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This collection offers a critical analytical perspective and fresh empirical data on recent market-orientated social policy reforms in Latin America.
The book traces the twin processes of economic liberalization and political democratization in Bolivia since the 1980s, placing both in their historical context. In particular, it examines the institutional reforms of the early 1990s - praised by the World Bank and others - and considers their achievements and limitations.
This collection examines the subject of identification and surveillance from 16th C English parish registers to 21st C DNA databases. The contributors, who range from historians to legal specialists, provide an insight into the historical development behind such issues as biometric identification, immigration control and personal data use.
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This volume examines the challenges of governance in the North American Arctic. It examines the institutions of Alaska, the Canadian Far North, and Greenland developed within distinctive federal systems and how they are evolving to address contemporary issues of security, environmental protection, indigenous rights, and economic development.
Amidst claims of threats to national identities in an era of increasing diversity, should we be worried about the upsurge in religious animosity in the United States, as well as Europe?
This is a rich yet succinct account of an underexplored story: the consequences of the Great War for the region which ignited it.
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to law and policy responses to contemporary problems in Latin America, such as human rights violations, regulatory dilemmas, economic inequality, and access to knowledge and medicine.
Japan has consistently been pursuing the goal of a permanent UN Security Council seat for 30 years. It is therefore a study of the interior workings of the Japanese Foreign Ministry as well as of the country's underdeveloped multilateral diplomacy.
By joining the World Trade Organization China legitimizes its own brand of 'catch-up' industrialization. What does China's entry mean for emerging Asia and the developing world at large? What is China's strategy in the fields of the environment and intellectual property rights?
The Greeks constitute one of the archetypal diasporas. This volume brings together studies of some of the major Greek communities outside the bounds of the Greek state: the United States, Australia, Canada, South Africa, Russia/Georgia and Egypt.
The bottom-line message of this book is democracy resurgent - but not triumphant. Any lowering of the guard by democracy's defenders in academia or real-world politics risks the danger of democracy once again falling upon hard times or even regressing.
The reversion of Hong Kong to China on 1 July 1997 is an event of major historical significance. It also explores Hong Kong's links with China and Britain in this troubled last decade of colonial rule, and offers a basis for assessing the territory's possible future as a part of the Chinese state.
This book examines the work of five Soviet prose writers - Olesha, Platonov, Kharms, Bulgakov and Vaginov - in the light of the carnivalesque elements of Russian popular culture.
This study examines Western responses to human rights abuses in Cambodia between 1975 and 1980, years which included the murderous rule of the Khmer Rouge regime, a Vietnamese invasion, a civil war, and a famine.
This book presents a series of essays by leading English and French scholas examining the politics, economics, international relations and defects of the literary scene of France and the former territories of francophone West Africa since 1965. The approach is emphatically a thematic one rather than a country-by-country analysis.
The book begins with an editors' introduction that provides a conceptual setting for a comparative study of the role of policy in the development of the postwar Japanese and West German economies. It then offers detailed comparative analyses of developments in the two countries on seven substantive topics: an overview of macroeconomic change;
This book examines the role and place of the intellectual in twentieth-century French society.
This is a collection of important new work on the Falklands Conflict by the leading authorities in the field, British and Argentine. Contributors include Peter Beck, Peter Calvert, Lawrence Freedman, Virginia Gamba-Stonehouse, Guillermo Makin and Paul Rogers.
As European security structures are undergoing transformation in the 1990s it is crucial to examine their origins and rationale: NATO secured peace and facilitated economic and political co-operation, while also becoming the vehicle of national rivalry.
It analyses the profound changes which took place during the First Republic, the Nazi occupation, postwar liberation and communist rule, including both the Stalinist years, the Prague Spring of 1968 and the subsequent period of normalization to 1988.
This book shows how the relationship between security and integration in Western Europe depends upon an enduring implicit bargain between the US and its European allies.
In this text, 12 authors discuss the extent to which detente between the superpowers has been reflected in Asia. The roles of the United States, the Soviet Union and China are considered, together with the situation prevailing in those countries which have been the object of superpower rivalry.
Explaining the origins of Thailand's hostile policies towards the People's Republic of China, this book discusses the factors, international and domestic, which influenced Thai leaders' perceptions that the PRC posed a threat to Thailand. It also analyzes the ways Thailand responded to this threat.
A study of the relationship between the presidential power in Mexico and of key societal groups. This text examines how this has developed since the 1960s. Other titles in this series include "Gender, Culture and Empire", "Black Writers From South Africa" and "Kabuki in Modern Japan".
In the author's opinion, commercial relations between China and Britain in the 1950s determined subsequent economic relations between the countries more than is commonly recognized. This book examines how trade was effected by the revolution and the crises surrounding the Korean war.
A report on the activities of the Komintern in the Isthmus in a crucial period of time. Cerdas-Cruz discusses the debates, reports and resolutions adopted by that organization on such issues as the revolution and its character, and the Party and its nature.
A book distinguishing between the situation in the labour market and the utilization of the employed labour force in the Soviet Union. The author attempts to show that since the abolition of open registered unemployment in 1930 the economy has suffered from chronic and general overmanning.
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