Quality of life is one of the most important issues facing the world today and is central to the development of social policy. This innovative book discusses this crucial topic, assessing the criteria...
Bilateral Investment Treaties: History, Policy, and Interpretation organizes, summarizes and comments upon the arbitral awards interpreting and applying BIT provisions. Policymakers and practitioners ...
This book analyzes and explains forty-five years of European foreign policy making toward the Mediterranean. It asks why, when, and how EU member states formulated new foreign policy initiatives towar...
This book discusses the management challenges associated with ad hoc networks, and provides an in-depth description of how policy-based network management can be used for increasing automation in the ...
This book examines fiscal policy coordination in EMU and the required adjustments to national fiscal policies by EMU member states. The book shows that, in the process of Europeanization, national int...
This book argues that although labor market needs have been an important element in the development of immigration policy, they have been filtered through a political process: the politics of immigrat...
of dollars are spent every year by companies and special interest groups attempting to influence government policy. They work behind the scenes, lobbying politicians to represent their interests. From...
This book is comprehensively revised and updated edition of the leading text on EU competition policy.
Many effects of environmental and energy policy are likely to disproportionately burden those with low income. First, it raises the price of fossil-fuel-intensive products that constitute a high fract...
The growing use of private labels in recent years has affected significantly the landscape of retail competition, with major retailers no longer being confined to their traditional role as purchasers...
In recent years European prison law and policy have emerged as a force to be reckoned with. This book explores its development and analyzes the penological and human rights foundations on which it is ...
Proposing new theoretically sound indexes for measuring trade restrictiveness, with empirical results that show their application. A country's stance on international trade is an important component o...
For coverage of the most important policy issues facing the United States?from disaster preparation to global warming, and avian flu to the death penalty?offer your students balanced and complete over...
This is primarily a textbook for graduate and upper-level undergraduate students of law. However, practising lawyers and policy-makers who are looking for an introduction to WTO law will also find it ...
"Food Security, Poverty and Nutrition Analysis" provides essential insights into the evaluative techniques necessary for creating appropriate and effective policies and programs to address these world...
Widely considered to be a definitive work on how U.S. foreign policy is made, THE POLITICS OF UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY, International Edition uses three levels of analysis that demonstrate how gov...
Not everything you see on your favorite crime show is accurate. In fact, a lot of it is flat out wrong. "Police Procedure & Investigation" helps you get your facts straight about the inner workings of...
When Mead (US foreign policy, Council on Foreign Relations) began research for a book on US foreign policy at the end of the Cold War, he found discrepancies with the traditional view that foreign pol...
Through market excesses and shortages, complicated by periodic anxiety over the exhaustion of fossil fuel sources, balancing the international quest for oil with reduction of dependence on foreign oil...
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is not tenable and all recent reform plans have been condemned as unacceptable. However, a "bond scheme," as part of reform that pays more attention to society's a...
'This is a very readable introduction to the ecological economics of biodiversity. Particularly useful is the careful presentation of four major concepts of biodiversity (genes, species, ecosystems, a...
At a time when renewable energy attracts varying degrees of political support and mixed success in policy implementation, clear information on why and how to promote renewable energy markets is much n...
This book explores the policy implications of growing pressures for economic adjustment in the agricultural sectors of developed countries. It starts by describing the recent history of adjustment in ...
This major new text by a leading authority on European security provides a full assessment of the historical, political and systemic reasons behind the rise of the European Security and Defence Policy...
Because the turbulent trajectory of Russia's foreign policy since the collapse of the Soviet Union echoes previous moments of social and political transformation, history offers a special vantage poin...
The second edition of European Union Foreign Policy in a Changing World provides a clear introduction to the complexities of contemporary European foreign policy and offers a fresh and distinctive per...
In the wake of Enron's implosion and other major corporate meltdowns, there have been hasty calls for stricter laws to regulate the markets and products in which these companies were involved. But wit...
Since the first edition of The World Trading System was published in 1989, the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations has been completed, and most governments have ratified and are in the process of impl...
An outstanding publication which sets out the core legal rules and policy of the World Trade Organization in a uniquely comprehensive and straightforward manner - a must for anyone versed or simply in...
This edited volume addresses the issue of threat inflation in American foreign policy and domestic politics. The Bush administration's aggressive campaign to build public support for an invasion of I...