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No environment is more challenging for militaries than a city. No form of combat is more inherently destructive than urban warfare. And yet too often, militaries are both unprepared for the challenges of cities and unable to avoid being pulled into...

Recent conflicts have required the armed forces to engage in what has been termed 'war amongst the people'. Scholars and practitioners come together to explore armed forces' engagement and the political, strategic, tactical and legal implication this...

The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) has been the principal legal barrier to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons for the past forty-five years. It promotes the peaceful uses of nuclear technology and insures, through the application of safeguards...

This monograph lays out a discussion framework for understanding the role of human-computer interaction (HCI) in public policymaking. It takes an international view, discussing potential areas for research and application and their potential for impact...

Anyone involved in the policy process analyzes policy in some sense. However, those who analyze and manage policy professionally must use a variety of tools to do their job effectively. This book, Tools for Policy Analysis and Management, discusses...

Stuart Chase in the Herald Tribune called this book about capitalism "the most realistic political treatise of the lot" and adds that "one must be tough and pitiless honesty and pitiless humanity." Some people may disagree with the fi rst assertion, but...

While South Asia's economic reform initiatives of the last two decades were often born in crisis, this alone does not account for their occurrence. This book looks at the processes and institutional arrangements behind these reforms, and analyses what...

Regulation has become a front-page topic recently, often referenced by politicians in conjunction with the current state of the U.S. economy. Yet despite regulation's increased presence in current politics and media, The Politics of Regulatory Reform...

The modern Chinese state has traditionally affected every major aspect of domestic society. With the growing liberalization of the economy, coupled with increasingly complex social issues, there is a belief that the state is retreating from an array of...

The book ""Report of the Country Life Commission: Special Message from the President of the United States (1909)"" is a report compiled by Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, and his Country Life Commission. The report is a...

""Protection, Our Proper Permanent Policy: Speech Of James T. McCleary (1904)"" is a book written by James Thompson McCleary. The book is a transcript of a speech delivered by the author in 1904. In the speech, McCleary advocates for protectionism as a...

Municipal Ownership and Christian Socialism is a book written by William H. Muldoon and published in 1899. The book explores the idea of municipal ownership, which is the concept of local governments owning and operating public utilities such as water,...

Il libro ""Contro Il Contenzioso Amministrativo: Discorsi Del Senatore Pierantoni Pronunziati In Senato (1888)"" di Augusto Pierantoni ����� una raccolta di discorsi pronunciati dal senatore Pierantoni in Senato nel 1888, in cui egli esprime le sue idee...

The Reform of Local Taxation is a book written by David Ames Wells and originally published in 1876. The book discusses the issue of local taxation in the United States and proposes reforms to improve the system. Wells argues that the current system is...

""Plan Of A Penal Statute, Proposed For Adoption To The Legislature Of Kentucky"" is a book written by Samuel Smith Nicholas and published in 1850. The book provides a detailed proposal for a new penal statute that could be adopted by the Legislature of...

The Tenth Annual Meeting: The National Civic Federation (1910) is a book that documents the proceedings of the tenth annual meeting of the National Civic Federation. The National Civic Federation was a non-partisan organization founded in 1900 that aimed...

Le livre ""Lettre De M. Poussielgue, Ancien Administrateur-General Des Finances De L�������Egypte, Accompagnee De Pieces Justificatives, A M. Thiers (1845)"" est une correspondance �����crite par E. Poussielgue, ancien administrateur g�����n�����ral des...

From grassroots conflicts to great power relations, this book explores some of the key concepts, methodologies, and dilemmas of researching Asia-Pacific affairs. The book deals with key questions about the Asia Pacific: Why should we study policy from...

This book argues that there is nothing inherently stable, persistent or enduring about institutions. By examining the various issues facing the Malaysian bureaucracy and adopting an institutional analysis, this book brings the point that institutions are...

This book analyzes the importance of culture and the impact of culture on China's development. It studies strategic and cutting-edge theoretical topics on civilization revival, cultural development and cultural (re)construction in the Chinese context...

This volume of essays on public policy challenges in the Buhari-led Nigeria is a child of necessity.  In 2015 and sixteen years after the PDP assumed the leadership reins in Nigeria, it was evident to all, that Nigeria was not enjoying the best form...

Launched in Vientiane, Lao PDR in 2000, the Mekong-Ganga Cooperation (MGC) completed twenty years in 2020. The MGC initiative is a sub-regional cooperation organisation comprising India and five ASEAN countries, namely, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar,...

