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The Hobbled Giant Essays On The World Bank

The Hobbled Giant Essays On The World Bank

First published in 1984. In these essays Stanley Please contends that the World Bank is constrained in its ability to use its position and . power in the interests of more rapid development of the poorer countries of the world. These constraints derive in large part from the legal restriction on the Bank to engage primarily in project lending and from the division of responsibility between the ·Bank and its sister institution the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Although the Bank's financing of projects and investment programs has made a significant contribution Mr. Please argues that greater Bank involvement in national policy formation can greatly benefit economic development. He looks at ways to increase cooperation between the Bank and the IMF examines the policy work the Bank has done in the past and assesses the capacity of the Bank for policy formation evaluates the need for it to do more such work and discusses the likely responses of developing and developed countries to these changes | The Hobbled Giant Essays On The World Bank

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The West Bank History Politics Society And Economy

The West Bank History Politics Society And Economy

First published in 1986. This study of the West Bank was originally undertaken for the Middle East Institute in Washington D. C. under the terms of its contract with the U. S. Defense Intelligence Agency. The study was compiled from a series of draft working papers. Covering The Late Ottoman period to 1967 and the second part looks at the West Bank under Israeli Occupation after 1967. | The West Bank History Politics Society And Economy

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The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank The Theatrics of Woeful Statecraft

The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank The Theatrics of Woeful Statecraft

The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank explores the manner in which the Palestinian Authority’s performative acts affect and shape the lives and subjective identities of those in its vicinity in the occupied West Bank. The nature of Palestinians’ statelessness has to contend with the rituals of statecraft that the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its Palestinian functionaries engage in. These rituals are also economically maintained by an international donor community and are vehemently challenged by Palestinian activists antagonistic to the prevalence of the statist agenda in Palestine. Conceptually the understanding of the PA’s ‘theater of statecraft’ is inspired by Judith Butler’s conception of performativity as one that encompasses several repetitive and ritual performative acts. The authors explore what they refer to as the ‘fuzzy state' (personified in the form and conduct of the PA) looks like for those living it from the vantage point of PA institutions NGOs international representative offices and activists. Methodologically the book adopts an ethnographic approach by way of interviews and observations in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank makes an important and long-due intervention by integrating performance studies and politics to suggest an understanding of the theatrics of woeful statecraft in Palestine. The book is an essential resource for students and scholars interested in the study of the state International Relations and Politics Palestine Studies and the Middle East. | The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank The Theatrics of Woeful Statecraft

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Bank Regulation Effects on Strategy Financial Accounting and Management Control

Bank Regulation Effects on Strategy Financial Accounting and Management Control

Bank Regulation: Effects on Strategy Financial Accounting and Management Control discusses and problematizes how regulation is affecting bank strategies as well as their financial accounting and management control systems. Following a period of bank de-regulation the new millennium brought a drastic change with many new regulations. Some of these are the result of the financial crisis of 2008-2009. Other regulations such as the introduction in 2005 of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for quoted companies in the EU can be related to the introduction of a new global accounting regime. It is evident from annual reports of banks that the number of new regulations in recent years is high and that they cover many different functional areas. The objectives of these regulations are also ambitious; to improve governance and control contributing to a high level of financial stability for banks. These objectives are obviously of great concern for an industry that directly and indirectly affects the financial situation not only of individuals and organizations but also nation states. Considering the importance of banks in society it is of little surprise that the attention of both scholars and practitioners has been directed towards how banks comply with new regulations and if the intended objectives of the regulations are met. This book will be of great value to all those interested in financial stability matters (practitioners policy-makers students academics) as well as to accounting and finance scholars. | Bank Regulation Effects on Strategy Financial Accounting and Management Control

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Report of the Trial of the Directors and the Manager of the City of Glasgow Bank

Report of the Trial of the Directors and the Manager of the City of Glasgow Bank

This book first published in 1879 and reissued by Garland in 1984 analyses through the evidence from the original trial the collapse of the City of Glasgow Bank in 1878 and the reasons behind it. A history of gross mismanagement had been concealed by the directors by deceits facilitated by the absence of an independent audit. | Report of the Trial of the Directors and the Manager of the City of Glasgow Bank

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China’s New Global Strategy The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Volume I

China’s New Global Strategy The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Volume I

