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Bilateral Stability, Global Instability: The Political Economy of Contemporary Anglo-Japanese Economic Relations (2007)
Book Chapter
Lee, S. (2007). Bilateral Stability, Global Instability: The Political Economy of Contemporary Anglo-Japanese Economic Relations. In P. Towle, & . N. M. Kosuge (Eds.), Britain and Japan in The Twentieth Century: One Hundred Years of Trade and Prejudice (138-151). London: Bloomsbury Publishing

After the horrors of World War II in Asia - not least the systematic appalling mistreatment of Allied prisoners-of-war by the Japanese military - few would have predicted that Britain's relationship with Japan would flourish into a booming partnershi... Read More about Bilateral Stability, Global Instability: The Political Economy of Contemporary Anglo-Japanese Economic Relations.

Chinese cyberspaces: technological changes and political effects. Edited by Jens Damm and Simona Thomas. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. The Internet in China: unlocking and containing the public Sphere. Johan Lagerkvist. Lund: Lund University, 2006 (2007)
Journal Article
Dai, X. (2007). Chinese cyberspaces: technological changes and political effects. Edited by Jens Damm and Simona Thomas. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. The Internet in China: unlocking and containing the public Sphere. Johan Lagerkvist. Lund: Lund University, 2006. The China quarterly, 196 - 198

Boosting investment and growth: the role of social pacts in the Brazilian automotive industry (2007)
Journal Article
Doctor, M. (2007). Boosting investment and growth: the role of social pacts in the Brazilian automotive industry. Oxford development studies, 35(1), 105-130. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600810601167629

The article examines why the automotive industry invested over US$20 billion in Brazil in the second half of the 1990s, focusing on how political economy factors influenced investment decisions. It is argued that, in a context of economic and policy... Read More about Boosting investment and growth: the role of social pacts in the Brazilian automotive industry.

The Constitution (2007)
Book Chapter
Norton, P. (2007). The Constitution. In A. Seldon (Ed.), Blair's Britain, 1997–2007 (104-122). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511490828.007

One area in which there was a clear divide between the parties in 1997 was that of constitutional reform. The Conservatives were defenders of existing arrangements. Labour advocated a major overhaul of the nation's constitutional arrangements. The pa... Read More about The Constitution.

Idealist Political Philosophy: Pluralism and conflict in the absolute idealist tradition (2006)
Book
Tyler, C. (2006). Idealist Political Philosophy: Pluralism and conflict in the absolute idealist tradition. Continuum

The central claim of this book is that previous scholars have not appreciated the depths and complexities of the relationships between British idealist radicalism and the earlier idealist tradition of Kant, Fichte, Hegel and Carlyle. Colin Tyler expl... Read More about Idealist Political Philosophy: Pluralism and conflict in the absolute idealist tradition.

Israeli institutions at the crossroads (2005)
Journal Article
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2005). Israeli institutions at the crossroads. Israel affairs, 11(2), 462-467. https://doi.org/10.1080/1353712042000326560

This essay discusses the SHABAC affair of 1984, conceiving it as the most serious scandal in Israel's history. I argue that key figures and institutions in Israeli society, including the president, the prime minister, the government, the knesset, the... Read More about Israeli institutions at the crossroads.

The 1907 Naval War Plans and the second Hague peace conference: a case of propaganda (2005)
Journal Article
Martin, C. (2005). The 1907 Naval War Plans and the second Hague peace conference: a case of propaganda. Journal of Strategic Studies, 28(5), 833-856. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390500393993

The phenomenon of mutual sea denial had rendered offensive naval actions such as commercial blockade impossible in the narrow seas around Europe. Consequently, the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir John Fisher, abandoned commercial blockade for the safer o... Read More about The 1907 Naval War Plans and the second Hague peace conference: a case of propaganda.

The scope of tolerance: Studies on the costs of free expression and freedom of the press (2005)
Book
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2005). The scope of tolerance: Studies on the costs of free expression and freedom of the press. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203003411

© 2006 Raphael Cohen-Almagor. All rights reserved. One of the dangers in any political system is that the principles that underlie and characterize it may, through their application, bring about its destruction. Liberal democracy is no exception. Mor... Read More about The scope of tolerance: Studies on the costs of free expression and freedom of the press.

The Rise of ‘New’ Policy Instruments in Comparative Perspective: Has Governance Eclipsed Government? (2005)
Journal Article
Jordan, A., Wurzel, R. K. W., & Zito, A. (2005). The Rise of ‘New’ Policy Instruments in Comparative Perspective: Has Governance Eclipsed Government?. Political studies, 53(3), 477-496. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2005.00540.x

Governance is a term in good currency, but there are still too few detailed empirical analyses of the precise extent to which it has or has not eclipsed government. This article explores the temporal and spatial characteristics of the governance tran... Read More about The Rise of ‘New’ Policy Instruments in Comparative Perspective: Has Governance Eclipsed Government?.

International conflict and security law : essays in memory of Hilaire McCoubrey (2005)
Book
Burchill, R., White, N. D., & Morris, J. (Eds.). (2005). International conflict and security law : essays in memory of Hilaire McCoubrey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511495137

© Cambridge University Press 2005. Hilaire McCoubrey wrote extensively in the area of armed conflict law, and on the issues of collective security law and the law relating to arms control. Although he died at the early age of 46 in 2000 he had contri... Read More about International conflict and security law : essays in memory of Hilaire McCoubrey.

Unpublished manuscripts in British idealism : political philosophy, theology and social thought. 2 vols. (2005)
Book
Tyler, C. (2005). Unpublished manuscripts in British idealism : political philosophy, theology and social thought. 2 vols. Thoemmes Continuum

A selection of previously-unpublished manuscripts by British idealists (Bernard Bosanquet, Edward Caird, T.H. Green, and D.G. Ritchie), transcribed and edited for the first time.  Paperback reprint published in 2008 by Imprint Academic. Returned in ... Read More about Unpublished manuscripts in British idealism : political philosophy, theology and social thought. 2 vols..