Redefining the State: Privatization and Welfare Reform in Industrial and Transitional Economies

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Professor Spulber traces the role of the state in the West and East for more than two centuries along parallel lines--first from the creation of the Welfare State in the West, and the Party-State in the East, to reform of the Western Welfare State by means of privatization and entitlement changes, to transmutations in the East through large scale privatizations and the creation of the "nomenklatura capitalism." He establishes an original connection between dismantling state enterprises and limitation of government functions at all levels in the West, and the collapse and then restructuring of the state on new foundations in the East.

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What authority does international law really have for the United States? When and to what extent should the United States participate in the international legal system? This forcefully argued book by legal scholar Jeremy Rabkin provides an insightful new look at this important and much-debated question.

Americans have long asked whether the United States should join forces with institutions such as the International Criminal Court and sign on to agreements like the Kyoto Protocol. Rabkin argues that the value of international agreements in such circumstances must be weighed against the threat they pose to liberties protected by strong national authority and institutions. He maintains that the protection of these liberties could be fatally weakened if we go too far in ceding authority to international institutions that might not be zealous in protecting the rights Americans deem important. Similarly, any cessation of authority might leave Americans far less attached to the resulting hybrid legal system than they now are to laws they can regard as their own.

Law without Nations? traces the traditional American wariness of international law to the basic principles of American thought and the broader traditions of liberal political thought on which the American Founders drew: only a sovereign state can make and enforce law in a reliable way, so only a sovereign state can reliably protect the rights of its citizens. It then contrasts the American experience with that of the European Union, showing the difficulties that can arise from efforts to merge national legal systems with supranational schemes. In practice, international human rights law generates a cloud of rhetoric that does little to secure human rights, and in fact, is at odds with American principles, Rabkin concludes.

A challenging and important contribution to the current debates about the meaning of multilateralism and international law, Law without Nations? will appeal to a broad cross-section of scholars in both the legal and political science arenas.

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Unfortunate and Unhelpful.......2007-06-08

Rabkin confronts us with an important problem. In an increasingly complex and integrated global political economy, how are we to protect the individual liberties commonly associated with constitutional government? Given the seriousness of the issue, it is genuinely unfortunate that Rabkin gets in his own way with nationalistic rhetoric that approaches xenophobia.

But Rabkin's ideological excesses are worse than simply unfortunate. They are an unhelpful reminder to the rest of humanity that the superior self-image of the ugly American is not only alive and well, but comfortably ensconced in the privileged halls of academe.

For someone with a serious interest in globalization and its political implications, Ann-Marie Slaughter's book, New World Order, is a far more useful place to start. The debate about how we can become masters of our own fate is likely to be a dominant theme as America continues to outgrow its national immaturity. If Rabkin wants to be taken seriously as a participant in that debate he will have to refrain from intellectual bluster and bullying.

"By our own lights".......2007-02-24

This is a thorough analysis of the relationship between trans national ideas and national sovereignty from an American perspective. He holds up current concepts of international affairs to historical and moral philosophical scrutiny.

Rabkin makes a strong case for why America should protect its Constitution and independence and not let its system of government be corrupted and polluted by vague post modernist trans national norms and schemes of global governance. He argues that the ideals of various internationalists are utopian and dangerous. As to their wishful thinking (p. 31): "International organizations will intervene to protect rights - but not by coercion. And advocacy groups will ensure compliance - but not by coercion. And everyone will have rights - but not really."

Rabkin rejects that his scepticism to submitting to various schemes of global governance rests on a "realist" and Hobbesian outlook. The American and classical liberal view is rather the acceptance of the fact that people "do not readily agree on fundamental things and should not have to agree." (p. 270) This is recognized pre-eminently by the American Constitution which was created to protect such pluralism.

This book is an important contribution to a better understanding of why America is and should be sceptic to ineffectual and/or potentially encroaching schemes of global governance.

It does not do Rabkin justice to say he uses sarcasm as substitute for argument, as the previous reviewer claims. This is a highly serious and scholarly work.

Overshadowed by overwhelming bias.......2007-01-29

This author uses sarcasm to avoid confronting the faults of his argument, dismissing anything that he disagrees with as pure absurdity. Although he presents a decent argument for constitutional govt and the inconsistency with international law it is completely overshadowed by his lack of objectivity. This should not be used at a textbook, but rather a ranting of a right-wing extremist attempting to divert attention from his own political flaws.

