21st Century FEMA Study Course: Breaking The Disaster Cycle: Future Directions in Natural Hazard Mitigation – History of Disaster Policy, Mitigation, Ethics, Studies, Plans [EPUB ebook] 

The essays in this volume set out to provide a rational framework for legislation. Whilst legislation and regulation is the result of a political process, this volume considers whether they can also …

A veteran international journalist gives us a concise, readable guide that provides a new vision for the United States in the global community. Since 9/11, the United States has pursued a foreign pol …

Across the globe, law in all its variety is becoming more central to politics, public policy, and everyday life. For over four decades, Robert A. Kagan has been a leading scholar of the causes and co …

European External Action provides a critical assessment of the practice of EU diplomacy in a key site of Africa-European relations and the global development industry – the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. …

The World Bank is one of the most important and least understood major international institutions. This book provides a concise, accessible and comprehensive overview of the World Bank»s history, de …

An incisive new analysis of transatlantic security cooperation, probing the roots as well as the future directions of this key relationship in world affairs. Since the 1990s, this cooperation has exp …

First published in 1973 this volume demonstrates the interconnection between Hegel»s political and metaphysical writings. This book provides a point of entry into Hegel»s system of ideas. Condemned …

The U.S. Constitution is a blueprint for a free society as well as a source of enduring conflict over how that society must be governed. The competing ways of reading our founding document shape the …

This book examines the complex relationship that exists between the construction of judicial power, and the institutional characteristics of the courts and their regime setting. It examines the intri …