Exploring the streets of London, Manchester, Belfast, Edinburgh or Cardiff, one cannot help but notice the striking transformations taking place in the urban landscapes. This prominent regeneration of urban areas in the UK and around the world has become an increasingly important issue amongst governments and populations. The growing concern has been a result of the impacts of the decline of cities since the collapse of manufacturing industries and the heightening of global competition. A range...
Challenge the Strong Wind (The C.D. Howe Series in Canadian Political History)
by David Webster
In 1975, Indonesian forces overran East Timor, which had just declared independence from Portugal. The occupation lasted twenty-four years. Challenge the Strong Wind recounts the evolution of Canadian government policy toward East Timor during that period. Canada initially followed key allies in endorsing Indonesian rule, but Canadian civil society groups promoted an alternative foreign policy that focused on self-determination and human rights. Ottawa eventually yielded to pressure from these N...
A Stata (R) Companion to Political Analysis
by Philip H. Pollock and Barry C. Edwards
With Philip Pollock's Fourth Edition of A Stata Companion to Political Analysis, students quickly learn Stata via step-by-step instruction, more than 50 exercises, customized datasets, annotated screen shots, boxes that highlight Stata's special capabilities, and guidance on using Stata to read raw data.
Bridging The Pacific
by C. Fred Bergsten, Gary Clyde Hufbauer, and Sean Miner
Philippines
The United States and the Republic of the Philippines maintain close ties stemming from the U.S. colonial period (1898-1946), the bilateral security alliance bound by the Mutual Defense Treaty of 1951, and common strategic and economic interests. In the past decade, the Philippines has been one of the largest recipients of U.S. foreign assistance in Southeast Asia, including both military and development aid. Many observers say that U.S. public and private support to the Philippines following Ty...
Social Policy in the European Union, Second Edition
by Linda Hantrais
Unraveling Internal Conflicts in East Asia and the Pacific
by Dr Jacob Bercovitch and Karl Jr Derouen
On World Politics: R.G. Collingwood, Michael Oakeshott and Neotraditionalism in International Relations
by Alexander Astrov
The expansion of Western education overseas has been both an economic success, if the rise in numbers of American, European, and Australian universities rushing to set up campuses in Asia and the Middle East is to serve as a measure, and a source of great consternation for academics concerned with norms of free inquiry and intellectual freedom. Faculty at Western campuses have resisted the opening of new satellite campuses, fearing that their colleagues those campuses would be less free to teach...
Addressing the question everyone asks about economic sanctions this book specially commissioned by the Australian Government, presents an argument for why financial sanctions are needed to compel change in South Africa. It explains the interplay between international finance and the social and economic structures of Apartheid. It demonstrates how the social policies of the regime of South Africa have brought the economy of the country to crisis point and to a situation which cannot be resolved w...
Harold Laski (The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought)
by Peter Lamb
This book examines the political and international thought of Harold Laski (1893-1950). Early chapters discuss his socialist critique of politics within states, paying close attention to the turbulent environment of the early to mid-twentieth century. His ideas on democracy, rights, freedom and sovereignty are closely analyzed and clarified. The book goes on to discuss the way in which he applied many of his political ideas to the analysis of international politics. The final chapter investigate...
Finland - Agreement for Promotion of Air Safety
by U S Department of State
Multilateral - Memorandum of Understanding for Future Air Capabilities Projectsv
by U S Department of State
Djibouti - Agreement for the Establishment of Us Radio Transmitting Facilities in Djibouti
by U S Department of State
Trade and Inequality (The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics)
This research review brings together the most influential theoretical and empirical contributions to the topic of trade and inequality from recent years. Segregating the subject into four key areas, it forms a comprehensive study of the subject, targeted at academic readers familiar with the main trade models and empirical methods used in economics. The first two parts cover empirical evidence on trade and inequality in developed and developing countries, while the third and fourth sections conf...
The China Choice: Why We Should Share Power
by Cuf Lecturer in English Oxford University and Fellow and Tutor in English Hugh White