Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Canadians and Foreign Policy
The Record of an Independent Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1960
Professor Fred Alexander, a distinguished historian and the first Australian to be awarded a Senior Research Fellowship of the Canada Council, makes in this book a frank and friendly attempt to examine the views on various aspects of Canada’s external relations expressed to him by an occupational...
Bait and Switch
Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
It has become routine for the US government to invoke human rights to justify its foreign policy decisions and military ventures. But this human rights talk has not been supported by a human rights walk. Policy makers consistently apply a double standard for human rights norms: one the rest of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
What are the conditions for political development and decay, and the likelihood of sustained political order? What are the limits of established rule as we know it? How much stress can systems tackle before they reach some kind of limit? How do governments tackle enduring ambiguity and uncertainty...
by Johannes Lindvall
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
It is often said that effective government requires a concentration of power. If we want our political leaders to adjust public policies to changing economic, social, and political circumstances, we should, in this view, leave our leaders alone: we should put in place electoral procedures that identify...
Destined Statecraft
Eurasian Small Power Politics and Strategic Cultures in Geopolitical Shifts
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
‘Destined Statecraft enriches our understanding of global affairs by presenting a perspective where small powers are no longer in the periphery, but take up the main narrative. This standpoint is all the more valuable in an age where the proactive decision-making of small powers often goes unobser...
by Sagarika Dutt
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book looks at India in the context of a globalized world. It starts by looking at the history of Indian civilization, exploring the roots of Indian identity and highlighting processes such as foreign invasions, foreign trade, cultural imperialism, colonial rule and the growth of Indian nationalism....
Indian foreign policy
An overview
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
As India has risen economically and militarily in recent years, its political influence on the global stage has also seen a commensurate increase. From the peripheries of international affairs, India is now at the centre of major power politics. It is viewed as a major balancer in the Asia-Pacific,...
Practising EU foreign policy
Russia and the eastern neighbours
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This book is a novel contribution to the ‘practice theory’ turn in International Relations. It looks at practitioners’ approaches to the EU’s foreign policy to its eastern neighbourhood, particularly Russia, and offers a new methodology for capturing practices using the analytical approach...
21st-Century Diplomacy
A Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
In the 21st century, new kinds of challenges resulting from interdependence among states and globalization have had a determining impact of the conduct of diplomacy.
Diplomacy has become multifaceted, pluri-directional, volatile and intensive, due to the increased complexity in terms of actors,...
Die Reform der Arbeitslosenversicherung in Frankreich unter dem Aspekt der 'Aktivierung' - neue Qualität oder Schönheitskorrektur des alten Systems?
neue Qualität oder Schönheitskorrektur des alten Systems?
Language: German
Release Date: July 13, 2005
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Systeme - Allgemeines und Vergleiche, Note: 1,3, Freie Universität Berlin, 28 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Zuge der Globalisierung und des zunehmenden Anpassungsdrucks, dem die Systeme der Sozialen...
by Katherine Fierlbeck, Howard A. Palley
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Examining the changing nature of health care federalism within a competitive global context, Comparative Health Care Federalism provides a rich and nuanced account of the way in which the interplay of federal relationships impact health care within an array of systems. The editors have gathered together...
Comparative Federalism
A Systematic Inquiry, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Comparative Federalism: A Systematic Inquiry, Second Edition is a uniquely comprehensive, analytic, and genuinely comparative introduction to the principles and practices, as well as the institutional compromises, of federalism. Hueglin and Fenna draw from their diverse research on federal systems...
The Political Geography of Inequality
Regions and Redistribution
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
This book addresses two questions - why some political systems have more centralized systems of interpersonal redistribution than others, and why some political unions make larger efforts to equalize resources among their constituent units than others. This book presents a new theory of the origin...
by Lisa Wegener
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - General and Comparisons, University of Applied Sciences Bremen, course: Political Systems of the World, 19 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In the following paper the attempt shall be made to compare...