A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 20: Children Without Parental Care (A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child)

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A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 20: Children Without Parental Care (A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child)
Nigel Cantwell , and Anna Holzscheiter
Manufacturer: Hotei Publishing
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Disarmament Without Order: The Politics of Disarmament at the United Nations (Contributions in Political Science)

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Disarmament Without Order: The Politics of Disarmament at the United Nations (Contributions in Political Science)
Avi Beker
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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Dissertation on the Subject of a Congress of Nations, for the Adjustment of International Disputes Without Recourse to Arms

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Dissertation on the Subject of a Congress of Nations, for the Adjustment of International Disputes Without Recourse to Arms
William Ladd
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The Extinction of Nation-States:A World Without Borders (Developments in International Law, Vol 21)

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The Extinction of Nation-States:A World Without Borders (Developments in International Law, Vol 21)
L. Khan
Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 9041101985

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This work explores whether the nation-state is a useful concept under contemporary international law. It begins with an analysis of Grotius's masterpiece The Law of War and Peace, tracing the historical development of the nation-state. It then argues that due to increased interdependence among the peoples of the world, the nation-state has become dysfunctional in serving the needs of global life. Emphasizing a world without borders, the book offers the concept of the Free State that allows the free movement of goods, services, capital, information and the peoples of the world. International legal scholars, diplomats, policy makers and foreign affairs experts will find this book particularly interesting.

Law Without Nations? Why Constitutional Government Requires Sovereign States.(Book review): An article from: Independent Review

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Law Without Nations? Why Constitutional Government Requires Sovereign States.(Book review): An article from: Independent Review
Georg Vanberg
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An essay on a congress of nations, for the adjustment of international disputes without resort to arms: Containing the substance of the rejected essays ... original thoughts and a copious appendix

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An essay on a congress of nations, for the adjustment of international disputes without resort to arms: Containing the substance of the rejected essays ... original thoughts and a copious appendix
William Ladd
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Million dollar closings without the use of numbers

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Million dollar closings without the use of numbers
Howard L Nations
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No genuine peace without enforceable world law;

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No genuine peace without enforceable world law;
Grenville Clark
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To establish a streamlined process to enable the Navajo Nation to lease trust lands without having to obtain the approval of the Secretary of the Interior ... accompany S. 2665) (SuDoc Y 1.1/5:106-511)

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To establish a streamlined process to enable the Navajo Nation to lease trust lands without having to obtain the approval of the Secretary of the Interior ... accompany S. 2665) (SuDoc Y 1.1/5:106-511)
U.S. Congressional Budget Office
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More erroneous Predictions from Socialists

A fresh, different point of view on capitalism

Individual achievement is the fountainhead of progress

Capitalism Vs. Capitalism: How America's Obsession with Individual Achievement and Short-Term Profit Has Led It to the Brink of Collapse

Manufacturer: Four Walls Eight Windows
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ASIN: 1568580053

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Capitalism Vs. Capitalism: How America's Obsession with Individual Achievement and Short-term Profit Has Led It to the Brink of Collapse By Michel Albert "A distinguished and highly literate French businessman, scholar, and economist gives his view of the European, and notably, the American present and prospect. Do not miss it." -John Kenneth Galbraith ISBN: 1-56858-005-3

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More erroneous Predictions from Socialists.......2000-04-17

Paul Ehrlich, the mouthpiece of the enviromental movement, once bet Julian Simon - an anarcho-capitalist $50 in 1980 to see whether overpopulation would cause the Earth's resources to become more rare, and thus, more expensive. Simon let Ehrlich pick the five commodities - Oil, Tungsten, Iron, Gold, and Natural Gas. All 5, ten years later, were either the same - adjusted for inflation - or LOWER in 1990. The world population rose 50% in this time, and the world's per capita income, 20% (really 70% to account for the population). Here in the beginning of 2000, seven years after this book was written, Youth Crime is down (despite the media frenzy over Columbine), the market is way up, unemployment is the lowest since the post-Vietnam recession, and everything is looking hunky-dory. Another "The Sky is Falling" book by another socialist... put this under religion, because no matter what the scientific evidence, the 'scientific' socialists just can't let go of their pet theory.

A fresh, different point of view on capitalism.......1998-05-02

Capitalism is now without competition : it must find in itself the reasons for being THE economic system for the third millennium. Are we shure it coldn't use some influx from europe ?

Individual achievement is the fountainhead of progress.......1997-11-22

Capitalism Vs. Capitalism is a book about history that is devoid of history. Individual achievement, far from being the source of any of our current societal woes, is the very source of the modern progress that allows paupers in the West to live better than the emperors of Antiquity. Eighty years of socialism in Europe and the United States has proved unable to squelch the natural aspirations that individual--as opposed to collective--achievement serves.

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The general aim of this study is to provide an analysis of the operation of China's rural financial system.

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401 Killer Marketing Tactics to Maximize Profits, Increase Sales and Stomp Your Competition
Tom Feltenstein
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India at the Crossroads: Sustaining Growth and Reducing Poverty

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The eradication of poverty has become an overreaching goal of international action and the work of the United Nations, which declared 1997-2006 the first "Decade for the Eradication of Poverty." The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has made poverty eradication its essential priority in the pursuit of "sustainable human development."

This book examines in detail poverty reduction policies and strategies and outlines a new methodological approach to the process of designing national poverty reduction strategies in Africa. It also endeavors to define the roles of the various national stockholders and external partners, such as UNDP.

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