the Vatican.” A great deal of money was paid by Beijing to Rome to secure control of the underground church in China. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, is seen as the architect of that 2018
The Democratic Republic of Congo/China Rail side appealed and the case finally found its way to the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal. The basis of the appeal was that the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo enjoyed absolute immunity from legal proceedings. The FG Hemisphere case was...
THE TOWN OF PULLMANand the immense works which have been established there are located in the Town of Hyde Park, almost upon the shore of Lake Calumet. Thirty-five hundred acres of land have been acquired by the associations having these interests in charge, Of which 308 acres are owned by...
In democracies, public opinion influences public policy (Dahl 1971), whereas the link between the two is even stronger in cases where the issue-in-point is of greater importance to the public. Evidently, the duties of governments in designing policies and the demands of democratic representation ...
This paper aims to contribute to the debate on improving the capacity of place-based policies to trigger sustainable development strategies in marginal rural areas. Drawing on a critical review of the literature on rural development planning, with a focu
There may be two explanations for this shortcoming. First, many scholars focus on the so-called ancient civilizations, which is an unsuitable term as it perpetuates the dichotomy between civilized and barbarians. Cities are, in the opinion of many scholars, strongly connected with the rise of ear...
“Jenny the Factory” Fischer, a madam and sometime prostitute who would go on to testify against Lucky Luciano and send him to prison. Husband Wife pickpocket team Boston and Tillie Meyer and one woman crime wave Bessie London, “the cleverest booster gun-mol in the world.” Big Jack ...
This article analyses the relations between security, urban governance and democratic quality in the light of the fundamental theoretical trends and principal empirical researches present in the socio-political literature. After introducing the theme fro
The Covid-19 pandemic has been analysed and discussed from many disciplinary perspectives. An aspect that still needs critical exploration is the role—that is, the modes and forms—of regulatory interventions during the pandemic. It is interesting to no
Decades before revolution was ever seriously considered, the huge bell was commissioned from London by the Pennsylvania assembly to commemorate the 50th anniversary of William Penn’s “Charter of Privileges”. The well respected pacifist Quaker William Penn was one of the great champions of religious...