This text analyzes British official thinking behind the UK's standing aloof from the moves after 1945 towards European economic collaboration, leading to the establishment of ECSC and the EEC in the 1950s...
This book assesses the role of employers in the development of welfare state and labour market institutions. Building on an in-depth analysis of Germany, a market economy known to often provide economic benefits to firms, this book explores one of the most contested issues in the comparative and his..
With a strong comparative framework, this book examines fourteen countries with parliamentary or semi-presidential systems of government to provide a detailed investigation into the mechanisms by which governments determine the agendas of their parliaments...
A definitive global survey of the interaction of race, ethnicity, nationalism and politics, this handbook blends rigorous theoretically grounded analysis with empirical illustrations to provide a state-of-the-art overview of the contemporary debates on one of the most pervasive international securit..
This book provides an insight into the relationship betweeen the Royal Navy's institutional culture and modern warfare with specific reference to the Falklands Conflict and the Gulf War...
Albert Bergesen brings together for the first time the writings of Sayyid Qutb, the man who has been called in the media ‘bin Laden’s brain.’ _x000D_..
Albert Bergesen brings together for the first time the writings of Sayyid Qutb, the man who has been called in the media ‘bin Laden’s brain.’ _x005F_x000D_..
This book is unique in analysing the new Scottish parliament from a systematically comparative perspective. Its basic premise is that since devolution in 1999, Scotland can be considered a Scandinavian-style democracy...