Rising as a global power and regarding the existing world order unjust and unreasonable enough to meet the interests of both itself and other emerging powers China has demanded reform to global governance and taken new initiatives using its new quotient of wealth and influence to draw countries into its orbit. This comprehensive volume focuses on the two most important of these initiatives: the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) launched in 2013 to strengthen China’s connectivity with a large part of the world through infrastructure and economic development; and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) created in 2015 which represented China’s effort in the reconstruction of the international development rules. This book explores how these two initiatives are central to China’s emerging global strategy. The authors examine China’s geopolitical and geo-economic motivations and domestic political dynamics in launching these two initiatives. They also investigate the responses from the major foreign partners involved in both initiatives. This book will be of great interest to students academics and researchers of China’s emerging global strategy. It comprises articles originally published in the Journal of Contemporary China. | China’s New Global Strategy The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Volume I

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Law Development and Regulatory Globalisation The Case of the World Bank in India's Electricity Sector

Law Development and Regulatory Globalisation The Case of the World Bank in India's Electricity Sector

Exploring the phenomenon of diffusion of legal norms accompanying economic globalisation in developing countries this book examines the blanket imposition of standard regulatory templates maintaining that every jurisdiction requires customised legal solutions. Adopted by over 80 developing jurisdictions the World Bank’s 1993 regulatory template for electricity sector reform has been one of the most widely diffused regulatory models. This book uses the example of its implementation in India to address the more general process of regulatory globalisation for developing countries. Amongst other objectives the World Bank’s template endeavoured to insulate economic decision making from politics through legal reform. Through this template the World Bank endeavoured to transform the role of the Indian state in the electricity sector from an interventionist or welfare state to a neo-liberal regulatory state by imposing constitution-like obligations. The book demonstrates that the unique social economic and political characteristics of a jurisdiction cannot be ignored when incorporating a regulatory template in a jurisdictional context; for by influencing the way an external regulatory model is internalized it is these characteristics that determine its outcome. Providing a detailed empirical analysis of this key aspect of development policy this book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of law and development politics and public administration; as well as development practitioners and policy makers involved in reforming sector regulatory frameworks in their countries. | Law Development and Regulatory Globalisation The Case of the World Bank in India's Electricity Sector

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Black Power Music Protest Songs Message Music and the Black Power Movement

Black Power Music Protest Songs Message Music and the Black Power Movement

Black Power Music! Protest Songs Message Music and the Black Power Movement critically explores the soundtracks of the Black Power Movement as forms of movement music. That is to say much of classic Motown soul and funk music often mirrored and served as mouthpieces for the views and values as well as the aspirations and frustrations of the Black Power Movement. Black Power Music! is also about the intense interconnections between Black popular culture and Black political culture both before and after the Black Power Movement and the ways in which the Black Power Movement in many senses symbolizes the culmination of centuries of African American politics creatively combined with and ingeniously conveyed through African American music. Consequently the term Black Power music can be seen as a code word for African American protest songs and message music between 1965 and 1975. Black Power music is a new concept that captures and conveys the fact that the majority of the messages in Black popular music between 1965 and 1975 seem to have been missed by most people who were not actively involved in or in some significant way associated with the Black Power Movement. | Black Power Music Protest Songs Message Music and the Black Power Movement

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IMF and World Bank Sponsored Structural Adjustment Programs in Africa Ghana's Experience 1983-1999

IMF and World Bank Sponsored Structural Adjustment Programs in Africa Ghana's Experience 1983-1999

This title was first published in 2001: Bringing together geographers planners political scientists economists rural development specialists bankers public administrators and other development experts this volume questions the benefits of Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs). It critically assesses the impact of SAPs from a wider perspective than a purely economic one highlighting concerns about impacts of adjustments on the more vulnerable elements of society such as social welfare the environment labour gender and agriculture. Revealing both the costs and benefits of the economic restructuring programme the book also suggests alternatives to current development models and how SAPs can be made more sustainable. An original and comprehensive addition to the collections of both students and practitioners of development. | IMF and World Bank Sponsored Structural Adjustment Programs in Africa Ghana's Experience 1983-1999

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Designing Audio Power Amplifiers

Designing Audio Power Amplifiers

This comprehensive book on audio power amplifier design will appeal to members of the professional audio engineering community as well as the student and enthusiast. Designing Audio Power Amplifiers begins with power amplifier design basics that a novice can understand and moves all the way through to in-depth design techniques for very sophisticated audiophiles and professional audio power amplifiers. This book is the single best source of knowledge for anyone who wishes to design audio power amplifiers. It also provides a detailed introduction to nearly all aspects of analog circuit design making it an effective educational text. Develop and hone your audio amplifier design skills with in-depth coverage of these and other topics: Basic and advanced audio power amplifier design Low-noise amplifier design Static and dynamic crossover distortion demystified Understanding negative feedback and the controversy surrounding it Advanced NFB compensation techniques including TPC and TMC Sophisticated DC servo design MOSFET power amplifiers and error correction Audio measurements and instrumentation Overlooked sources of distortion SPICE simulation for audio amplifiers including a tutorial on LTspice SPICE transistor modeling including the VDMOS model for power MOSFETs Thermal design and the use of ThermalTrak™ transistors Four chapters on class D amplifiers including measurement techniques Professional power amplifiers Switch-mode power supplies (SMPS).

