Samuel Berlinski & Torun Dewan 
Accounting for Ministers [EPUB ebook] 
Scandal and Survival in British Government 1945-2007

Militarized conflicts between states appear to occur repeatedly in the same geographic regions. Both World Wars and a series of interstate disputes in the post-Cold War system had their origins in th …

Since 1989 the concept of ”civil war” has taken on new salience in international relations. Significant inquiries into inter-ethnic violence emphasising studies of political community, identity, so …

This is the first comprehensive book on Military Cost-Benefit Analysis and provides novel approaches to structuring cost-benefit and affordability analysis amidst an uncertain defense environment and …

The European Union is now entering a crucial phase as the ratification process accelerates and key debates and referenda take place in existing and potentially new member states. The Union’s Constitu …

America”s Trade Follies controversially argues that the global political economy is hardening into regional blocs, in North America, Latin America, Europe and the Asia Pacific, organized around a po …

The European Community has committed itself to promoting ”economic and social cohesion” across its regions. Its expenditure – via the ”structural funds” – for these purposes is set to double by 1 …

Concepts have always been foundational to the social science enterprise. This book is a guide to working with them. Against the positivist project of concept ‘reconstruction’—the formulation of a tec …

Over the last thirty years Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) have been used to deliver transport capital projects and services. PPPs are complex arrangements that require a multi-disciplinary approa …

Negotiating Corruption demands that we think again about corruption in Africa. It problematises the framing of African corruption as a phenomenon that emerges from a clash between two sets of norms. …

With their homelands at war, can Diasporas lead the way to peace, or do they present an obstacle to conflict resolution, nurturing hate far away from those who actually fall victim to violence? And w …