Politics and Government

This up-to-date analysis of the major political issues associated with the Indian Ocean region examines recent developments in South Asia, the Gulf...

This volume examines the economic and political circumstances in Portugal since the 1974 revolution. A succinct analysis of the central themes of P...

The United States depends on foreign sources for many strategic and essential minerals. Secure supplies of such minerals are crucial to the nation'...

The possession of high-technology weapons, some capable of mass destruction, is no longer the exclusive prerogative of superpowers. This volume exp...

This book describes the efforts of the United States and the former Soviet Union to resolve regional confrontations. It examines Gorbachev's inheri...

The civilian government inaugurated in Brazil in March 1985, following twenty-one years of military rule, is the culmination of a slow process of l...

This book explains the state of the art in the European Parliament. It considers the future options available to the Parliament and the kinds of re...

This book is an inquiry into modern statesmanship or, as the title indicates, into statesmanship in the age of interdependence. In form, it consist...

Portugal's early developmental experience created a highly centralized administrative state that continues to have a powerful influence on the natu...

Travelling from Madrid to The Valley of the Fallen, through Castile and León and across the fiercely contested region of Catalonia, Christopher Fin...

Originally published in 1980, state and local governments handle a lot of the systems that are used and we come into contact with on a daily basis...

This book is an effort to overcome the major obstacle to a creative system orientation in world politics—a dearth of knowledge about system-level c...

This book examines how state and local institutions that manage water conveyance and drainage actually function. Thus a great deal is revealed abou...

 This book looks at the relationship between Congress and the president and how this interaction shapes public policy. The relationship between th...

In 1799, the papacy was at rock bottom: The Papal States had been swept away and Rome seized by the revolutionary French armies. The cardinals were...

This book provides facts and figures to show how fast fossil fuel energy is being used up in the developed countries. It considers the problems of ...

Following the 1952 revolution in Bolivia, both state and international aid agencies channelled capital and technology to regional elites for the de...

The industrial world was built to run on cheap oil, and now the cheap oil has run out. For a while longer, the West will depend for its energy upon...

This book is among the first to examine the social, political, economic, and environmental dimensions of major long-term changes in the systems of ...

The famously candid two-term governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie was the first major official to endorse Trump for president. Christie quickly b...

This book attempts to explain why, and to evaluate what the return of the left has meant for the social policy of the states they have helped gover...

This book conceptually examines the role of communication in global jihad from multiple perspectives. The main premise is that communication is so ...

This is an appraisal of the transformation that has taken place in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The book addresses two central issues: how ...

This book is dedicated to those individuals in the U.S. Government who have begun to recognize the full implications of the challenge which this co...

Is there a risk that Malaysia's racial mixture and its weighted political and economic structures could again explode into the kind of violence whi...

This edited translation of Syed Nur Ahmad's landmark study, Martial Law to Martial Law, provides the most comprehensive study in English or Urdu of...

This book, Land, Power, and Poverty, explores the development of the rigid and unequal structures of rural Central American society and the role in...

On June 23, 1983, the U.S. Supreme Court declared a legislative veto unconstitutional in theImmigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadhacase, a...

This comprehensive text provides a detailed overview of the party system and politics of one of the most powerful states in the international arena...

This title was first published in 2000:  An in-depth look at the definition of power. The writing is well crafted and very readable and comprises a...

The landslide reelection of President Ronald Reagan in 1984 prompted political analysts to consider the possibility of a national realignment of th...

The reunification of Taiwan with China is one of the most important policy issues of our time. The issue has broad strategic, political, economic, ...

This comprehensive and clearly written textbook offers a long-awaited introduction to the trade policy of the European Union, the world's largest t...

Future historians are very likely to see nuclear proliferation—or the averting of nuclear proliferation—as one of the central determinants of inter...

Lives That Resist Telling challenges the resounding scholarly silence about the lives of migrant women who identify as lesbian, queer, or nonhetero...

The recent revival of interest in the Muslim world has generated numerous studies of modern Islam, most of them focusing on the Sunni majority. Shi...

 Between 1961 and 1983, Turkish agriculture was subject to negative protection as a result of indirect measures, such as macroeconomic policies and...

Decision making about energy has come to epitomize a larger struggle taking place in U.S. society--a struggle for control over individual destiny, ...

The creation of jobs is critical in Third World countries where growing populations face unemployment or inadequate employment. Many have put forth...

This book examines how renewed forms of artistic activism were developed in the wake of the neoliberal repression since the 1980s. The volume shows...

This comprehensive study examines the sources of growth and stagnation in the Israeli economy, focusing on the development of the industrial and ag...

This book initiates a series of comprehensive annual reviews of issues and events in the Republic of Korea and on the peninsula as a whole in 1990....

This book identifies the central problems of crisis research, assesses the progress of work in the area, and discusses prospects for the future. It...

Analyzing the economic, strategic, and cultural elements that shape the attraction--and the friction--between the Pacific and Atlantic communities,...

Originally published in 1986, this volume explores capitalization as an industrialisation indicator and the scale of capitalization in the areas of...

This study of executive-branch decision making explores the conflict between the diplomatic and developmental mandates of U.S. foreign-aid programs...