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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A capital is the area of a country, province, region, or state, regarded as enjoying primary status; although there are exceptions, a capital is almost always a city which physically encompasses the offices and meeting places of the seat of government and fixed by law. Alternate terms include capital city and political capital; the latter phrase has a second meaning based on an alternative sense of capital. Usually, a capital city is the largest city in that country but not always. The word capital is derived from the Latin caput meaning "head," and, in the United States, the related term Capitol refers to the building where government business is chiefly conducted. The seats of government in major sub-state jurisdictions are often called "capitals", but this is typically the case only in countries with some degree of federalism, where major substate jurisdictions have an element of sovereignty. In unitary states, "administrative center" or other similar terms are typically used.

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Part of Pluto's 21st birthday series Get Political, which brings essential political writing in a range of fields to a new audience. A. Sivanandan is a highly influential thinker on race, racism, globalisation and resistance. Since 1972, he has been the director of the Institute of Race Relations and the editor of Race & Class, which set the policy agenda on ethnicity and race in the UK and worldwide. Sivanandan has been writing for over forty years and this is the definitive collection of his work. The articles selected span his entire career and are chosen for their relevance to today's most pressing issues. Included is a complete bibliography of Sivanandan’s writings, and an introduction by Colin Prescod (chair of the IRR), which sets the writings in context. This book is highly relevant to undergraduate politics students and anyone reading or writing on race, ethnicity and immigration.

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The Manila Metropolitan Area is the administrative region encompassing the city of Manila, the national capital of the Philippines. As of the 2007 Census, the population is 11,553,427. Including suburbs in the adjacent provinces (Laguna, Cavite, Rizal, Bulacan) of Greater Manila, the population is around 20 million. Metro Manila is one of the twelve defined metropolitan areas in the Philippines. As of 2008, it is ranked as the 40th richest urban agglomeration in the world with a GDP of $149 billion according to PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Metro Manila is expected to climb to the 33rd spot by 2025 with a GDP of $325 billion and an annual growth rate of 4.7%. As proclaimed by Presidential Decree No. 940, Metro Manila as a whole is the Philippines' seat of government although only the City of Manila is the capital.

This digital document is an article from Reason, published by Reason Foundation on December 1, 2009. The length of the article is 6950 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation DetailsTitle: The Salvia ban wagon: how does terrible drug policy get made? The mad rush to criminalize a psychedelic herb provides a textbook case.Author: Jacob SullumPublication: Reason (Magazine/Journal)Date: December 1, 2009Publisher: Reason FoundationVolume: 41 Issue: 7 Page: 38(11)Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning

This text aims to cover the major principles and cases of EC law, from the constitutional, institutional and administrative, as well as substantive. This revised edition takes account of the many important developments which have occurred during the last few years. Coverage of the EC institutions and law-making process has been further expanded to take into account the changes introduced by the 1997 Amsterdam Treaty. The cases following "Factortame III, Brasserie du Pecheur", on the scope of Member States' liability in damages have been fully explored, together with their consequent impact on the approach to the non-contractual liability of the Community institutions. These cases carry profound implications for Member States and individuals seeking to rely on Community law, as well as for those such as employers, public or private, on who Community obligations may be imposed.

American foreign correspondence about Russia during the 1990s focused on neo-liberal political and economic reforms designed to Westernize the formerly Communist state. Some stories imagined the transition abstractly, relying on the preconceived and ideological notions of outsiders as well as national conceptions of Russian territory. Other stories emphasized regional geographies and historical events that were materially meaningful to Russians. These remarkable differences in ontology lead to a broad analysis of the geographic and textual underpinnings of newspaper-journalism about Russia. This book explores representations of Russian territory in transition including Russian and international conflicts over economic development and political power. The resulting critical geopolitics lays bare both grandiose and local geographies promulgated in American foreign correspondence and the textual devices that made the events in Eurasia understandable for a general, American audience. The analysis is informative for professionals in international relations, media or cultural studies, and geopolitics and also for anyone interested in how American journalists explain foreign places.

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