Politics/Current Affairs

While American national security policy has grown more interventionist since the Cold War, Washington has also hoped to shape the world on the cheap. Misled by the stunning success against Iraq in 1991, administrations of both parties have pursued ambitious aims with limited force, committing the country's ...

Rapidly increasing global demand for electricity, heightened worries over energy and water security, and climate-change anxieties have brought the potential merits of nuclear energy squarely back into the spotlight.

This 2008 edition of the OECD Information Technology Outlook analyses recent developments in the IT goods and services industries, and suggests that the outlook is for constrainted but continued long-term growth.

Examines fundamental societal, economic, political, and security trends affecting the EU and the US over the next decade. It posits what such trends could mean for the transatlantic partnership by 2020, and, using policy scenarios, recommends the choices likely to influence those patterns.

Revealing the relationship between presidential campaign agendas and policymaking

Proposes a careful middle path for a deeply fraught topic

A former Secretary of Energy challenges popular misconceptions about the energy crisis, proposing a blended approach to key problems and outlining conservation plans that reflect present economic challenges.

Like most years in the 50-year history of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), 2008 saw events that could have significant consequences for international relations and global balances of power. These included the election of Barack Obama as US president; the brief war in Georgia, ...

From the origin of the leak, to the amount of oil released into the environment, to the spill's duration, the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill poses unique challenges to human health. The risks associated with extensive, prolonged use of dispersants, with oil fumes, and with particulate matter from controlled ...

Editor Heidi Watkins has compiled several essays that will help your readers understand what consumer culture is, and the role that they play in it. The essays present diversity of opinion on this topic, including both conservative and liberal points of view in an even balance. Readers will hear from ...

The author of the Socrates Cafe trilogy hits the road once again-this time to inspire a new, nationwide Constitutional Convention.

By the spring of 1998, it had become clear that Italy, after considerable effort, had succeeded in bringing its public finances into line with the Maastricht parameters for joining the European Monetary Union. This was generally viewed as an important success of the Olive Tree coalition government led by Romano Prodi.

The attacks of September 11 2001 were transformative events, both in how Americans view their own sense of security and in how America engages with the world. In this volume, US and Middle East decision-makers, academics and journalists discuss important themes in this topic.

Social and Economic Profile of India contains 100 to 200 maps, figures, tables and written text illustrating a wide range of demographic, social and economic features characterizing India s population and socio-economy. Apart from describing the most current state of affairs regarding a broad spectrum ...

The 2002 campaign and election was one of the most dramatic in the history of the Federal Republic. An unprecedented last minute swing narrowly re-elected the Social Democratic-Green government of Chancellor Schroeder. The campaign featured the first-ever American style television debate between the ...

German unification brought fundamental, often traumatic changes for the people in eastern Germany. Women as a group were arguably more deeply affected by the changes than any other, and in one area in particular: that of work, which had far-reaching effects on them and their families' economic situation.

The conceptual uncertainty when dealing with processes of integration and disintegration in Europe is striking because traditional notions of the nation-state, constitutionalism, sovereignty, and federalism do not account for emerging realities in either Western or Eastern Europe.

Comparing the United States and Germany, two of the four extended essays in this volume concern enforcement; the other two address techniques for managing high-volume asylum systems in both countries.

Foreign policies have always played an important role in the movements of migrants. A number of essays in this volume show how the foreign policies of the United States and Germany have directly or inadvertently contributed to the influx from the former Yugoslavia, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the former Soviet Union.

The effects of globalization have led to accentuated social inequality in most first-world countries, above all the U.S. and U.K. International trade and capital flows have tended to redistribute income in ways that aggravate inequality in advanced industrialized nations where relative income levels ...