It Is Not Viable For One Country

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.

If The Eu And The Us Can Cooperate Successfully On Regulating Financial Markets, Everyone Else Will Follow.

David Cameron Says He Wants To Keep Britain In The Eu, But His Tactics Are So Divisive That, If He Gets What He Wants It Will Be At The Price Of Huge Ill-will In Europe; Or If He Doesn't, It Will Be At The Price Of Increased Anti-eu Sentiment In His Own Party And In British Society.

U.s. Companies Rely On The European Market For More Than Half Of Their Global Foreign Profits.

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