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This analysis of every facet of a national identity makes it less likely that the next great explosion in the Commmunist world - and its consequences - will come as a surprise. It investigates tendencies in China that might lead it down the same path as Russia and Yugoslavia.

Formal systems of comprehensive planning and performance-based management have a long if disappointing history in American government. This is illustrated most dramatically by the failure of program budgeting (PPB) in the 1960s and resurrection of that management technique in a handful of agencies over...

Information and communication technologies have improved government practices and provided effective governance, processes, and services, which have influenced world governments to gather the resources needed to implement e-government projects in developing countries. E-Government Implementation and...

This monograph traces global trends in the use of language and media in order to identify the national security implications of cultural change and identity formation. The analysis suggests that in the next several decades, the world is likely to be more ideologically fragmented than at any time during...

Today, India is one of the leading players on the global stage. It is competing with other countries not just in the marketplace but also in respect of its governance structures. This book underscores the need for creating a modern civil service, which epitomizes best practices overseas and in the...

In the voluminous secret history of the 1930s, one episode that still puzzles researchers is the death in 1937 of one of Stalin's key allies - his fellow Georgian, G.K. Ordzhonikidze. Whether he took his own life or, like Kirov, was murdered, the case of Ordzhonikidze intersects several long-debated...

Continuing the example of healthcare, the body is designed for self-healing. Cuts, burns and broken bones heal. So will ulcers if we cooperate with the body's mechanisms. If we were normal at birth and 40 or 60 years later if we have a problem, we did it to ourselves by what we put in our mouths...

This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2013. There is a widespread, but mainly untenable, assumption that education in Western societies (and elsewhere) intuitively and horizontally aids the democratic development of people. An argument could...

Field research—the collection of information outside a lab or workplace setting—requires skills and knowledge not typically taught in the classroom. Fieldwork demands exploratory inquisitiveness, empathy to encourage interviewees to trust the researcher, and sufficient aptitude to work professionally...

The shooting at Virginia Tech in 2007 was one of the worst mass murders in the U.S., but it did not lead to any new federal gun control policy. In contrast, following a similar event in Montreal in 1989, Canada created new comprehensive gun policy. Such different outcomes are the focus of this...

This is a timeless elucidation of a legendary leader from tropical africa who could have written a golden story of Nigeria in the black continent.

Vous avez dit République bananière ? Les bonnes âmes, en ces temps de commémoration complaisante, crieront au scandale. Mais comment qualifier autrement cette France qui, deux cents ans après la Révolution, célèbre le culte de ses présidents-monarques et organise l'impuissance du Parlement,...

Personne, il y a trois mois, n'aurait osé y croire : Chirac Président ! Qu'on se rappelle cet étrange début d'année 1995 : au faîte des sondages, Édouard Balladur, Premier ministre-candidat, planait sereinement sur une campagne présidentielle qu'on disait jouée d'avance ; Lionel Jospin, contesté...

In 2004, the Assisted Human Reproduction Act was passed by the Parliament of Canada. Fully in force by 2007, the act was intended to safeguard and promote the health, safety, dignity, and rights of Canadians. However, a 2010 Supreme Court of Canada decision ruled that key parts of the act were invalid. Regulating...