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  • New Democratic Party

    Introduction to New Democratic PartyNew Democratic Party (NDP), Canadian political party that espouses a philosophy of social democracy. The NDP began as the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in 1933. Initially socialist, the CCF was popular during World War II (1939-1945),…

  • Communist Party of Philippines/new People's Army

    Communist Party of Philippines/new People's Army in 2016 aka CPP/NPA; Communist Party of the Philippines; the CPP; New People's Army; the NPA Activities CPP/NPA primarily targets Philippine security forces, government officials, local infrastructure, and businesses that refuse to pay […]

  • Single-Party

    Communism: Features of Comunist States Single-Party RuleIn communist states, the communist party held complete and unchallenged political power. All other political parties were banned, except for minor procommunist parties in several Eastern European countries. The name of the governing pa…

  • Creating New States: Theory and Practice of Secession

    Creating New States: Theory and Practice of Secession Aleksander Pavkovi? and Peter Radan (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007, 277 pp) This book offers a very useful addition to contemporary scholarship on secession. For an interested audience of non-experts, it covers the main relevant on-going debates on the definition of secession, on its causes, on the normative debate…

  • Arbitration: Incapacity of Party

    Arbitration : Incapacity of Party   The types of issues arising under this ground include the “incapacity” defences, such as mental incompetence, physical incapacity, lack of authority to act in the name of a corporate entity or a contracting party being too young to sign (minority). In addition, the term “incapacity” in the context of…

  • Socialism

    Socialist Law The inclusion of "Socialist law", in the past, was unavoidable in certain legal classifications. Marxist-Leninist thought still plays a sometimes significant role in the legal organization of certain countries. The criterion which governed the creation of a category […]

  • Socialism

    Socialist Law The inclusion of "Socialist law", in the past, was unavoidable in certain legal classifications. Marxist-Leninist thought still plays a sometimes significant role in the legal organization of certain countries. The criterion which governed the creation of a category […]

  • International Trade

    International Political Economy Trends: International Trade Introduction to International Trade In the 21st century, international trade has grown to 20 percent of the world's total production of goods and services-around $6.5 trillion per year. This volume of trade is almost seven times […]

  • International Trade

    International Political Economy Trends: International Trade Introduction to International Trade In the 21st century, international trade has grown to 20 percent of the world's total production of goods and services-around $6.5 trillion per year. This volume of trade is almost seven times […]

  • Communism

    Communism, a theory and system of social and political organization that was a major force in world politics for much of the 20th century. As a political movement, communism sought to overthrow capitalism through a workers' revolution and establish a system in which property is owned by […]

  • Politics

    Politics Politics From the book The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law, about Politics (1): A minister who had been expelled by his congregation for voting the Democratic ticket, had some of the members of the church arrested under the election laws for intimidating a voter. The court held that […]

  • Collective Bargaining

    Collective bargaining in the International Trade Union Rights Area Definition of Collective bargaining provided by ITUC-CSI-IGB: The process of negotiating mutually acceptable terms and conditions of employment as well as regulating industrial relations between one or more workers' […]

  • Collective Bargaining

    Collective bargaining in the International Trade Union Rights Area Definition of Collective bargaining provided by ITUC-CSI-IGB: The process of negotiating mutually acceptable terms and conditions of employment as well as regulating industrial relations between one or more workers' […]

  • Anti-Semitism

    Zionism Historical Background: The Rise of Modern Anti-SemitismIntroduction to Anti-SemitismPolitical emancipation, however, proved to be a false dawn. In the second half of the 19th century organized anti-Semitic parties emerged in Germany and Austria-Hungary. In Russia, where the…

  • Anti-Semitism

    Zionism Historical Background: The Rise of Modern Anti-SemitismIntroduction to Anti-SemitismPolitical emancipation, however, proved to be a false dawn. In the second half of the 19th century organized anti-Semitic parties emerged in Germany and Austria-Hungary. In Russia, where the…