Describes how Russian leaders have used consistent doctrinal and strategic approaches to the rest of the world. These approaches may seem alien in the West, but understanding them is essential for successful engagement with Moscow. Keir Giles argues that understanding how Moscow's leaders think will help the West develop a less crisis-prone and ......
In exploring the conditions under which China, Russia, and the United States might be expected to weaponize control of information and manipulate the global economy, the contributors to this volume challenge scholars and practitioners to think differently about foreign economic policy, national security, and statecraft for the twenty-first ......
Offers an up-to-date and comprehensive examination of foreign policy of the EU. The globe-spanning contributions to the book include a look at relations between Brussels and its regional neighbours; the tensions that have arisen with the US during the Trump administration; and the burgeoning relationship with China.
This book will open readers' eyes to the variety of possible approaches to the relationship between truth and governance. Readers will find views they thought self-evident challenged, and will come away with a greater understanding of the importance of truth and truth-telling and of how to counter deliberate deception.
The rise of populist movements, especially in Western democracies, has prompted considerable thoughtful analysis. This book cites the global financial crisis as the proximate cause but finds the ultimate source in the twin failures of modern capitalism and the democratic state to fulfil a meaningful social contract for the vast majority of people.
Promoting Women's Rights in Islamic Law describes the mechanism of renewal in Islamic law, followed by the main reforms in various areas of the family law; marriage, divorce, the right of wives to dissolve their unsuccessful marriage, paternity, maintenance of wives and children support.
Natural Law Today gives a strong voice to classical natural law theory as the best answers to the fundamental questions of ethics and as the best framework for political and social life. It explains various aspects of that theory and defends it against common misperceptions and criticisms.
Actors and Arenas of Influence in International Affairs
Shows how and why cities are re-asserting their historic role at the forefront of international economic and political life. The book focuses on fifteen major cities across Europe, Asia, and the United States, including New York, London, Tokyo, Brussels, Seoul, Geneva, and Hong Kong, not to mention Beijing and Washington, D.C.
Crafting a Balance between Local Autonomy and External Openness
It's no secret that the nearly 200 nations in the world have a hodge-podge of governance systems. What's the problem with this disparate nature of how governments operate? The answer, Ralph Bryant says, is that disorderly and competing systems produce faulty decisions that cause damage within countries, across borders between them.
Severe political polarization is increasingly afflicting old and new democracies alike, producing the erosion of democratic norms and rising societal anger. This volume is the first book-length comparative analysis of this troubling global phenomenon, offering in-depth case studies.
China's transformation from a planned economy to a more market-oriented one over the past three decades owes much to the charismatic reformer Zhu Rongji. His sweeping efforts ranged from lobbying for the establishment of stock exchanges to revitalizing agriculture. The Road to Reform provides a real-time look at these plans as they were being ......
From birth certificates and marriage licenses to food safety regulations and speed limits, law shapes nearly every moment of our lives. Ubiquitous and ambivalent, the law is charged with both maintaining social order and protecting individual freedom. This title explores this ambivalence.
Against a backdrop of 700 years of bourgeois struggle, the author weaves a Marxist theory of law and jurisprudence based upon the Western experience. This book also discusses the struggle for human rights.
Identifying a profoundly male bias in the law, this text recommends a reasonable woman standard for measuring behaviour, arguing that a woman-based legal standard would help rectify the imbalance in how society and its legal system view sexual and gender-based crime.
Robin West provides a feminist perspective on traditional jurisprudence, examining such issues as nature of justice, the concept of harm, economic theories of value, and the utility of constitutional discourse.
Features prominent thinkers who demonstrate how natural law can be used to resolve a wide range of complex social, political, and constitutional issues by addressing controversial subjects that include the family, taxation, war, racial discrimination, medical technology, and sexuality.
From the sprawling remnants of the Soviet empire to the southern tip of Africa, attempts are underway to replace arbitrary political regimes with governments constrained by the rule of law. This ideal which subordinates the wills of individuals, social movements--and even, sometimes, democratically elected majorities--to the requirements of law, ......
For centuries, the law has been considered a neutral, objective arena that sets societal standards and in which conflicting forces resolve disputes. This title seeks to provide answers to what you wanted to know about the law - except what the rules are or ought to be.
Examining issues such as the limits of legal change and the capacity of law to act as a revolutionary agent, this book offers an introduction to the relationship between law and society.
The essays in this volume concern the topic of legal rights, how they are related to morality, the place of rights on moral theory, and the legal recognition of rights.
This Major Reference series brings together a wide range of key international articles in law and legal theory. Many of these essays are not readily accessible, and their presentation in these volumes will provide a vital new resource for both research and teaching. Each volume is edited by leading international authorities who explain the ......
This Major Reference series brings together a wide range of key international articles in law and legal theory. Many of these essays are not readily accessible, and their presentation in these volumes will provide a vital new resource for both research and teaching. Each volume is edited by leading international authorities who explain the ......
In this thirtieth annual volume in the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy's NOMOS series, entitled Religion, Morality and the Law , twelve distinguished contributers consider a diverse selection of topics. Included are essays on "Natural Law and Creation Stories," "Divine Sanction and Legal Authority," and "Liberalism, ......
What information about the world are we given by the mainstream media? How much? How good? By whom? Through what means? And how much foreign news is really enough? Stephen Hess addresses these questions and offers a revealing look at how the print and broadcast media cover international affairs and how foreign correspondents do their work.
