Political science and theory

"e;Let them come forward, they are thirsty for the sight of a King,"e; said Henri IV to his followerswho were trying to push back the curious crowds as he entered Paris in February, 1594.

The signing in Peking on May 27, I95I, of the I7-point Agreement on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet marked the end of Tibet's latest forty-year interlude of de facto independence and formalized an arrangement which, although in some respects differing from the earlier relationship between China and Tibet, in principle but reimposed the former's traditional suzerainty over the latter~ Since then, the course and pattern of relations between the Central Government and the so-called Local Government of Tibet have undergone aseries of drastic reappraisals and readjustments, culmi- and the flight of the Dalai Lama to nating in the rebellion of I959 India.

The scope of this study is narrow-the activities of a single ambas- sador for little more than two years.

The system of the pacific settlement of disputes contained in the United Nations Charter - confirmed in 1970 in the Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States - is based on agreement between the parties on both the method to be applied and the acceptance of its results.

Few modem events have aroused more controversy than the Spanish Civil War.

The author is fully aware of the difficulties connected with an adequate treatment of this subject, in view of the general back- ground of that fascinating age - the seventeenth century.

This volume contains the extended versions of selected papers presented at the first Mediterranean Conference "e;Sharing Knowledge on Sustainable Building"e; held at the Polytechnic ofBari in December 1999, supported by the National Research Council of Italy.

The other report is published by the U.

It has taken a long time to make this book.

This book presents a narrative of one of the more interesting utopian experiments in comparative political and economic history: the first decade of the Soviet experience with socialism (1918-1928).

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The Next 25 Years of Public Choice brings together the perspectives of many of the world's leading scholars of public choice on the present state of knowledge and the likely future course of scholarship on public choice and constitutional economy.

In Science and Culture, Joseph Agassi addresses scientism and relativism, two false philosophies that divorce science from culture in general and from tradition in particular.

This book is about an art in which the Netherlands excels: strategic planning.

The game-theoretic analysis of rights forms a rapidly growing field of study to which this book makes an important contribution.

This book arises from case studies and two back-to-back workshops held in Cotonou, Benin in November 2001.

This volume is a collection of phenomenological investigations of the political domain.

This volume is intended to stimulate a change in the practice of decision support, advocating an interdisciplinary approach centred on both social and natural sciences, both theory and practice.

Since the 1980s, political scientists have developed a renewed interest in the study of political institutions, based on the assumption that "e;institutions matter"e; -that is, that formal governmental institutions and constitutional-legal rules (as well as informal institutions like parties and interest groups) are crucial determinants of the shape of politics and policy outcomes.

Sustainable development has become a central perspective in environmental strategies around the world.

Multi-Ethnic Metropolis is based on international comparative research on ethnic segre- gation patterns and policy reactions at local and national level.

Each year, roughly a million new cases of cancer appear in the US, and more than 500,000 Americans die annually of premature death.

by Peter Coffey This is indeed a most opportune time for the publication of a serious, critical and independent study about the "e;Main Economic Policy Areas of the EEC"e;.

The aim of this book is to explore what it means to live a life under the law.

In his beautiful booklnvisible eities Italo Calvino writes about the two cities ofValdrada, the one which lies on the shores of a lake, and the other which is reflected in the lake and contains not only the exterior of Valdrada on the shores, but also its interior, and probably its inhabitants.

The end ofthe Cold War opened unprecedented opportunities for reductions in weapons of mass destruction.

This ninth volume is one of the most arnbitious in the Philosophy and Technology series.

A North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Advanced Studies Institute (AS I) on Defense Conversion Strategies was held at the Atholl Palace Hotel, Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland, from July 2 through July 14, 1995.

In a sense, this book might seem like a strange undertaking for two economists.

effectiveness and creativity in different contexts.

Following the thematic divisions of the first three volumes of Alfred Schutz's Collected Papers into The Problem of Social Reality, Studies in Social Theory and Phenomenological Philosophy, this fourth volume contains drafts of unfinished writings, drafts of published writings, translations of essays previously published in German, and some largely unpublished correspondence.

The issue of climate change is now widely recognised as one of the major challenges for mankind in the 21st century, not only because it may ultimately affect many areas of our environment, nature and human activity but also because its mitigation may have far reaching consequences for almost all sectors of the economy where energy conversion takes place.

Law and economics can be considered as the most exciting development in legal scholarship in recent decades.

Autonomy, viewed as a subject's autonomous designing of her own distinctive 'individuality', is not a constitutive problem for liberal theory.

How do small states approach their security problems?

European Consumer Policy after Maastricht raises both `horizontal' and `vertical' issues of consumer policy in the European Community and associated countries.

Cities form one of the principal arenas in which globalization processes are manifest.

The crisis in trade unionism is now a prevailing concern in the United States, as well as in Europe.