A lavish volume published to mark the first half-century of the Court. It provides a well-documented and abundantly illustrated retrospective of the Court's activities from its origins to the present day, and also investigates the history of the development of the law, from the early notions of justice and equity as they originated in municipal spheres to their assembling on an international le…
Although it is currently the most important political ideal, there is much confusion about what the 'rule of law' means and how it works. Brian Tamanaha outlines the concerns of Western conservatives about the decline of the rule of law and suggests reasons why the radical Left have promoted this decline. Two basic theoretical streams of the rule of law are then presented, with an examination o…
The "commanding heights," according to Pulitzer Prize-winner Daniel Yergin and international business advisor Joseph Stanislaw, are those dominant enterprises and industries that form the high economic ground in nations around the globe. In their analysis of the new world economy, The Commanding The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World, they examine "t…
In this refreshingly revisionist history, Erik Reinert shows how rich countries developed through a combination of government intervention, protectionism, and strategic investment, rather than through free trade. Reinert suggests that this set of policies in various combinations has driven successful development from Renaissance Italy to the modern Far East. Yet despite its demonstrable sucess,…
After a bloody revolution of more than four years (1945- 1949), Indonesia won her freedom from Holland with the transfer of sovereignty to Indonesia in December 1949. Holland had colonized Indonesia for more than three hundred years. What is now called Indonesia was formerly "The Netherlands East Indies" and consisted, according to the Dutch Constitution, of the whole of the Netherlands East In…
The economics of everyday life in everyday terms, brought to life by a young and very talented economis
This book attempts to reduce the history of modern Jordan into a readable narrative, tracing the stages of the country's political and demographic development under the Hashemite monarchy, and explaining the internal, regional and international circumstances and constraints whitin which the Jordanian state has functioned since it was first established.
This book is an objective appraisal of the events that have rocked Laos ever since it achieved independence, with particular em- phasis on the period between the two Geneva conferences (1954 and 1961). The normal difficulties of every newly inde- pendent nation trying to consolidate its national government were aggravated by the constant interference of its neighbors. Communist North Vietnam ha…
The world factbook has long been a valued source of information for goverment employees. Now this highly acclaimed source of important unclassified data is finally available to the general public.
Collected speeches by Indian political leaders and few international leaders on bilateral relations and national security issues of India post 1984