Political structure and processes

Challenges the assumption of the rationality of foreign policy makers in international relations, showing how leaders systematically vary in the rationality of their thinking.

African Americans have long been the backbone of the Democratic Party.

In recent years, an increasing amount of research has argued that the successful transformation of rebel organization into parties is critical to stable post-conflict peace and democratization.

This book investigates the politics of federalism reform in Germany which has spanned over more than a decade.

Von Peter Glotz Diese Studie untersucht die Entwicklung der Propagandaforschung im 20.

This book reviews for the first time some of the less frequently addressed actors in international investment law.

CHANGE!

24 août 410 : la ville de Rome est mise à sac par Alaric Ier, roi des Wisigoths.

In September 1857, a member of a religious sect killed himself on hearing the news that the object of his devout observance, Nikal Seyn, had died.

For a given electoral system, what average number and sizes of parties and government duration can we expect?

The first English-language scholarly book to provide an overview of the Angela Merkel''s career and influence.

A balanced biography of Golda Meir, who was both adored and abhorred, from award-winning author Deborah E.

Grounded in nine years of ethnographic research on the al Muhajiroun/Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah movement (ALM/ASWJ), Douglas Weeks mixes ethnography and traditional research methods to tell the complete story of al Muhajiroun.

This book challenges the common perception of authoritarian regimes as incompatible with federalism and decentralization.

Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870 - 1924) led the first successful revolt against market-based liberal democracy and founded the Soviet State in 1917, serving as the new nation s chief architect and sole ruler for the next five years.

Christians across the spectrum have soured on religious involvement in politics, tempted either to withdraw or to secularize their public engagement.

An examination of the origins of international investment law and their continued resonance in the twenty-first century.

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Culminating a decade of conferences that have explored presidential speech, The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric assesses progress and suggests directions for both the practice of presidential speech and its study.

Democracy promotion in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remains a central pillar of the foreign policy the European Union (EU).

Spain and Portugal have recently adopted European-style democratic and political systems.

Several years after the Arab Spring began, democracy remains elusive in the Middle East.

Publication is the coin of the realm in the academy.

This book investigates the racism against Southern Italian children attending North-Western primary schools between the 1950s and the 1970s.

The federal election campaign of 2005-06 offered the usual mix of lofty rhetoric, competing interests, and skullduggery.

A study of the state and international relations of Zimbabwe from the perspective of their citizens.

With contributions from some of the most prominent voices writing on gender, law and religion today, this book illuminates some of the conflicts at the intersection of feminism, theology and law.

This book offers a critical deconstruction of radicalism as a political category and through this analytical approach seeks to interpret and assess the presidencies of the former Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.

This volume is a collection of essays on medieval Spain, written by leading scholars on three continents, that celebrates the career of Thomas F.

Encyclopaedia of Indian Parliament, a multi-volume, continuing series, is an attempt to provide authentic, factual and analytical information about Parliament of India in its different facets.

Forecasts of the death of democracy are often heard and the United Kingdom is on the death watch list.

Is a new spirit of capitalism emerging as a result of neoliberal adjustments in the global economy?

An incisive portrait of how the new Black politics can forge a future centered on collective action, community, and careWhen #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Black-led mobilization since the civil rights and Black power era.

En collaboration avec Hélène Bois, Jean-Paul Rouleau, Gilles Routhier et Jean SextonLes combats de Gérard Dion pour la démocratisation de notre société et la modernisation du Québec feront de ce pionnier des relations du travail l’un des grands artisans de la Révolution tranquille : à preuve, son engagement en faveur de la déconfessionalisation de la CTCC (future CSN), de la réforme de notre système scolaire, de l’obtention du Code du travail en 1964, du droit de grève dans le secteur public et de la défense des intérêts du Québec.

Some blame the violence and unrest in the Muslim world on Islam itself, arguing that the religion and its history is inherently bloody.

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The relative merits of different arbitral venues are conveyed accessibly and practically in this far-reaching survey.

How can we best analyse contemporary welfare state change?

Conversations With Myself is a moving collection of letters, diary entries and other writing that provides a rare chance to see the other side of Nelson Mandela's life, in his own voice: direct, clear, private.

In several Western countries, expert commissions composed of academics, public figures, politicians and community organisers have been established by governments or civil society to reflect on the changes and challenges of an increasingly plural society.

The award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian considers the vast array of triumphs and failures of America’s modern presidents that paved a path to Donald Trump, offering an understanding of our current moment and hope for a way back to true leadership.

The Sinews of State Power seeks to explain why rural China has been so unstable since 2000, despite numerous national reforms.

During the course of the past three decades efforts of democratisation and institutional reforms have characterised the African continent, including demands for gender equality and women's political representation.