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“thomas bernauer”

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  • A Swiss Foreign Policy for the 21st Century

    Edited by Thomas Bernauer, Katja Gentinetta, Joëlle Kuntz ...
    Switzerland is facing critical foreign policy challenges. Its relationship with the EU is still unsettled, the geopolitical landscape is changing rapidly, and technological innovation brings additional dynamics into play. This book provides a forward-looking guide for all those concerned with Swiss foreign policy issues, and an overview of Swiss foreign policy along its key areas. It deals, for ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Genes, Trade, and Regulation

    The Seeds of Conflict in Food Biotechnology

    by Thomas Bernauer ...
    Agricultural (or "green") biotechnology is a source of growing tensions in the global trading system, particularly between the United States and the European Union. Genetically modified food faces an uncertain future. The technology behind it might revolutionize food production around the world. Or it might follow the example of nuclear energy, which declined from a symbol of socioeconomic ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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  • Small States in World Markets

    Industrial Policy in Europe

    by Peter J. Katzenstein ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    By the early 1980s the average American had a lower standard of living than the average Norwegian or Dane. Standards of living in the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, and Austria also rivaled those in the United States. How have seven small democracies achieved economic success and what can they teach America?In Small States in World Markets, Peter Katzenstein examines the successes of ... Read more

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  • Renegotiating the Welfare State

    Flexible Adjustment through Corporatist Concertation

    Edited by Gerhard Lehmbruch, Frans van Waarden ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
    Why have some countries have been more successful in welfare state reform than others? This book examines the experiences of various countries in reforming their welfare states through renegotiations between the state and peak associations of employers and employees. This corporatist concertation has been blamed for bringing about all the ills of the welfare state, but lately corporate ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Transatlantic Trade Negotiations

    TTIP in a Globalized World

    by Jean-Frederic Morin, Tereza Novotná, Frederik Ponjaert, Mario Telò ...
    Series series Globalisation, Europe, and Multilateralism
    By focusing on the wider process of negotiations, this novel volume presents the first systematic analysis of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The authors include outstanding scholars and relevant practitioners from across disciplines and various academic institutions around Europe and North America, but also from outside of the transatlantic basin. While presenting a ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Relations between Immigration and Integration Policies in Europe

    Challenges, Opportunities and Perspectives in Selected EU Member States

    Edited by Maciej Duszczyk, Marta Pachocka, Dominika Pszczółkowska ...
    Written from a pan-European perspective, this book examines the decision-making processes in immigration and integration policies in Europe across decades, focusing on several key moments of Europe’s postwar history.The analysis of factors taken into consideration by states in key moments of immigration policy (re)formulation shows that Europe is moving away from rational, economic arguments ... Read more

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  • Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity

    by Kathleen Thelen ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    This book examines contemporary changes in labor market institutions in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, focusing on developments in industrial relations, vocational education and training, and labor market policy. It finds that there are in fact distinct varieties of liberalization associated with very different distributive outcomes. Most scholarship equates ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Singapore And Switzerland: Secrets To Small State Success

    by Yvonne Guo, Jun Jie Woo ...
    The cases of Singapore and Switzerland present a fascinating puzzle: how have two small states achieved similar levels of success through divergent pathways? Are both approaches equally sustainable, and what lessons do they hold for each other? While Singapore is the archetypal developmental state, whose success can be attributed to strong political leadership and long-term planning, Switzerland's ... Read more

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  • The Untold Story of the World's Leading Environmental Institution

    UNEP at Fifty

    by Maria Ivanova ...
    Series series One Planet
    The past, present, and possible future of the agency designed to act as "the world's environmental conscience."The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) was founded in 1972 as a nimble, fast, and flexible entity at the core of the UN system--a subsidiary body rather than a specialized agency. It was intended to be the world's environmental conscience, an anchor institution that established ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Policy-Making Processes and the European Constitution

    A Comparative Study of Member States and Accession Countries

    Edited by Thomas König, Simon Hug ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    This new volume presents a wealth of fresh data documenting and analyzing the different positions taken by governments in the development of the European Constitution.It examines how such decisions have substantial effects on the sovereignty of nation states and on the lives of citizens, independent of the ratification of a constitution. Few efforts have been made to document constitution building ... Read more

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  • Swiss Democracy

    Possible Solutions to Conflict in Multicultural Societies

    by Wolf Linder, Sean Mueller ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book provides an updated and fully revised 4th edition of this authoritative analysis of Swiss democracy. It particularly explains the institutions of federalism and consensus government through political power sharing. In this new edition, the authors also address several important changes and challenges that have affected Swiss democracy, including the country's relationship ... Read more

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  • Trading for Good

    How Global Trade Can be Made to Serve People Not Money

    by Christian Felber ...
    Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, but few would consider it a social good. Instead, our views on trade have polarized between two extremes: 'free trade' ideologues who regard trade as an end in itself, and 'protectionists' who view it as a destructive force to be contained. But there is another way to trade – one with the interests of people, not profit, at its heart.In this visionary ... Read more

    $17.09 USD