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 ...

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.

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

This book examines the key role played by local governments in China's market-oriented economic reform process since 1978. In particular, it addres...

Shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Congress enacted the USA PATRIOT Act, in part, to provide enhanced investigative tools and to assist in t...

Shortly after the beginning of the 20th century, the federal government entered a new phase -- the rise of the administrative state. Among the forc...

A bid protest is a formal, written objection to an agency's solicitation for bids or offers, cancellation of a solicitation, or award or proposed a...

This book discusses the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) Modernization Act of 2010 as the administration begins its implementation. Th...

Emergency management seems more and more in the foreground in recent years as disaster after disaster strikes or threatens and seems to be met with...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountabil...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountabil...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountabil...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountabil...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountabil...

When federal agencies and programs lack appropriated funding, they experience a funding gap. Under the Antideficiency Act, they must cease operatio...

When federal agencies and programs lack funding after the expiration of full-year or interim appropriations, the agencies and programs experience a...

When federal agencies and programs lack appropriated funding, they experience a funding gap. Under the Antideficiency Act, they must cease operatio...

From the beginning of the American federal government, Congress has required executive branch agencies to release or otherwise make available gover...

The First Amendment provides that 'Congress shall make no law... Bridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...'. The First Amendment applies, ...

This book is an exploration not only of the lessons that Abraham Lincoln, America's sixteenth president, drew from the founders of the United State...

Greece is at a critical juncture of its recent history. The economic policies of the last three decades have brought it close to bankruptcy. Much o...

Growth of the American Revolution covers the period from the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766 to the outbreak of hostilities at Lexington and Concor...