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  • Older Workers in Transition

    European Experiences in a Neoliberal Era

    Edited by David Lain, Sarah Vickerstaff, Mariska van der Horst ...
    Series series Rethinking Work, Ageing and Retirement
    More people are extending their working lives through necessity or choice in the context of increasingly precarious labour markets and neoliberalism. This book goes beyond the aggregated statistics to explore the lived experiences of older people attempting to make job transitions.Drawing on the voices of older workers in a diverse range of European countries, leading scholars explore job ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • China’s Eurasian Pivot

    The Silk Road Economic Belt

    by Raffaello Pantucci, Sarah Lain ...
    Series series Whitehall Papers
    This Whitehall Paper is an examination of China's relations over its western borders, looking at the interplay between China's relations with South and Central Asia, and its relations with other great adjacent powers. Based on a two-year research project that included travel and workshops in South and Central Asia, this Paper examines Beijing's changing impact and relationship with its near ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Little Christmas Donkey

    A Guernsey Christmas Donkey

    by Sarah-Jayne Laine ...
    The Little Christmas Donkey tells us what happens when Father Christmas reaches Guernsey and his reindeer need a rest! He finds a little donkey to help him deliver Christmas magic to the good boys and girls of Guernsey! ... Read more

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  • Great Games, Local Rules

    The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia

    by Alexander Cooley ...
    The struggle between Russia and Great Britain over Central Asia in the nineteenth century was the original "great game." But in the past quarter century, a new "great game" has emerged, pitting America against a newly aggressive Russia and a resource-hungry China, all struggling for influence over the same region, now one of the most volatile areas in the world: the long border region stretching ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Sinostan

    China's Inadvertent Empire

    by Raffaello Pantucci, Alexandros Petersen ...
    Based on more than a decade's writing, research, and travel, this book offers a rare glimpse into China's expanding economic, cultural, and political power in the Eurasian heartland. China's rise is changing the world. Much attention has been given to how China's geo-economic vision is playing out in the global economy, or how its technology is reshaping the planet, yet it is over its western ... Read more

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  • The New Continentalism: Energy and Twenty-First-Century Eurasian Geopolitics

    by Kent E. Calder, PhD - History ...
    In this groundbreaking book Kent E. Calder argues that a new transnational configuration is emerging in Asia, driven by economic growth, rising energy demand, and the erosion of longstanding geopolitical divisions. What Calder calls the New Silk Road—with a strengthening multi-faceted relationship between East Asia and the Middle East at its core—could eventually emerge as one of the world's most ... Read more

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  • China's Rise in the Global South

    The Middle East, Africa, and Beijing's Alternative World Order

    by Dawn C. Murphy ...
    As China and the U.S. increasingly compete for power in key areas of U.S. influence, great power conflict looms. Yet few studies have looked to the Middle East and Africa, regions of major political, economic, and military importance for both China and the U.S., to theorize how China competes in a changing world system.China's Rise in the Global South examines China's behavior as a rising power in ... Read more

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  • Sanctions as Grand Strategy

    by Brendan Taylor ...
    Series series Adelphi series
    Economic sanctions are becoming increasingly central to shaping strategic outcomes in the twenty-first century. They afford great powers a means by which to seek to influence the behaviour of states, to demonstrate international leadership and to express common values for the benefit of the international community at large. Closer to home, they can also offer a 'middle way' for governments that ... Read more

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  • The EU and Conflict Resolution

    Promoting Peace in the Backyard

    by Nathalie Tocci ...
    Series series Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies
    Through the study of five ethno-political conflicts lying on or just beyond Europe's borders, this book analyzes the impact and effectiveness of EU foreign policy on conflict resolution.Conflict resolution features strongly as an objective of the European Union's foreign policy. In promoting this aim, the EU's geographical focus has rested primarily in its beleaguered backyard to the south and to ... Read more

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  • Turkey And China: Political, Economic, And Strategic Aspects Of The Relationship

    by Selcuk Colakoglu ...
    'The book represents an insightful historical and contemporary account of the Turkish-Chinese relationship, especially in the early periods it considers, and also in tracing the institutional developments between the two following Turkish domestic political changes. Moreover, Turkey and China covers how these two countries have reacted to each other over sensitive issues including Turkey's ... Read more

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    The Implications of the One Belt, One Road Initiative

    Edited by Anoushiravan Ehteshami, Niv Horesh ...
    Series series Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series
    Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) vision, heralded as an attempt to revive the pre-modern Silk Route, is intended to strengthen West Asia’s economic links with China through ambitious infrastructural projects. Central to this are fast-track rail links, funded by the newly-established Asia Infrastructure and Investment Bank (AIIB), which has its headquarters in Beijing. ... Read more

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