Political Science - General

" The Law, first published as a pamphlet in June, 1850, is already more than a hundred years old. And because its truths are eternal, it will still be read when another century has passed. Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was a French economist, statesman, and...

Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education is a 1916 book by John Dewey. Dewey sought to at once synthesize, criticize, and expand upon the democratic (or proto-democratic) educational philosophies of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Plato. He saw Rousseau's philosophy as overemphasizing...

"Lost in Democracy" is an exposé on Africa's difficulty with democracy. It examines the indigenous systems of government that existed in different parts of the continent prior to the arrival of explorers and colonial adventurers in the continent as well as the introduction of...

Unstable social climates are causing the displacement of large numbers of people around the world. Thus, the issue of safe replacement arises, causing the need for examining and improving the policies and strategies regarding immigration and helping these individuals integrate into new societies. Immigration...

THE ENDEARING CHARM OF DONALD TRUMP. For years, we were told that Republican representatives would stand and fight just as soon as we win a majority in the Senate. Now we are told that we must wait until we will have a Republican President.This...

Author: Joseph SchallerISBN-10: 1514472031ISBN-13: 9781514472033Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/04/2016Pages: 72Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d

This work attempts to assess corruption risks in five key areas of Nigeria's defence and security establishments, namely political, financial, personnel, operations, and procurement. Using a simple and straightforward question-and-answer format, the assessment draws from interviews with key players in the industry as well...

Nigeria's foreign policy has always been predicated on the national interest, which is reducible to the security and welfare of its citizens. Nigeria's position in Africa, its teeming population and rich endowment of mineral resources including oil, all contributed to the notion of Nigeria's...

This book outlines the use of two words "proactive and reactive" and how they are used in the business and political arenas. Since 2008, the capitalistic economic system of the United States of America, which has worked well for over two hundred years, is...

Deciding when to retire and claim Social Security benefits can be one of the most important financial decisions older Americans make. Despite higher monthly benefits for those who delay, many people still claim Social Security retirement benefits at age 62, the earliest age of...

In November 2010, Republican Scott Walker was elected Governor of Wisconsin. In something of a Tea Party sweep, the iconic Russ Feingold lost his seat in the U.S. Senate and the Wisconsin legislature became Republican in both chambers. In early 2011, Governor Walker announced...

The title is derived from a study of hotspots around the world from October 2013. In Africa, the countries covered are South Africa, South Sudan, Tunisia, Egypt, and Palestine. In the European arena, the main focus is on Ukraine, and the impact of two...

The multiple crises permeating the Middle East, are teaching both the Arabs and Jews that they must strive to live together. For the Arabs, many elements including language, religion, history, and culture are forcing them towards democracy, more unity, less conflict and greater cohesion....

Don believed the economic and financial markets have missed the key event holding back world growth: globalization. Globalization unleashed over one billion consumers and workers with the fall of the Berlin wall in 1990. The subsequent decline in communism was an historical economic event...

This book is the true story of an Iraqi man born in London who became a British subject. He went back to his country to work for one of the companies newly established in Iraq after the American invasion in 2003. He stayed in...

This New book offers prescription to cure British-Irish conflict Michael Gillespie's thesis offers both an examination and corrective actions DERRY/LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland - "Historians have a severe drawback in that they describe but don't prescribe," says author Michael Gillespie. "They can describe events and...

In this book the reader is told that the unjust gap between the rich and the poor leading to social injustice in Cameroon and the world results from elite globalization and the reliance on the concept of sharing the National cake. The idea of...

The main theme of this study is chosen in response to the general consensus on the importance of conducting a comprehensive study that may shape the economic policies and promote the business sector as well as the government and other organizations. However, the key...

This book is an inquiry into the harms being done by untruthfulness in American popular political discourse today and how we might arrest them. Taking the form of claims and counterclaims, this untruthfulness is both accidental and intentional and is transmitted in a myriad...

Blacks born in colonial America were Englishmen with an inalienable right to liberty under Britain's rule of law and those who purported to be slavemasters were criminals. The product of graft -slavery was America's first continuing criminal enterprise. However, with Lord Chief Justice Mansfield's...

The challenge of state formation and national integration is evident, and the need for a solution is even more demanding in places like Africa where nation states were formed under very special historical circumstances. In Perspectives on Nation-State Formation in Contemporary Africa, author Godknows...

The challenge of state formation and national integration is evident, and the need for a solution is even more demanding in places like Africa where nation states were formed under very special historical circumstances. In Perspectives on Nation-State Formation in Contemporary Africa, author Godknows...

This book was first published nearly two decades ago in 1994. At that time, it was deemed politic to use a pseudonym, Geo Brandon, for the author's name. The objective of the book was, and still is, to highlight some of the vulgarities in...

This volume addresses the governance and evolution of Canada's international policies, and the challenges facing Canada's international policy relations on multiple fronts.Author: Geoffrey HaleISBN-10: 1487525710ISBN-13: 9781487525712Publisher: University of Toronto PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/05/2021Pages: 624Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.82lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.26dReview Citation(s): Choice 09/01/2022

In Secession and the U. S. Mail: The Postal Service, The South, and Sectional Controversy, Conrad Kalmbacher tells the little known story of over fifty years of dissension between the Post Office Department and the South, culminating in the department's role in the events...

