Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Out of Nowhere
The Kurds of Syria in Peace and War
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
In mid-2012 the previously almost forgotten Syrian Kurds suddenly emerged as a potential game-changer in the country's civil war when in an attempt to consolidate its increasingly desperate position the Assad government abruptly withdrew its troops from the major Kurdish areas in Syria. The Kurds...
Die Normalität der Politischen Korruption
Das Beispiel Leuna/Minol
Language: German
Release Date: September 23, 2004
Doktorarbeit / Dissertation aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Systeme - Politisches System Deutschlands, Note: cum laude, Freie Universität Berlin (Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Gegenstand der Arbeit ist die Normalität der Politischen...
Building a peace economy?
Liberal peacebuilding and the development-security industry
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This book critically examines the range of policies and programmes that attempt to manage economic activity that contributes to political violence. It offers a new framework for understanding both the problem of economic activity in conflict zones as well as programmes aimed at managing these and...
Tra politica e politiche
La lezione di Nino Andreatta
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 20, 2016
La prima pubblicazione della nuova collana sarà l’Andreatta Lecture 2016: una lezione annuale, affidata a una personalità del mondo della cultura, della politica o dell’economia, ispirata ai valori perseguiti da Nino Andreatta nella sua poliedrica attività di politico, economista, intellettuale...
The social construction of Swedish neutrality
Challenges to Swedish identity and sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The end of the Cold War and the ‘War on Terror’ has signalled a shift in the security policies of all states. It has also led to the reconsideration of the policy of neutrality, and what being neutral means in the present age. This book examines the conceptualisation of neutrality from the Peloponnesian...
Climate change and the oil industry
Common problem, varying strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Multinational corporations are not merely the problem in environmental concerns, but could also be part of the solution. The oil industry and climate change provide the clearest example of how the two are linked; what is less well-known is how the industry is responding to these concerns. This volume,...
An Organizational Approach to Public Governance
Understanding and Design
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Climate change, economic crises, migration, and terrorism are among the many problems that challenge public governance in modern societies. Many of these problems are spanning political and administrative units; horizontally, vertically, and both. This makes public governance particularly challenging...
by Anna Boucher
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The global race for skilled immigrants seeks to attract the best global workers. In the pursuit of these individuals, governments may incidentally discriminate on gender grounds. Existing gendered differences in the global labour market related to life course trajectories, pay gaps and gendered divisions...
by Jean Blondel
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
This book provides a systematic assessment of the behaviour of some relatively successful presidents in African presidential republics, examining the part played by presidents in the development of their countries.
Using two groups of case studies, African Presidential Republics examines the...
Power in modern Russia
Strategy and mobilisation
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
It offers an original and powerful argument about Russian power and introduces and discusses the term 'mobilisation' as a central element of the Russian state’s actions. It explores the Russian leadership’s strategic agenda and illuminates the range of problems it faces in implementing it.
Destra e sinistra addio
Per una nuova declinazione dell'uguaglianza
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Di destra e sinistra, per designare due schieramenti politici contrapposti, si parlò per la prima volta alla Convenzione del 1792. Da allora queste due parole indicano chi ritiene che le diseguaglianze tra gli esseri umani siano un dato naturale non modificabile (la destra), e chi pensa che abbiano...
Mutualism and health care
Hospital contributory schemes in twentieth-century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Mutualism and health care presents the first comprehensive account of a major innovation in hospital funding before the NHS. The voluntary hospitals, which provided the bulk of Britain’s acute hospital services, diversified their financial base by establishing hospital contributory schemes. Through...
The politics of identity
Place, space and discourse
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This book explores identity as contingent, fragmented and dynamic across a range of global sites and approaches that deal with citizenship, security, migration, subjectivity, memory, exclusion and belonging, and space and place. It explores the political and social effects and possibilities of identity practices, discourses and policies.
by Esref Aksu
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Explores the normative dimension of the evolving role of the United Nations in peace and security and, ultimately, in governance.