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Presidential Power Theories and Dilemmas

Presidential Power Theories and Dilemmas

Presidential power is perhaps one of the most central issues in the study of the American presidency. Since Richard E. Neustadt's classic study first published in 1960 there has not been a book that thoroughly examines the issue of presidential power. Presidential Power: Theories and Dilemmas by noted scholar John P. Burke provides an updated and comprehensive look at the issues constraints and exercise of presidential power. This book considers the enduring question of how presidents can effectively exercise power within our system of shared powers by examining major tools and theories of presidential power including Neustadt's theory of persuasion and bargaining as power constitutional and inherent powers Samuel Kernell's theory of going public models of historical time and the notion of internal time. Using illustrative examples from historical and contemporary presidencies Burke helps students and scholars better understand how presidents can manage the public's expectations navigate presidential-congressional relations and exercise influence in order to achieve their policy goals. | Presidential Power Theories and Dilemmas

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The Power of the Supreme People's Court Reconceptualizing Judicial Power in Contemporary China

The Power of the Supreme People's Court Reconceptualizing Judicial Power in Contemporary China

This book explores the recent development of the Supreme People’s Court of China the world’s largest highest court. Recognizing that its approach to exercising power in an authoritarian context has presented a challenge to the understanding of judicial power in both democratic and non-democratic legal settings it captures the essence of the Court through its institutional design as well as functional practice. It argues that regardless of the deep-seated political and institutional constraints the Court has demonstrated a highly pragmatic interest in fulfilling its primary functions and prudently expanding judicial power in the context of reform-era China. This notwithstanding it also discusses how the Court’s incompetence and reluctance to challenge the bureaucratism and politicization suggests that the call for an impartial and authoritative judicial power will continue to be jeopardized while the Court operates in the shadow of Party authority and lacks meaningful checks and balances. Drawing on the experience of the Court this book reflects on some deep-rooted misunderstandings of legal development in China providing a source of inspiration for reconceptualizing the internal logic of a distinct category of judicial power. | The Power of the Supreme People's Court Reconceptualizing Judicial Power in Contemporary China

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Evaluation for Inclusive and Sustainable Rural Transformation World Bank Series on Evaluation and Development Volume 9

Evaluation for Inclusive and Sustainable Rural Transformation World Bank Series on Evaluation and Development Volume 9

Written by a team of expert practitioners at the Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD this book gives an overview of evaluation practice at IFAD. It looks at how evaluation practice has evolved to reflect respond to and inform changing expectations of development assistance. It reveals how evaluation products and methodologies have benefited from key reviews revisions and lessons learned and also how they have progressively strengthened IFAD’s capacity to assess its operations and better understand its results. The book concludes with reflections on some of the challenges that lie ahead including how the independent evaluation function can continue to evolve to meet future challenges and enhance the impact of development initiatives on people’s lives. This valuable insight into practice will be of interest to researchers practitioners and policymakers in development economics development studies and rural studies. | Evaluation for Inclusive and Sustainable Rural Transformation World Bank Series on Evaluation and Development Volume 9

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Cities and Power Worldwide Perspectives

Cities and Power Worldwide Perspectives

What do cities tell us about power? How does power shape cities? These are the main questions answered by a multidisciplinary set of eminent urban scholar in crisp articles on capital cities from around the world from Buenos Aires to Tokyo from Jakarta to Moscow. Focus is on contemporary cities and their manifestations and representations of power though often with a historical grounding and the collection also includes an example of archaeological urban analysis from northern Mesopotamia. Through its variety of approaches by leading scholars of the field and its variety of cities with their different histories and their diverse national contexts and political organization the book gives a uniquely insightful and easily accessible world overview of cities of power. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Urban Sciences. | Cities and Power Worldwide Perspectives

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Economics and Power A Marxist Critique

