Theo Schiller 
Local Direct Democracy in Europe [PDF ebook] 

By exploring the writings of Mandeville, Hume and Smith, this book offers a critique of Hayek”s theory of cultural evolution and explores the roots of his powerful defence of liberalism. This book i …

In light of the Arab Spring and after days of public quarreling that highlighted the divisions among NATO’s members on an agreement to give command of the ‘no-fly’ zone in Libya to the Alliance, it i …

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the important security issue of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe. Nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament have returned to the top of the internatio …

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 …

Few United States citizens conceive of their country as an empire, but, as the contributors to Masters of War convincingly argue, the U.S. legacy of military power runs long and deep. Often mobilized …

First Published in 1990. John Maynard Keynes once made the bold prediction that the three- hour work day would prevail for his grandchildren”s generation. Seventy years later, the question of workin …

Argues that, while nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles cast a shadow over Indo-Pakistani relations, they do not create strategic stability. He asserts that the development of command and control m …

This is a book about how global unionism was born in the maritime shipping sector. It argues that the industrial structure of shipping, and specifically the interconnected nature of shipping producti …

The promulgation of the Fifth French Republic Constitution in 1958 marked the end of a complex constitutional history that has since 1789 seen more than twenty constitutions and five Republics. Lasti …

This book explores the role of FIFA in brokering the development of football in Africa and its relationship with that continent”s football associations and regional governing body. Africa is no long …