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  • Building a Human Security Diplomacy

    Strategies for Strengthening the Canada-China Relationship

    by Robert J. Hanlon, Kenneth Christie ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines Canada’s foreign policy in terms of China, pointing to the flaws and attitudes relating to the impracticality and lack of its pragmatic design. We examine the historical and contemporary problem which these states face in terms of their economic, political, and social differentials to see what they have in common, what separates them, and how and why they can overcome these ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Freedom from Fear, Freedom from Want

    An Introduction to Human Security

    by Robert J. Hanlon, Kenneth Christie ...
    Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, Freedom from Fear, Freedom from Want is a brief introduction to human security, conflict, and development. The book analyzes such key human security issues as climate change, crimes against humanity, humanitarian intervention, international law, poverty, terrorism, and transnational crime, among others. The authors encourage readers to critically assess ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights in Asia

    by Robert J. Hanlon ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
    As globalization has brought about new concerns and responsibilities for business, particularly in the realm of human rights, many multinational corporations (MNC) operating in Asia have argued that such rights are the responsibility of government. However, as globalization continues to improve market access for MNCs, it increasingly exposes them to new forms of transnational social movements, and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    by Paul Hopper ...
    Understanding Development offers a comprehensive introduction to the multidimensional and evolving nature of international development in the contemporary world. This new edition has been fully revised and expanded to incorporate the key events, trends and debates that are shaping development today, such as humanitarianism and the global refugee crisis, the growing number of fragile states, and ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • The China Model

    Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy

    by Daniel A. Bell ...
    How China's political model could prove to be a viable alternative to Western democracyWesterners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and “bad” authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades, China has evolved a political system that can best be described as “political meritocracy.” The China Model ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Public Administration

    Key Issues Challenging Practitioners

    by Michael Anthony Tarallo ...
    How public affairs are run depends upon the degree of authority and control central government decides to relinquish to regional and local governments, and the extent to which it favors citizen involvement in the governing process. Public administrators do not operate in a vacuum. The context within which decision-making takes place greatly influences public administrators approach to public ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Soft Power

    China's Emerging Strategy in International Politics

    by Jianfeng Chen, Xiaohe Cheng Xiaogang Deng, Yong Deng, Zhongying Pang, Ignatius Wibowo, Lening Zhang, Yongjin Zhang, Gang Chen, Joshua Kurlantzick, Suisheng Zhao, Zhiqun Zhu ...
    Soft power has become a very popular concept in international affairs, appearing in government policy papers, academic discussions, and the popular media. In China, soft power has become one of the most frequently used phrases among political leaders, leading academics, and journalists. Defined against hard power, which often involves threat and coercion, soft power applies attraction, persuasion, ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Academia, Inc.

    How Corporatization Is Transforming Canadian Universities

    by Jamie Brownlee ...
    Canadian universities are being slowly but inexorably corporatized. Casualizing academic labour, remaking students into consumers of education, implementing corporate management models and commercializing academic research all point to the ascendance of business interests and values in Canada’s higher education system.Academia, Inc. examines the tensions that result from the merging of two ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • State-Building

    Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    Series series Messenger Lectures
    Francis Fukuyama famously predicted "the end of history" with the ascendancy of liberal democracy and global capitalism. The topic of his latest book is, therefore, surprising: the building of new nation-states. The end of history was never an automatic procedure, Fukuyama argues, and the well-governed polity was always its necessary precondition. "Weak or failed states are the source of many of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Understanding Canadian Public Administration

    An Introduction to Theory and Practice, Fifth Edition

    by Gregory J. Inwood ...
    Understanding Canadian Public Administration introduces students to both the theory and the practice of public administration in Canada. It surveys the basic elements of the field in a historical context, but with close attention to contemporary issues and developments, to emphasize the real, day-to-day impacts of public administration.The text provides an overview of the field in the context of ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • The Faculty Lounges

    And Other Reasons Why You Won't Get the College Education You Pay For

    by Naomi Schaefer Riley ...
    Veteran journalist Naomi Shaefer Riley contends that tenure—the jobs-for-life entitlement that comes with a university position—is at the heart of so many problems with higher education today. She explores how tenure—with the job security, mediocre salaries, and low levels of accountability it entails—may be attracting the least innovative and interesting members of our society into teaching. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Canada in Question

    Exploring Our Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century

    by Peter MacKinnon ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    Exploring pressing questions around Canadian citizenship*, Canada in Question* delves into contemporary issues that come into play in identifying what it means to be Canadian.Beginning with an update on the status of Canadian citizenship, Peter MacKinnon acknowledges that with the exception of Indigenous peoples, most Canadians migrated to Canada in the last 400 years. In surveying the status of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD