Politics/Current Affairs

In 2007 two former U.S. secretaries of state, a defense secretary, and a former senator wrote persuasively in the Wall Street Journal that the time had come to move seriously toward a nuclear-free world.

Traditionally, studies on democracy have focused on the orthodox so-called Northern models of democratic governance, and within this framework, the extent to which Southern models are considered democratic. Democracy in the South is the first truly international collaboration that draws attention to the complex problems of democratic consolidation across the majority world.

How can the United States and Europe improve the effectiveness and impact of their humanitarian assistance efforts? This title provides an analysis of the humanitarian policy debate and the relevant institutional setup in the EU and the US.

The peaceful transition of authoritarian regimes toward democracy and a market economy poses enormous challenges for citizens and politicians alike. Around the world, under widely differing conditions and with varying degrees of success, reform-oriented groups are struggling to democratize their countries and to strengthen the market economy.

Making the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party's nuclear tests in 1998 as starting point, this book examines how opinion amongst India's 'attentive' public shifted from supporting nuclear abstinence to accepting - and even feeling a need for - an assertive policy, by examining the complexities of the debate in India on nuclear policy in the 1990s.

Offers an analysis of FDI policies pursued by India and China since opening up. This book analyses the nature, type, sources and direction of inflows to both the countries. It examines the impact of FDI on trade, transfer of technology and employment generation. It explores the reasons for skewed regional distribution of FDI in both the countries.

In The Strategic Quadrangle five experts on East Asia explore the new shape of power among the major players in the region - Russia, China, Japan, and the United States. The authors examine the web of alliances, historical rivalries, and conflicting worldviews that define the relations among these four ...

Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) are state investment vehicles based on balance of payment surpluses. This book answers such key questions as: What defines a SWF? When and how did SWFs emerge? What investment strategies do SWFs pursue? What are the main financial, economic and political consequences of the operations of SWFs? And more.

This book is based on a simple concept: no one is in a better position to hold a government accountable than those it governs. When governments fail to meet the needs of their citizens, the international community often turns to large external organizations such as the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank.

Asia's rising power and wealth offer its many oppressed ethnic minorities hope for greater political freedom and an end to violence. But the reality of this hope is cast into doubt by acute separatist conflict. This book provides fresh and factual assessments of separatist struggles and prospects for conflict resolution in eight countries of Asia.

This volume uses thirteen case studies to analyze the impact of economic globalization on poverty and inequality in different regions of the developing world.

Barack Obama's political vision for the future of America, written two years before he became president; the New York Times bestseller

2008 is a presidential election year. And Most Americans will be complaining--again--about similarities between the major candidates and the marginality of the minor ones. This book helps readers understand why they're so frustrated by their lack of choices in American politics today. The problem is ...

This title brings into sharp focus the merger of celebrity, corporate, power, government and empire which has become an essential part of America's belief in itself as a nation.

A comprehensive assessment of George W. Bush's domestic policy record

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Examines the social, cultural, economic, and political effects of modern demographic change in the United States. This book analyzes a range of issues pertaining to the diversity of American society.

Transitional administrations represents the complex operations of the United Nations. This book provides the history of UN state-building operations and a treatment of the five key issues confronting such an operation: peace and security, the role of the UN as government, judicial reconstruction, economic reconstruction, and exit strategies.

Over the last three decades, large-scale economic developments, such as technological change, the decline in unionization, and changing skill requirements, have exacted their biggest toll on low-wage workers. These workers often possess few marketable skills and few resources with which to support themselves ...

Includes stories of people who have been trafficked, smuggled or duped into the UK to find themselves stripped of their passports and money, locked in cramped rooms, shackled involuntarily to work as domestic servants, brothel workers, fruit pickers or construction workers, beaten, raped and psychologically abused.