Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Remade in China
Foreign Investors and Institutional Change in China
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Since opening to foreign investment in 1979, China has emerged as the leading investment site for multinational corporations. Remade in China looks beyond the macroeconomic effects of China's investment boom to analyze how foreign investors from the US, Japan, and other nations are shaping China's...
by James R. Maxeiner
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Civil justice in the United States is neither civil nor just. Instead it embodies a maxim that the American legal system is a paragon of legal process which assures its citizens a fair and equal treatment under the law. Long have critics recognized the system's failings while offering abundant criticism...
British and German Foreign Policy in Transformation - Unilateralism in Britain and Multilateralism in Germany - What has changed after the 1990s? - A comparative analysis
Unilateralism in Britain and Multilateralism in Germany - What has changed after the 1990s? - A comparative analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2007
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - General and Comparisons, grade: 2,0, Free University of Berlin, 16 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The process of development of the major European states' sovereignty after the sixteenth century...
Ruling before the Law
The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
How do legal systems actually operate outside of Western European or North American liberal democracies? To understand law and legal institutions globally, we must go beyond asking if countries comply with idealized, yet under-theorized, rule of law principles to determine how they work in practice....
by Michael Hofmann
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2007
Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - General and Comparisons, grade: 9 (out of 10), Vilnius University, 17 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Political Parties play a crucial role in modern democracies as they form and articulate the political...
Chaos, Violence, Dynasty
Politics and Islam in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
In the post-Soviet era, democracy has made little progress in Central Asia. In Chaos, Violence, Dynasty, Eric McGlinchey presents a compelling comparative study of the divergent political courses taken by Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan in the wake of Soviet rule. McGlinchey examines economics,...
Who Judges?
Designing Jury Systems in Japan, East Asia, and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
The delivery of justice is a core function of the modern state. The recent introduction of jury/lay judge systems for criminal trials in Japan, South Korea, Spain, and perhaps soon Taiwan represents a potentially major reform of this core function, shifting decision making authority from professional...
Black and Blue
How African Americans Judge the U.S. Legal System
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The American legal system is experiencing a period of extreme stress, if not crisis, as it seems to be losing its legitimacy with at least some segments of its constituency. Nowhere is this legitimacy deficit more apparent than in a portion of the African American community in the U.S., as incidents...
Sweden the Extraordinary rendition Nation
The Road to Guantanamo
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Sweden the Extraordinary rendition Nation - From CIA flights to Julian Assange Extraordinary rendition flight from Sweden
The Road to Guantanamo Taxi to the Dark Side Standard Operating Procedure Torturing Democracy...
China's Foreign Political and Economic Relations
An Unconventional Global Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
This balanced and thoughtful book presents a thorough analysis of the dynamics of China’s foreign relations. Sebastian Heilmann and Dirk H. Schmidt provide a comprehensive and discriminating view of the complex, often competing factors (domestic influences, regional tensions, global uncertainties)...
by Patrick Lubjuhn
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2006
Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - General and Comparisons, grade: 1,7, University of Münster, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Samuel P. Huntington was born in 1927 and is at the moment director of the John- Olin Institute for strategic...
by Alex Mintz, Karl DeRouen Jr
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making presents a psychological approach to foreign policy decision making. This approach focuses on the decision process, dynamics, and outcome. The book includes a wealth of extended real-world case studies and examples that are woven into the text. The cases...
by Tarkan Hâkan Kudu
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - Germany, grade: 2,3, University of Constance (Fachbereich Verwaltungs- und Politikwissenschaft ), language: English, abstract: Die auswärtige Kulturpolitik ist ein Arbeitszweig des Auswärtigen Amtes. In dieser Arbeit...
by Guo And Blanchard
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Harmonious World and China's New Foreign Policy consists of essays by China specialists on the Chinese government's characterization of foreign policy as a "harmonious world." The essays deal with such topics as "harmonious world" and China's new diplomacy, China's multilateral...