Long-term sustainable development is the only way to avoid further economic crises in the Third World,... Læs mere
A review of the way in which the Thatcher government dealt with employment reforms between 1980 and 1990. Included... Læs mere
Despite the central importance of elections to representative democracy, there is no systematic study available of how exactly the parties wage their election campaigns.
Based on research conducted with senior managers across Europe, this book aims to identify the challenges being faced by companies in leading sectors and to... Læs mere
The 1970s and 1980s saw a radical expansion of manufacturing from developing countries, triggering off a new type of trade conflict in world trade. This book... Læs mere
Parliamentary cabinets are supposed to be collective bodies, taking their decisions on the basis of agreements among all the members. Much has also been made of the trend towards letting cabinet decisions be taken by committees or even by individual ministers.
The book argues that Rider Haggard's She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed , Bram Stoker's female vampires and Conrad's destructive Malayan or... Læs mere
The author seeks on this basis to examine the character of the system as a whole: in particular how from the proclaimed desire to maintain the 'balance of power' it succeeded in establishing international stability in preventing the domination of particular states.
The authors include several well-known writers such as Aksenov, Gladilin, Zinik and Loseff as well as Soviet and Western scholars, and the result is both varied and surprising: in the light it throws on the Russian mentality, on the phenomenon of exile and on aspects of the West.
As European security structures are undergoing transformation in the 1990s it is crucial to examine their origins and rationale: NATO secured peace and facilitated economic and political co-operation, while also becoming the vehicle of national rivalry.
Development thinking and development practice are in a state of flux - theory apparently offering little by way of solutions to the crisis of development. A... Læs mere
This study explores the relationship between Wilde's treatment of sexual subject matter and the development of his literary aesthetics from the earliest volume of poetry through the social comedies which highlighted his career.