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litigants making symbolic points. The Human Rights Act makes the European Convention part of UK law, so that those deprived of o ...
investments. His essay on ‘The Balance of Power’ remains one of the clearest expositions of what later became both a major theor ...
I ICBM ICBM stands for Intercontinental Ballistic Missile—the immensely powerful, long-range nuclear weapons systems, against wh ...
what we should or do want, and how to achieve these goals, are often held to be highly relative, and even purely subjective. Thu ...
but encouraged by the host countries who needed to increase their populations rapidly in order to develop their economies and ex ...
The USA, for all its fears and though it has restricted immigration, continues to be much more generous to peoples it sees as op ...
came from the politicians themselves, many of whom, on both theleftand right, were in any case mortal enemies of the regimes. Th ...
artificiality of many national borders, need be no less legitimate than any nation-state. Despite this, ‘imperialism’ in modern ...
consultancy arrangements, the core ideas of worker participation and industrial democracy may no longer have anything to which t ...
true) in the civil law world. What is true is that the latter, while probably the more efficient, gives the court, and thus the ...
the public consciousness, the police service has determined to adopt a firm disciplinary approach to any expression of racism an ...
defence analysis and planning required during the nuclear age. Whether this form of high-technology espionage is as effective ag ...
the government or the civil service. The British parliamentarylobby, for example, is thought to have expanded tenfold during the ...
problem is that rather than finding a genuine pattern, which can be usefully likened to colonialism, they seem to be doing littl ...
multinationalfirms makes it very much in the interest of such bodies to co- operate in international arbitration, so that the ac ...
ment. In addition, the total funds in the international economic system could be increased by the Fund simply announcing that ea ...
International Socialism Socialist and communist doctrines have always had, as an important element, the idea of the internationa ...
Trotsky, by then in exile, to create a Fourth International in the 1930s to unite all left-wing parties in an anti-fascistpopula ...
‘Provos’, in 1969. In 1972 the Official IRA abandoned its campaign of violence, leaving only its parallel political wing, ‘Offic ...
religious complexities ofIslammade a clash between the two states inevitable. The Iranian revolution which put theAyatollahKhome ...
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