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Public Service Excellence in the 21st Century

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book combines academic wisdom and practitioners’ insights to critically examine the challenges faced by civil service systems in the 21st Century. Moreover, the book evaluates what types of civil servants are needed to tackle critical issues such as rapidly ageing populations, increased urbanisation,...

Regional Organizations in International Society: ASEAN, the EU and the Politics of Normative Arguing (Palgrave Studies in International Relations)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book explores the normative foundations of ASEAN and the EU. It revives the history of the two organizations in an in-depth narrative of the protracted arguments surrounding their establishment, legal integration and enlargement. While political actors used norms to legitimize their ideas for institutional change, the complex and...

Berlusconi ‘The Diplomat’: Populism and Foreign Policy in Italy

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book analyses the foreign policy of Silvio Berlusconi, Italian media tycoon and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments. The authors examine the Italian position in the international arena and its foreign policy tradition, as well as Berlusconi’s general political stance, Berlusconi’s...

German Political Thought and the Discourse of Platonism: Finding the Way Out of the Cave

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

Taking Plato’s allegory of the cave as its starting-point, this book demonstrates how later European thinkers can be read as a reaction and a response to key aspects of this allegory and its discourse of enchainment and liberation. Focusing on key thinkers in the tradition of European (and specifically German) political thought including...

Heidegger with Derrida: Being Written

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

Heidegger with Derrida: Being Written attempts, for the first time, to think Heidegger's philosophy through the lens of Derrida's logocentric thesis, according to which speech has, throughout the history of metaphysics, been given primacy over writing. The book offers a detailed account of Derrida's arguments about...

Energy Poverty and Access Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa: The role of regionalism (Energy, Climate and the Environment)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Access to modern energy is central in addressing the major global challenges of the 21st century, including poverty, climate change and famine. However large parts of the world, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have poor or no access to modern energy. Victoria Nalule argues that SSA countries have many common energy challenges...

Psychiatry and Decolonisation in Uganda (Mental Health in Historical Perspective)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This open access book investigates psychiatry in Uganda during the years of decolonisation. It examines the challenges facing a new generation of psychiatrists as they took over responsibility for psychiatry at the end of empire, and explores the ways psychiatric practices were tied to shifting political and development priorities, periods of...

Trust, Institutions and Managing Entrepreneurial Relationships in Africa: An SME Perspective (Palgrave Studies of Entrepreneurship in Africa)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book highlights the importance of understanding how trust and indigenous African cultural institutions enhance the development of entrepreneurial networks and relationships in Africa. Drawing on institutional theories, the author re-examines the way that entrepreneurial behaviour can be shaped, with a focus on trust, networks...

Global Outsourcing Discourse: Exploring Modes of IT Governance (Technology, Work and Globalization)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

The aim of this book is to investigate the discursive power of two original, theoretical lenses when applied to real outsourcing arrangements and phenomena. The Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) and Foucauldian perspectives are brought to bear on five outsourcing relationships in order to test the application of these discourses...

Terrorism, Technology and Apocalyptic Futures

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book centers on the power of mythical narratives and technology in creating the idea of a world that should be purged. The introduction of sin, the fall and other disruptive conflict have led mankind towards a world of scarcity, where suffering and sacrifice prevail. The author analyzes this apocalypse theory, which describes...

Queer Aging in North American Fiction

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

Exploring representations of queer aging in North American fiction, this book illuminates a rich yet previously unheeded intersection within American culture. At a time when older LGBTQ persons gradually gain visibility in gerontological studies and in the media, this work provides a critical perspective concerned with the...

Taiwan’s Party Politics and Cross-Strait Relations in Evolution (2008–2018)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book explores the dynamics of party politics in Taiwan and cross-Strait relations over the past decade. While power transfer from the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) back to the pro-status quo Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang, KMT) in 2008 ushered a great leap of cross-Strait relations in the following...

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