Public Relations category: 887 books
Post-Communist Romania at Twenty-Five
Linking Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
2014 marked the 25th anniversary of the collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe. The events of 1989 are widely seen as having ushered in new all-encompassing reforms in almost all areas of life. In few other places were reforms more contested and divisive than in Romania, a country that suffered...
by Tadashi Hirai
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
This book examines the main reasons and challenges for the success of the human development approach both in theory and practice as an alternative to the economic growth model. Unlike the preceding research which has typically been either theoretical/prescriptive or empirical/descriptive, it follows...
The Economic Super Power
China's Secret Strategy To Become The Global Superpower
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
As you read this book, you will understand the strategic policies and measures that the Chinese government has pursued to transform indigenous china into the most industrialized country of the world. The future of the nation is bright. This book will bring to your notice everything that you need to...
Global Climate Policy
Actors, Concepts, and Enduring Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
Analyses of the international climate change regime consider the challenges of maintaining current structures and the possibilities for creating new forms of international cooperation.
The current international climate change regime has a long history, and it is likely that its evolution will...
Shaping EU Policy from Below
EU Democracy and the Committee of the Regions
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
This book looks at the way in which the Committee of the Regions (CoR) can influence EU policy making from below, despite its relatively weak position in the decision-making process. Bringing together theoretical arguments about the central role of the formation of judgment in addition to the more conventionally...
Etudes Avril 2014
Conflits familiaux et droits collaboratif
Language: French
Release Date: April 1, 2014
« La stigmatisation du Grand Satan cache une autre dimension de la diplomatie iranienne. » Yann Richard
« L’inefficience des marchés financiers justifie une intervention publique, notamment dans le cas de la transition énergétique. » Alain Grandjean
« C’est parce que les...
Crisis Leadership
Dealing with Disasters from Asia to Africa and America
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Terrorism. Tsunamis. Earthquakes. Epidemics. What do they have in common? Each is a crisis. Each requires an urgent response. Each demands leadership—crisis leadership—to recover and rebound. But what is crisis leadership? When does it succeed? What makes it fail? Crisis Leadership: From Asia...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
As governments around the world grapple with the challenge of delivering environmental sustainability, attention has recently focused on the role that citizens should play in meeting the challenge. In advanced industrial countries such as ours, which operate in the political framework of liberal capitalism,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Long run processes of socio-economic change generate prodigious problems of social conflict and social control, and governments responsible for these processes must therefore manage the resultant conflict. Consequently, the success or failure of a government's management of such conflicts is a crucial...
Environmental Governance through Partnerships
A Discourse Theoretical Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Transnational partnerships have become mainstream across levels and issues of environmental governance, following their endorsement by the UN in 2002. Despite apparent success, their desirability as a way of governing human interactions with the planet’s ecosystems has not yet been properly investigated....
by Mark Beeson
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2019
The world currently faces a number of challenges that no single country can solve. Whether it is managing a crisis-prone global economy, maintaining peace and stability, or trying to do something about climate change, there are some problems that necessitate collective action on the part of states...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
The prosperity and national security of the United States depend directly on the prosperity and stability of both partner and competing countries around the world. Today, U.S. interests are under rising pressure from water scarcity, extreme weather events and water-driven ecological change in key...
Titans of the Climate
Explaining Policy Process in the United States and China
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
How the planet's two largest greenhouse gas emitters navigate climate policy.
The United States and China together account for a disproportionate 45 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. In 2014, then-President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced complementary efforts to...
Environmentalism, Resistance and Solidarity
The Politics of Friends of the Earth International
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Drawing from a rich mix of survey data, interviews, and access to internal meetings, Brian Doherty and Timothy Doyle show how FoEI has developed a distinctive environmentalism, which allows for the differences in context between regions and across the North-South divide.