Politics and Government

This timely book offers a fresh perspective on the issue of contemporary migratory labor, otkhodnichestvo, in Russia-the temporary departure of inh...

The Helsinki Final Act of the 1975 Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) set the rules for legitimate changes in national fronti...

Because American Samoa does not have a federal court like the CNMI, Guam or USVI, matters of federal law arising in American Samoa have generally b...

The U.S. insular areas of American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and three Freely Ass...

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko snuffed out Belarus''''s modest progress toward democracy and a free market economy and created an author...

This book examines the current political, economic, security, and U.S. interest issues facing Russia today. Although Russia may not be as central t...

Successive U.S. Administrations have viewed Morocco as an important regional ally, a partner in counterterrorism, and a free trade counterpart. Mor...

This book presents and discusses current research in the study of a variety of economic, political and social issues of Russia, as well as U.S. inv...

This book focuses on the features and structure of the EU''''s food chain, food industry developments, introduction of new technologies, institutio...

This book discusses the opportunities as well as problems facing the proposed Union Government of Africa from diverse disciplines. The central focu...

This book presents and discusses information on the contemporary politics and economics of Asia. The coverage is intended to deal with Asia, its po...

A continent of vast diversity, stretching from the deserts of the north through the equatorial tropics into the more temperate south, Africa brims ...

The final text of the proposed U.S.-Panama FTA incorporates specific amendments on key issues at the behest of congressional leadership. The most s...

The goal of disability insurance is to replace a portion of a worker''''s income should illness or disability prevent him or her from working. Indi...

This book presents and discusses current research in the study of the economics and politics of South and Central America. Topics discussed include...

In the wake of the summer of 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah and an armed domestic confrontation between Hezbollah and rival Lebanese groups ...

Credit Rating originated in the USA has spread out to the world since the 1980s. Credit risk is a risk that a borrower either through bonds or bank...

When federal agencies and programs lack appropriated funding, they experience a funding gap. Under the Antideficiency Act, they must cease operatio...

Federal law bars aliens residing without authorisation in the United States from most federal benefits; however, there is a widely held perception ...

Grounded in psychology, political science and education, this book presents Berne''''s Transactional Analysis model used as a novel conceptual fram...