Political Science - General

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Navy's Inspector General (IG) organization's complaint resolution and Navy unit inspection activities. GAO found that: (1) Navy IG investigation and inspection practices need to be strengthened; (2) for many cases, the Navy IG did not assign...

Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC) documents provide planning, design, construction, sustainment, restoration, and modernization criteria. They also apply to the Military Departments, the Defense Agencies, and the DoD Field Activities in accordance with USD (AT&L) Memorandum dated 29 May 2002. The United States Army Corps...

After action report, Ia Drang Valley operation, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry 14-16 November 1965, provides the following information: operations on 14 November (and activities during the night); enemy attacks of 15 November; the relief of the surrounded 2nd Platoon, Company B, and redisposition of...

This paper discusses the 23rd Infantry's operations in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. The author gives the lessons learned for October and November. These include the importance of surprise (as evident by the enemy in seeing new troops unexpectedly), cohesion (as a well trained and disciplined...

While the involvement of the United States in counterinsurgency has a long history, it had faded in importance in the years following the end of the Cold War. When American forces first confronted it in Iraq, they were not fully prepared. Since then, the...

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a federal freedom of information law that allows for the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents controlled by the United States government. The Act defines agency records subject to disclosure, outlines mandatory disclosure...

Author: Earl RaabISBN-10: 1258118467ISBN-13: 9781258118464Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2011Pages: 58Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.52w x 0.12d

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA's struggle to protect health...

The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projections from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to deliver combined arms task forces. The US Marine Corps Electronic Library is...

The National Park Service (NPS) was formed on August 25, 1916, and is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations. The National Park Service publishes various reports and documents...

The National Park Service (NPS) was formed on August 25, 1916, and is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations. The National Park Service publishes various reports and documents...

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces. The USAF was initially a part of the U.S. Army, but was formed as a separate branch of the military in 1947 under the National Security...

The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democracy can grow and prosper. Ranging from historic Congressional Bills...

Cartoons the world over have generated interest to a particular topic through their simple way of putting forth messages across to the public. There are various types of cartoons, animated and two dimensional cartoons. Two dimensional cartoons use visual metaphors in them to help...

The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democracy can grow and prosper. Ranging from historic Congressional Bills...

This book studies the role of serious philosophizing in everyday life and looks at how authoritarianism negates philosophical and public reason.Author: Murzban JalISBN-10: 1032075406ISBN-13: 9781032075402Publisher: Routledge Chapman & HallLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/25/2023Pages: 206Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.54d

Wake up America takes a journey across the world to discover what we need to do move our and world society to a new level of positive growth, peacefully, and a way that maximizes our diverse world societies. We are moving towards a nine...

911 was the defining event of the new millennium, but who did it? It wasn't the Muslims, that's for sure. what was the Hidden Hand which brought about this supreme but ever-mysterious event? It is, we argue, the supreme example false-flag or state-fabricated terror....

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of education in a democratic society. It explores the role of education in shaping democracy and the responsibilities of citizens in promoting and maintaining democratic ideals. With insightful commentary and practical guidance, this book is a must-read for...

The Carolingian empire was a large Frankish-dominated empire ruled primarily during the early middle ages in central and Western Europe. It is regarded as the first phase in the history of the Holy Roman Empire. The Carolingian period had a big impact on the...

Filling a gap in academic literature, U.S. First Ladies: Making History and Leaving Legacies, examines how first ladies are uniquely positioned to influence American society, public policy, politics, diplomacy, and life in the White House.The textbook explores the development and evolution of the role...

B R Ambedkar, a brilliant academic who subsequently became an influential political leader, wrote an explosive speech in 1936 amid the turbulent winds of India's war for independence and the cry for social reform. This speech would reverberate through the halls of history. This...

In 2019, Wendy Bashant, a burned-out college dean, quits her job to teach two hundred students in the ancient, walled city of Xi'an, China. The year turns extraordinary when tensions between China and the U.S. escalate: first tit-for-tat tariffs. Then a worldwide pandemic. Finally...

This book considers diverse philosophical topics unified by the identification of false moves commonly found in modern philosophy, mainstream Anglo-American philosophy, and social theory. The authors expose the sources of fundamental problems that recur in philosophy-basic problems with what the authors call "factoring philosophy."...

Globalisation and Nationalism are two central phenomena of the modern world.It is important to analyse the relationship between nationalism and globalisation because of the varying opinions held in regards to what impact globalisation has had on the world, how did it influence nationalism so...

This book challenges the biases of contemporary socio-political discourse, often termed 'wokeness, ' focusing on its anti-white undertones. Its central aim is to safeguard the mental integrity of future generations from misinformation, particularly those narratives that suggest a negative view of white culture.The book...

The transatlantic relationship is under serious strain. The end of the Cold War, Europes continuing integration, and the new array of threats confronting the West have led Americans and Europeans alike to question the durability and utility of the Atlantic alliance. The transatlantic rift...

