Politics and Government

These days, it's rare to pick up a newspaper and not see a story related to intelligence. From the investigations of the 9/11 commission, to accus...

First published in 1997, this volume investigates the important economic issue of small business finance. The inability of small firms to acquire e...

Honorable Mention, Bolton Memorial Prize, Conference on Latin American HistoryA government monopoly provides an excellent case study of state-socie...

This book examines regime stability and political change in the heartland of the Middle East. It discusses the distribution of power within each re...

Each of the contributions in this book sheds new light on key elements in the changing size, structure, and distribution of the Spanish American po...

With the benefit of an insider's perspective, distinguished former congressman Lee H. Hamilton argues that America needs a stronger Congress and a ...

Ever since the creation of Pakistan as an independent Muslim state in 1947, the country has struggled to integrate a diverse population and stabili...

Carlos Salinas's government drew praise from many academic commentators and foreign governments for its boldness in embarking on neoliberal economi...

The question of whether China and India can cooperate is at the core of global geopolitics. As the two countries grow their economies, the potentia...

Politics cannot function without responsibility, but there have been serious disagreements about how responsibility is to be understood and huge co...

This book is based on papers presented at the China Energy and Mineral Policies and Planning Conference held at the East-West Center. It discusses ...

Corruption, crime, economic inequality, religious fundamentalism, financial crises, environmental degradation, population ageing, gender inequality...

This book explores the associative duties we owe to our children, parents, friends, colleagues, associates and compatriots and defends a novel acco...

The recent Arab uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East have attracted scholarly attention as popular movements with novel transnational ...

Playwright, journalist, and spectacularly successful governor, Carlos Lacerda was Brazil's foremost orator in the 20th century and its most controv...

Parliaments are often seen as Western European and North American institutions and their establishment in other parts of the world as a derivative ...

This book sets out the new frontier of marketing and communication through real case histories. Companies must rethink their traditional approaches...

Throughout the contest for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, politicians and voters alike worried that the outcome might depend on the p...

Not long after the end of the American Civil War, a wealthy young Dutchman by the name of Claude August Crommelin embarked on a tour of the young c...

This book explores the significance and treatment of land reform in Brazil under democratic and authoritarian rule and assesses the overall impact ...