National Governments and the World War

globalization and its effect on the world transitions and governments' national sovereignty

globalization is the most obvious aspect of epoch after national government. globalization is a new phenomenon which is aim to alter the world and united all creatures under a rule and limiting its domination on the world and governmental sovereignty. globalization in continues of governments power limitation and enfeebling the political borders and national sovereignty. in this article factors...

Distribution of Powers between Central Governments and Sub-national Governments

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Do Broad Based Governments Discourage Civil War?

This paper links the share of the population supporting the government to the risk of civil war. We study the question both theoretically and empirically. The theoretical model shows that having a smaller group of individuals control the government has an ambiguous effect on conflict risk: although a smaller group is less able to resist rebellion, its high per capita office rent, cost of regain...

The Third World War?

The associate committees on medical research of the National Research Council and the Second World War.

During World War II the original Associate Committee on Medical Research and three additional committees (each associated with a branch of the military) of the National Research Council organized wartime medical research. The war provided an opportunity for the NRC to demonstrate the utility of medical research and the ability of Canadians to make significant contributions to the allied researc...