Author: John ScottISBN-10: 0745624189ISBN-13: 9780745624181Publisher: Polity PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/21/2002Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 8.42h x 5.50w x 0.57dReview Citation(s): Choice 10/01/2002 pg. 363

Foreign policy makers and international relations scholars have become increasingly interested in the relationship between democracy and war. In this book, the author argues that the international relations of democratic states are best understood in the context of the interaction of democratic and international...

Here is an accessible, up-to-date guide to event history analysis for researchers and advanced students in the social sciences. The foundational principles of event history analysis are discussed and ample examples are estimated and interpreted using standard statistical packages, such as STATA and S-Plus....

Ideas about marriage, gender and the family were central to political debate in late Stuart England. Newly available in paperback, this book shows how political argument became an arena in which the proper relations between men and women, parents and children, public and private...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This diary provides an inside look at what many members of Congress privately think about impeachment from both a Republican and Democrat perspective and the huge burden of proof required to impeach a sitting President. A key point, yet so often ignored by both...

The study found an 11-percent reduction in first-time sex-crime arrests after 1995, the year that South Carolina established sex offender registration and notification (SORN). This reduction occurred in the period 1995-2005 compared to the pre-SORN period (1990-1994); however, there was no significant decline in...

The Quest for Peace is an outgrowth of the author's previous work titled, "How Goes It With America," in which he stresses a closer look at the deficits in our educational, political, and social systems as well as economic stresses on family and community...

In 2020, Steven Greer, an internationally-renowned human rights scholar, was falsely and publicly accused of Islamophobia by the University of Bristol Islamic Society (BRISOC). In July 2021, he was officially exonerated without equivocation or reservation from all BRISOC's allegations. Nevertheless, the University of Bristol,...

This diary provides an inside look at what many members of Congress privately think about impeachment from both a Republican and Democrat perspective and the huge burden of proof required to impeach a sitting President. A key point, yet so often ignored by both...

This book uniquely employs interdisciplinary, multiple-region, and comparative foci to study social issues, ranging from unemployment and domestic violence to neoextractivism and gender roles across two world regions from the Global South.Author: Brenda I. GillISBN-10: 1793642494ISBN-13: 9781793642493Publisher: Lexington BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/24/2023Pages: 398Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.66lbsSize:...

States restrict immigration on a massive scale. Governments fortify their borders with walls and fences, authorize border patrols, imprison migrants in detention centers, and deport large numbers of foreigners. Unjust Borders: Individuals and the Ethics of Immigration argues that immigration restrictions are systematically unjust...

"Between the sterner flights of logic, I have sought to set some little alightings of what may be poetry. They are tributes to Beauty, unworthy to stand alone; yet perversely, in my mind, now at the end, I know not whether I mean the...

Academic Paper from the year 2020 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, University of Port Harcourt (Faculty of Social Sciences), course: Political Science, language: English, abstract: This paper examined the impact of climate change on social conflict in Nigeria by...

Economic development in mainland China during the first two decades of Communist control provides a typical example for the difficult task to transform a vast underdeveloped agrarian economy into a modern industrial one. In the first half of this period, a series of massive...

This book is totally different to any other book written on the topic of international law since it does not abide by its accepted staid conventional wisdom. In fact, it is highly provocative in that it challenges the putative central precepts and theories that...

Exploring contemporary debates and developments in Roma-related research and forms of activism, this volume argues for taking up reflexivity as practice in these fields, and advocates a necessary renewal of research sites, methods, and epistemologies. The contributors gathered here - whose professional trajectories often...

The Naqab Bedouin and Colonialism brings together new scholarship to challenge perceived paradigms, often dominated by orientalist, modernist or developmentalist assumptions on the Naqab Bedouin. The past decade has witnessed a change in both the wider knowledge production on, and political profile of, the...

An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy - Being an Essay on the Science of Domestic Policy in Free Nations is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1796. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as...

Despite having operated under the pretense of democracy for the entirety of its 71-years of single party rule, Mexico was not a democratic state. From 1929 to 2000 Mexico was ruled by a single authoritarian regime, the PRI. Part of the PRI's long-lasting success...

Written by John V. Sullivan, Parliamentaian of the House, 2004- . Contains the parliamentary precedents of the United States House of Representatives.Author: John V. Sullivan, United States House of Representatives, Office of the ParliamentarianISBN-10: 1780397488ISBN-13: 9781780397481Publisher: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/26/2012Pages: 1044Format: PaperbackWeight: 4.02lbsSize: 9.69h x...

This outline covers the history and organization of the federal and state judicial systems; the criminal and civil court processes; the background, qualifications, and selection of federal judges; the role of other participants (lawyers, defendants, interest groups) in the judicial process; and the implementation...

This is the "35-Page" Dossier you have been hearing about. Read it now Presentation and analysis of the TRUMP-STEELE Dossier which was released during the 2016 American election.Author: Richard P. Hardwood IIIISBN-10: 1543211658ISBN-13: 9781543211658Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/18/2017Pages: 84Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 9.02h...