Georgetown University Press: 313 books
Lessons of Disaster
Policy Change after Catastrophic Events
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
Even before the wreckage of a disaster is cleared, one question is foremost in the minds of the public: "What can be done to prevent this from happening again?" Today, news media and policymakers often invoke the "lessons of September 11" and the "lessons of Hurricane Katrina." Certainly, these unexpected...
Maritime Strategy and Global Order
Markets, Resources, Security
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Taken for granted as the natural order of things, peace at sea is in fact an immense and recent achievement—but also an enormous strategic challenge if it is to be maintained in the future. In Maritime Strategy and Global Order, an international roster of top scholars offers historical perspectives...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Departments and language programs often are asked to evaluate the efficacy of their own programs and make curricular decisions on the basis of evidence. This guide, designed to help language educators meet the needs of program evaluation and assessment often requested by their institutions, provides...
Collaborating to Manage
A Primer for the Public Sector
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Collaborating to Manage captures the basic ideas and approaches to public management in an era where government must partner with external organizations as well as other agencies to work together to solve difficult public problems. In this primer, Robert Agranoff examines current and emergent approaches...
How Information Matters
Networks and Public Policy Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
How Information Matters examines the ways a network of state and local governments and nonprofit organizations can enhance the capacity for successful policy change by public administrators. Hale examines drug courts, programs that typify the highly networked, collaborative environment of public administrators...
Security and Development in Global Politics
A Critical Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Security and development matter: they often involve issues of life and death and they determine the allocation of truly staggering amounts of the world’s resources. Particularly since the start of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, there has been momentum in policy circles to merge the issues of security...
Brave New Digital Classroom
Technology and Foreign Language Learning, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Brave New Digital Classroom examines the most effective ways to utilize technology in language learning. The author deftly interweaves the latest results of pedagogical research with descriptions of the most successful computer-assisted language learning (CALL) projects to show how to implement technology...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
What does human dignity mean and what role should it play in guiding the mission of international institutions? In recent decades, global institutions have proliferated—from intergovernmental organizations to hybrid partnerships. The specific missions of these institutions are varied, but is there...
by Paul J. Carrick
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2001
In this book Paul Carrick charts the ancient Greek and Roman foundations of Western medical ethics. Surveying 1500 years of pre-Christian medical moral history, Carrick applies insights from ancient medical ethics to developments in contemporary medicine such as advance directives, gene therapy, physician-assisted...
Religion and the Struggle for European Union
Confessional Culture and the Limits of Integration
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In Religion and the Struggle for European Union, Brent F. Nelsen and James L. Guth delve into the powerful role of religion in shaping European attitudes on politics, political integration, and the national and continental identities of its leaders and citizens.Nelsen and Guth contend that for centuries...
Branching Out, Digging In
Environmental Advocacy and Agenda Setting
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2006
Sarah B. Pralle takes an in-depth look at why some environmental conflicts expand to attract a lot of attention and participation, while others generate little interest or action. Branching Out, Digging In examines the expansion and containment of political conflict around forest policies in the United...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
China’s rise is changing the dynamics of the international system. Middle Powers and the Rise of China is the first work to examine how the group of states referred to as “middle powers” are responding to China’s growing economic, diplomatic, and military power. States with capabilities immediately...
The Founders, the Constitution, and Public Administration
A Conflict in World Views
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1995
Viewed alternately as an obstacle to justice, an impediment to efficient government, and a tool by which some groups gain benefits and privileges at the expense of others, public administration threatens to become the whipping boy of American government. In this innovative look at the nation's bureaucracy,...
Law and Bioethics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2002
While the American legal system has played an important role in shaping the field of bioethics, Law and Bioethics is the first book on the subject designed to be accessible to readers with little or no legal background. Detailing how the legal analysis of an issue in bioethics often differs from the...