The purpose of NATO: From Regional to Global Security Provider is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the Alliance's new vision (the new Strategic Concept) and common security impact - associated tasks to be undertaken within a short and longer term time horizon. The book serves as a relevant and timely study of the most pressing issues facing NATO today - including recent lessons gained. It provides recommendations for consideration and further discussion (i.e., the "what" and the "how" r...

The study of law and politics is one of the foundation stones of the discipline of political science, and it has been one of the most productive areas of cross-fertilization between the various subfields of political science and between political science and other cognate disciplines. This Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of the field of law and politics in all its diversity, ranging from such traditional subjects as theories of jurisprudence,constitutionalism, judicial politics and l...

Building on a survey of media institutions in eighteen West European and North American democracies, Hallin and Mancini identify the principal dimensions of variation in media systems and the political variables which have shaped their evolution. They go on to identify three major models of media system development (the Polarized Pluralist, Democratic Corporatist and Liberal models) to explain why the media have played a different role in politics in each of these systems, and to explore the ...

Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and 2008. It finds that where social, economic, and technocratic ties to the West were extensive, as in Eastern Europe and the Americas, the external cost of abuse led incumbents to cede power rather than crack down, which led to democratization. Where ties to the West were limited, external democratizing pressure was w...

Wat hebben de klimaatcrisis, kunstmatige intelligentie, pandemieën, genetische modificatie en kernenergie met elkaar gemeen? Het zijn allemaal voorbeelden van het feit dat menselijk handelen een steeds grotere impact heeft op een steeds langere termijn, met mogelijk onomkeerbare en desastreuze gevolgen. Maar terwijl toekomstgerichte politiek harder nodig is dan ooit, raakt onze democratie juist steeds meer in de greep van de waan van de dag en de korte termijn. We schuiven problemen vooruit,...

This book analyzes the most influential international organizations, including the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, and the European Union, and the key role they play in global governance.

Text only. This product does NOT include a MyFireKit Access Code Card. To purchase the text with a MyFireKit Access Code Card, please use ISBN: 0-13-283000-0 Organized into 17 chapters with completely updated color photographs and accompanied by supporting appendices, this seventh edition, written to the FESHE curriculum, instructs the reader on the skills needed in fire investigation, delving into topics such as fire-related deaths and injuries, fire behavior and sources of ignition.

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Wat betekent de Europese Unie voor u? Tenzij u expert of insider bent, wellicht vooral een ver-van-uw-bed Brussel met grote gebouwen en conclaven van regeringsleiders. Maar die anonieme Europese Unie is in revolutie. Grootmacht Europa beschrijft hoe de klimaatcrisis, de pandemie, de oorlog in Oekraïne, het einde van de globalisering en de nieuwe koude oorlog met China de Europese Unie tot de belangrijkste politieke kracht in Europa hebben gemaakt. Het toont aan hoe de missie en de identiteit...

The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local farmers using fewer chemicals.

Heavily subsidized and underregulated commercial farmers are facing stronger push back from environmentalists and consumer activists, and food companies are under the microscope. Meanwhile, agriculturalsuccess in Asia has spurred ...