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14. Accountability in Parliament
Mark Bennister and Phil Larkin
in Exploring Parliament
This chapter focuses on the accountability of the government to Parliament. One way to conceptualize the place of the UK Parliament in the accountability process is as part of a ‘chain of ...
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20. Acting for Europe: Reassessing the European Union’s Role in International Relations
Christopher Hill, Michael Smith, and Sophie Vanhoonacker
in International Relations and the European Union (3rd edn)
This chapter summarizes the volume's major findings and revisits the three perspectives on the European Union: as a system of international relations, as a participant in wider ...
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6. Actors, structures, and foreign policy analysis
Walter Carlsnaes
in Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases (3rd edn)
This chapter examines how actors and structures make foreign policy an extremely complicated field of study and how, in view of this complexity, these actors and structures have been ...
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3. The Administrative Organization and Governance of Parliament
Sarah Petit and Ben Yong
in Exploring Parliament
This chapter discusses the administrative organization and governance of the UK Parliament — that is, the way in which the two Houses of Parliament are directed, managed, and led. More ...
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28. After the Return to Theory:: The Past, Present, and Future of Security Studies
Ole Wæver and Barry Buzan
in Contemporary Security Studies (4th edn)
This chapter reflects on the past and present of Security Studies, with a particular focus on the changing periods of theory production and practical problem solving. It begins by tracing ...
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28. After the Return to Theory: The Past, Present, and Future of Security Studies
Ole Wæver and Barry Buzan
in Contemporary Security Studies (5th edn)
This chapter reflects on the past and present of Security Studies, with a particular focus on the changing periods of theory production and practical problem solving. It begins by tracing ...
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19. Agriculture
Ian Bache, Simon Bulmer, Stephen George, and Owen Parker
in Politics in the European Union (4th edn)
This chapter examines the European Union’s policy on agriculture. The importance that the EU has given to the agricultural sector can be attributed in large part to food shortages at the ...
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21. Agriculture
Simon Bulmer, Owen Parker, Ian Bache, Stephen George, and Charlotte Burns
in Politics in the European Union (5th edn)
This chapter examines the European Union’s (EU’s) policy on agriculture. The importance that the EU has given to the agricultural sector can be attributed in large part to food shortages at ...
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9. Alliances and Regionalism in the Middle East
Louise Fawcett
in International Relations of the Middle East (4th edn)
This chapter investigates the changing dynamics of regionalism and alliance-making in the Middle East alongside international relations approaches that focus on the role of ideas, ...
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7. America in the 1990s: searching for purpose
John Dumbrell
in US Foreign Policy (3rd edn)
This chapter examines how the external environment of US foreign policy and internal pressures on policy makers both shifted radically in the 1990s. Internationally, the ‘long 1990s’ were ...
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5. America in the 1990s: searching for purpose
John Dumbrell
in US Foreign Policy (2nd edn)
This chapter examines U.S. foreign policy debates and policy management under the direction of George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. It first provides an overview of post-Cold War American ...
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3. American exceptionalism
Daniel Deudney and Jeffrey W. Meiser
in US Foreign Policy (3rd edn)
This chapter argues why we must think of the United States as an exceptional kind of nation with a very distinct past and an equally distinct set of capabilities. It first considers ...
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2. American exceptionalism
Daniel Deudney and Jeffrey Meiser
in US Foreign Policy (2nd edn)
This chapter examines how America can be described as different and exceptional. The belief in American exceptionalism is based upon a number of core realities, including American military ...
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21. American foreign policy after 9/11
Caroline Kennedy-Pipe
in US Foreign Policy (2nd edn)
This chapter examines U.S. foreign policy after 9/11 with a view to looking at continuities as well as the disjunctions of Washington’s engagement with the world. It first considers the ...
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6. American foreign policy during the Cold War
Richard Saull
in US Foreign Policy (3rd edn)
This chapter examines US foreign policy during the Cold War, beginning with an overview of the main historical developments in US policy. It first considers the origins of the Cold War and ...
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4. American foreign policy during the Cold War
Richard Saull
in US Foreign Policy (2nd edn)
This chapter offers a theoretically informed overview of American foreign policy during the Cold War. It covers the main historical developments in U.S. policy: from the breakdown of the ...
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22. The American liberal order: from creation to crisis
G. John Ikenberry
in US Foreign Policy (3rd edn)
This chapter examines the rise and evolution of the liberal order that was created by the United States and and other liberal democratic states in the decades after World War II, along with ...
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14. Analysing Qualitative Data
Tom Clark, Liam Foster, and Alan Bryman
in How to do your Social Research Project or Dissertation
This chapter discusses the analysis of qualitative material. There are many types of qualitative analysis. Some approaches are related to specific forms of data, whereas others are more ...
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13. Analysing Quantitative Data
Tom Clark, Liam Foster, and Alan Bryman
in How to do your Social Research Project or Dissertation
This chapter discusses two approaches to analyse quantitative data: descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Descriptive statistics allows the student to summarize and describe ...
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5. Anarchism
David Bates
in Political Ideologies
This chapter examines the key ideas and concepts of ‘classical’ anarchist thinkers. Among the ideas associated with anarchism are: a belief in the potential of human nature, and a ...
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