Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Diversity in Europe
Dilemnas of differential treatment in theory and practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
From bans on religious symbols in public spaces, to the provision of abortion by doctors, recent cases across Europe have highlighted acute dilemmas about how best to respond to the claims of individuals or groups feeling that their values or beliefs are not treated fairly by the law.
Diversity...
by Roshan de Silva Wijeyeratne
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Nation, Constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka offers a new perspective on contemporary debates about Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka. In this book de Silva Wijeyeratne argues forcefully that ‘Sinhalese Buddhism’ in the period prior to its engagement with the British colonial...
by Nicola Ch. Corkin
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Europeanization of Judicial Review argues that the higher complexity of the political framework in which laws are made today leads to less well-designed laws and loop-holes, allowing politicians to leave decisions to the courts. The higher complexity of the political framework is a result of the need...
Of Paradise and Power
America and Europe in the New World Order
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
From Robert Kagan, a leading scholar of American foreign policy, comes an insightful analysis of the state of European and American foreign relations. At a time when relations between the United States and Europe are at their lowest ebb since World War II, this brief but cogent book is essential...
Our Time Has Come
How India is Making Its Place in the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Over the last 25 years, India's explosive economic growth has vaulted it into the ranks of the world's emerging major powers. India's middle class has grown by leaps and bounds, and the country's sheer scale-possessing what will very soon be the world's largest population and an economy of more than...
The Clash of Ideologies
Middle Eastern Politics and American Security
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
How do ideologies shape international relations in general and Middle Eastern countries' relations with the United States in particular? The Clash of Ideologies by Mark L. Haas explores this critical question. Haas's central claim is that leaders' ideological beliefs are likely to have profound effects...
by Charles E. Ziegler, Reuel Hanks, Andrey A. Kazantsev
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
The five Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan constitute an area of increasing importance in global politics. The region currently serves as the main route for transporting American and NATO supplies and personnel into Afghanistan. Its Turkic Muslim...
by Layna Mosley
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Labor Rights and Multinational Production investigates the relationship between workers' rights and multinational production. Mosley argues that some types of multinational production, embodied in directly owned foreign investment, positively affect labor rights. But other types of international production,...
by Editia, Peter Greste, Khaled Desouki
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
While foreign correspondent Peter Greste is free in Australia following his deportation from Egypt in February, he was convicted on terrorism charges in absentia on August 29, 2015. The campaign to clear his name and those of imprisoned Al Jazeera colleagues Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy continues.
After...
Cross Channel Currents
100 Years of the Entente Cordiale
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Cross Channel Currents explores the understandings and misunderstandings that make up the Entente Cordiale - the hundred-year relationship between Britain and France, as well as the everyday common interests and shared pleasures that give it substance.
Contributors include the late Roy Jenkins,...
Like Cattle and Horses
Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1895–1927
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
In Like Cattle and Horses Steve Smith connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. Moving from the late nineteenth century, when foreign companies first set up factories on Chinese soil, to 1927, when the labor movement created by the Chinese Communist Party was...
The Warrior State
Pakistan in the Contemporary World
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Seemingly from its birth, Pakistan has teetered on the brink of becoming a failed state. Today, it ranks 133rd out of 148 countries in global competitiveness. Its economy is as dysfunctional as its political system is corrupt; both rely heavily on international aid for their existence. Taliban forces...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Governance in the Middle East is topic of interest to scholars, activists and policy makers. The currently proposed book is intended to present the first comprehensive framework of the question of governance in the Middle East in its various forms and manifestations: political, economic, and government...
Globalizing de Gaulle
International Perspectives on French Foreign Policies, 1958–1969
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
French President Charles de Gaulle (1958-1969) has consistently fascinated contemporaries and historians. His vision_conceived out of national interest_of uniting Europe under French leadership and overcoming the Cold War still remains relevant and appealing. De Gaulle's towering personality and his...