(Placename) a republic in SE Europe: declared a kingdom in 1882; precipitated World War I by the conflict with Austria; became part of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (later called Yugoslavia) in 1918; with Montenegro formed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia when the other...
the Federal Republic of Germany, and Canada—the processes of economic and political centralization, which are characteristic of the period of statemonopoly capitalism, lead to the dominance of unitary tendencies; in these countries the role and influence of federal bodies of state power are constantl...
In a speech in 1999, Henry Kissinger, secretary of state under Presidents Nixon and Ford, candidly remarked that "globalization" is another term for U.S. d... S Gindin - 《Monthly Review》 被引量: 21发表: 2002年 Development NGOs, Semiclientelism, and the State in the Philippines: From...
said, “The child rescue operations have moved in earnest in Nevada… what was amazing is that everyone was thinking Las Vegas would be the horror show of horror shows… there was a horror show but it was Reno… underneath Reno
ances in Argentina and the Philippines» 5 , authors say that the states with strong presiden- tial power have used the concepts of separation of powers and the system of checks and balances, yet they do not limit presidential powers. Considering this, the authors present ...
There are nearly 80 democracies in the world that follow the exact same presidential model as the United States, including Mexico, Brazil and the Philippines. An additional 23 countries have both a president and a prime minister, with the president acting as the chief executive. France, Russia ...
There has also been friction, regionally and with the USA, over China's sovereignty claims and land reclamation operations on islands in the South China Sea, although in July 2016 an international legal tribunal ruled in favour of a challenge by the Philippines to China's sovereignty assertions...
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Bangui,capital of Central Africa- the capital and largest city of the Central African Republic Africa- the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean ...
capital of San Marino,San Marino- the capital and only city of San Marino Europe- the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles