This inquiry into the theological-political nature of power deals with the application to Europe of a new theory, in which the state is formulated as the synthesis of the economy and culture. Its chief aim is to answer the fundamental questions: What is the best political system for Europe? Upon which principles ought it to be founded? Does it concur with the past and the present of the Europeans? In addition, it unveils important political truths that remained up to now unidentified, yet their philosophical and theological sources were known for centuries.

A new concept and an age-old thinking method brought forth this universal political theory. 'Culture family' means either an association of distinct cultures sharing common roots, or the transnational society of their human carriers. Arguably, a sound approach to the political future of multicultural societies is impossible in the absence of this construct.

This book explains the genesis of the European culture family in accordance with Hegel's dialectical method, and identifies love as the principle and the end guiding life within it. Moreover, it includes a draft of the Charter of the Rights of the European Culture Family, so as to ensure that all concerned parties acknowledge them.

The other key idea underpinning The European Union according to Jesus Christ consists of a cross-domain, all embracing analogy. Just as the person and the work of Jesus Christ are essential to the redemption of mankind, so the entity and the duty of the state are crucial to the recovery of culturally and economically interconnected societies. The Definition of Faith of the Chalcedon Council and its political translation illustrate this similarity. In order to develop it thoroughly, 45 articles of the Summa Theologiae were translated into an equal number of political theses. Aquinas wrote this masterpiece in the 13th century, that is, during Europe's childhood. It is a comprehensive exposition of Christian theology and an excellent summary of the philosophy of Aristotle, one of the greatest thinkers ever. Thus the worth of the propositions incarnating the European version of the state according to Jesus Christ is assured.

Struggle and the Prospects for World Government rethinks the cold war and the social, political and economic development that followed the collapse of the Berlin wall. This essay cuts across all aspects of what is increasingly termed the "new world order". At the same time, The book establishes that free trade, nationalism, religious nationalism, and technology are emerging in combination as a post-cold war weapon system that can globally power the war between neoliberalism and neosocialism, individualism and collectivism, modernism and archaism, and universalism and particularism within a two-fold framework that includes, at one end of the spectrum, the institutionalization of transnational politics, and at the other end of the spectrum, the unionization of anti-corporate forces. These factors have combined to inexorably allow more prospects for World Government.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) was founded during a period of seventeen months between Mitterrand's first initiative in October 1989 and the Bank's inauguration in London in April 1991. There are numerous books and articles on the negotiations, the legal complications and political opposition from various countries, big and small, relating to the foundation of the EBRD. A large majority of these texts appeared in the early 1990s and they saw the reasons for the fiasco accompanying EBRD activities until 1994 in the conflicts that occurred during the founding process. The public perception in the West since then of the EBRD has been that it is an institution devouring taxpayers' money for what are mostly failed projects and for high salaries for the staff working in a marble palace in central London. The East and NGOs for a long time believed that the EBRD did and understood far too little and when it did do something it was either taking part in environmentally questionable projects or projects involving privatisation tycoons. Neither of these has been true for quite some time. The EBRD has since at least 1999 been a financially profitable institution with a strictly controlled budget and a series of successfully completed projects. In practical terms, the institution basically understands all the nuances of the problems involved in transition and in the reform of individual countries in transition and does exactly what is necessary, no more no less.

It seems that this sense of a slight underestimation of the EBRD suits everybody within and around it. In fact, it is a part of its corporate communication strategy. Although the official EBRD publications are full of numbers, facts and neo-soc-realist pictures speaking about assistance to projects implemented from the River Oder to Vladivostok, they know that this "propaganda" is taken seriously by only a few.

Find out for yourself! Islam is not the enemy;

Are you surprised to know that Islam's God is like yours? Islams's holy book the Qur'an, in verse (2:62) says: "Believers, Jews, Christians and Sabeans - whoever believes in God and the Last Day and does what is right - shall be rewarded by their Lord; they have nothing to fear or to regret." Islam preaches universalism, racial equality and social justice.

The founding fathers' vision of democracy was trasformed into a one-dollar, one-vote democracy. One-half of one percent of American households owns more than 90 percent of Americans. In such a democracy, Wall street owns all the money and all the votes.

The American dream was hijacked in the 19th century by the few, as president Lincoln feared. It was hijacked by Wall Street and corporations, just as president Rutherford B. Hays said: "This is a government of corporations for corporations by corporations".

Wall Street and capitalism have elevated materialism and economic growth to the rank of a new religion of the land. Money became the ultimate measure of success. In Wall Street Capitalism, citizens are incidental numbers on balance sheets. Materialism became "a tumor in the soul".

This is a book about how unfair the ERISA law is. How the insurance companies can fraudulently deny you your disability benefits by ignoring information sent to them from your doctors. A story about thinking you have Security when actually you have none. A story that tells you what you must do if you become disabled and have any hope of receiving your disability payments from your insurance company. A story of becoming public through the mass media to get this unfair law changed so insurance companies cannot do this to anyone else. A story of how insurance companies must be held accountable for their fraudulent and decietful behavior. A story of how the American citizen should have more rights when an insurance company causes you to lose everything you worked your whole life for because right now you have no rights to do anything to an insurance no matter what methods they use to deny you yor benefits. ERISA protects insurance companies from any liability on their part no matter what decietful methods they use. A story of how insurance companies are destroying peoples lives.

Volume III of the Reagan Revolution series recounts the president's successful defeat of the Soviet drive for global hegemony--for strategic weaons superiority, political domination of the Eurasian landmass, and decisive leverage over world oil. In volumes I and II of this study I analyzed the president's decisions to jettison the failed strategy of detente and seek victory in the Cold War. In broadening the nation's economic base to sustain a more powerful military capability, he confronted the Soviet military challenge. Simultaneously, he worked to rebuild the Western Alliance, which had disintegrated during the detente years.

