This open access book discusses the eroding economics of nuclear power for electricity generation as well as technical, legal, and political acceptance ...

This book examines convergent trends in asylum regimes around the world. It covers the main regions of the world where asylum is a critical problem: Europe ...

This volume discusses the presidential foreign policies of the post-Cold War era, beginning with George H. W. Bush and ending with the first 17 months ...

This book researches the role that interest groups play in new modes of EU governance, with a specific focus on the role of interest representation in  ...

This book looks at subjective and objective individual well-being and family, community and social life, relating quality of life to other contemporary ...

This book aims to shift the limited and often negative popular understanding of the Middle East's place in the world by chronicling the region's contributions ...

Die von Thilo Sarrazin heraufbeschworenen Untergangsszenarien sind uralt. Schon im vorletzten Jahrhundert waren es angeblich die „Falschen", die ...

Dieses Jahrbuch informiert über alle Kriege und bewaffneten Konflikte, die im Jahr 2008 geführt wurden. Es beschreibt für jeden dieser Konflikte ...