Ronald C. Den Otter 
In Defense of Plural Marriage [PDF 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 examines different legal systems and analyses how the judge in each of them performs a meaningful review of the proportional use of discretionary powers by public bodies. Although the propo …

Over the last decade, the oil and gas industry has garnered a lot of support from the United States federal and state governments in the name of energy independence and economic prosperity. More spec …

This book chronicles the kinds of changes that have occurred on the ‘demand’ and ‘supply’ sides of American state government. It assesses the consequences of those developments for the quality of sta …

Effective diplomacy remains fundamental to the conduct of international relations in the twenty-first century, as we seek to define and manage a challenging new world order peacefully. New Perspectiv …

Remaking the Labour Party examines the development of revisionist thought in the Labour Party from the 1950s up to Tony Blair”s successful attempt to rewrite Clause Four in April 1995. The main focu …

Integrating the study of individual European nation-states within the framework of the European Union, this unique new text is essentially two books in one: a book on the EU and a comparative introdu …

When green parties emerged in the 1980s, not only did they question established ideas about nature and economic growth, they also challenged the ”iron law” of Roberto Michels that all parties inevi …

Desertification affects 70 per cent of the world”s arable lands in more than 100 countries. Inextricably linked to poverty, it is estimated that the livelihood of 250 million people are directly aff …

Regionalism has regained momentum in the post-Cold War era. New economic groupings continue to spring up across the globe, while older regional organizations have strengthened their institutional bas …