LIBROS DEL AUTOR: cynthia schoch

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  • Disasterland
    Sandrine Revet / Cynthia Schoch / Katharine Throssell
    This book analyses the making of the international world of ’natural’ disasters by its professionals. Through a long-term ethnographic study of this arena, the author unveils the various elements that are necessary for the construction of an international world: a collective narrative, a shared language, and standardized practices. The book analyses the two main framings that t...
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    68,52 €

  • Egypt’s Revolutions
    Cynthia Schoch / John Angell
    Where is Egypt headed? Did the people ’bring down the government’? Has the country become the first front in a regional counter-revolution backed by the Gulf monarchies? These are only some of the questions that this volume - the first to describe the ongoing dynamics in Egypt since the outbreak of revolution - explores. ...
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    66,29 €

  • Israel’s Asymmetric Wars
    S. Cohen / Cynthia Schoch
    This book is devoted to Israel’s asymmetric wars, those conducted against irregular armed groups that have attacked it. It seeks to understand the Israeli strategy in the fight against terrorists acting under the guise of civilians or using the population as human shields. The army has implemented a loosely devised, if not simplistic, doctrine of 'disproportionate response' sin...
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    66,66 €

  • Norms over Force
    Z. Laïdi / Cynthia Schoch
    Can Europe defend its social model in a globalized world when the US, China, India and Russia are enhancing their national sovereignties and playing power politics? This original and informative book addresses such questions and considers if Europe, although it is not a ’super state’, would be able to impose norms over force. ...
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    66,91 €

  • Tropical Forests, International Jungle
    M. Smouts / Cynthia Schoch
    Marie-Claude Smouts looks at the issue of rain forest depletion and global environmental policies. Beginning with how the issue entered the world stage in the 1980s despite alarms over the issue in the 1950s, Tropical Forests, International Jungle explores the complexities of what are tropical forests, what role they play not only in environmentalism but in trade, health care, ...
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    134,14 €