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138282
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The three televised leaders’ debates dominated the 2010 general election campaign. The House of Lords Communications Committee report on Broadcast General Election Debates is the product of a welcome but belated public inquiry into their organisation and conduct. The report is supportive of the view that ‘broadcast general election debates should take place during future campaigns’ and makes a number of cautious recommendations to the broadcasters. At the time of writing it was unclear whether the format proposed by the broadcasters for 2015 would be an improvement on that for 2010—or even if there would be any debates at all.
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121047
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2013.
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This essay explores the value and state of civics education in the United States and identifies five challenges facing those seeking to improve its quality and accessibility: 1) ensuring that the quality of civics education is high is not a state or federal priority; 2) social studies textbooks do not facilitate the development of needed civic skills; 3) upper-income students are better served by our schools than are lower-income individuals; 4) cutbacks in funds available to schools make implementing changes in civics education difficult; and 5) reform efforts are complicated by the fact that civics education has become a pawn in a polarized debate among partisans.
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159926
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This article explores post-2009 contributions to intelligence theorizing that focus on critique and transformation of dominant IS ontologies and epistemologies. This exploration illuminates diverse theoretical resources that can help reveal hidden or misunderstood intelligence-related phenomena. The article contributes to recent calls for establishing a Critical Intelligence Studies subfield that attempts to move associated scholarship from the margins of Intelligence Studies to a more visible and influential position within the field.
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172125
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There have been many academic debates in the Chinese academic circle of international law during the past few decades. Both positive and negative attitudes were presented on the functioning of international law within the world order, while different understandings were provided on China’s dealings with international law and various views were expressed on frontier issues of international law. The debates were also reflected in and through China’s diplomatic position and discourse, and have influenced China’s stance and concepts in relation to international affairs.
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ID:
155128
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Cambridge, Polity Press, 2016.
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xii, 203p.pbk
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9780745689623
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
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103744
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2011.
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One of the aims of this article it to clarify the nature of the debate over 'civil society' and its relationship to the state. It begins by suggesting that the EU's borderland provides a context in which deep-rooted 'Western' and 'Eastern' understandings of state and civil society meet and overlap. The second section outlines the geo-political reshaping of the 'Neighbourhood'. It concentrates on the influence of non-EU actors, notably Russia, complementing the EU-focused literature on the subject. The third section elaborates the consensus in the literature on the weakness of civil society in the EU 'Neighbourhood'. This is followed by a discussion of 'Western' debates over the role and significance of civil society. This discussion suggests that the 'export' of a Western model eastwards begs many questions about which particular model is to be promoted. It concludes that the precise characteristics of state-civil society relationship remains central to the prospects for enhancing civil society co-operation.
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117668
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141289
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Resilience has gained substantial traction in international politics of late. This scholarship has sparked debates concerning the meaning of resilience and how scholars should go about studying it. Scholars attuned to Michel Foucault's governmentality thesis argue that resilience is a product of contemporary neoliberalism and constitutes a strategy permitting states to abdicate responsibility in times of crisis. The overarching objective of this article is to tell a different sociopolitical story of the connections between resilience and international politics. In mapping International Relations (IR) scholars working on resilience, the gist of the argument presented here is that although resilience may be in some instances a neoliberal device for governance, it has a wider range of meanings as well. By setting out a different narrative of resilience, this article opens the possibility of an analysis that sees the emergence of resilience in international politics holding great promise for renewing and deepening current IR debates, including securitization, international interventions, vulnerability, resistance, and the political use of myth.
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143722
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THE 23RD OF OCTOBER 2015 was the final day of the 11th round of negotiations between the European Union and the United States on a proposed free trade treaty. The full name of the accord, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), reflects its comprehensive character. The proposed agreement aims not only to remove customs barriers but also to harmonize various regulatory standards, protect investors, put restrictions on the use of subsidies, provide foreign companies with equal access to government procurement contracts, and solve a whole range of other sensitive problems. TTIP may bring into being a mega-bloc that would account for a nearly 40% share of the gross world product and run one-third of international trade.
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