Treaties category: 216 books
La Costituzione nella palude
Indagine su trattati al di sotto di ogni sospetto
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 4, 2015
«Certamente, l’azione dello Stato dovrebbe essere attenta a evitare che pochi, e male, si giovino della spesa pubblica, indirizzandola verso il massimo allargamento collettivo dei suoi effetti positivi sulla domanda aggregata nazionale. Ma questa “ottimizzazione” non è stabilita a piacimento...
AFA1 The Big Picture
Towards an Independent Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
‘We need to determine a foreign policy of our own – one that looks after Australia’s interest in the new order; an order which will have China as its centre of gravity.’ —Paul Keating
Australia’s top thinkers on foreign affairs address the most significant foreign affairs dynamics...
by Renato Baumann, Flávio Damico, Adriana Erthal Abdenur
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
A compreensão dos motivos que levaram países como Brasil, Rússia, Índia, China e África do Sul a reunir-se para buscar um diálogo “em relação aos problemas do desenvolvimento global” é importante para permitir a correta avaliação do que representa esse esforço comum em prol do aperfeiçoamento...
Freedom Without Violence
Resisting the Western Political Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
There is a long tradition in Western political thought suggesting that violence is necessary to defend freedom. But nonviolence and civil disobedience have played an equally long and critical role in establishing democratic institutions. Freedom Without Violence explores the long history of political...
The Secret Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations in Oslo
Their Success and Why the Process Ultimately Failed
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
The Oslo secret negotiations from 1992 to 1993 were some of the most astonishing and also successful negotiations in the Middle East, leading to the mutual recognition between the PLO and Israel.
Through an in-depth examination of the Oslo negotiations, this book argues that at the core of...
Child Rights
The Movement, International Law, and Opposition
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Over twenty years after the 1989 UN General Assembly vote to open the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) for signature and ratification by UN member states, the United States remains one of only two UN members not to have ratified it. The other is Somalia. Child Rights: The Movement, International...
In the Fourth Year (Annotated)
Anticipations of a World Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author).
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*This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.
In the Fourth Year is a collection H.G. Wells assembled in...
Okinawa and the U.S. Military
Identity Making in the Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
In 1995, an Okinawan schoolgirl was brutally raped by several U.S. servicemen. The incident triggered a chain of protests by women's groups, teachers' associations, labor unions, reformist political parties, and various grassroots organizations across Okinawa prefecture. Reaction to the crime culminated...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
With contributions from renowned experts in the field, this book provides an excellent background to the history of Anglo-Iranian relations. Focusing on the political and economic relationship of Britain and issues of strategic sensitivity, the book also illuminates British relations with society...
Japan's Middle East Security Policy
Theory and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This study examines how Japanese policy toward Middle East security issues is shaped by the need to both maintain Japan’s security alliance with the US and its oil relationship with states in the Middle East. Yukiko Miyagi introduces the historic roots of Japan’s policy, and then focuses on the...
Private Foundations and Development Partnerships
American Philanthropy and Global Development Agendas
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This book explores the influence of private United States (US) philanthropic foundations in the governance of global problems. Through a close scrutiny of four high profile case studies of public-private collaboration, the work addresses the vacuum present in global governance scholarship regarding...
by Ian Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
The increase in China’s economic and political involvement in Africa is arguably the most momentous development on the continent since the end of the Cold War. This book seeks to detail the origins, structure, workings and activities of The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) and its development...
by Dr. Akash Kumra, Dr. Dinkar Narsinh Nayak
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
In the decades prior to 1991, India followed a highly statist and interventionist development policies leading to a period of a severely distorted production structure. This culminated in too deep economic crises at the outset of the ninety nineties. Faced with a severe balance of payments crisis,...
The League of Nations
Enduring Legacies of the First Experiment at World Organization
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
The League of Nations occupies a fascinating yet paradoxical place in human history. Over time, it’s come to symbolize both a path to peace and to war, a promising vision of world order and a utopian illusion, an artifact of a bygone era and a beacon for one that may still come. As the first experiment...