A comprehensive A-to-Z reference work on international organizations in Asia and the Pacific, this volume also contains an extended introduction, a listing of web sites, appendices with ASEAN documents, and a bibliography.
Helps you understand what it really takes to develop a secret society. This book covers topics ranging from choosing regalia to setting up a lodge, electing a grand master and basic initiation ceremonies. It also guides you on how to take historical events, great works of art and famous names to mould them into your desires for global domination.
Goldman examines the origins of social policies, focusing on the Social Science Association.
This book is a sociological account of the connections between organizations and people in them, looking at the social processes of self and identity. This book draws upon the latest research and data to provide an informative discussion of the central role of organizations in our lives and to consider what they have done to us, and for us.
Deals with the importance of public hospitals to New York City. Portraying the hospital as an urban institution that reflects the social, political, economic, demographic, and physical changes of the surrounding city, this book links the role of public hospitals to the debate about the place of public institutions in American society.
Conferencing forms a large and expanding part of the UK economy. This book considers the background and nature of the UK conference industry and looks at the management issues involved in professional and competitive conferencing.
Helps students to understand American politics by guiding them through the different institutions of American government. This book covers the electoral and party systems, the separation of powers between the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, and the division of powers between the federal government and the states.
Though, Wal-Mart is the largest company in the world, its global labor practices and outsourcing strategies represent for many what contemporary economic globalization is all about. This book looks at this important phenomenon in global perspective, with chapters that range from its growth in the US and impact on labor relations.
Provides a comprehensive introduction to the policymaking processes in the European Union. This book covers the vital elements of EU courses including: theory; history; institutions; policy; relations with member states; external relations; and enlargement. It is useful for the students of politics and the European Union.
The World Health Organization (WHO), as the United Nations agency for health, has been at the centre of international health cooperation. This book analyzes the WHO's role in international cooperation, examining its structures, programmes and individuals.
At a time when developed world populations are healthier and richer than they have ever been, why is there still so much poverty and disease in the world? Why do rich countries hold so many poor countries in debt and why do millions of children die each year from avoidable diseases? This book attempts to answer these questions.
While the philanthropic sector continues to grow, demands for efficient, innovative, and effective use of philanthropic funding are increasing. The International Network on Strategic Philanthropy (INSP) uses its international expertise to determine just which issues are key to effective philanthropy.
Examines the origins of ASEAN's diplomatic and security culture and goes on to assess whether it is likely to remain salient as the political, economic and security context in which regional leaderships operate is undergoing further change.