... of the Syrian state's regalian functions has altered ways of regulation and the extraction of rents. Privatization, and, more generally, liberalization in Syria have resulted in a reconfiguration of its economy and have produced new challenges with which the regime might contend. al Asad Bashar al Asad Hafiz...

...This chapter examines two conditions identified in previous work that are thought to promote pacific interstate relations: development, which suggests potential for gains from trade rather than conquest; and trade liberalization, which suggests weakness among interests potentially supporting...

...This book examines the ideas of H. L. A. Hart, a legal philosopher who transformed the study of jurisprudence and had a great influence on both the practice and theory of law. Hart's arguments, writings, personal standing, and eminence played a major role in the liberalization of law in the United...

..., legal systems, and legal concepts. This chapter examines Hart's analytical jurisprudence and linguistic philosophy as well as his reputation as a moral critic of law. It also looks at his role in the liberalization of the law that occurred in the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1970. justice balancing...

... University of Wellington Buckle Bob New Zealand politics New Zealand economic policy New Zealand tax policy New Zealand economics market liberalization neoliberalism New Zealand Treasury During the reform years, the conventional relationship between elected governments and bureaucratic advisers...

...This chapter discusses the Little Smart service and IP telephony. It presents a detailed study on the way technological change allows informal sector growth. This technological change eventually leads to a forced liberalization of government policy. It also looks at the challenges that voice-over...

...This chapter tells the story of international institutional from the 1970s forward. While the existing scholarship highlights processes of financial market liberalization in this period, this chapter highlights three developments in the evolution of the international monetary system that have...

... Commissioner for Human Rights OHCHR United Nations Committee on World Food Security CFS United Nations Environment Programme UNEP agricultural trade liberalization treaties United Nations High Level Task Force for Global Food and Nutrition Security World Bank agricultural subsidies agriculture...

... pressures. The internationalization of coalitions tried to widen contestation. The Syrian Ba'th regime has always depended on foreign policy for much of its capital. Economic liberalization was congruous with a simultaneous incremental expansion of elite-level contestation and shrinkage of popular inclusion...