Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - Topic: Public International Law and Human Rights, grade: 16 / 20, University of St Andrews (School of International Relations), course: Human Rights un Theory and Practice, language: English, abstract: In his book “TheComing Anarchy”,the American journalist Robert D. Kaplan paints a dark picture of the situation in many developing countries in the early 1990’s, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. He describes societies marked by dise...

Based on the synthesis of a large empirical and theoretical literature on center-region relations in China and Russia, Federalism in China and Russia is one of the first attempts to integrate this literature from different disciplines into a coherent common framework. Libman and Rochlitz argue that the divergence in growth performance between Russia and China can be - at least partially - explained by a number of features of the Chinese system of center-regional relations....