Economics and Power A Marxist Critique

In the economic debate power is defined and studied mainly as an interpersonal relation occurring out of perfect competition. This is a consequence of the combination of methodological individualism and the assumption of competition as a natural and everlasting coordinating mechanism operating without any sort of coercion. This methodology however is not adequate to analyze the forms of social coercion that characterize capitalism. Economics and Power criticizes the main theories of power developed in economic literature analyzing ultraliberal contractualism to radical political economics and ultimately suggesting a Marxist conception of power and coercion in capitalism. Palermo’s ontological argument is rooted in the philosophy of ‘critical realism’. This unique volume presents his main finding as being that the essential coercive mechanism of capitalism is competition. Capitalist power is not caused by a lack of competition but by the central role it plays in this mode of production. Following this the chapters reconstruct a Marxian conception of power where it is analyzed as a social relation and argues that perfect competition does in fact exist under the disguise of capitalist power. This book criticizes the construct of power and the underlying ideas surrounding perfect competition. This book is of interest to those who study political economy as well as economic theory and philosophy. | Economics and Power A Marxist Critique

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Power in Contemporary Zimbabwe

Power in Contemporary Zimbabwe

In recent years the Zimbabwe crisis rendered the country and its citizens to be a typical case of ‘failed states’ the world over. Zimbabwean society was and is still confronted with different challenges which include political economic and social problems. Attempts to overcome these challenges have thrown light on the power that rests within individuals and or groups to change and even revolutionize their localities communities states and ultimately the world at large. Through experience individuals and groups have promoted ideas that have aided in changing mentalities attitudes and behaviors in societies at different levels. This book brings together contributors from various academic disciplines to reflect on and theorize the contours of power including the intrinsic and or extrinsic models of power which pertain to individuals communities and or groups in order to transform society. Reflections are on various groups such as political movements environmental movements religious groups advocacy groups gender groups to mention but a few as they struggle against marginalization discrimination exploitation and other forms of oppression showing their agency or compliance. | Power in Contemporary Zimbabwe

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Audio Power Amplifier Design

Audio Power Amplifier Design

This is the essential book reference for amplifier designers. Douglas Self covers all the design issues of noise distortion power supply rejection protection reliability and layout. He describes advanced forms of compensation that give dramatically lower distortion. This edition is much expanded and packed with new information. It is a must-have for audio power amplifier professionals and audiophiles amateur constructors and anyone with intellectual curiosity about the struggle towards technical excellence. New to the sixth edition: The characteristics of the audio signal The principles of distortion Feedback intermodulation distortion Non-switching output stages VAS distortion explained Push-pull VAS configurations Output-inclusive compensation In addition five amplifier design examples that illustrate important design principles are examined and measured in detail. These can be straightforwardly adapted to specific requirements. This new edition also includes a wealth of material on the XD crossover-displacement principle (invented by the author and in use by Cambridge Audio) four-stage amplifier architectures error correction current-mirrors power transistors with internal sensing diodes amplifier bridging input-stage-common-mode distortion amplifier stability output stages with gain inrush current suppression DC servo design thermal protection cooling fan control advanced line input stages testing and safety infrared remote control signal activation 12V trigger control the history of solid-state amplifiers and much more. Simple procedures for heatsinking and power supply design are given. | Audio Power Amplifier Design

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Power in Conservation Environmental Anthropology Beyond Political Ecology

Power in Conservation Environmental Anthropology Beyond Political Ecology

This book examines theories and ethnographies related to the anthropology of power in conservation. Conservation thought and practice is power laden—conservation thought is powerfully shaped by the history of ideas of nature and its relation to people and conservation interventions govern and affect peoples and ecologies. This book argues that being able to think deeply particularly about power improves conservation policy-making and practice. Political ecology is by far the most well-known and well-published approach to thinking about power in conservation. This book analyzes the relatively neglected but robust anthropology of conservation literature on politics and power outside political ecology especially literature rooted in Foucault. It is intended to make four of Foucault’s concepts of power accessible concepts that are most used in the anthropology of conservation: the power of discourses discipline and governmentality subject formation and neoliberal governmentality. The important ethnographic literature that these concepts have stimulated is also examined. Together theory and ethnography underpin our emerging understanding of a new Anthropocene-shaped world. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of conservation environmental anthropology and political ecology as well as conservation practitioners and policy-makers. | Power in Conservation Environmental Anthropology Beyond Political Ecology

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China and Great Power Responsibility for Climate Change

