Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
World Report 2012
Events of 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
The 22nd annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than ninety countries and territories worldwide, reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2011 by Human Rights Watch staff, usually in close partnership with domestic human rights activists. *World Report 2012 *gives...
World Report 2010
Events of 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Human Rights Watch is increasingly recognized as the world’s leader in building a stronger awareness for human rights. Their annual World Report is the most probing review of human rights developments available anywhere.
Written in straightforward, non-technical language, Human Rights Watch World...
World Report 2017
Events of 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2016 by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual...
World Report 2013
Events of 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
“The reports of the New York-based Human Rights Watch have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses. . . .”—Ahmed Rashid in *The New York Review of Books
“*An attempt to bring rationality...
Between Military Rule and Democracy
Regime Consolidation in Greece, Turkey, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Why do the armed forces sometimes intervene in politics via short-lived coups d’état, at other times establish or support authoritarian regimes, or in some cases come under the democratic control of civilians? To find answers, Yaprak Gürsoy examines four episodes of authoritarianism, six periods...
Topologies of Power
Beyond territory and networks
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Topologies of Power amounts to a radical departure in the way that power and space have been understood. It calls into question the very idea that power is simply extended across a given territory or network, and argues that power today has a new found ‘reach’. Topological shifts have subtly altered...
A Social Laboratory for Modern France
The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2002
As a nineteenth-century think tank that sought answers to France’s pressing “social question,” the Musée Social reached across political lines to forge a reformist alliance founded on an optimistic faith in social science. In A Social Laboratory for Modern France Janet R. Horne presents the...
Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa
The Logic of the Coup-Civil War Trap
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Why are some African countries trapped in vicious cycles of ethnic exclusion and civil war, while others experience relative peace? In this groundbreaking book, Philip Roessler addresses this question. Roessler models Africa's weak, ethnically-divided states as confronting rulers with a coup-civil...
by David Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 1999
Sources of the African Past combines a case-study approach with an emphasis on primary and orally transmitted sources to accomplish three objectives; to tell a story in some depth, to portray major themes and to raise basic questions of analysis and interpretation. The case studies are set in the...
Colombia and the United States
War, Unrest and Destabilization
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Every year the United States spends millions of dollars to help the war-ravaged country of Colombia. But help it with what? In Colombia and the U.S. Mario Murillo explores the misdirected and devastating impact that U.S. military "aid" continues to have on the war torn-people of Colombia....
by Christopher J. Kam
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
One of the chief tasks facing political leaders is to build and maintain unity within their parties. This text examines the relationship between party leaders and Members of Parliament in Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, showing how the two sides interact and sometimes clash. Christopher...
Sterilized by the State
Eugenics, Race, and the Population Scare in Twentieth-Century North America
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
This book is the first comprehensive analysis of eugenics in North America focused on the second half of the twentieth century. Based on new research, Randall Hansen and Desmond King show why eugenic sterilization policies persisted after the 1940s in the United States and Canada. Through extensive...
by Kishore Makwana
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book is a worth-reading, prolific and insightful life-sketch of the torch-bearer of Indians. It is about common man’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi who has become a ray of hope for 125 crore Indians—from a humble farmer to an ambitious industrialist—having taken the route to good governance...
by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
On the night of October 2, 1968, there occurred a bloody showdown between student demonstrators and the Mexican government in Tlatelolco Square. At least two hundred students were shot dead and many more were detained. Then the bodies were trucked out, the cobblestones were washed clean. Detainees...