A Handbook for Gender-Inclusive Elections in Commonwealth Africa
A Handbook for Gender-Inclusive Elections in Commonwealth Africa: Achieving 50:50 by 2030 reviews the systems, legislation and best practice that will need to be implemented and effectively monitored to get more women into politics and help to realise Sustainable Development Goal 5 – achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
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- ISBN: 9781849291781
- Publication Date: Apr 2018
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The Glorification of Plunder
Malcolm James
This book is about two things: tax and power. This book explores the complex dynamics of the debates which inform tax policy, the interaction between tax and power and how power relations between various groups in society and between individuals and the state are manifested through tax system. This helps to explain why the rules, procedures and practices are all formulated to suit their interests of the most powerful groups in society.
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- ISBN: 9781910151440
- Publication Date: Sep 2017
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Global Flow Security
Erik Brattberg
The Center for Transatlantic Relations and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs have brought together strategists and experienced practitioners from many different countries to explore how long-term global trends may impact the future of critical global flows–in areas such as energy, resources, IT and communications, trade, ideas, technology, finance, and illicit flows. Policy recommendations focus on how the European Union and the United States can work together to help ensure the continuity and maintenance of these critical global flows as we look towards 2030.
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780990772019
- Publication Date: Dec 2014
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George Bush's Foreign Aid
Carol Lancaster
Over the past seven years, the Bush administration has launched a revolution in U.S. foreign aid. At no time since the administration of President Kennedy have there been more changes in the volume of aid, in aid's purposes and policies, in its organization, and in its overall status in U.S. foreign relations. George Bush's Foreign Aid: Transformation or Chaos? analyzes in detail the array of recent reforms of U.S. economic assistance and the difficult issues these reforms raise, while placing the changes and the manner of their implementation in a historical and political context. Lancaster draws out the challenges and opportunities this transformation of U.S. aid offer for the next administration to engage the emerging world of the 21st century.
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- ISBN: 9781933286273
- Publication Date: Apr 2008
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France, America and the World
Daniel S. Hamilton
Changes in French and American domestic politics, together with dramatic upheavals on the international scene, offer both opportunities and challenges for a fresh start in the bilateral relationship between France and the United States. In this volume authors and practitioners from both countries offer their perspectives on joint challenges in areas ranging from global economic and security issues to questions of stability in the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and Africa, as well as relations with Russia. The book includes recommendations for a more effective bilateral partnership.Topics and contributors include Major Strategic Challenges Leo Michel (Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University) and Bruno Tertrais (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique)The Global Economy Jean-Francois Jamet (World Bank) and Daniel S. Hamilton (Center for Transatlantic Relations) Russia Celeste Wallander (American University) and Maxime Lefebvre (Permanent Representation of France to the European Union)The Middle East and the Mediterranean Jean-Pierre Filiu (Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris), and Ian Lesser (German Marshall Fund of the United States)Sub-Saharan Africa Nathalie Delapalme (General Inspector of Finance, Paris) and Gwendolyn Mikell (Georgetown University)Copublished with the Robert Schuman Foundation
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780980187199
- Publication Date: Oct 2009
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Forward Resilience
Daniel S. Hamilton
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
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- ISBN: 9780990772156
- Publication Date: Feb 2017
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Fortresses & Icebergs, Volumes 1 and 2
Jeffrey P. Bialos
Commissioned by the U.S. Department of Defense, this book uses disciplined diagnostic methodologies to assess the openness and accessibility of European and U.S. defense markets. The authors also evaluate the evolving European institutions, laws, policies, practices, and arrangements that impact the defense industry. They also propose recommendations for the future.As the book discusses, a more open and competitive transatlantic defense market can potentially facilitate greater force interoperability and capability acquisition in an era where coalition warfare is the norm. A more competitive market would also encourage greater competition, and the affordability and innovation it brings, in a time of global defense industrial consolidation.
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
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- ISBN: 9780980187175
- Publication Date: Nov 2009
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Fortresses & Icebergs
Jeffrey P. Bialos
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780984134120
- Publication Date: Oct 2009
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Five Dimensions of Homeland & International Security
Esther Brimmer
This book considers the intersections between homeland and international security and the implications of these connections for preparedness. After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, many analysts abandoned traditional strategic tools such as deterrence and dissuasion. Yet policymakers need to consider a range of effective actions to enhance preparedness. The possibility of catastrophic, high consequence events demands that policymakers go beyond piecemeal extensions of current policies and devise comprehensive defense-in-depth. They could develop policy in "5D"—by integrating new approaches to five dimensions of policy: deterrence, dissuasion, denial, diplomacy, and defense. The 5Ds could give policymakers ways to "project resilience" with others abroad as we build resilience at home.
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780980187106
- Publication Date: May 2008
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Financing Local Government
Nick Devas
Explores how fiscal decentralisation takes place alongside administrative decentralisation. This book considers the revenue sources available, systems of intergovernmental transfers between central and local government, and the procedures necessary to ensure that local governments use their financial resources appropriately.
