Academic Articles & Research Papers

In Vitro Evaluation of Polihexanide, Octenidine and NaClO/HClO-Based Antiseptics against Biofilm Formed by Wound Pathogens

Chronic wounds complicated with biofilm formed by pathogens remain one of the most significant challenges of contemporary medicine. The application of topical antiseptic solutions against wound biofilm has been gaining increasing interest a...

Medical Biotechnology

Medical biotechnology incorporates many of the topics that have already been discussed in this book. Right from developing new drugs to prospects of stem cell use and cloning, the possibilities are enormous....

Dialogue: Theorizing Difference in Communication Studies

Index Foreword: Entering into Dialogue - Julia T. Wood Introduction: Texts and Contexts of Dialogue - Rob Anderson, Leslie A. Baxter, and Kenneth N. Cissna PART I: EXPLORING THETERRITORIES OF DIALOGUE 1. Relationships Among Philosphers of D...

Democratic Backsliding and Public Administration

Liberal democracy is at risk. Its hallmark institutions – political pluralism, separation of powers, and rule of law—are coming under pressure, as authoritarian sentiment is growing around the globe. While liberal-democratic backsliding fea...

Public Administration & Public Management

A perspective on the public sector that presents a concise and comprehensive analysis of exactly what it is and how it operates. Governments in any society deliver a large number of services and goods to their populations. To get the job do...

Public Administration

What is understood by “public administration” in the contemporary UK higher education setting? Is it still being taught and, if so, why? These questions initially appear to be fairly straightforward but any review of the topic quickly poses...

Public Administration

The ninth edition of Public Administration: Understanding Management, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector grounds students in the fundamentals of public administration while embracing its complexity. It describes, explains, and analyzes ...

Public Administration

This is a complete and up-to-date revision of the classic text for public administration, implementing the rule of law as a fundamental issue in American democracy in pursuit of the common interest. It presents public administration as a te...

Handbook of public administration

Introduction - B Guy Peters and Jon Pierre The Role of Public Administration in Governing PART ONE: PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: OLD AND NEW Introduction - Hal G Rainey Public Management - Laurence E Lynn Jr Measuring Public Sector Performance and Ef...

What is History in International Relations?

To some extent, history has always been a core feature of the international imagination. On both sides of the Atlantic, leading figures in the discipline such as E. H. Carr, Hans Morgenthau, Martin Wight, Hedley Bull and Stanley Hoffman hav...

International relations and international law: two optics 1996

Multilateral cooperation was remarkably extensive, indeed unprecedented, in the latter half of the twentieth century. After World War II a compromise was struck in rich countries that John Ruggie has termed embedded liberalism . 1 Increasin...

International Relations Theory

Since the early 1990s, international rules and institutions related to international environmental law (IEL) have multiplied at an exponential rate. Yet there is little evidence that this escalation of law-making activity has had a proporti...

Retrieving the Imperial: Empire and International Relations

This essay uses Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's Empire, one of the most widely read accounts of international politics in recent years, as a vehicle to rethink International Relations' engagement with the notion of empire. We begin with t...

Modem International Relations Theory: A Prospectus for International Lawyers

In 1985, in a book entitled World Politics and International Law, Francis Boyle delivered a caustic critique of the work of international legal scholars: "contemporary public international lawyers have developed a highly formalistic and exc...

Human Rights in International Relations

This third edition of David P. Forsythe's successful textbook provides an authoritative overview of the place of human rights in an age of upheaval in international politics. Human rights standards are examined at the global, regional and n...

Sport, Prestige and International Relations

In An Essay Written In The Mid-1980S Trevor Taylor Concluded that ‘. . . international relations scholars show little sign of seriously considering the place of sport in global human affairs’ and prescribed that ‘international relations sho...

Legal basis information security states of broadcasters

Problem setting. The need for the emergence and development of the law of information security explained by the need to organize social relations that occur between individuals and legal entities, citizens' associations and public authoriti...

Theorizing the Judicialization of International Relations

Abstract This article introduces a Thematic Section and theorizes the multiple ways that judicializing international relations shifts power away from national executives and legislatures toward litigants, judges, arbitrators, and other nons...

International law for international relations

The breadth of international law and institutions in contemporary global politics means it is no longer possible to make sense of international politics without understanding international law. International Law for International Relations ...

Law and Peace in International Relations