Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
China Experiments
From Local Innovations to National Reform
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
All societies face a key question: how to empower governments to perform essential governmental functions while constraining the arbitrary exercise of power. This balance, always in flux, is particularly fluid in today's China. This insightful book examines the changing relationship between that state...
Empires of Trust
How Rome Built--and America Is Building--a New World
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
An acclaimed historian offers an optimistic view of the future of the United States in the light of Roman history
Maybe the end of the American ascendancy is not upon us. Maybe the U.S. will continue to dominate the world for centuries. Now award-winning historian Thomas Madden delivers an...
The New Latin American Left
Cracks in the Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
This provocative, multidisciplinary work explores the dramatic resurgence of the Left in Latin America since the late 1990s. Offering a comprehensive account of the complexities and nuances of the shifting political tides in the region, the book provides both a theoretical framework for assessing...
The Militant Song Movement in Latin America
Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The Militant Song Movement in Latin America examines the history of the militant song movement in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina, considering their different political stances and musical deportments. The book analyzes the complex relationship that the aesthetic of the movement established between...
Political Attitudes in Venezuela
Societal Cleavages and Political Opinion
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Here is a benchmark study of voter attitudes in a Latin American country. This volume is based on extensive survey research conducted during the Venezuelan elections of 1973. The methods employed by Baloyra and Martz to poll an "unpollable" society successfully challenge previously established paradigms....
by Wendy Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Drawing on historical institutionalism and strategic frameworks, this book analyzes the evolution of the Workers' Party between 1989, the year of Lula's first presidential bid, and 2009, when his second presidential term entered its final stretch. The book's primary purpose is to understand why and...
Leftist Governments in Latin America
Successes and Shortcomings
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Can Latin America's 'new left' stimulate economic development, enhance social equity, and deepen democracy in spite of the economic and political constraints it faces? This is the first book to systematically examine the policies and performance of the left-wing governments that have risen to power...
by Mary Alice Haddad
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
How is democracy made real? How does an undemocratic country create new institutions and transform its polity such that democratic values and practices become integral parts of its political culture? These are some of the most pressing questions of our times, and they are the central inquiry of Building...
Fighting to the End
The Pakistan Army's Way of War
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Since Pakistan was founded in 1947, its army has dominated the state. The military establishment has locked the country in an enduring rivalry with India, with the primary aim of wresting Kashmir from it. To that end, Pakistan initiated three wars over Kashmir-in 1947, 1965, and 1999-and failed to...
by Donatella della Porta
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Clandestine Political Violence compares four types of clandestine political violence: left-wing (in Italy and Germany), right-wing (in Italy), ethnonationalist (in Spain) and religious fundamentalist (in Islamist clandestine organizations). Oriented toward theory building, Della Porta develops her...
The Trouble with the Congo
Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
The Trouble with the Congo suggests a new explanation for international peacebuilding failures in civil wars. Drawing from more than 330 interviews and a year and a half of field research, it develops a case study of the international intervention during the Democratic Republic of the Congo's unsuccessful...
The Fence and the Bridge
Geopolitics and Identity along the Canada–US Border
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Chapter Five
Heather Nicol
Heather Nicol examines the twenty-first century border in the post 9/11 era.
Crafting Civilian Control of the Military in Venezuela
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Unlike most other emerging South American democracies, Venezuela has not succumbed to a successful military coup d'etat during four decades of democratic rule. What drives armed forces to follow the orders of elected leaders? And how do emerging democracies gain that control over their military establishments?...
World Report 2016
Events of 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories is put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2015 by Human RightsWatch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual...