The Middle Way: How Three Presidents Shaped America's Role in the World (Chollet Derek)(Pevná vazba)

The Middle Way: How Three Presidents Shaped America's Role in the World (Chollet Derek)(Pevná vazba)

A portrait of the effectiveness of moderation in US foreign policy, as illustrated by three of America's most consequential and widely-admired postwar presidents: Dwight Eisenhower, George H.W. Bush, and Barack Obama. When thinking about America's role in world, what do Dwight Eisenhower, George

After the Apocalypse: America's Role in a World Transformed (Bacevich Andrew)(Pevná vazba)

A bold and urgent perspective on how American foreign policy must change in response to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Limits of Power and The Age of Illusions. The purpose of U.S. foreign policy has, at least theoretically,

International Business in a Vuca World: The Changing Role of States and Firms (Van Tulder Rob)(Pevná vazba)

'IB theory and IB theorists have a long way to go to produce clarity of analysis, clear policy prescriptions and guidance for managers in a world where VUCA factors seem to be increasingly bedevilling the world of theory, managerial practice and public policy.' - Peter Buckley (in this volume)

America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History (Bacevich Andrew J.)(Paperback)

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - A searing reassessment of U.S. military policy in the Middle East over the past four decades from retired army colonel and New York Times bestselling author Andrew J. Bacevich, with a new afterword by the author From the end of World War II until 1980,

In the Shadows of the American Century - The Rise and Decline of US Global Power (McCoy Alfred W.)(Paperback / softback)

The essential guide to how American foreign policy shaped the world and where it's left

America's Israel: The Us Congress and American-Israeli Relations, 1967-1975 (Kolander Kenneth)(Pevná vazba)

One of the defining features of United States foreign policy since World War II has been the nation's special relationship with Israel. This informal alliance, rooted in shared values and culture, grew out of a moral obligation to promote Israel's survival in the aftermath of the Holocaust as US

The Three Regularities in Development: Growth, Jobs and Macro Policy in Developing Countries (Mahmood Moazam)(Pevná vazba)

1.Introduction.Part I: Three Empirical Regularities in Development: In Growth, Jobs and Macro Drivers.2. A Regularity in Growth Patterns in Developing Countries: The Quantum and Composition.3. A Regularity in Employment Patterns in Developing Countries: Jobs and Good Jobs.4. A Regularity in the

A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete (Maher Geo)(Pevná vazba)

If police are the problem, what's the solution? Tens of millions of people poured onto the streets for Black Lives Matter, bringing with them a wholly new idea of public safety, common security, and the delivery of justice, communicating that vision in the fiery vernacular of riot, rebellion, and

Educational Accountability Reform in Norway: Education Policy as Imitation (Isaksen Lasse Skogvold)(Pevná vazba)

The study analyses how the national education policy in the age of globalization is a result of an adjustment and transformation of the international education policy and trends. The author enquires how the national level in Norway comprehended the international educational accountability policy

Overnight Kidnapper (Camilleri Andrea)(Pevná vazba)

Three cases of overnight kidnapping baffle the Vigatan police force in Andrea Camilleri's twenty-third Inspector Montalbano

Developing a Sense of Place: The Role of the Arts in Regenerating Communities (Ashley Tamara)(Pevná vazba)

Cultural planners, artists, and policy makers must work through the arts to create communities--and a place within them. Developing a Sense of Place brings together a series of case studies and success stories drawn from a different geographical or sociocultural contexts. Selected for their lasting

Global Trends in Educational Policy (Baker David P.)(Pevná vazba)

This volume of 'International Perspectives on Education and Society' highlights the valuable role that educational policy plays in the development of education and society around the world. The role of policy in the development of education is crucial. Much rests on the decisions, support, and most

Public Opinion and the Political Economy of Education Policy Around the World (West Martin R.)(Pevná vazba)

Comparative analyses of the influence of public opinion on education policy in developed countries. Although research has suggested a variety of changes to education policy that have the potential to improve educational outcomes, politicians are often reluctant to implement such evidence-based

Three Roads to the Welfare State: Liberalism, Social Democracy and Christian Democracy (Fanning Bryan)(Pevná vazba)

This interdisciplinary analysis casts new light on the construction of social policy in Europe. Within the contexts of three important traditions--social democracy, Christian democracy and liberalism--it traces the protagonists and beliefs that influenced social change. It is an accessible and

Beneath the World, a Sea (Beckett Chris)(Pevná vazba)

South America, 1990: Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of Duendes. These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures with long limbs and black button eyes have a strange psychic effect on people, unleashing the subconscious and exposing

Women, Civil Society and Policy Change in the Arab World (Yassin Nasser)(Pevná vazba)

1. INTRODUCTION2. 'CIVIL SOCIETIES' & THE ARAB UPRISINGS-PROSPECTS FOR SOCIO-POLITICAL CHANGE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE ON-GOING TUNISIAN & EGYPTIAN PLIGHT 3. THE POLITICAL PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN IN THE ARAB WORLD: MAPPING THE MOVEMENT, EXPERIENCES AND CHALLENGES FACING ARAB WOMEN FROM THE

How the Police Generate False Confessions: An Inside Look at the Interrogation Room (Trainum James L.)(Pevná vazba)

India's Foreign Policy: Surviving in a Turbulent World (Gupta Arvind)(Pevná vazba)

Written by foreign policy experts, academics and practioners, this book develops the frameworks and strategies for India's foreign policy that can be adopted to meet the emerging challenges and non-traditional threats in the new world order. It studies the important aspects of India's foreign

Social Policy (Dean Hartley)(Pevná vazba)

How do human societies provide for the wellbeing of their members? How far can we organize the ways in which we care for and about each other? And who should take responsibility for providing the support we need? These are some of the fundamental questions addressed by social policy today. In this

Power on the Precipice: The Six Choices America Faces in a Turbulent World (Imbrie Andrew)(Pevná vazba)

With absorbing insight and fresh perspective, foreign policy expert Andrew Imbrie provides a road map for bolstering American leadership in an era of turbulence abroad and deepening polarization at home. This book offers a sharp look at American statecraft and the U.S.'s place in the world

Hands Up, Don't Shoot: Why the Protests in Ferguson and Baltimore Matter, and How They Changed America (Cobbina Jennifer E.)(Pevná vazba)

Understanding the explosive protests over police killings and the legacy of racismFollowing the high-profile deaths of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, both cities erupted in protest over the unjustified homicides

Michael Young, Social Science, and the British Left, 1945-1970 (Butler Lise)(Pevná vazba)

In post-war Britain, left-wing policy maker and sociologist Michael Young played a major role in shaping British intellectual, political, and cultural life, using his study of the social sciences to inform his political thought. In the mid-twentieth century the social sciences significantly

Development Policy as a Way to Manage Climate Change Risks (Metz Bert)(Pevná vazba)

The integration of development and climate objectives is increasingly recognized as significant in research and policy making. In practice, some development aims, such as poverty alleviation, enhancing energy security and access or improving health, also have potential climate benefits. The

Convergence: Five Critical Steps Toward Integrating Lagging and Leading Areas in the Middle East and North Africa (World Bank Group)(Paperback)

Policy makers across the Middle East and North Africa have for many years articulated plans to integrate their people spatially and economically. Wishing to bring communities together and narrow economic gaps, governments have made large capital investments in transport corridors and 'new cities.'