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 …

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 …

Examining the nature of the Fifth Republic after its first 42 years, this study looks at the challenges posed by new parties and new expressions of political mobilization. Entrenched policy routines …