Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Beginning in December 2010, a series of uprisings swept the Arab world, toppling four longtime leaders and creating an apparent political opening in a region long impervious to the "third wave" of democratization. Despite the initial euphoria, the legacies of authoritarianism—polarized...
The Global Rise of Populism
Performance, Political Style, and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Once seen as a fringe phenomenon, populism is back. While some politicians and media outlets present it as dangerous to the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, others hail it as the fix for broken democracies. Not surprisingly, questions about populism abound. Does it really threaten democracy? Why the...
Worldwide Secret and Intelligence Agencies
That delivers unforgettable customer Sservice Tome I of III
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
* 1 Agencies by country
o 1.1 Albania
o 1.2 Argentina
o 1.3 Australia
o 1.4 Austria
o 1.5 Azerbaijan
o 1.6 Belarus
o 1.7 Belgium
o 1.8 Bermuda
o...
Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies in West Africa
Beyond Right and Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
*Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies in West Africa:*Beyond Right and Wrong expands the discourse on indigenous knowledge. With several examples and case histories, the work defines, characterizes, and explains indigenous conflict management strategies in West Africa, particularly in Ghana,...
Theorizing Race in the Americas
Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
In 1845 two thinkers from the American hemisphere - the Argentinean statesman Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, and the fugitive ex-slave, abolitionist leader, and orator from the United States, Frederick Douglass - both published their first works. Each would become the most famous and enduring texts in...
by Mark Downes
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
This title was first published in 2002. As Iran enters into the third decade since the 1979 revolution, the prospect of socio-political unrest remains ever present. Iran's political structure, its version of Islamic governance and the role of pluralism across all aspects of Iranian society are being...
by Charles Andrain
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Why do individuals and groups hold distinctive theological views? Why do these beliefs change? In what ways do theological interpretations influence concepts of spiritual and political justice? How and why do these concepts of justice affect policy preferences held by religious liberals and conservatives?
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by Thomas U. Berger
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
When do states choose to adopt a penitent stance towards the past? When do they choose to offer apologies for historical misdeeds, offer compensation for their victims and incorporate the darker sides of history into their textbooks, public monuments and museums? When do they choose not to do so?...
Changing Worlds
Vietnam's Transition from Cold War to Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Throughout the entire Cold War era, Vietnam served as a grim symbol of the ideological polarity that permeated international politics. But when the Cold War ended in 1989, Vietnam faced the difficult task of adjusting to a new world without the benefactors it had come to rely on. In Changing Worlds,...
Representation and Effectiveness in Latin American Democracies
Congress, Judiciary and Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Legislatures, the judiciary and civil society are important actors in representative democracies. In what ways and how well do they represent? And how effectively do they carry out their institutional and social roles? Both questions refer to the key dimensions of democracy analyzed in this book:...
The Language of Contention
Revolutions in Words, 1688–2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
This book examines the relations between the material and political bases of contentious politics and the construction, diffusion and endurance of contentious language. Beginning with the language of revolution developed from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, it examines contentious language...
Nation-Building and Identity in the Post-Soviet Space
New Tools and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Nation-building as a process is never complete and issues related to identity, nation, state and regime-building are recurrent in the post-Soviet region. This comparative, inter-disciplinary volume explores how nation-building tools emerged and evolved over the last twenty years. Featuring in-depth...
The EU's Shifting Borders
Theoretical Approaches and Policy Implications in the New Neighbourhood
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
The EU’s internal borders have become mostly invisible. Today, external borders are at the centre of controversy about an alleged 'fortress Europe'. Using different theoretical and methodological perspectives this book examines the challenges facing the EU’s external borders, including Neighborhood...
by Stephen H. Balch, Patrick J. Deneen, Anthony M. Esolen
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
This volume brings together leading thinkers who offer reflections on the place of Western civilization in the academy, at a time when there is indifference or even antipathy toward the study of the West at most institutions of higher learning. Alternative narratives—including multiculturalism,...