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Mexico'S Fuel Trafficking Phenomenon - Analysing An Emerging Black Market

by Samuel Leon Saez

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 Fuel trafficking has consolidated in recent years as a paramount illegal enterprise and a priority for Mexico´s diverse criminal actors. This black market has been growing at an overwhelming pace in Mexico since 2011: it is estimated that between 2013-2018, more than 100 million barrels containing different fuels were stolen from the country´s refineries, terminals and pipelines. This academic book focuses on finding explanations as to how this came to be. By examining the Mexican fuel black market, one of the largest and most sophisticated criminal enterprises of its kind worldwide, this timely investigation shines a light on this recently relevant criminal market, which has been detected across the world, including in North and South America, the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. This book will prove of relevance for readers interested in energy and security, illicit markets, criminality, modern-day Mexico and the challenges posed by the country´s security crisis. At a wider level, this work contributes with insights on the diversification and sophistication of criminality and black markets in Mexico, Latin America and the world.<br>
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Fifty Years Of Human Rights In Chile - Essays In Honour Of Alan Angell

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 This book examines the struggle for human rights in Chile since 1973 and celebrates the academic work and activism of Latin Americanist Alan Angell.
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Rethinking Socialist Space In The Twentieth Century

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 Moreover, the volume is concerned with how scholarly approaches associated with post-colonialism, global history, gender history, and the â€˜temporalâ€™ and â€˜sensoryâ€™ turns have reconfigured our knowledge of, and approach to, the history of socialist space.Chapter 5, 'Global Bridges, Local Ruins?
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British Novels And The European Union - Dyseutopia

by Lisa Bischoff

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 This book looks at the cultural, political and economic conditions of British Euroscepticism.
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Fourth Of August Regime And Greek Jewry, 1936-1941

by Katerina Lagos

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 Delving into a traditionally underexplored period, this book focuses on the treatment of Greek Jews under the dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas in the years leading up to the Second World War.
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Media Capture And Corrupt Journalists - How Europeanization Helped Build Façades Of Democracy

by Tomislav Marsic

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 This book explores the form, dynamics, and main reasons for media capture and conspiracy between editors and executive politicians in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) since 2000.
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Migration From Nigeria And The Future Of Global Security

by Frank Aragbonfoh Abumere e John Sodiq Sanni

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 This book explores the possible (actual, potential and imagined) future security threats migration from Nigeria could pose to Europe, the United States of America, Canada and to some extent Australia.
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Evolution Of The Common Security And Defence Policy - Critical Junctures And The Quest For Eu Strategic Autonomy

by Marilena Koppa

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 This book examines the evolution of the EUâ€™s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) from its inception in 1998 to the present day.
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Pacted Democracy In The Middle East - Tunisia And Egypt In Comparative Perspective

by Hicham Alaoui

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 This book provides a new theory for how democracy can materialize in the Middle East, and the broader Muslim world. This is the only book-length treatment of this topic, and one that aims to redefine the boundaries of an urgent problem that continues to haunt struggles for democracy in the aftermath of the Arab Spring.
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European Trade Unions In The 21st Century - The Future Of Solidarity And Workplace Democracy

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 <p>Trade unions in Europe face a range of cross-cutting challenges. This includes the near-universal contraction in union membership; the related decline of traditionally highly unionised blue-collar industries; and the rise of automation, microprocessing, and digitalisation, which can make it cheaper for employers to invest in machines than to pay humans to work. The breakdown of the standard contract of employment and increasing rates of precarious work have further transformed the world of work. Taken together, this makes any collectivist vision of society, and the notion of solidarity upon which trade unionism is built, difficult to sustain.</p>All this raises tough questions for trade unionists, policy-makers, and researchers alike regarding the future of trade unions, the oldest and largest civil society movement in Europe. The contributions in this volume explore the prospects for union revival across a range of cases, including by focusing on the pursuit of legal remedies and on the opportunities associated with the network society to defend the interests of workers.<p></p><p> </p><p>This interdisciplinary volume includes contributions that consider the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Poland, the United Kingdom, and the EU level by researchers coming from a range of disciplines and backgrounds. The volume should especially appeal to researchers and practitioners working in the fields of political science, sociology, law, and business studies.</p><p></p>
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Alcohol In The Maghreb And The Middle East Since The Nineteenth Century - Disputes, Policies And Practices

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 This book explores the significance of alcohol in the Middle East and Maghreb as a powerful catalyst of social and political division. The chapters challenge common misconceptions about alcohol in this region, arguing instead that medical discourses on alcohol dependency hide stances on national independence in an imperialist context;
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Past Human Rights Violations And The Question Of Indifference: The Case Of Chile

by Hugo Rojas

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 It offers a novel and interdisciplinary theory on social indifference, and in particular on the indifference of people to human rights violations committed against certain sectors of society in turbulent times.
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Europe Beyond The Euro - Building Protection For Europe’S Economies In The Time Of Risks

by Charles Enoch

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 The book considers that the strengthening of this institution, and bringing it to the fore, would help EU member states, as well as countries around the EU including applicant nations, to manage financial and societal risks, including COVID-19 and the transition to a green economy, thus safeguarding the economies of Europe.
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Gun Trafficking And Violence - From The Global Network To The Local Security Challenge

