Politics and government

German constitutionalism has gained a central place in the global comparative debate, but what underpins it remains imperfectly understood.

This book explores the politics of conservative Christian churches and social movements in Russia and the United States, focusing on their similar concerns but very different modes of political engagement.

This book is a collection of essays advancing the discourse in well-being science, authored by key thought leaders in positive psychology and its variants, including positive education, character education, and positive organizational scholarship.

The death of feminism is regularly proclaimed in the West.

This is the fourth, revised and updated, edition of Geoffrey Till's Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-first Century.

This book examines the normative tensions inherent in upward mobility within the international system, focusing particularly on the clash between sovereign self-interest and the putatively universal norms associated with international interventions.

A topical, up-to-date and highly authoritative survey of the highly controversial debate around reform of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy.

Focusing on the political economy of the international tourism sector in the era of globalization and its impact in developing contexts, this book employs a case study analysis of South Africa to assess how international tourism as a global system of trade, production, exchange and governance plays out in developing countries.

A captivating look at the history of the pure females of Islamic paradise known as the houri The fascination with the houri, the pure female of Islamic paradise, began long before September 11, 2001.

This book has long been regarded as the definitive history of Castro's communist regime, beginning in 1959 through the 1990s.

Between 1939 and 1945, over two hundred German and forty-five Allied servicemen were interned in neutral Ireland.

The book provides insights on decolonising media and communication studies education from diverse African scholars at different stages of their careers.

Over the past two decades, book-length analyses of politics in Southeast Asia, like those addressing other parts of the developing world, have focused closely on democratic change, election events, and institution building.

The legal consequence of the superior orders defense has long been debated as one of the major problems in international criminal law.

The Navy of the 21st Century, 2001- 2022 presents an all- inclusive listing of the ships that have served in the US Navy since the start of the new century.

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Asian Security Handbook focuses on the new challenges to security in the Asia-Pacific region presented by international terrorism.

A practical and empathetic guide to managing the crisis of climate displacement, and pre-empting a mass loss of human rights.

Justice apps - mobile and web-based programmes that can assist individuals with legal tasks - are being produced, improved, and accessed at an unprecedented rate.

Security challenges pose significant hardship for citizens of Caribbean nations.

This book links theoretical discussions about globalization and the distribution of wealth with a rich empirical analysis of Latin America.

This publication titled International Encyclopaedia of World Nations & Nationalities is a scholarly attempt devoted to the study of ethnicity and nationalism among contemporary world nations.

This Pivot offers a comprehensive cross-country study of the effects of large-scale resource extraction in Asia Pacific, considering how large-scale extractive industries engender contentious social, political and economic questions.

British labour history has been one of the dominating areas of historical research in the last sixty years and this book, written in honour of Professor Chris Wrigley, offers a collection of essays written by leading British labour historians of that subject including Ken Brown, Malcolm Chase and Matthew Worley.

First published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.

This book contains the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Energy Engineering and Environmental Engineering (ICEEEE2023) that was held on August 6-8 2023 in Singapore.

Following on from Ethics Education in the Military (eds.

This book gathers eleven scholarly contributions dedicated to the work of Mexican director Arturo Ripstein.

Since the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake up to the threat of online warfare and the attacks from Russia, who flood social media with disinformation, and circulate false and misleading information to fuel fake narratives and make the case for illegal warfare.

Die Corona-Krise ist ohne Zweifel von historischer Bedeutung.

Edited and with contributions by Liisa North and Alan Simmons, this collection explores the participation of the oppressed and marginalised Guatemalan refugees, most of them indigenous Mayas who fled from the army's razed-earth campaign of the early 1980s, in government negotiations regarding the conditions for return.

Do we have positive duties to help others in need or are our moral duties only negative, focused on not harming them?

Elements of Effective Governance: Measurement, Accountability and Participation is one of the first books to explore the relationship between accountability, government performance, and public participation.

When the Nazis seized power in Germany in 1933 they promised to create a new, harmonious society under the leadership of the Fuumlhrer, Adolf Hitler.

One of the hallmarks of the Soviet system was its heavy reliance on internal and foreign security and intelligence organizations.

We live in a time when public discourse is more skewed than ever by the propaganda that big money can buy, with trust in the leadership of elected officials at an all-time low.

On May 25th, 1946, after 22 years as a congressional secretary, Jane Pratt was elected as North Carolina's first congresswoman.

This book is the result of a program undertaken nine years ago by the Diebold Institute for Public Policy Studies, Inc.

Assertive, tough, and idealistic, the Weatherwomen--members of the Weather Underground Organization (WUO) from the late 1960s--were determined to stamp out sexism and social injustice.

The expanding interdependencies of the world's diverse and divided populations have created a world society.

This book explores the secret police organizations of East Asian dictators: their origins, operations, and effects on ordinary citizens'' lives.

This is an analytical assessment of how the government can accelerate development and deployment of energy technologies, for researchers and policy makers.

This book examines Jewish life in Vienna just after the Nazi-takeover in 1938.

In October 1971 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, held a celebration to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great.

The landscape of the Middle East has changed dramatically since 2011, as have the political arena and the discourse around democracy.

This book analyses recent developments concerning the application of the international legal doctrines of recognition and self-determination in relation to the Western Sahara Question.

Jessie Blackbourn is a research fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford, UK.

Why did the postcolonial Tunisian state promise development?

This book offers a new and critical perspective on the global reconciliation technology by highlighting its contingent and highly political character as an authoritative practice of post-conflict peacebuilding.

So many books, monographs and articles have been written around the "e;Roman Question"e; that a word of explanation or even of apology for the present study may be called for.