Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Despite growing interest in democracy promotion, the nature and extent of external factors’ impact on democratic transitions to date remains understudied. The question of what works under what circumstances is still intensely contested among academics, policy-makers, and practitioners. Liberal Interventionism...
Democracy in the Arab World
Explaining the Deficit
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Despite notable socio-economic development in the Arab region, a deficit in democracy and political rights has continued to prevail. This book examines the major reasons underlying the persistence of this democracy deficit over the past decades and touches on the prospects for deepening the process...
The Politics of Nation-Building
Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
What drives a state's choice to assimilate, accommodate or exclude ethnic groups within its territory? In this innovative work on the international politics of nation-building, Harris Mylonas argues that a state's nation-building policies toward non-core groups - individuals perceived as an ethnic...
European Union Foreign and Security Policy
Towards a Neighbourhood Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
The end of the Cold War presented a major challenge to Western Europe and to the European Union. It led not only to a whole new set of countries seeking to join the EU, but also to a strong demand for a more intensive EU engagement in the broader regional context. This book assesses whether the EU...
by Christopher Darnton
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Rivalry and Alliance Politics in Cold War Latin America, Christopher Darnton’s comparative study of the nature of conflict between Latin American states during the Cold War, provides a counterintuitive and shrewd explanation of why diplomacy does or doesn’t work. Specifically, he develops a theory...
Global citizen and European republic
Irish foreign policy in transition
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Will the real Ireland please stand up? European Republic, Global Citizen, Anglo-American State or Irish Nation? - this text offers an analysis of Irish foreign policy that focuses upon its transformation as a result of Ireland’s membership of the European Union and a broader evolution in national identity.
Petro-Aggression
When Oil Causes War
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Oil is the world's single most important commodity and its political effects are pervasive. Jeff Colgan extends the idea of the resource curse into the realm of international relations, exploring how countries form their foreign policy preferences and intentions. Why are some but not all oil-exporting...
Making Waves
Democratic Contention in Europe and Latin America since the Revolutions of 1848
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
This study investigates the three main waves of political regime contention in Europe and Latin America. Surprisingly, protest against authoritarian rule spread across countries more quickly in the nineteenth century, yet achieved greater success in bringing democracy in the twentieth. To explain...
Asia and Latin America
Political, Economic and Multilateral Relations
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Until the late 1980s, Japan was the only country in Asia with notable political and economic relations. Since then, however, several Asian nations have perceived growing links with the Latin American region as a means of diversifying their political and particularly economic relations while many Latin...
National Intelligence Systems
Current Research and Future Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
A series of investigations, especially in Great Britain and the United States, have focused attention on the performance of national intelligence services. At the same time, terrorism and a broad span of trans-national security challenges has highlighted the crucial role of intelligence. This book...
Compound Democracies
Why the United States and Europe Are Becoming Similar
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
This is a major new comparison of the American and European political systems. By deploying a powerful new model to analyse the two systems it draws some challenging conclusions about their increasing similarity. Professor Fabbrini argues that the process of regional integration in Europe over the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
The Global Promise of Federalism honours the life and work of Richard Simeon, one of Canada’s foremost experts on federalism. It features a group of distinguished scholars of federalism from Canada and abroad who take up some of the fundamental questions at the heart of both Simeon’s work and...
Welfare Democracies and Party Politics
Explaining Electoral Dynamics in Times of Changing Welfare Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Europe's political landscapes are in turmoil, and new radical parties challenge the established political order. This book locates Europe's contemporary challenges within the longer economic and political trajectories of its 'welfare democracies'. The book argues that it is imperative to understand...
The Comparative Politics of Education
Teachers Unions and Education Systems around the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Public education is critically important to the human capital, social well-being, and economic prosperity of nations. It is also an intensely political realm of public policy that is heavily shaped by power and special interests. Yet political scientists rarely study education, and education researchers...