Political science and theory

In international law the authority of the writers has been great and the Statute of the International Court of Justice still takes cognizance of them as subsidiary sources.

In the relation of states, treaties are a matter of great importance.

The years between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Party Con- gresses of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union comprise one of the most eventful periods in the history of the USSR.

My original research on the present subject was done a number of years ago as I was preparing a doctoral dissertation at Colum- bia University.

Few episodes in recent history have aroused as much controversy as the United Nations military operations in the Congo.

This study consists of an empirical examination of the legal effect of war on treaties to which the United States and one or more enemy states were parties at the outbreak of World War II.

One respect in which the United Nations has departed most widely from the League of Nations in its practice has been the method adopted by the Security Coundl for handling legal questions that arise in connection with its work.

The Danube has been for two centuries the great connecting link between the European West and the European East.

Since World War I scholars and practitioners alike have addressed themselves to defining and assessing the "e;new diplomacy,"e; which the British diplomatist Harold Nicolson has branded the "e;American method.

During World War II the quadriga, the impressive figure of the charioteer Victory driving four horses, on top of the Brandenburg Gate was destroyed.

This is an authentic book.

The legal status of the institution of diplomatic asylum really presents two separate questions.

"e;An autocracy tempered by assassination"e;, clever foreigners used to say about the Russian empire in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Berlin lies more than 100 miles behind the Iron Curtain within the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany.

Modem societies, - like organized societies of all eras, - suffer from antithetical aspirations, from competing institutionalizations of that which is desirable, and that which, though unwelcome, is inevitable.

The signing in Peking on May 27, 1951, of the 17-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.

Six years after the rendering of the Nuremberg Judgment world conditions are not such as to encourage a study on what constituted its principal innovation in the legal field: the punishment of the authors of aggressive war.

We seem to be witnessing the rebirth of the concept of an integrated social science, a complete theory of human action and interaction in all its ramifica- tions and complications.

"e;An autocracy tempered by assassination"e;, clever foreigners used to say about the Russian empire in the 18th and 19th centuries.

This study was begun in 1937 with the help of a research grant from the Social Science Research Council and a semester's sabbatical from the University of Kentucky.

Economic Analysis of Institutions and Systems aims to redirect the study of what was previously referred to as comparative economic systems toward analysis of the history and development of institutions, and the effects of alternative institutional arrangements on economic behavior.

On 14th September 1996, against the background of the Dayton agreement, six different elections took place in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Constitutional political economy is a research program that directs inquiry to the working properties of rules and institutions within which individuals interact and to the processes through which these rules and institutions are chosen or come into being.

New philosophies of environmental management are being put to the test in many countries.

This volume offers one of the first systematic analyses of the rise of modern social science.

On behalf of the Russian Federation Committee on Water Economy, I would like to welcome the participants of the NATO-sponsored Workshop on the Problems of the Caspian Sea and the Circum-Caspian States.

While income redistribution is one of the most important functions of modern governments, the world has changed greatly since this first edition of Economics of Income Redistribution was published in 1983.

It is clear that our society must become a more sustainable one.

Many European Union Directives seek to minimize the potential for harm to humans and the environment arising from the use of chemicals.

On 13 and 14 September 1997, municipal elections took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

All former Soviet Union countries experience their past as a heavy burden.

Agricultural pollution (with nitrates and pesticides) is one of the biggest threats to drinking water resources.

Preface When you write a book like this after ten years' working as an environmental specialist, you end up with something that reflects your career.

Climate change poses important challenges to research and policy.

This volume is on the flexibility mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol and summarises the main fmdings of a two day workshop on 'Dealing with Carbon Credits after Kyoto', organised by ETC and the JIN foundation (both from the Netherlands) in Callantsoog, the Netherlands, on 28-29 May 1998.

This book takes a long-term view of environmental policy in Poland, which thus serves as an example to increase our understanding of environmental policy making in general in the former Eastern bloc countries.

here ofexchange, and borrowing in debates between these disciplines, all the more so, as we shall see a little further on, as the analysis of the Central and East European transformations has also contributed to introduce into political science and sociology theoretical systematizations first formulated in economics.

The papers for this special issue were selected from a pool of nearly 700 presentations which were made at the 10th Congress of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES), which was held in Cape Town, South Africa, from 12 to 17 July 1998.

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During the last two centuries, the political map of Europe has changed considerably.

The International Society for Quality of Life Studies held its first conference in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1997.

All over the world, many people who live in urban areas find themselves in an arduous social situation.

In her letters Mme de Stael provides a panoramic historical outlook of the European literary, cultural and political scene between 1789 and 1817, i.

Most Asian countries have shown a strong commitment to rapid economic development.

Law is the great concealer; and law is everywhere.

It is not unusual that formal and informal discussions about the political system, its virtues, and its many defects, conclude in a discussion about impartiality.

In 1989 the federal government spent $1197 billion, a mind-boggling sum that is almost impossible to visualize.