China and Great Power Responsibility for Climate Change

As American leadership over climate change declines China has begun to identify itself as a great power by formulating ambitious climate policies. Based on the premise that great powers have unique responsibilities this book explores how China’s rise to great power status transforms notions of great power responsibility in general and international climate politics in particular. The author looks empirically at the Chinese party-state’s conceptions of state responsibility discusses the influence of those notions on China’s role in international climate politics and considers both how China will act out its climate responsibility in the future and the broader implications of these actions. Alongside the argument that the international norm of climate responsibility is an emerging attribute of great power responsibility Kopra develops a normative framework of great power responsibility to shed new light on the transformations China’s rise will yield and the kind of great power China will prove to be. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations China studies foreign policy studies international organizations international ethics and environmental politics. | China and Great Power Responsibility for Climate Change

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The Power of Phenomenology Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives

The Power of Phenomenology Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives

The Power of Phenomenology took form when the two authors realized that a single theme has run through the course of their almost half-century-long collaboration like a red thread—namely the power of phenomenological inquiry and understanding in a wide range of contexts. This book demonstrates how they have experienced the power of phenomenology in their therapeutic work with patients especially those struggling with horrific trauma; in their encounters with psychological and philosophical theories; and in their efforts to comprehend destructive ideologies and the collective traumas that give rise to them. The Power of Phenomenology presents the trajectory of this work. Each chapter begins with a contribution written by one or both authors extending the power of phenomenological inquiry to one or more of these diverse contexts. The contributions are followed one or two at a time by a dialogue between the authors illustrating the dialectical process of their long collaboration. The unusual format seeks to bring the phenomenology of their collaborative efforts to life for the reader. The Power of Phenomenology will appeal to psychoanalysts psychoanalytic psychotherapists and scholars of philosophy. | The Power of Phenomenology Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives

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Journalism Gender and Power

Journalism Gender and Power

Journalism Gender and Power revisits the key themes explored in the 1998 edited collection News Gender and Power. It takes stock of progress made to date and also breaks ground in advancing critical understandings of how and why gender matters for journalism and current democratic cultures. This new volume develops research insights into issues such as the influence of media ownership and control on sexism women’s employment and macho news cultures the gendering of objectivity and impartiality tensions around the professional identities of journalists news coverage of violence against women the sexualization of women in the news the everyday experience of normative hierarchies and biases in newswork and the gendering of news audience expectations amongst other issues. These issues prompt vital questions for feminist and gender-centred explorations concerned with reimagining journalism in the public interest. Contributors to this volume challenge familiar perspectives and in so doing extend current parameters of dialogue and debate in fresh directions relevant to the increasingly digitalized interactive intersections of journalism with gender and power around the globe. Journalism Gender and Power will inspire readers to rethink conventional assumptions around gender in news reporting—conceptual professional and strategic—with an eye to forging alternative progressive ways forward.

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Competing Discourses on Japan’s Nuclear Power Pronuclear versus Antinuclear Activism

Competing Discourses on Japan’s Nuclear Power Pronuclear versus Antinuclear Activism

This book examines the discursive formation of nuclear power in Japan to provide insights into the ways this technology has been both promoted and resisted constituting and being constituted by Japan’s sociocultural landscape. Each chapter pays close attention to a particular discursive site including newspaper editorials public relations campaigns local site fights urban antinuclear activism and post-Fukushima pronuclear and antinuclear articulations. The book also raises the question of democracy and sustainability through the examination of nuclear power discourses. It demonstrates the power of discourse in shaping nuclear power by creating knowledge influencing decisions relationships identity and community. Readers will gain a range of insights from the book: prominent articulations on nuclear power discourse state and corporate strategies for enticing consent for controversial facilities and technologies the power of the media in framing public knowledge the role of social movements and activisms in civic society the power of community and nuclear power as a problematic in representative democracy and sustainability. This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in social discourse social movements Japanese society cultural studies environmental communication media analysis energy and sustainability and democracy among others. | Competing Discourses on Japan’s Nuclear Power Pronuclear versus Antinuclear Activism

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The Power of Emotions in World Politics

The Power of Emotions in World Politics

This book argues that the link between emotions and discourse provides a new and promising framework to theorize and empirically analyse power relationships in world politics. Examining the ways in which discourse evokes reveals and engages emotions the expert contributors argue that emotions are not irrational forces but have a pattern to them that underpins social relations. However these are also power relations and their articulation as socially constructed ways of feeling and expressing emotions represent a key force in either sustaining or challenging the social order. This volume goes beyond the emotions matter approach to offer specific ways to integrate the consideration of emotion into existing research. It offers a novel integration of emotion discourse and power and shows how emotion discourses establish assert challenge or reinforce power and status difference. It will be particularly useful to university researchers doctoral candidates and advanced students engaged in scholarship on emotions and discourse analysis in International Relations. | The Power of Emotions in World Politics

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