Public Relations category: 887 books
Post-Treaty Politics
Secretariat Influence in Global Environmental Governance
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
An argument that secretariats—the administrative arms of international treaties—are political actors in their own right.
Secretariats—the administrative arms of international treaties—-would seem simply to do the bidding of member states. And yet, Sikina Jinnah argues in Post-Treaty...
by Mahendra Prasad Singh, Veena Kukreja
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
This book is one of the first in-depth and systematic studies on the functioning and aspiring federations of South Asia. It examines how federal dynamics in India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka are impinged on by the nature of their specific constitutions; their societal, political and cultural fabrics;...
How to Demolish Racism
Lessons from the State of Hawai'i
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Even before statehood, Hawai‛i’s example of school integration gave birth to the movement resulting in Brown v Board of Education. Afterward, the Aloha State was the first to adopt many reforms: unrestricted abortion, universal health care insurance, an Equal Rights Amendment, a State Ombudsman,...
by Brendan O'Flaherty
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Brendan O’Flaherty brings the tools of economic analysis—incentives, equilibrium, optimization—to bear on racial issues. From health care, housing, and education, to employment, wealth, and crime, he shows how racial differences powerfully determine American lives, and how progress in one area is often constrained by diminishing returns in another.
Defending Democratic Norms
International Actors and the Politics of Electoral Misconduct
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Although nearly every country in the world today holds multiparty elections, these contests are often blatantly unfair. For governments, electoral misconduct is a tempting but also a risky practice, because it represents a violation of Although nearly every country in the world today holds multiparty...
Green Warriors
Army Environmental Considerations for Contingency Operations from Planning Through Post-Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2007
This study assesses whether Army policy, doctrine, and guidance adequately address environmental activities in post-conflict phases of contingencies. A review of policy, doctrine, operational experience, and documentation, as well as interviews with Army personnel, indicates that environmental concerns...
Unequal Actors in Equalising Institutions
Negotiations in the United Nations General Assembly
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
This book explores the interplay between formal rules and real world differences, questioning to what extent size-related capacities between states matters for the dynamics and outcomes of negotiations taking place in the United Nations General Assembly, an institution that strongly reflects the one-state, one-vote principle.
by Philip B. Heymann
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2008
Policymaking in large bureaucracies is hardly a simple process. Even the most respected policymakers have to contend with obstacles that seemingly have little to do with the issue at hand--office politics, work structure, and shifting political environments. Yet learning to manage such complex environments...
by Jaime Lluch
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
This collection argues that although constitutionalism has traditionally been the primary mechanism for facilitating the mutual accommodation of sub-state and state national societies in plurinational states.
by Nader Entessar
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Kurdish Politics in the Middle East analyzes political and social dimensions of Kurdish integration into the mainstream socio-political life in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey. Its central thesis is that ethnic conflict constitutes a major challenge to the contemporary nation-state system in the Middle East....
The Dilemmas of Ethnic Policy
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
The Dilemmas of Ethnic Policy: A Global Perspective argues that ethnic conflict increases or decreases in relation to changes in the social structure and the location and distribution of political power. Ethnic grievances derive from lack of access to valued resources, and elites play a crucial role...
The Myth of International Order
Why Weak States Persist and Alternatives to the State Fade Away
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In February of 2011, Libyan citizens rebelled against Muammar Qaddafi and quickly unseated him. The speed of the regime's collapse confounded many observers, and the ensuing civil war showed Foreign Policy's index of failed states to be deeply flawed--FP had, in 2010, identified 110 states as being...
by Valbona Muzaka
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
This book shows why contests over intellectual property rights and access to affordable medicines emerged in the 1990s and how they have been 'resolved' so far. It argues that the current arrangement mainly ensures wealth for some rather than health for all, and points to broader concerns related to governing intellectual property solely as capital
Climate Migration and Security
Securitisation as a Strategy in Climate Change Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Climate migration, as an image of people moving due to sea-level rise and increased drought, has been presented as one of the main security risks of global warming. The rationale is that climate change will cause mass movements of climate refugees, causing tensions and even violent conflict. Through...