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• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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• Release Date : 13 June 2024

'The United Nations: a Very Short Introduction' engages the current debate over the United Nation's effectiveness and explains how it was originally conceived, how it has come to its present

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 28 October 2008

The United Nations has been called everything from "the best hope of mankind" to "irrelevant" and "obsolete." With this much-needed introduction to the UN, Jussi Hanhim?ki engages the current

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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• Release Date : 13 June 2024

Focusing on highly topical issues such as torture, arbitrary detention, privacy, and discrimination, this book will help readers to understand for themselves the controversies and complexities behind human rights.

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
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• Release Date : 26 November 2015

Interest in international law has increased greatly over the past decade, largely because of its central place in discussions such as the Iraq War and Guantanamo, the World Trade Organisation,

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 25 July 2013

John Pinder and Simon Usherwood explain the EU in plain readable English. They show how and why it has developed, how the institutions work, and what it does - from

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 05 May 2015

After seven decades of existence has the UN become obsolete? Is it ripe for retirement? As Jussi Hanhimäki proves in the second edition of this Very Short Introduction, the

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 13 June 2024

Decolonization is the term commonly used to refer to this transition from a world of colonial empires to a world of nation-states in the years after World War II. This

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
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• Release Date : 26 July 2007

Of undoubtable relevance today, in a post-9-11 world of growing political tension and unease, this Very Short Introduction covers the topics essential to an understanding of modern international relations.

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 25 October 2012

Generally referring to all forms of social coordination and patterns of rule, the term 'governance' is used in many different contexts. In this Very Short Introduction, Mark Bevir explores the

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 13 June 2024

Annotation Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa represent almost 18% of the world economy, with their contribution to world growth having already exceeded 50%. But what does the emergence of the