polarization and partisanship -- The need for continuous civics education -- Democracy and bureaucracy: The delicate interplay of fairness and efficiency -- Democracy, self-restraint, and true guardians.…”
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Rethinking private authority : agents and entrepreneurs in global environmental governance / by Green, Jessica F.

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Rethinking private authority : agents and entrepreneurs in global environmental governance / by Green, Jessica F.

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Chinese Environmental Contention : Linking Up against Waste Incineration / by Bondes, Maria

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Chinese Environmental Contention : Linking Up against Waste Incineration / by Bondes, Maria

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Security in Iraq a framework for analyzing emerging threats as U.S. forces leave / by Gompert, David C.

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Security in Iraq a framework for analyzing emerging threats as U.S. forces leave / by Gompert, David C.

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