Esta tercera edición del exitoso Libro ¡ Repuebla ! está dirigida a las Personas que quieren reiniciar su vida en el medio rural. También a las empresas que buscan una forma de ahorrar costes fijos y favorecer la conciliación laboral y familiar de su...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich BWL - Wirtschaftspolitik, Note: 1, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Institut für Technologie und nachhaltiges Produktmanagement), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Elektromobilität gewinnt durch den Druck, die...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich BWL - Wirtschaftspolitik, Note: 1,0, Technische Hochschule Wildau, ehem. Technische Fachhochschule Wildau, Veranstaltung: Internationale Wirtschaftspolitik, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Als am 11.03.2011 das...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich BWL - Wirtschaftspolitik, Note: 2,2, Universität Konstanz, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Schuldenkrise in Europa und die Ungewissheit über die Zukunft der gemeinsamen Währung sind aktuell bedeutende...

Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: B, Robert Gordon University Aberdeen (Energy Centre), course: Master of Science Oil & Gas Engineering, language: English, abstract: Despite sophisticated...

Das Buch zeichnet Strukturen und Entwicklungslinien des aktuellen Linksextremismus nach. Die Autoren stellen alte und neue Feindbilder ebenso wie Hassbotschaften und politisch links motivierte Gewalt heraus.

This book provides information about opinion polls carried out in communist and post-communist countries. It presents several case studies and addresses the issue of how opinion polling today differs from polling in countries under censorship, which lack...

Das Buch bietet eine Einführung in die islamisch-politische Ideengeschichte. Dabei werden Denker, die in der Tradition der griechischen Antike stehen, ebenso porträtiert wie islamische Theologen, moderne Denker des politischen Islams bzw. Islamismus und...

Never Fight a War on Two Fronts... so say military historians and strategists. Yet the War on COVID in the United States became almost as heated in the political arena as it did in the battlefields of hospital wards. The Mayor and The Judge tells the...

Aging and Social Policy in the United States guides students through an exploration of social policies and policymaking that address the needs of older adults and their families. It situates the experiences of older adults in the context of their...

This is the handbook to the most important key to unlocking Africa's power - Mindset. Akosua Bame continues her popular Mindset Revolution series with this latest book, noting that everything that has ever been created began as a thought - and thoughts...

Toward More Effective Science and Technology Advice for Congress traces the historical roots of science and technology advice for Congress and chronicles the creation and evolution of the four organizations that provided this advice over the past half...

"Even the most superficial readers of the popular Press know today that Communism means the public ownership of the means of production.Fascism, on the other hand, Is still regarded principally as a political movement; The economic implications of the...

Steal the Street is a collection of short articles focused on gentrification, public space, and community voice. The articles were written for Streetvibes, a street paper in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 2015 through 2019. The focus of Streetvibes is...

In the early 1980s, China undertook a massive reform that dismantled its socialist rural collectives and divided the land among millions of small peasant families. Known as the decollectivization campaign, it is one of the most significant reforms in...

This text presents the author's model of following principled ethics together with by chapters on each of the guiding principles: respect for intellectual property, principle of fair representation, privacy, and the principle of nonmalfeasance. It avoids...

Nike Davies is one of the few African women known internationally in contemporary art circles. The Woman with the Artistic Brush traces her life history and illustrates the strategies developed by women to mitigate male rule. Presenting a critique of the...

This book demonstrates the development of theoretically sound information technology and communications for developing an ICT4D research program. It explains building complex methodologies relying on parametric and non-parametric data analytic and data...

While geography is not the only factor to shape human behavior, its influence on terrorists' motivations, behaviors, options, and activities is a primary consideration in understanding terrorism. Taking a different approach than many other books on...

What to retain from the book of Bob Tumba? A true heartfelt cry and a call of reason of an intellectual distressed by the development of an underdeveloped country however promised with the highest geopolitical destinies.

This book is a contribution to contemporary debates on social research with a unique focus on the relationship between methods and the crafting of knowledge. Nine experienced researchers from different disciplines have come together to explore what...

Throughout the world, governments and intergovernmental organizations, such as the International Organization for Migration are developing new approaches aimed at renewing migration policy-making. This book, now in paperback, critically analyzes the...

Past studies on the Chinese state point towards the inherent adaptability, effectiveness and overall stability of authoritarian rule in China. The key question addressed here is how this adaptive capacity plays out at the local level in China, clarifying...

Along with Civil Rights and Women's liberation, Animal Rights became one of leading social moments of the twentieth century. This book critically reviews all principal contributions to the American animal rights debate by activists, campaigners,...