Once described by Trygve Lie as the "e;most impossible job on earth,"e; the position of UN Secretary-General is as frustratingly constrained as it is prestigious.
This book focuses on an emerging problem in English contract law: what should be done when a party has been unjustly enriched as the result of a breach of contract but there is no measurable loss suffered by said party?
This book explores the distortion of communication online, centered around the theory that the economic policy model of online media is primarily based on the systematic manufacture of dissent.
This book explores the distortion of communication online, centered around the theory that the economic policy model of online media is primarily based on the systematic manufacture of dissent.
A Brookings Institution Press and the Hoover Institution publicationAnalysts and pundits increasingly perceive a widening gulf between "e;red states"e; and "e;blue states.
In Uzbekistan, Central Asia's most populous country, Islam has been an ever-present factor in the lives of its people and a contentious force for political officials trying to build a secular and authoritarian government.
Campaign 2012: Twelve Independent Ideas for Improving American Public Policy is an indispensable guide to the questions facing White House hopefuls in 2012, as well as the challenges awaiting the winner.
Political advertising plays a key role in modern electioneering and has formed part of political campaigns since the earliest federal elections were held in the United States.
In the late 1970s when Mao's Cultural Revolution ushered in China's reform era, religion played a small role in the changes the country was undergoing.
In recent decades, Islamist political movements in many Arab countries have strategically invested in a political process that was stacked heavily against them.
The 2020 presidential primaries are on the horizon and this third edition of Elaine Kamarck's Primary Politics will be there to help make sense of them.
In the wake of recent legislation, court challenges, and demands for reform, campaign finance remains one of the most important and controversial aspects of the world's oldest democracy.
In the forty-year span between 1968 and 2008, the United States underwent great change in nearly every avenue of lifeeconomics, social mores, demographics, technology, and, of course, politics.
In the great tradition of moral argument about the nature of the economic market, Rebecca Blank and William McGurn join to debate the fundamental questionsequality and efficiency, productivity and social justice, individual achievement and personal rights in the workplace, and the costs and benefits of corporate and entrepreneurial capitalism.
As America rushes headlong into a dramatic campaign season, it is clear that these consequential contestsand the ones that followwill be hugely influenced by recent changes in the nation's makeup.
This book brings together a diverse, international array of contributors to explore the topics of news "e;quality"e; in the online age and the relationships between news organizations and enormously influential digital platforms such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter.
This book brings together a diverse, international array of contributors to explore the topics of news "e;quality"e; in the online age and the relationships between news organizations and enormously influential digital platforms such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter.
This book details how the processes of communication are affected by the presence of a pandemic and establishes a research agenda for those effects across the broad field of communication studies.
This book details how the processes of communication are affected by the presence of a pandemic and establishes a research agenda for those effects across the broad field of communication studies.
This book examines the contemporary communicational practices of journalists and media outlets and the consumption and reception patterns of audiences in Russia's provinces with an emphasis on the intergenerational transmission of culture and memory.
This book examines the contemporary communicational practices of journalists and media outlets and the consumption and reception patterns of audiences in Russia's provinces with an emphasis on the intergenerational transmission of culture and memory.
The Political Thriller in Contemporary American Cinema examines how political thriller films (de)construct and reflect the sociopolitical realities of the second half of the twentieth century, as well as the first two decades of the twenty-first century.
In this book, senior judges and academics at the forefront of transnational commercial law in Asia, Australia, Europe, the US, and elsewhere, reflect on the implications of anti-globalism and the COVID-19 pandemic on international commercial dispute resolution (ICDR).