Kees van Kersbergen & Barbara Vis 
Comparative Welfare State Politics [EPUB ebook] 

A FASCINATING INSIGHT INTO THE WORLD OF GLOBAL POLITICS. In 2015 New Zealand began its fourth term as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. Although the Council is sometimes …

This book analyses how financial elites in key dollar-holding emerging markets perceive the contest between the euro and the dollar for global currency status. It also assesses how far the Eurozone h …

The United States embargo against Cuba was imposed over fifty years ago initially as a response to the new revolutionary government”s seizure of US properties, which was viewed by the US as a violat …

Despite different legal and constitutional arrangements, in many states across Europe, public leaders are forging new collaborative relationships with non-state and civic actors to seek innovative wa …

This volume examines how international cooperation can support implementation of domestic climate policies in developing countries. Six case studies explore the domestic drivers and barriers for poli …

Critical Rationalism and Globalization addresses how the access to critical reason enables people to shape a new social order on a global scale. This book demonstrates how the philosophy of critical …

This book examines how civil-military relations have been transformed in Russia, Poland, Hungary and Ukraine since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact in 1991. It shows how these cou …

Introduced with a preface by Jacques Delors, this volume offers new insights and develops generalised theories about the nature of European integration. The contributors step back from the detail of …

It has been the dominant view that both Syria in the 1980s and Iran today have acted as rogue states in the Middle East threatening to upset the stability of the region. In this innovative new study, …