By building on a recent research comparing the EU and US and drawing on Riker's influential theory of federalism, this books explores the origins of fiscal unions.
By building on a recent research comparing the EU and US and drawing on Riker's influential theory of federalism, this books explores the origins of fiscal unions.
Generations of social scientists and historians have argued that the escape from empire and consequent fragmentation of power - across and within polities - was a necessary condition for the European development of the modern territorial state, modern representative democracy, and modern levels of prosperity.
Generations of social scientists and historians have argued that the escape from empire and consequent fragmentation of power - across and within polities - was a necessary condition for the European development of the modern territorial state, modern representative democracy, and modern levels of prosperity.
This volume is the first comprehensive analysis of women's ascendance to leadership positions in the European Union as well as their performance in such positions.
This volume is the first comprehensive analysis of women's ascendance to leadership positions in the European Union as well as their performance in such positions.
In the second edition of Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know(R), Jorge Duany unravels the fascinating and turbulent past and present of an island that is politically and economically tied to the United States, yet culturally distinct.
This volume presents the first full English translation of four key texts from the dispute between Juan Gines de Sepulveda and Bartolome de las Casas regarding the justice of Spain's invasion of the Americas, culminating in their famous debate in Valladolid in 1550-51.
Most international organisations today-from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to the World Health Organisation-present themselves as technical institutions separate from political concerns.
This book challenges the assumption that authoritarianism is necessarily a phenomenon located at the level of the state, and that states as a whole are therefore either democratic or authoritarian.
This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the many different facets of the Swiss political system and of the major developments in modern Swiss politics.
Capacity remuneration mechanisms (or simply capacity mechanisms) have become a fact of life in member states' energy markets and are one of the hottest topics in the wider European regulatory debate.
This book is about the peaceful resolution (PR) of territorial and maritime disputes and states' strategic behavior vis-a-vis methods of peaceful resolution: bilateral negotiations, good offices, inquiry, conciliation, mediation, arbitration, and adjudication.
In patterns of violence across the world, some victims attract strong public support and propel historic levels of collective action, but the vast majority suffer in silence.
The Trade & Cooperation Agreement (TCA) is the treaty which regulates free trade and economic arrangements between the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK) post-Brexit.
This volume presents the first full English translation of four key texts from the dispute between Juan Gines de Sepulveda and Bartolome de las Casas regarding the justice of Spain's invasion of the Americas, culminating in their famous debate in Valladolid in 1550-51.
In the wake of World War II, the United States leveraged its hegemonic position in the international political system to gradually build a new global order centered around democracy, the expansion of free market capitalism, and the containment of communism.
This is an interdisciplinary textbook that examines the relationship between globalization and social, political, economic, and environmental health determinants.
Transforming International Institutions illuminates how a slow, quiet, subterranean process can produce big, radical change in international institutions and organizations.
Historical approaches to the study of world politics have always been a major part of the academic discipline of International Relations, and there has recently been a resurgence of scholarly interest in this area.
Almost fifty years have passed since the adoption of the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (the UNESCO World Heritage Convention).
History and International Relations collects works by the late Professor Martin Wight (1913-1972), an historian and scholar of international relations.
In an era of mounting global crises—from climate change and inequality to debt, migration, and artificial intelligence—the role of multilateralism has never been more urgent.
In an era of mounting global crises—from climate change and inequality to debt, migration, and artificial intelligence—the role of multilateralism has never been more urgent.
Michel Foucault’s seminal realization that security is a species concept opens a new path for understanding how genocide is fundamentally related to aesthetic ideology.
Michel Foucault’s seminal realization that security is a species concept opens a new path for understanding how genocide is fundamentally related to aesthetic ideology.
