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War. Parallel to the Congress of Vienna itself was a process known as the ‘Congress System’, in which the leading powers tried t ...
be seen by nearly everyone as a totally unacceptable proposal, whereas with capital punishment and nuclear weapons it is ultimat ...
preference forpragmatismin political matters. It is also difficult to define because different societies and generations do not ...
pragmatism. It is a descendant of the land-owning Tory party which was in competition with the party of the rising middle class, ...
politics—in part because of right-wing dominance of the Conservatives since John Major’s resignation as leader. The election in ...
can be the only long-term solution, because even the most intricate of consociational systems relies ultimately on the preparedn ...
resignation reaffirmed the efficacy of the US constitution and marked the decline of the so-called ‘imperial presidency’. Consti ...
demand for abill of rightsin the UK produced the 1998Human Rights Act, (and as soon as pressure fordevolutionhad resulted in the ...
by the courts. Other important formal constitutional codes include those of Australia, Canada and Germany, though in the last ca ...
Commentators often cite theKorean Waras the first major act of the containment policy, though it is unclear why aUnited Nationsp ...
in their identification of worldterrorismas essentially mono-causal and tied to fundamentalist Islam. Conventional Arms Conventi ...
Called, in the West, the Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions Talks (MBFR), these were initially aimed at reducing troop levels ...
essentially the same. The Russian Revolution and its supposedly radical dictatorship of the proletariatled to monolithic adminis ...
because figures for the level of bank deposits or government expenditure were essentially meaningless. An example of this that u ...
equitable and communal economic system within the boundaries of acapi- talistsociety, and the co-operative movement rapidly beca ...
other trades. In Spain and Italy legislative assemblies and councils of state were therefore organized around such trade corpora ...
some degree of mass following, from outside the existing power establishment. There are few famous examples among putsches, but ...
metres) from Florida, and constituted an escalation in international tension. In Soviet eyes, however, the placement of such mis ...
masses in a counter-revolutionary manner. The theoretical problem inside Marxism of the idea of a cultural revolution is that it ...
D Dahl Robert Dahl (b. 1915) is probably one of the best known of all the talented and energetic political scientists who appear ...
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