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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “vicki birchfield”
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  • Universitas

    Why Higher Education Must Be International

    by Vicki Birchfield, Suzette Grillot, Maggi W.H. Leung, Gery Nijenhuis, Jyotika Saksena, Kyoko Shinozaki, Mihai Varga ...
    This book intervenes with urgency in the debate on the virtues, and pitfalls of internationalizing higher education. It unites voices of academics from around the globe with considerable experience with international higher education in a well-considered defense of the university as a public space transcending locality, counteracting parochialism, and defending the quality of scholarship. All ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

  • Income Inequality in Capitalist Democracies

    The Interplay of Values and Institutions

    by Vicki L. Birchfield ...
    There has been much concern about rising levels of income inequality in the societies of advanced industrial democracies. Commentators have attributed this increase to the impact of globalization, the decline of the welfare state, or the erosion of the power of labor unions and their allies among left-wing political parties. But little attention has been paid to variations among these countries in ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Reporting at the Southern Borders

    Journalism and Public Debates on Immigration in the US and the EU

    Edited by Giovanna Dell'Orto, Vicki L. Birchfield ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Global Information, Politics and Society
    Undocumented immigration across the Mediterranean and the US-Mexican border is one of the most contested transatlantic public and political issues, raising fundamental questions about national identity, security and multiculturalism—all in the glare of news media themselves undergoing dramatic transformations.This interdisciplinary, international volume fills a major gap in political science and ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Triangular Diplomacy among the United States, the European Union, and the Russian Federation

    Responses to the Crisis in Ukraine

    Edited by Vicki L. Birchfield, Alasdair R. Young ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines the crisis in Ukraine through the lens of “triangular diplomacy,” which focuses on the multiple interactions among the European Union, the United States and Russia. It is explicitly comparative, considering how the US and EU responded to ostensibly the same crisis. It also adopts a “360-degree” perspective, focusing on how the US and EU interacted in their dealings with Russia, ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

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  • Social Reproduction Theory

    Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression

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  • Conflict, Security, Foreign Policy, and International Political Economy

    Past Paths and Future Directions in International Studies

    Edited by Michael Brecher, Frank P. Harvey ...
    Series series Millennial reflections on international studies
    No study of international relations is complete without consideration of foreign policy processes and an understanding of state security, conflict in global politics, and the relationship between the world economy and international behavior. Conflict, Security, Foreign Policy, and International Political Economy: Past Paths and Future Directions in International Studies consists of twelve original ... Read more

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  • Analyzing Public Policy

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    Series series Routledge Textbooks in Policy Studies
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  • From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics

    The Shifting Boundaries between Economics and other Social Sciences

    by Ben Fine, Dimitris Milonakis ...
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  • Comparative Politics

    Rationality, Culture, and Structure

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  • The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology

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