Conventional wisdom claims that the world is going broke, and that we must tighten our belts and accept poverty as the new normal. In a direct challenge to this view, Kimon Valaskakis, Professor of Economics, Futurist and former Canadian Ambassador to the OECD, claims...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author andhumorist. He is most noted for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885),...

Whatever opportunities exist for starting-up, enriching or expanding manufacturing enterprises, success will depend upon some revision of industrial and national cultures that have affected indigenous British companies since the Industrial Revolution. The way in which the popular media has misreported the modern history of...

Author: Emanuel L. PaparellaISBN-10: 1477143017ISBN-13: 9781477143018Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/06/2012Pages: 184Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

From the Roots Up seeks to inform, motivate, challenge, and inspire you to look past conventional wisdom regarding life, faith, and politics. This collection of columns and stories offers thought-provoking story vignettes about everyday people and the issues they face today. Arizona native Randy...

Author: Eric HinesISBN-10: 1469160323ISBN-13: 9781469160320Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/13/2012Pages: 230Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

"If You Voted for Barack Obama in 2008 to Prove You're Not a Racist, You Need to Vote for Someone Else in 2012 to Prove You're Not an Idiot" explains why the voters of the United States need to elect someone besides Barack Obama...

The book evaluates the unrelenting waves of ethno-religious and political conflicts with regards to the danger posed to the emerging democratic process in Nigeria by exploring the prevalence of ethno-religious conflicts in Nigeria as an upshot of predisposed confliction of colonialism, heightened by military...

A True narrative transcending racial, cultural and historical lines. As a white college professor and a group of predominantly black inner city students struggle through weekly lectures to foster an understanding of America's ongoing issues of race. Proving that through education, openness and a...

The time of the truth has finally come for one, cannot suppress the truth forever. It is about the unspoken implications of Africa's totalitarian regimes, under the umbrella of colonial imperialists, with their wicked stooge leaders, with insatiable appetite for power rage to crush...

'Colombo Hilton Hotel Construction' - 'Fraud on Sri Lanka Government' - 'Sri Lanka's First Derivative Action in Law', startlingly unravels the major fraud on the Government of Sri Lanka by reputed multi-nationals, colluding with socio-politically influential, endeavouring to fraudulently 'siphon out a large scale...

Parliamentary Democracy in Uganda: The Experiment that Failed explores Uganda's malaise of armed dissidents, repression of political parties, military adventurism in neighboring countries, grinding poverty in the countryside and political uncertainty arising from accumulated failure of successive regimes to cultivate a culture of peaceful...

THE DEVIL'S MARRIAGE BREAK UP THE CORPOCRACY OR LEAVE DEMOCRACY IN THE LURCH America is becoming a "ruiNation." The reason, well-known psychologist Dr. Gary Brumback, tells us is the corpocracy, the "Devil's Marriage" between powerful corporations and patronizing politicians. He proposes "Democracy Power," a...

Author: Yagub MahmudovISBN-10: 1453555765ISBN-13: 9781453555767Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/19/2010Pages: 408Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.66lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d

Author: William H. YoungISBN-10: 1453516638ISBN-13: 9781453516638Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/21/2010Pages: 636Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.03lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.41d

Asking the question, "What is the connection between food and democracy?" raises a lot of other questions. Some of the answers invalidate many of the myths of our assumed knowledge. Other answers describe the history and experience of a different understanding. What is the...

This book is a product of broad scientific knowledge. Written in simple English, it can be fully understood even by the common man who has no particular education. After a comprehensive analysis of the market economy, the book demonstrates the only way to a...

Basic causes of war are imbedded in the very nature of modern Nation-State. Type of state apparatus, be it democratic or otherwise is no guarantee for peace'. This is a Realist Paradigm. While many have claimed, and continue to do so, that establishment of...

Prior to the atrocities of September 11, 2001, the inhumane treatment of women by the Taliban received sporadic media and academic coverage. After the disintegration of the Taliban and al-Qaeda alliance, Afghanistan has been on the forefront of international headlines. The Taliban removal has...

The uniqueness of the United States of America sets it apart from any other country; people from all over the world come to our shores in pursuit of a way of life that is found nowhere else. Unfortunately, the once shinning light on a...

Author: Jock PanISBN-10: 1450086705ISBN-13: 9781450086707Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/20/2010Pages: 766Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.81d

Author: Jock PanISBN-10: 1450086748ISBN-13: 9781450086745Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2010Pages: 794Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.89lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.88d

The Review Journal of Political Philosophy publishes high-quality work in moral and political philosophy, broadly-construed. The Journal prides itself on its eclecticism, not limiting itself to any particular tradition, school of thought, or historical period. We publish articles, reviews, and discussion pieces from leading...

The Review Journal of Political Philosophy publishes high-quality work in moral and political philosophy, broadly-construed. The Journal prides itself on its eclecticism, not limiting itself to any particular tradition, school of thought, or historical period. We publish articles, reviews, and discussion pieces from leading...

The local-level and international contributors of Shifting Positionalities encompass particular common themes through in-depth social science research in an effort to understand the meanings of the reformulation of state discourses and practices in this post-9/11 era. Current conjunctions between sexual, racial and ethnic identities-and...