Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
by Albert Abel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
In this timely book, edited from a manuscript left unfinished at his death, one of Canada’s leading constitutional scholars presents his prescription for constitutional change.
The book diagnoses the failure of Canada’s present constitution, both in dealing with the country’s distinctive...
Congo's Violent Peace
Conflict and Struggle Since the Great African War
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Congo remains a huge, important and often controversial topic of interest to a wide scholarly and policy readership.
The first book to comprehensively deal with hitherto under-reported post-'Congo Wars' developments, including the M23 rebellion which made international headlines.
Already...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
There is a mounting body of evidence pointing towards rising levels of public dissatisfaction with the formal political process. Depoliticization refers to a more discrete range of contemporary strategies that add to this growing trend towards anti-politics by either removing or displacing the potential...
Europeanization and Multilevel Governance
Cohesion Policy in the European Union and Britain
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
Europeanization has become a major theme within European studies in recent years, emphasizing the domestic effects of the EU on its member and applicant states. At the same time, multilevel governance has emerged as an important concept, highlighting shifts both in horizontal relations between state...
by Gavin O'Toole
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Politics Latin America examines the role of Latin America in the world and its importance to the study of politics with particular emphasis on the institutions and processes that exist to guarantee democracy and the forces that threaten to compromise it.
Now in its third edition and fully revised...
Enemy Brothers
Socialists and Communists in France, Italy, and Spain
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
This examination of the historical relationship between Socialist and Communist parties in France, Italy, and Spain since 1920 contends that during the 1960s and 1970s these parties made critical alliance decisions that shaped their subsequent political fortunes. Enemy Brothers, based on field work...
The Sinews of State Power
The Rise and Demise of the Cohesive Local State in Rural China
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
The Sinews of State Power seeks to explain why rural China has been so unstable since 2000, despite numerous national reforms. Using original fieldwork, it traces the rise and demise of cohesive local states in rural China since the Maoist era. It shows that, the county, township, and village levels...
Karl Marx and Babasaheb Ambedkar
A Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This book reveals the thought of Karl Marx and Babasaheb Ambedkar in their real perspective and attempts to compare their thoughts rationally and judiciously. It is, however based on original text by Karl Marx and Babasaheb Ambedkar and learned commentaries by renowned authors on their thoughts. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Over the last few decades, politics in India has moved steadily in a pro-business direction. This shift has important implications for both government and citizens. In Business and Politics in India, leading scholars of Indian politics have gathered to offer an analytical synthesis of this vast topic....
by K. R. Malkani
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The India of 2002 is not the India of 1947.The India of Vajpayee is not the India of Nehru.The India of 1947 was drenched in blood and immersed in self-doubt. The India of 2002 stands strong and tall. The main engine of this Silent Revolution has been the Sangha Parivar led by RSS and including BJS-BJP,...
Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Ethiopia
A Comparative Regional Study
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
This book examines the impact of the federal restructuring of Ethiopia on ethnic conflicts.
The adoption of ethnic federalism in Ethiopia was closely related with the problem of creating a state structure that could be used as instrument of managing the complex ethno-linguistic diversity of...
Cyberwar
How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President What We Don't, Can't, and Do Know
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018
The question of how Donald Trump won the 2016 election looms over his presidency. In particular, were the 78,000 voters who gave him an Electoral College victory affected by the Russian trolls and hackers? Trump has denied it. So has Vladimir Putin. Others cast the answer as unknowable. In Cyberwar,...
A theory of the super soldier
The morality of capacity-increasing technologies in the military
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Throughout history, states have tried to create the perfect combatant with superhuman physical and cognitive features that are akin to those of comic book superheroes. However, the current innovations have nothing to do with the ones from the past and their development goes beyond a simple technological...
Military Resilience in Low-Intensity Conflict
A Comparative Study of New Directions Worldwide
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Military Resilience in a Low-Intensity Conflict: A Comparative Study of New Directions Worldwide,by Rachel Suissa, offers a prognosis for the dilemma of army resilience in the post-modern era. She clarifies the concept of military resilience among the challenges of the twenty-first century, examining...