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 This edited book addresses the issues of gun trafficking and gun violence across different regions of the world, including the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania.
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Eu-Uk Police And Judicial Cooperation In Criminal Matters

by Mirena Pencheva

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 This book looks at the past, present and possible future relationship between the EU and the UK in the fields of law enforcement and judicial cooperation in criminal matters.
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Norms, Storytelling And International Institutions In China - The Imperative To Narrate

by Xiaoyu Lu

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 <p>This book is a political ethnography of norm diffusion and storytelling through international institutions in China. It is driven by intellectual puzzles and realpolitik questions: are we converging or diverging on values? Do emerging powers reinforce or reshape the existing international order? Are international institutions socialising emerging powers or being used to promote alternative norms? This book addresses these questions through fieldwork research over three years at the United Nations Development Programme in China, the first international development agency to enter post-reform China in 1979. It provides a crucial case to study the everyday practices of norm diffusion in emerging powers, and highlights the central role of storytelling in translating and contesting normative scripts. The book selects norms in human rights, rule of law and development cooperation to analyse how translators and brokers innovatively use stories to advocate, and how these normative stories move back-and-forth between local-global spaces and orders.</p><p>"A fascinating ethnography that tells us much about international institutions and China''s changing role in the world: of interest both to China specialists and theorists of international relations."</p><p>—<b>Rana Mitter</b>, Director of the University of Oxford China Centre, University of Oxford, UK</p><p>"Through pioneering ethnographic research, Xiaoyu Lu’s outstanding book makes a major contribution to our understanding of norm diffusion and the ways in which China is shaping, and is shaped by, international development norms. Lu’s richly textured analysis shows how ‘norm translators’ use case studies, personal stories, and other narratives to negotiate between global and local normative orders, and to facilitate the day-to-day processes of norm diffusion."</p>—<b>Amy King</b>, Associate Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, Australia<p></p><p> "An intricate account of the everyday politics in international development institution, that will enrich our understanding of emerging powers and their roles in global development."<br></p><p>—<b>Emma Mawdsley</b>, Director of the Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies, University of Cambridge, UK</p><p> </p><br><p></p>
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Cuba In The Caribbean Cold War - Exiles, Revolutionaries And Tyrants, 1952-1959

by Nicolas Prados Ortiz De Solorzano

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 This book argues that during the Cuban Revolution (1952â€"1958), Fidel Castro, his allies, and members of the Movimiento 26 de Julio tapped into a larger network of transnational revolutionaries who sought to overthrow the regionâ€™s dictatorships.
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Political Party Membership In New Democracies - Electoral Rules In Central And East Europe

by Alison F. Smith

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 This book explores the impact of electoral rules on political party development in Central and East Europe. The analysis of in-depth surveys and interviews with party elites in Estonia, Lithuania and Slovakia sheds light on areas of party life that are rarely examined, including party fundraising.
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Bias Radar For Responsible Policy-Making - Foresight-Based Scientific Advice

by Lieve Van Woensel

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 Policymakers prepare society for the future and this book provides a practical toolkit for preparing pro-active, future-proof scientific policy advice for them.
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Rethinking Democratisation In Spain, Greece And Portugal

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 This edited collection explores the ways in which the 2008/2009 social and economic crisis in Southern Europe affected the interpretation of the transitional past in Spain, Greece and Portugal.
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Global History Of Anti-Apartheid - ''Forward To Freedom'' In South Africa

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 This book explores the global history of anti-apartheid and international solidarity with southern African freedom struggles from the 1960s.
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Poland, Germany And State Power In Post-Cold War Europe - Asymmetry Matters

by Stefan Szwed

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 Through an investigation of four policy issues â€" NATOâ€™s out-of-area mandate, European Constitution and the division of voting power in the Council, relations with Russia and the eastern neighbours, as well as EU energy policy â€" the author identifies the roots of their conflict in a structure of material, spatial and temporal asymmetries.
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Stalinism And The Soviet-Finnish War, 1939-40 - Crisis Management, Censorship And Control

by Malcolm L. G. Spencer

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 The conflict represented a significant crisis for the Soviet Union, inspiring international condemnation and a significant loss of face for its supporters, both at home and abroad.
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Urban Chinese Daughters - Navigating New Roles, Status And Filial Obligation In A Transitioning Culture

by Patricia O'Neill

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 <div><div>The lives of urban Chinese daughters have changed. Education and employment have propelled them from dependency to self-sufficiency, resulting in new attitudes and lifestyles. However, traditional filial obligation has remained. This book asks why it continues and how it is currently discharged, focusing on the emotion work daughters do to sustain the parent relationship, deal with conflict and maintain their self-esteem.</div><div><br></div><div>Based on interviews with women living in Hong Kong, Singapore and mainland China, the book further explores whether the structural or relational motivations underpinning support and care may be less important than the standards daughters impose on themselves; why care may be discontinued or not undertaken in the first place; why care provided to parents may be different from in-laws, and the importance of domestic helpers to the modern caregiving paradigm.</div><div><br></div><div>To undertake this exploration, a typology of supportand care was created, allowing for the first time to distinguish between what daughters do for healthy parents and in-laws versus parents who require temporary or full time care, specifically addressing how providing support and care affects the daughters’ well-being.</div></div>
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