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Nuclear Deviance

Stigma Politics and the Rules of the Nonproliferation Game

By: Michal Smetana

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Nuclear Deviance

Stigma Politics and the Rules of the Nonproliferation Game

By: Michal Smetana

This book examines the linkage between deviance and norm change in international politics. It draws on an original theoretical perspective grounded in the sociology of deviance to study the violations of norms and rules in the global nuclear non-proliferation regime. As such, this project provides a unique conceptual framework and applies it to highly salient issues in the contemporary international security environment. The theoretical/conceptual chapters are accompanied by three extensive case studies: Iran, North Korea, and India.

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322

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Springer

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3030242250

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9783030242251

Networked Nonproliferation

Making the NPT Permanent

By: Michal Onderco

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Networked Nonproliferation

Making the NPT Permanent

By: Michal Onderco

The Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) had many opponents when, in 1995, it came up for extension. The majority of parties opposed extension, and experts expected a limited extension as countries sought alternative means to manage nuclear weapons. But against all predictions, the treaty was extended indefinitely, and without a vote. Networked Nonproliferation offers a social network theory explanation of how the NPT was extended, giving new insight into why international treaties succeed or fail. The United States was the NPT's main proponent, but even a global superpower cannot get its way through coercion or persuasion alone. Michal Onderco draws on unique in-depth interviews and newly declassified documents to analyze the networked power at play. Onderco not only gives the richest account yet of the conference, looking at key actors like South Africa, Egypt, and the EU, but also challenges us to reconsider how we think about American power in international relations. With Networked Nonproliferation, Onderco provides new insight into multilateral diplomacy in general and nuclear nonproliferation in particular, with consequences for understanding a changing global system as the US, the chief advocate of nonproliferation and a central node in the diplomatic networks around it, declines in material power.

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216

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Stanford University Press

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1503629643

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9781503629646

A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe

Volume I: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Long Nineteenth Century'

By: Balázs Trencsényi,Maciej Janowski,Monika Baar,Maria Falina,Michal Kopecek

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A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe

Volume I: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Long Nineteenth Century'

By: Balázs Trencsényi,Maciej Janowski,Monika Baar,Maria Falina,Michal Kopecek

A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe is a two-volume project, authored by an international team of researchers, and offering the first-ever synthetic overview of the history of modern political thought in East Central Europe. Covering twenty national cultures and languages, the ensuing work goes beyond the conventional nation-centered narrative and offers a novel vision especially sensitive to the cross-cultural entanglement of discourses. Devising a regional perspective, the authors avoid projecting the Western European analytical and conceptual schemes on the whole continent, and develop instead new concepts, patterns of periodization and interpretative models. At the same time, they also reject the self-enclosing Eastern or Central European regionalist narratives and instead emphasize the multifarious dialogue of the region with the rest of the world. Along these lines, the two volumes are intended to make these cultures available for the global 'market of ideas' and also help rethinking some of the basic assumptions about the history of modern political thought, and modernity as such. The first volume deals with the period ranging from the Late Enlightenment to the First World War. It is structured along four broader chronological and thematic units: Enlightenment reformism, Romanticism and the national revivals, late nineteenth-century institutionalization of the national and state-building projects, and the new ideologies of the fin-de-siècle facing the rise of mass politics. Along these lines, the authors trace the continuities and ruptures of political discourses. They focus especially on the ways East Central European political thinkers sought to bridge the gap between the idealized Western type of modernity and their own societies challenged by overlapping national projects, social and cultural fragmentation, and the lack of institutional continuity.

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720

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Oxford University Press

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0191056952

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9780191056956

Cardiovascular Surgery

By: Michal Semrád,Milan Krajíček,Pavel Šebesta

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Cardiovascular Surgery

By: Michal Semrád,Milan Krajíček,Pavel Šebesta

The history of surgical approaches to many diseases spans several centuries. However, the last century, and particularly its second half, witnessed an establishment of specialized surgical fields, such as urology surgery, neurosurgery and thoracic surgery, as a result of the rapidly growing knowledge of physiology, pathophysiology, blood transfusion, infection control as well as thanks to excellent new diagnostic methods and technological discoveries. After the Second World War, successful cardiac surgeries were carried out and later, in the 1960s, these were followed by vascular surgeries. The progress in sonography and arteriography, along with the development of new instruments, extracorporeal circulation, vascular substitutes and artificial valves, and last but not least, significant progress in the medicine in general, gradually resulted in the development of one of the pillars of modern surgery – cardiovascular surgery. Although this publication is primarily intended to help prepare foreign students at Czech universities for the demanding state examination in surgery, the arrangement of the text also makes it useful for further, special exams in cardiac and vascular surgery. after the graduation from the university.

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266

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Karolinum Press

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8024624656

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9788024624655

The Other City

A Novel

By: Michal Ajvaz

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The Other City

A Novel

By: Michal Ajvaz

A hymn to the invisible 'other' Prague, lurking on the peripheries of the town so familiar to tourists.

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178

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Dalkey Archive Press

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1564784916

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9781564784919

Book's by Michal Smetana

Nuclear Deviance

Nuclear Deviance

Networked Nonproliferation

Networked Nonproliferation

A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe

A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe

Cardiovascular Surgery

Cardiovascular Surgery

The Other City

The Other City

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