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- ISBN: 9780850928532
- Publication Date: Jun 2008
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Fighting Terrorist Financing
Anne C. Richard
International and European regional organizations are playing an important role in combating terrorist financing. Underneath news reports of transatlantic tensions and arguments is a significant and largely successful multilateral effort, one that forms the basis for a common international approach to the problem. This book explains how use of common conventions, standards (e.g., the Financial Action Task Force's standards), and approaches by many different international, regional, and specialized institutions is a major step forward in the fight. Author Anne Richard recommends expanding and deepening these efforts across Europe and in neighboring regions. The book also calls for improving methods used to fight terrorist financing.
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780976643401
- Publication Date: Feb 2006
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Fighting Corruption, Promoting Good Governance
This book presents A Framework for Commonwealth Principles for Promoting Good Governance and Combating Corruption, endorsed by Heads of Government in Durban in 1999. It presents the expert group's findings, examining the nature of corruption and proposing actions at national and international level.
- Imprint: Commonwealth Secretariat
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780850926446
- Publication Date: Jan 2000
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Eyes of Democracy
Manoah Esipisu
Offers journalists and other media professionals an overview of the issues, testimonies from journalists on the ground. This book provides guidelines for good practice, along with reports from Commonwealth Observer Groups on election reporting in a number of Commonwealth countries.
- Imprint: Commonwealth Secretariat
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780850928983
- Publication Date: May 2009
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Evolving Human Security Challenges in the Atlantic Space
Nuno Severiano Teixeira
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- ISBN: 9781733733946
- Publication Date: Dec 2019
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The European Union Constitutional Treaty
Esther Brimmer
Europeans have long sought to form "an ever closer union" through the European Union and its predecessors. Can a closer union be based on the constitutional treaty signed at the June 2004 summit meeting? What will it mean for Americans? This volume offers perspectives on these questions as it reviews the process by which the treaty was concluded, compares it to the American constitution, and discusses the treaty's prospects for passage. Contributors include Stefan Fröhlich (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), Stephen Breyer (associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court), Robert Cottrell (Financial Times), Esther Brimmer (Center for Transatlantic Relations), Günter Burghardt (Delegation of the European Commission to the U.S.), and Lamberto Dini (senator, Republic of Italy).
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780975332573
- Publication Date: Jan 2005
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European Defense Research & Development
Jeffrey P. Bialos
The enormous influence of technology on the conduct of modern warfare has been made obvious by recent conflicts in the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Because current defense research and development (R&D) spending is a leading indicator of future defense technology, it is significant that Europe's investment in defense R&D is only one fourth that of the United States. The "R&D gap" continues to expand as the pace of U.S. spending accelerates while that of Europe remains flat. Moreover, the impact of European defense R&D is dissipated through fragmentation and duplications of effort in parallel national programs. The contributors to this volume consider the implications of this situation for tomorrow's European defense capabilities. They predict how the R&D gap could affect the future of transatlantic relationships and discuss the effectiveness of current efforts to rectify the problems. The book also discusses the prospects for expanded cooperation in defense research and development between the United States and its European allies. Contributors include Klaus Becher (European Union's Institute for Security Studies and Knowledge and Analysis LLP), Kenneth Flamm (Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin), Masako Ikegami (Center for Pacific Studies, Stockholm University), Jeffrey P. Bialos (Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University – SAIS), David Gould (UK Defense Procurement Agency), Andrew James (University of Manchester, UK), Staffan Nasstrom (Swedish Defense Material Administration), Yves Boyer ( Fondation pour la Récherche Stratégique), Stuart Koehl (Center for Transatlantic Relations).
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780975332566
- Publication Date: Sep 2004
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Europe 2020
Daniel S. Hamilton
Where does Europe fit in the emerging world of rapidly developing countries and deep interconnections between different poles of power? This study provides a global framework for understanding Europe's competitive position in this very different environment.Authors Daniel S. Hamilton and Joseph P. Quinlan map the flows of people, money, goods, services, and ideas that connect Europe to other key global powers. They compare Europe's relative strengths and weaknesses with other key competitors and partners. Finally, they recommend key actions that could be taken at EU and member-state level to improve the European Unions's competitiveness compared to other G20 powers and make the EU a more attractive place to invest and do business.
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780984134168
- Publication Date: Feb 2011
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Energy & Transportation in the Atlantic Basin
Paul Isbell
- Imprint: Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781947661011
- Publication Date: Nov 2017
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Election Management
Election Management: A Compendium of Commonwealth Good Practice is a guide for policy-makers and EMBs to the democratic values, principles and practices of the Commonwealth. It will assist governments, political parties and civil society to understand the role, functions and responsibilities of those tasked with delivering credible elections.
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- ISBN: 9781849291477
- Publication Date: Aug 2016
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e-Governance in Small States
Anthony Ming
ICTs can create digital pathways between citizens and governments that are affordable, accessible and widespread. This book aims to strengthen the understanding of policy-makers by outlining the conditions and processes involved in the planning and execution of e-government projects.
- Imprint: Commonwealth Secretariat
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781849291026
- Publication Date: Jul 2013
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