Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
West Germany (RLE: German Politics)
Politics and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
This book, originally published in 1981, provides the student and general reader alike with a fascinating account of the dynamic re-emergence of Germany after the Second World War as one of the world’s leading and most powerful states. The book gives extensive coverage to all aspects of the former...
by David Childs
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
The book traces the development of Germany from the Kaiser’s Reich in the 1870s to the reunited democratic state led by Helmut Kohl in the 1990s. The author begins by countering the popular view of Germany before 1914 as irredeemably reactionary, and after assessing Germany’s part in the First...
The GDR (RLE: German Politics)
Moscow's German Ally
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Widely praised in its first edition, the second edition of The GDR was updated to cover events through the spring of 1988, examining in particular the impact of new leadership in both Bonn and Moscow and of the changing world economy on the prospects of the GDR.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
The European Union’s stalled expansion, the Euro deficit and emerging crises of economic and political sovereignty in Greece, Italy and Spain have significantly altered the image of the EU as a model of progressive civilization. However, despite recent events the EU maintains its international image...
God on Our Side
Religion in International Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This timely book offers an accessible introduction to religion in international affairs. Shireen T. Hunter highlights the growing importance of religion in politics and analyzes its nature, role, and significance. She places the question of religion’s impact on global affairs in the broader context...
Nationalism and Social Policy
The Politics of Territorial Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Despite the recent proliferation of literature on nationalism and on social policy, relatively little has been written to analyse the possible interaction between the two. Scholars interested in social citizenship have indirectly dealt with the interaction between national identity and social programs...
The Euro Crisis and European Identities
Political and Media Discourse in Germany, Ireland and Poland
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
This book builds upon our knowledge of the far-reaching economic, political and social effects of the Euro crisis on the European Union by providing a unique study of European identities. In particular, it considers the impact on the construction of European identities in political and media discourse...
Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged
Eastern Europe and China, 1989-2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged examines the twenty-year aftermath of the 1989 assaults on established, state-sponsored socialism in the former Soviet bloc and in China. Editors Nina Bandelj and Dorothy J. Solinger bring together prominent experts on Eastern Europe and China to examine...
by Thomas F. Remington
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
This book investigates the relationship between the character of political regimes in Russia's subnational regions and the structure of earnings and income. Based on extensive data from Russian official sources and surveys conducted by the World Bank, the book shows that income inequality is higher...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
This truly comparative volume examines the "life cycle" of party governments in Europe from 1990 onwards, and analyses its role and function in contemporary European parliamentary democracies.
The life and the performance of party governments in Europe became more and more volatile...
by Isabela Mares
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2006
Why were European economies able to pursue the simultaneous commitment to full employment and welfare state expansion during the first decades of the postwar period and why did this virtuous relationship break down during recent decades? This book provides an answer to this question, by highlighting...
Segregation and Mistrust
Diversity, Isolation, and Social Cohesion
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Generalized trust – faith in people you do not know who are likely to be different from you – is a value that leads to many positive outcomes for a society. Yet some scholars now argue that trust is lower when we are surrounded by people who are different from us. Eric M. Uslaner challenges this...
The politics of constitutional nationalism in Northern Ireland, 1932–70
Between grievance and reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
In the changed political landscape of Northern Ireland, where all major political parties with a nationalist agenda are now reconciled to the use of peaceful and constitutional means to achieve their objectives, this book presents a timely analysis of the constitutional nationalist tradition in Northern...
The Neighbours of the European Union's Neighbours
Diplomatic and Geopolitical Dimensions beyond the European Neighbourhood Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Should the European Neighbourhood Policy stop at the borders of the European Union’s immediate neighbouring countries? This book is the first full length study of the ’neighbours of the EU’s neighbours’, a concept originally introduced by the European Commission with reference to Saharan Africa,...