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NEPAL: Political stalemate threatens foreign aid
KATHMANDU, 22 December 2010 (IRIN) – After 16 attempts, Nepal’s feuding parliament still has not been able to elect a new prime minister and only a recent last-minute emergency decree by the president allowed the government to access new funds.
Vaclav Klaus on the EU Constitution

The European Union Constitutional Treaty (2004, Paperback) $11.15

Uniting States: Voluntary Union in World Politics $17.31 What causes a state to unify voluntarily with another state? If realists are right, voluntary union should never happen. In their view, states value their sovereignty above all else and would never give it up without a fight. Yet the United States and Switzerland are glaring exceptions to this paradigm. If liberals and constructivists are right, voluntary unions should be much more common and actu…

The Lisbon Treaty: Law, Politics, and Treaty Reform (0) $67.00 The Lisbon Treaty reformed the foundations of the European Union and marked the culmination of a process of Treaty reform that began after the Treaty of Nice and spanned almost a decade. This book addresses the main innovations made by the new Treaty, examining its legal and political consequences in a reformed EU. The book is organized thematically around the principal issues that occupied those …

The Lisbon Treaty: A Legal and Political Analysis (Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy) $95.00 Given the controversies and difficulties which preceded the coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty, it is easy to forget that the Treaty is a complex legal document in need of detailed analysis for its impact to be fully understood. Jean-Claude Piris, the Director General of the Legal Service of the Council of the European Union, provides such an analysis, looking at the historical and political c…