Title:Constitutionalism, Multilevel Trade Governance and Social Regulation
Author(s):JOERGES, Christian; PETERSMANN, Ernst-UlrichDate:2006Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This is a book about the ever more complex legal networks of transnational economic governance structures and their legitimacy problems. The book takes up the challenge of the editors' earlier pioneering works which have ...
Title:Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective
Author(s):KASSAB, ElizabethDate:2009Type of Publication:BookAbstract:During the second half of the twentieth century, the Arab intellectual and political scene polarized between a search for totalizing doctrines-nationalist, Marxist, and religious-and radical critique. Arab thinkers were ...
Title:Contentious Politics in the Middle East: Political Opposition under Authoritarianism
Author(s):ALBRECHT, HolgerDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Scholarship examining the governments in the Middle East and North Africa rarely focuses on opposition movements, since those countries tend to be ruled by a centralized, often authoritarian government. However, even in ...
Title:Corruzione e democrazia: Sette paesi a confronto
Author(s):MENY, Yves; DELLA PORTA, DonatellaDate:1995Type of Publication:BookAbstract:(Translation of the French version "Démocratie et corruption en Europe").
Negli ultimi due decenni i fenomeni di corruzione sono esplosi ovunque, nei paesi sviluppati e nel terzo mondo, nei regimi liberali e nei paesi ...
Title:Crises and Opportunities: The shaping of modern finance
Author(s):CASSIS, YoussefDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:BookAbstract:As the world's political and economic leaders struggle with the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008, this book asks the question: have financial crises presented opportunities to rebuild the financial system? Examining ...
Title:Cross-Border Banking in Europe: Implications for Financial Stability and Macroeconomic Policies
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; BECK, Thorsten; CARLETTI, Elena; LANE, Philip R.; SCHOENMAKER, Dirk; WAGNER, WolfDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Understanding the role of banks in cross-border finance has become an urgent priority. Cross-border banks have played a central role in the dynamics of the global crisis of 2007-2009. First, European banks had a surprisingly ...
Title:Das deutsche Kaiserreich in der Kontroverse
Author(s):MÜLLER, Sven Oliver; TORP, CorneliusDate:2009Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Ausgewiesene Experten geben einen Überblick über den aktuellen internationalen Forschungsstand zum Deutschen Kaiserreich und werfen neue, richtungweisende Fragen auf. Der Band liefert einen wichtigen Beitrag zu den anhaltenden ...