Описание: Congressman Stephen A. Douglas won passage of all eight bills and President Millard Fillmore signed the Compromise of 1850, Douglas` greatest legislative achievement. This book chronicles how his popular sovereignty doctrine moved the issue of slavery out of Congress on into the ballot box.
During the Cold War, the U.S. built a series of alliances with Asian nations to erect a bulwark against the spread of communism and provide security to the region. Despite pressure to end bilateral alliances in the postCold War world, they persist to this day, even as new multilateral institutions have sprung up around them. The resulting architecture may aggravate rivalries as the U.S., China, and others compete for influence. However, Andrew Yeo demonstrates how Asia's complex array of bilateral and multilateral agreements may ultimately bring greater stability and order to a region fraught with underlying tensions.
Asia's Regional Architecture transcends traditional international relations models. It investigates change and continuity in Asia through the lens of historical institutionalism. Refuting claims regarding the demise of the liberal international order, Yeo reveals how overlapping institutions can promote regional governance and reduce uncertainty in a global context. In addition to considering established institutions such as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, he discusses newer regional arrangements including the East Asia Summit, Trans-Pacific Partnership, and the Belt and Road Initiative. This book has important implications for how policymakers think about institutional design and regionalism in Asia and beyond.
Автор: de Waal Clarissa Название: Albania: Portrait of a Country in Transition ISBN: 1780764847 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780764849 Издательство: I B Tauris Рейтинг: Цена: 3299.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Explains Albania`s `transition` from Communism via the experiences of a diverse range of families, highland villagers, urban elite and shanty dwellers - whose lives she has followed since 1992. In this title, the author shows us members of the ex-communist elite in Tirana embracing rentier capitalism.
Автор: David M. Barrett Название: The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy ISBN: 0700625259 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700625253 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5391.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: D.B. Hardeman PrizeFrom its inception more than half a century ago and for decades afterward, the Central Intelligence Agency was deeply shrouded in secrecy, with little or no real oversight by Congress—or so many Americans believe. David M. Barrett reveals, however, that during the agency’s first fifteen years, Congress often monitored the CIA’s actions and plans, sometimes aggressively.Drawing on a wealth of newly declassified documents, research at some two dozen archives, and interviews with former officials, Barrett provides an unprecedented and often colorful account of relations between American spymasters and Capitol Hill. He chronicles the CIA’s dealings with senior legislators who were haunted by memories of our intelligence failure at Pearl Harbor and yet riddled with fears that such an organization might morph into an American Gestapo. He focuses in particular on the efforts of Congress to monitor, finance, and control the agency’s activities from the creation of the national security state in 1947 through the planning for the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961.Along the way, Barrett highlights how Congress criticized the agency for failing to predict the first Soviet atomic test, the startling appearance of Sputnik over American air space, and the overthrow of Iraq’s pro-American government in 1958. He also explores how Congress viewed the CIA’s handling of Senator McCarthy’s charges of communist infiltration, the crisis created by the downing of a U-2 spy plane, and President Eisenhower’s complaint that Congress meddled too much in CIA matters. Ironically, as Barrett shows, Congress itself often pushed the agency to expand its covert operations against other nations.The CIA and Congress provides a much-needed historical perspective for current debates in Congress and beyond concerning the agency’s recent failures and ultimate fate. In our post-9/11 era, it shows that anxieties over the challenges to democracy posed by our intelligence communities have been with us from the very beginning.
Описание: Norms play an important role in the functioning of the U.S. Congress. The first book-length treatment of the topic in over fifteen years, A Social Theory of Congress addresses what are norms, what congressional norms exist, and what effects norms have, and adds a new theoretical perspective to consider Congress.
Автор: Baimenov, Alikhan, Liverakos, Panos Название: Public Service Excellence in the 21st Century ISBN: 9811332142 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811332142 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 16769.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book combines academic wisdom and practitioners` insights to critically examine the challenges faced by civil service systems in the 21st Century.
Автор: Chaisty, Paul Название: Legislative politics and economic power in russia ISBN: 1403945799 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403945792 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 16070.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Chaisty looks at the legislative actors and institutions that have shaped economic law making in Russia since 1990. Assessing the influence of partisan, bureaucratic, regional and corporate interests in Russia`s post-communist parliaments, the book considers Russia`s political stability and economic development.
Автор: Al-Salim Farid Название: Palestine and the Decline of the Ottoman Empire ISBN: 1780764561 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780764566 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 20592.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: During the final decades of Ottoman rule, Palestine was administratively divided into two states, Jerusalem and Beirut. This book charts the transformation of Tulkarm, from a small village in central Palestine to a seat of administrative reform in order to provide a new account of the forces behind the formation of modern Palestine.
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