One Cannot Have Economic Growth Without Security.

States Can Be Deterred By The Fear Of Retaliation; Non-state Organisations Cannot By Deterred At All.

The European Union Is The World's Most Successful Invention For Advancing Peace.

Financial Service Providers Act As The Lubricating Oil In The Economy. They Link Consumers Who Want To Invest Their Savings For A Good Return With Companies Who Want To Borrow On Best Terms For Expansion.

The Eu And The U.s. Often Work Together To Develop International Standards. This Is The Case In Fighting Terrorism And Transnational Crime, Advancing Trade Liberalization, And Combating Piracy And Intellectual Property Violations.

The Irish Free State Was One Of Dozens Of New European Democracies To Emerge From The Cauldron Of The 1914-1918 War. It Was One Of The Very Few That Was Still Democratic In 1939. This Book Shows How The Steely Determination Of One Man, Kevin O'higgins, Made This Possible. O'higgins Faced Down Mutinies In Both The Gardai And The Army. He Dissolved The Dáil Courts Which Were A Parallel System That Might Easily Have Undermined The Conventional Courts. With Wt Cosgrave, He Put Through A Constitution Which Reconciled The Local Opponents Of Independence With The New State.