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    Living with Climate Change and Environmental Hazards in the Past and Now

    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book gathers different case studies of resilience and coping strategies in hunter-gatherer societies who were confronted with natural hazards. Joined in this book, authors display a range of strategies how people could face natural hazards and climate change, how they manage stress at a group or personal level, and how they transmit their knowledge about dreadful events and ... Read more

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  • Conflicting Objectives in Democracy Promotion

    Do All Good Things Go Together?

    Series series Democratization Special Issues
    The agenda of external actors often includes a number of objectives that do not necessarily and automatically go together. Fostering security and stability in semi-authoritarian regimes collides with policies aimed at the support of processes of democratization prone to conflict and destabilization. Meanwhile, the promotion of national self-determination and political empowerment might lead to ... Read more

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  • War and Democratization

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    Edited by Wolfgang Merkel, Sonja Grimm ...
    Series series Democratization Special Issues
    Promotion of democracy in post-war and post-conflict societies became a topic during the 1990s. The book deals with the legality, legitimacy and effectiveness of military interventions where the international community of states not only felt impelled to engage in military humanitarian or peace-building missions but also in long-term state- and democracy-building. External actors particularly ... Read more

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  • The Political Invention of Fragile States

    The Power of Ideas

    Series series ThirdWorlds
    This book investigates the emergence, the dissemination and the reception of the notion of ‘state fragility’. It analyses the process of conceptualisation, examining how the ‘fragile states’ concept was framed by policy makers to describe reality in accordance with their priorities in the fields of development and security. Contributors investigate the instrumental use of the ‘state fragility’ ... Read more

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