Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
The Cherokee Diaspora
An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than three hundred thousand people across the country claiming tribal membership and nearly one million people internationally professing to have at least one Cherokee Indian ancestor. In this revealing history...
Aftershock
A Journey into Eastern Europes Broken Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
In this unique, panoramic account of faded dreams, journalist John Feffer returns to Eastern Europe a quarter of a century after the fall of communism, to track down hundreds of people he spoke to in the initial atmosphere of optimism as the Iron Curtain fell – from politicians and scholars to trade...
by Edwin Bacon
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Inside Russian Politics is an intelligent, critical and engaging account of the realities of contemporary Russian politics. It is distinctive in widening our view of Russia beyond the standard account of global power plays and resurgent authoritarian menace. Putin matters, but he is not Russia. Russian...
by Denis Brian
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
The Elected and the Chosen: Why American Presidents Have Supported Jews and Israel This book reveals how and why, almost without exception, American presidents sought to protect Jews at home and abroad from their often deadly enemies. It explains why American presidents have admired and befriended...
Borderland Roads
The Selected Poems of Ho Kyun
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
As writer, Kyun was an inheritor of the Chinese Tang style, becoming one of its first and foremost promulgators in Korea. The poems in this book portray issues of social justice, artistic legacy and purpose, and the daily life of a Korean nobleman in the middle years of Korea's Choson Dynasty. A selection...
The Common Cause
Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy, 1900-1955
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Europeans and Americans tend to hold the opinion that democracy is a uniquely Western inheritance, but in The Common Cause, Leela Gandhi recovers stories of an alternate version, describing a transnational history of democracy in the first half of the twentieth century through the lens of ethics...
After Abu Ghraib
Exploring Human Rights in America and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
This book traverses three pivotal human rights struggles of the post-September 11th era: the American human rights campaign to challenge the Bush administration's 'War on Terror' torture and detention policies, Middle Eastern efforts to challenge American human rights practices (reversing the traditional...
End of an Era
How China's Authoritarian Revival is Undermining Its Rise
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
China's reform era is ending. Core factors that characterized it-political stability, ideological openness, and rapid economic growth-are unraveling. Since the 1990s, Beijing's leaders have firmly rejected any fundamental reform of their authoritarian one-party political system, and on the surface,...
Democracy Derailed in Russia
The Failure of Open Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2005
Why has democracy failed to take root in Russia? After shedding the shackles of Soviet rule, some countries in the postcommunist region undertook lasting democratization. Yet Russia did not. Russia experienced dramatic political breakthroughs in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but it subsequently...
by John Keane
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
We live in a revolutionary age of communicative abundance in which many media innovations - from satellite broadcasting to smart glasses and electronic books - spawn great fascination mixed with excitement. In the field of politics, hopeful talk of digital democracy, cybercitizens and e-government...
The Myth of the Strong Leader
Political Leadership in the Modern Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
From one of the world's preeminent political historians, a magisterial study of political leadership around the world from the advent of parliamentary democracy to the age of Obama.
All too frequently, leadership is reduced to a simple dichotomy: the strong versus the weak. Yet, there are myriad...
by Leonard Peikoff
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1983
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1983
Ayn Rand chose Leonard Peikoff to be her successor as the spokesman for Objectivism. And in this brilliantly reasoned, thought-provoking work we learn why, as he demonstrates how far America has been detoured from its original path and led down the same road that Germany followed to Nazism. Self-sacrifice,...
by Tibor R. Machan
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This book takes an unflinching look at the difficult, often emotional issues that arise when egalitarianism collies with individual liberties, ultimately showing why the kind of egalitarianism preached by socialists and other sentimentalists is not an option in a free society.
by Gerard Bouchard, Les Editions du Boreal
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Myths are commonly associated with illusions or with deceptive, dangerous discourse, and are often perceived as largely the domain of premodern societies. But even in our post-industrial, technologically driven world, myths – Western or Eastern, ancient or modern, religious or scientific – are...