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West European Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
Palgrave Macmillan 1996; US$ 148.00The book examines the dynamic of West European terrorism and counter-terrorism as it has evolved since the late 1960s. It assesses past, present and future terrorist trends and analyzes the internal security policies that have been initiated by the member states of the European Union (EU), both singularly and collectively, to combat terrorism in Western... more...
Carers and their rights
Cargo Publishing (UK) Ltd 2012; US$ 7.29Carers and their Rights is Carers UK?s definitive guide to carers? rights to support from health and social services, as they care unpaid for ill, frail or disabled friends or family members. Written by solicitor and community care law expert Professor Luke Clements, this fifth edition includes updates based on a number of statutory and case law developments... more...
Comparing How Various Nations Administer Retirement Income
The Edwin Mellen Press 2010; US$ 159.95This book makes an innovative contribution to the field of retirement income security in three distinctive ways. First, it seeks to develop a sophisticated philosophical rationale for the social dimension, in the context of retirement. Such a rationale is frequently implicit in much of the relevant literature, and where explicit, is often crudely developed.... more...
Minimum Income Protection in Flux
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 90.00Drawing on data from across Europe and the US, this book comparatively analyzes the current state of minimum income protection policies and explores the prospects for their improvement. more...
China's Pension System
World Bank Publications 2013; US$ 24.99Comprehensive reform of Chinas pension and social security system is an essential element of achieving its objectives of a harmonious society and sustainable development. Over the past few years, the Government has considered various options and initiated several significant measures. In 2009 the authorities established a national framework for... more...
The Double Crisis of the Welfare State and What We Can Do About It
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 30.00The NHS, education, social care, local government, employment services, social housing and benefits for the poor face major challenges from a government determined to entrench a radical and divisive liberalism permanently in British public life. This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts that bear most heavily on women, families... more...
Introduction to Social Security
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 57.95Social Security forms a major area of government policy and social expenditure. Government activity in this area impacts directly on all citizens, and consequently social security policy is the focus for much debate. People are affected by social security whether by funding it through taxation, or using it when claiming unemployment or other benefits.... more...
Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia
Taylor and Francis 2000; US$ 59.95This book contains the most comprehensive and critical account available of the evolution of The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) norms and the viability of the ASEAN way of conflict management. more...
The East Asian Welfare Model
Taylor and Francis 1998; US$ 68.95For many politicians and observers in the West, East Asia has provided a broad range of positive images of the state's intervention in society. Neoliberals grew excited by popular welfare systems that cost little in expenditure and bureaucracy. Social-democrats thought they had found a model for social cohesion and equality. In fact the reality in... more...
Reassembling Social Security
OUP Oxford 2008; US$ 54.99The reform of social security pensions and healthcare is a key issue for the modern world, and in many ways Latin America has acted as a social laboratory for the reform of these systems. This is the first book to comprehensively study these influential reforms in Latin America's pension and health care systems. - ;The reform of social security... more...









