Constitution: government and the state

This collection of essays surveys the full range of challenges that territorial conflicts pose for constitution-making processes and constitutional design.

Based on 20 years of research, including an examination of the papers of eight of the nine Justices who voted in Roe v.

The book phenomenon of `Club Government' in the mid-nineteenth century, when many of the functions of government were alleged to have taken place behind closed doors, in the secretive clubs of London's St.

Larry Schweikart, a retired history professor, is ready to set the record straight on the American presidents.

Zero Tolerance analyzes the cycles of repression and violence that grip Xinjiang, clarifying the policies and interests that drive China''s mistreatment of its Uyghur minority.

This Element explores how the Japanese state is trying to balance the unfolding demands of the digital economy.

This book contains critical analyses of President Barack Obama's foreign policy instruments toward Africa and suggests how to continue, strengthen, and modify these policy instruments.

This book describes what the authors identify as an emerging political crisis in U.

Constitutionalism, Human Rights, and Islam after the Arab Spring offers a comprehensive analysis of the impact that new and draft constitutions and amendments - such as those in Jordan, Morocco, Syria, Egypt, and Tunisia - have had on the transformative processes that drive constitutionalism in Arab countries.

How did Donald Trump almost single-handedly reverse America's decline?

« La défiance s’installe en France et entre les Français.

Analyses of why precise dates and quantities of time become critical to transactions over citizenship rights in liberal democracies.

What is the 'state' and how can we best study it?

This book provides a detailed examination of the life and legal legacy of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, including a discussion of the many legal cases in which he was involved.

This book focuses on the historical configuration of the territorial borders and functional boundaries of the European nation state.

Drawing on historical documents and exclusive interviews, authors tell the inspiring story of Clarence Thomass rise from a childhood of poverty and prejudice in the segregated South to Supreme Court Justice.

Chapter 1 assesses (1) the status of the Army's near- and long-term modernization efforts; and (2) the extent to which the Army has applied.

What is the Alt-Right, and how will it affect America?

Chapter 1 analyzes state-to-state arms sales in the Middle East with a particular focus on U.

Modern presidents are CEOs with broad powers over the federal government.

A comprehensive and focused review of all of the Supreme Court's overturns of Congress on constitutional grounds from 1789 to the present suited to college-level political science and constitutional law courses as well as law school students.

The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017As Sir John A.

What do leaders need to know in order to be effective?

]State trials reveal much about a nation's insecurities and shed light on important themes in political, constitutional, and legal history.

One of the most revered, imitated, and controversial governmental documents in the world, the U.

In this provocative new study, Iain McLean argues that the traditional story of the British constitution does not make sense.

A fresh and compelling interpretation of Russian politics, focusing on the political development of Russia under Putin and Medvedev.

Analyses settlements between Israel and the West-Bank, the Green-Line, exploring the influence of geopolitics and geoeconomics on the production of space.

Written by a leading scholar of the constitutional amending process, this two-volume encyclopedia, now in its fifth edition, is an indispensable resource for students, legal historians, and high school and college librarians.

This book shows how police and politicians in Latin America informally regulate drug markets using corruption and violence.

The study of law and politics is one of the foundation stones of the discipline of political science, and it has been one of the most productive areas of cross-fertilization between the various subfields of political science and between political science and other cognate disciplines.

Offering a unique resource for students, scholars, and citizens, this work fully explains all of the 21 enumerated powers of the U.

Unlike many national constitutions, which contain explicit positive rights to such things as education, a living wage, and a healthful environment, the U.

Constitutional 'losers' represent a thorny and longstanding problem in American constitutional law.

Many Americans believe that their own government is guilty of shocking crimes.

The GCC is a major player in the post-2011 reordering of the Middle East.

A fascinating manifesto, proposing that the world should be split into smaller regions to distribute power more evenly.

Aktuelle EntwicklungenDas Buch vermittelt in gewohnter Weise verständlich und übersichtlich die staatlichen und verfassungsrechtlichen Grundstrukturen bundesdeutscher Politik und des politischen Systems der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

In this new perspective, Iran's quest for nuclear power-in the context of the global energy challenge and the Cold War-era nuclear arms race-takes on new dimension.

Nach fast zwei Jahrzehnten Krieg unterzeichnete die Trump-Regierung im Februar 2020 ein Abkommen mit den Taliban, wonach die Truppen der USA und ihrer NATO-Verbundeten Afghanistan innerhalb der nachsten Monate verlassen mussen.

This book explains why Algeria''s post-colonial domestic political economy unravelled, and how the regime eventually managed to regain power and hegemony.