Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
by Jan-Werner Müller
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo Chávez—populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? What precisely is the difference between right-wing and left-wing populism? Does populism...
Democracy Disrupted
The Politics of Global Protest
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Since the financial meltdown of 2008, political protests have spread around the world like chain lightning, from the "Occupy" movements of the United States, Great Britain, and Spain to more destabilizing forms of unrest in Tunisia, Egypt, Russia, Thailand, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Ukraine....
by Robert Leonardi
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
The political history of Italy has been an undeniably turbulent one. The country’s political system has been repeatedly threatened by the historical existence of extremist parties on the left and right, an economy which struggles to adapt, the cleavage between a developed north and an underdeveloped...
The Struggle for Europe
The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent 1945 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
From the ashes of World War II to the conflict over Iraq, William Hitchcock examines the miraculous transformation of Europe from a deeply fractured land to a continent striving for stability, tolerance, democracy, and prosperity. Exploring the role of Cold War politics in Europe’s peace settlement...
Party Reform
The Causes, Challenges, and Consequences of Organizational Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Party Reform is a new comparative study of the politics of party organization. The book provides a novel perspective in party scholarship and develops the concept of 'reform' as distinct from evolutionary and incremental processes of party change. As an outcome, reform is captured in deliberate and...
The Jarring Road to Democratic Inclusion
A Comparative Assessment of State–Society Engagements in Israel and Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This edited volume brings together chapters that offer theoretically pertinent comparisons between various dimensions of Israeli and Turkish politics. Each chapter covers a different aspect of state–society interactions in both countries from a comparative perspective, including the public role...
by Daniel A. Amerson
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2017
An Intimate Study of the Left"Why are leftists getting in the way of progress?""Why can't the 'left' just shut up and get with the times?""Why are the left-wingers so certain of themselves?""If the left-wingers had never existed, then the world would be such a great place."If you’ve ever found...
by Emily Edmonds-Poli, David A. Shirk
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Now in a thoroughly updated edition, this comprehensive and engaging text explores contemporary Mexico’s political development and examines the most important policy issues facing Mexico in the twenty-first century. The text to this revised edition is richly supplemented by new figures and tables...
by Cynthia McClintock
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
During Latin America's third democratic wave, a majority of countries adopted a runoff rule for the election of the president, effectively dampening plurality voting, opening the political arena to new parties, and assuring the public that the president will never have anything less than majority...
Iran: the Looming Crisis
Can the West live with Iran's nuclear threat?
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
In August 2002 the National Council of the Resistance in Iran (NCRI) revealed in Washington to a stunned world how advanced Iran's nuclear programme was. And in September 2009 US President Barack Obama exposed yet another clandestine nuclear site there, bringing the possibility of a nuclear arsenal...
The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career, using his fluency in Korean and personal contacts to build a rich, nuanced understanding. In The Real...
by Daniel Hannan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Daniel Hannan, a British Conservative Member of the European Parliament, calls on Americans to avoid Europe's future. He traces the common roots of British and American liberty, and describes how both countries are losing their inheritance as government crowds out the private sphere. He calls for a renewed...
Categorically Incorrect
Ethical Fallacies in Canada's War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
If humanity has learned anything from the horrors of the war against terror, it is that our one hope is democracy. The final goal of our country’s actions at home and abroad is the preservation of democracy. This is the lens through which our policies should be discerned, dissected, and amended.
Borovoy...
World Report 2011
Events of 2010
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...