Politik

In Political Cleavages: Issues, Parties, and the Consolidation of Democracy, Alejandro Moreno argues that the political split between authoritarian and democratic ideologies is the main determinant o …

As an ethnically heterogeneous but stable democracy, the United States is a puzzle for students of politics. Typically, the literature of democratic theory regards ethnic diversity as disruptive of a …

The shots fired during the early morning hours of February 3, 1989, at the Asuncion headquarters of the presidential escort battalion presented the planet with its first blood-and-steel evidence that …

Originally published in 2004. In recent years, there has been much debate about the economic performance of the Scottish economy in relation to the economy of Britain as a whole. However, with the es …

The Caribbean area projects an image—not entirely accurate—of instability, and it is within that context that the United States and Cuba, the region“s chief protagonists, struggle. This book explore …

This book focuses on the nature of the Soviet-East European relationship in the Gorbachev era and on the prospects for the adaptation of that relationship to changing conditions in today“s world, ex …

This book explains the negotiations on an international framework for trade in services, undertaken in the Group of Negotiations on Services of the Uruguay Round, and the international discussions on …

Investigating the extent to which the European Union can be defined as a ‚highly competitive social market economy‘, this edited collection illustrates and tests the constitutional reverberations of …

This text examines the most economically critical and politically sensitive issues of China“s reform process – labour market development, changing industrial relations, and labour-state and labour-c …

This book reviews the frameworks and implementation of marine, fishery and coastal laws and policies in Chile, Mexico and Peru. Chile, Mexico and Peru share biodiverse coastal and marine environments …