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Baldwin, "The Political Economy Of National Security: An Annotated Bibliography" English | 2019 | ISBN: 0813379083, 036729494X, 0367310406 | EPUB | pages: 130 | 0.5 mb This bibliography focuses on books and articles dealing with the interplay of wealth and power in the context of national security policy, emphasising on the economic instruments of statecraft that are used to pursue national security goals and examining the politics of economic cooperation. ![]() Free Download Arpad Szakolczai, Agnes Horvath, Attila Z. Papp, "The Political Anthropology of Ethnic and Religious Minorities" English | 2018 | ISBN: 036789291X, 081538212X | EPUB | pages: 138 | 0.9 mb This book presents some arguments for why a political anthropological perspective can be particularly helpful for understanding the connected political and cultural challenges and opportunities posed by the situation of ethnic and religious minorities. 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Subsequent chapters demonstrate how the described political anthropological conceptual framework can be used in certain European regions, and in the case of certain ethnic and religious minority, and each illustrates that instead of charismatic leaders, trickster politicians are emerging and increasingly dominate, through the "public sphere", the space of modern politics emptied of real presence. ![]() Free Download Hanna Ojanen, "The Plurality of Truth: A Critique of Research on the State and European Integration" English | 2020 | ISBN: 1138341487, 1138341479 | EPUB | pages: 377 | 0.7 mb First published in 1998, this book breaks a path through the vast field of integration research showing how and why views on the relationship between the state and integration have developed in time. It illustrates the development by dialogues between representatives of opposing views and renders their plurality understandable through spelling out choices made in research and identifying the crucial background factors which direct research: disciplinary divisions, scholars' methodological preferences, views on science and theory, and their values. It further shows the decisive concrete influence of the views through displaying contradictory interpretations of two case studies; Finnish integration policy and Nordic cooperation. Concentrating on the immediate pre-enlargement period, these studies show how the question of the consequences of EU membership was tackled in practice. 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