Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
by Malte Jannik Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - Germany, grade: 1.7, University of Potsdam (Lehrstuhl für Verwaltung und Organisation I), course: Accountability, democracy, and management in the welfare state, language: English, abstract: The leading question in this...
If Only They Didn't Speak English
Notes From Trump's America
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
'You see, if only they didn’t speak English in America, then we’d treat it as a foreign country – and probably understand it a lot better’
‘the sanest man in America’ – Bill Bryson
‘Jon Sopel nails it’ – Emily Maitlis
**With a brand new chapter, charting Trump's first...
The Lure of Greatness
England's Brexit and America's Trump
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
In 2016 two surprising explosions of popular contempt for the existing order drove Britain into Brexit and paved the way for Trump’s presidency of the United States.
On both sides of the Atlantic, proud regimes with global pretensions were levelled by justifiable revolts. But in the name...
The End of Power
From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The provocative bestseller explaining the decline of power in the twenty-first century--in government, business, and beyond
Power is shifting-from large, stable armies to loose bands of insrugents, from corporate leviathans to nimble start-ups, and from presidential palaces to public squares....
by Jane Vetter
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - General and Comparisons, University of North Florida, 2 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In international relations, we find many different actors with distinctive interests and certain individual...
by Richard Youngs
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Western democracy is being questioned around the world. At the same time, Western aid groups are quick to say that they are not trying to impose a particular style of democracy on others and that they are open to supporting local, alternative forms of democracy. This book examines what it is about...
Transitions to Democracy
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
As demonstrated by current events in Tunisia and Egypt, oppressive regimes are rarely immune to their citizens’ desire for democratic government. Of course, desire is always tempered by reality; therefore how democratic demands are made manifest is a critical source of study for both political scientists...
Mexico
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Today all would agree that Mexico and the United States have never been closer--that the fates of the two republics are inextricably intertwined. It has become an intimate part of life in almost every community in the United States, through immigration, imported produce, business ties, or illegal...
Latin American Politics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Highlighting eleven different topics in separate chapters, the thematic approach of Latin American Politics offers students the conceptual tools they need to analyze the political systems of all twenty Latin American nations. Such a structure makes the book self-consciously comparative, allowing students...
Vladimir Putin and the New World Order
Looking East, Looking West?
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2003
J. L. Black's latest work is a rich and carefully crafted attempt to expose the textures of Russia's perceptions of itself and its place in the world. Based almost entirely on Russian sources, J. L. Black found himself returning to the old practice of citing and decoding feature items from the Russian...
Canada and the United States
Differences that Count, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Canada and the United States: Differences that Count investigates why and how the United States and Canada—while so close and seemingly so similar—remain different in so many ways. In seventeen analytical yet readable chapters, leading authorities look at the American and the Canadian ways of...
by Frank Cooney, Gary Hughes, David Sheerin
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Exam Board: SQA
Level: National 5
Subject: Modern Studies
First Teaching: September 2017
First Exam: Summer 2018
This second edition comprehensively covers the changes made to course content and prepare students to cope with the increased emphasis on knowledge and understanding in the new National...
by David Sheerin, Frank Cooney, Gary Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The complete resource for National 4 & 5 Modern Studies endorsed by SQA.
National 4 & 5 Modern Studies titles from Hodder Gibson provide up-to-date resources for the Natioanl 4 & 5 syllabus outlines offered by the Scottish Qualifications Authority for examination from 2014 onwards....
State of War
The Secret History of the C.I.A. and the Bush Administration
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2006
With relentless media coverage, breathtaking events, and extraordinary congressional and independent investigations, it is hard to believe that we still might not know some of the most significant facts about the presidency of George W. Bush. Yet beneath the surface events of the Bush presidency lies...