In this volume I show how Reagan foiled the Soviet drive for strategic weapons superiority with a complex, high technology weapons buildup and a surprise shift to strategic defense, inaugurating a fundmental change in the national security equation. He neutralized the Soviet attempt to dominate the Eurasian landmass with the SS-20 missile by deploying the Pershing II/cruise missile package to Western Europe. And he blocked the Soviet drive to shift Iran into its orbit thereby preserving the secure flow of oil to the west and opening the door to an improvement of reltions with Iran.

Recognizing that the Soviet Union was overextended, fueling revolutionary movements on four continents and deeply mired in Afghanistan, the president raised the costs of competition for the Soviet economy already laboring under the heavy burden large-scale military expenditures. He worked for reduced energy prices, reducing Soviet hard-currency earnings, while at the same time blocking the transfer of high technology upon which the Soviet Union depended to remain competitive with the United States. By the middle of 1984 the Soviet leadership concluded that its strategy had failed and would have to be changed.

This book is intended to provide a useful resource to scholars in banking law and financial regulation in developing and emerging economies, bankruptcy law and financial estoppel in international finance, international human rights and human rights as tools for development in developing and emerging economies and the liability regime in aviation law.

Part one focuses on the problems plaguing the financial and banking system in Africa and makes proposals for reform. It argues that if the reforms are carried out progressively the African financial system will be transformed into an integrated and robust financial system.

Part two makes proposals for the introduction of Bankruptcy Law and Financial Estoppel in the area of international loan transactions between multilateral organisations like the World Bank, developed nations like the United States, Britain and France and countries from developing and emerging economies. It argues that unless these loans are governed by an independent court system with an elaborate bankruptcy jurisprudence and financial estoppel principle, the World Bank will continue to promote poverty in emerging and developing economies and improve the wealth of multilateral corporations doing business transactions in these economies. It is hoped that these new laws will introduce alternative approaches to tackle debt relief and consequently promote the installation of an independent court system to manage litigation and the debts of countries from the developing and emerging economies. In such a case debt relief will be governed by the rule of law instead. This part of the book argues that bankruptcy law and financial estoppel will offer sustainable solutions to individuals, corporations and countries in developing and emerging economies during financial turmoil.

Part three considers international human rights and human rights law as tools for social, political and economic development and integration. As such the project considers the vast potential in an integrated paradigm (United States of Africa) in developing and emerging economies. It is hoped that this project will promote the putting in place of an independent human rights court system with an elaborate infrastructure to promote human rights and hold individuals, corporations and leaders accountable for human rights abuses which will in turn promote social, political and economic integration of countries in Africa and establish the rule of law.

Finally, part four considers the liability regime in aviation law and makes proposal for reform. It also considers the disparities in the liability regimes in developed and developing and emerging countries and makes proposal for an independent court system to manage litigation in some cases. However, part four focuses mainly on the development and problems in the area of liability in relation to injury and death to persons. More precisely, it concerns limited, unlimited and absolute liability as outlined in the WC and concludes with a bias for dispute resolution and predictability in aviation matters.

Somalia has been in the headlines for two decades and continues to be today. A failed state, it has been without a functioning government. Civil war, warlords, refugees, massive displacements, United Nations and American failures, illegal fishing, dumping of toxic waste, and piracy have all characterized the failure. The current situation in Somalia poses serious dangers to the international community and the world order by encouraging a general malaise of lawlessness, by fostering and sheltering piracy, and by serving as a safe haven to the proxies of Al-A’idah.

Governance traces the origins of Somalia’s chronic and debilitating problems to the 18th century European scramble for Africa. It identifies its problems of governance – pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial and refutes the argument that both the unitary system and an outmoded and archaic clan system were to blame. The author prescribes “good governance” in which the pre-eminence of the traditional clan system will be recognized while operating modern structures of governance, for he believes that tradition and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Somalia has been in the headlines for two decades and continues to be today. A failed state, it has been without a functioning government. Civil war, warlords, refugees, massive displacements, United Nations and American failures, illegal fishing, dumping of toxic waste, and piracy have all characterized the failure. The current situation in Somalia poses serious dangers to the international community and the world order by encouraging a general malaise of lawlessness, by fostering and sheltering piracy, and by serving as a safe haven to the proxies of Al-A’idah.

Governance traces the origins of Somalia’s chronic and debilitating problems to the 18th century European scramble for Africa. It identifies its problems of governance – pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial and refutes the argument that both the unitary system and an outmoded and archaic clan system were to blame. The author prescribes “good governance” in which the pre-eminence of the traditional clan system will be recognized while operating modern structures of governance, for he believes that tradition and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Somalia has been in the headlines for two decades and continues to be today. A failed state, it has been without a functioning government. Civil war, warlords, refugees, massive displacements, United Nations and American failures, illegal fishing, dumping of toxic waste, and piracy have all characterized the failure. The current situation in Somalia poses serious dangers to the international community and the world order by encouraging a general malaise of lawlessness, by fostering and sheltering piracy, and by serving as a safe haven to the proxies of Al-A’idah.

Governance traces the origins of Somalia’s chronic and debilitating problems to the 18th century European scramble for Africa. It identifies its problems of governance – pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial and refutes the argument that both the unitary system and an outmoded and archaic clan system were to blame. The author prescribes “good governance” in which the pre-eminence of the traditional clan system will be recognized while operating modern structures of governance, for he believes that tradition and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.