"Legislators are entrusted with key parliamentary functions and are important figures in the decision-making process. Their behaviour as political elites is as much responsible for the failures and successes of the new democracies as their institutional designs and constitutiona…
"Legislators are entrusted with key parliamentary functions and are important figures in the decision-making process. Their behaviour as political elites is as much responsible for the failures and successes of the new democracies as their institutional designs and constitutiona…
The Government that Could Not Say No and Australia's Military Effort, 1914-1918 / Jean Bou -- Irish Identities in the British Army during the First World War / Richard S. Grayson -- Conserving British Manpower during and after the First World War / Jessica Meyer -- The Canadian …
The military, in one form or another, are always part of the picture. This study investigates the circumstances that have produced starkly different systems of recruiting and employing soldiers in different parts of the globe over the last 500 years, on the basis of case studies…
Investigates the circumstances that have produced starkly different systems of recruiting and employing soldiers in different parts of the globe over the last 500 years, on the basis of case studies from Europe, Africa, America, the Middle East and Asia.
"Fighting for a living investigates the circumstances that have produced starkly different systems of recruiting and employing soldiers in different parts of the globe, over the last 500 years. Offering a wide range of case studies taken from Europe, America, the Middle East and…
"America's inequitable system of draft deferments during the Vietnam War was the direct outgrowth of military manpower policies designed to fight the Cold War at home"--.
"America's inequitable system of draft deferments during the Vietnam War was the direct outgrowth of military manpower policies designed to fight the Cold War at home"--
L'auteure se fait la porte-parole des parents dont les enfants ont disparu pour faire le jihad en Syrie. Ceux-ci dénoncent l'endoctrinement et le rapt dont leurs enfants ont été victimes et le laxisme des autorités françaises. -- [Renaud-Bray].
This book presents a study of the relationship between the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and its own members. Drawing on years of participant observation, extensive interviews, previously inaccessible organizational documents, and dozens of memoirs and writings, the book provides …
The story of the people from the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) and the Solomon Islands who left their homes to work in the French colony of New Caledonia has long remained a missing piece of Pacific Islands history. Now Dorothy Shineberg has brought these laboreres to life by painstaki…
