German Chancellor Angela Merkel began her first term in office in November 2005 and was elected to a second term in September 2009. Most observers ...

As Germany approaches the twenty-first century, it faces a variety of political, economic and social problems that put the recently united country ...

U.S.-Ghanaian relations are warm, as signalled by President Barack Obama's travels in 2009 to Ghana, where he laid out his view on democratisation ...

Like many of its peers in sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana's journey to democracy has been a tortuous one indeed. To the extent that governance is about t...

In this ground-breaking work of investigative journalism, Richard Cottrell lays bare a web of evil in high places. The recent paedophile Saville sc...

Some important questions are discussed in this book: Are there any civilisations other than the Western one living in our so-called Global-Age? 'Ea...

This book deals with a range of topics related to global governance. It begins with an introduction to the theoretical literature in order to provi...

The United States is seemingly confronted with more global issues now than it has ever experienced. The U.S., under a relatively new presidential a...

The established structural parameters of the global political economy underwent a profound transformation following the global economic crisis whic...

In recent years, the economic policy of privatisation, which is defined as the transfer of property or responsibility from public sector to private...

Terrorism is usually described as violence or the perception or threat of imminent violence. Terrorism has been used by a broad array of political ...

Non-proliferation assistance programs are a relatively new tool in combating the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The Co-operative Thr...

This book examines the international system -- as constructed following the Second World War, which will be almost unrecognisable by 2025 owing to ...

This book forecasts the world of 2030, which predictions estimate, will be radically transformed from our world today. By 2030, no country, whether...

Persistent rumour has it that globalisation is doing serious damage to the nation-state at the present historical juncture. Dramatic versions of th...

The signal events opening the global war on terrorism were the attacks of September 11. The world media began to focus on one of the terrorist grou...

The signal events opening the global war on terrorism were the attacks of September 11. The world media began to focus on one of the terrorist grou...

There are probably few concepts less understood, more cursed and blamed for everything imaginable, and yet perhaps result in so many outstanding de...

This book describes and discusses the various aspects of the changing "landscape" of China's industrial development within the general context of g...

Non-proliferation assistance programs, including co-operative threat reduction, are being examined to help reduce the risk of terrorist access to w...

Pakistan, after fifty eight years of existence, was faced with a governance crisis. Certain significant political and economic developments in the ...

The book aims to present a set of perspectives that are sound and useful and it seeks to stimulate scholars and students and at the same time to in...

Since the early 1990s, the issue of improving the governance quality of a country for achieving higher levels of growth and development has assumed...

Includes timelines, maps, suggested further readings, and an index.