International law Books
University of California Press AlHaq
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The leadership and legacy of al-Haq, from its origins in Palestine to its international impact Established in Ramallah in 1979, al-Haq was the first Palestinian human rights organization and one of the first such organizations in the Arab world. This inside history explores how al-Haq initiated methodologies in law and practice that were ahead of its time and that proved foundational for many strands of today's human rights work in Palestine and elsewhere. Lynn Welchman looks at both al-Haq's history and legacy to explore such questions as: Why would one set up a human rights organization under military occupation? How would one go about promoting the rule of law in a Palestinian society deleteriously served by the law and with every reason to distrust those charged with implementing its protections? How would one work to educate overseas allies and activate international law in defense of Palestinian rights? This revelatory story speaks to the practice of local human rights organizations and their impact on international groups.
£27.00
Wiley Principles of Law Relating to Overseas Trade
Book SynopsisThis text provides a clear and concise introduction to the legal framework surrounding international trade.Trade Review"A comprehensive introduction to the key areas of law that apply in international business." Book News "It is well suited for a textbook at the undergraduate level of perhaps business school." Journal of International Banking LawTable of ContentsList of Figures and Specimens. Foreword. Series Editor's Introduction. About The Institute of Export Examinations. Preface. Dedication. Part I: Principles of the Law of Contract: . 1. Elements of Contract. 2. Terms of a Contract. 3. Misrepresentation. 4. Mistake. 5. Remedies for Breach of Contract. 6. Discharge of Contract. 7. Arbitration. 8. Law Governing a Contract. Part II: Agency Law:. 9. Agency. 10. Exemption Clauses. Part III: Sale of Goods Act 1979:. 11. Sale of Goods. 12. Right of Disposal (Romalpa Clauses). 13. Seller's and Buyer's Remedies. 14. Introduction of CIF and FOB Sales. Part IV: Competition Law:. 15. Restrictive Trade Practices. 16. Free Movement of Goods in the European Community. Part V: Legal Aspects of the Finance of Exports: . 17. The Law Relating to Export Finance. 18. Letters of Credit. Part VI: Export Insurance:. 19. Marine Insurance. 20. General Average. 21. Institute Cargo Clauses. Part VII: Legal Aspects of Carriage by Sea, Air and Road:. 22. Carriage of Goods by Sea. 23. Carriage of Goods by Air. 24. Carriage of Goods by Road. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Legal Geographies Reader
Book Synopsis* This is the first text to define and sustain the significance of law in relation to geography. * Brings together a range of readings which have, until now, been scattered in different publications, many not easily available.Trade Review"The Reader in Law and Geography combines the talents of diverse professionals focused upon issues of enormous importance" Professor Gordon L. Clark, University of Oxford "The mutual inscription of law in space and of space in law, for so long invisible, emerges in this volume with the utmost clarity and cogency" Professor Boaventura de Sousa Santos, University of Coimbra, PortugalTable of ContentsList of contributors viii Foreword xGordon L. Clark Preface: Where is law? xiiiDavid Delaney, Richard T. Ford, and Nicholas Blomley Acknowledgments xxiii Part I Legal Places 1 Part II National Legalities 151 Part III Globalization and Law 251 Index 319
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Harvard University Press Global Health Security
Book SynopsisIn an age of pandemics, no country can achieve public health on its own. Health security expert Lawrence O. Gostin examines the key cross-border threats to our well-being, from infectious diseases to bioterrorism, and proposes pragmatic solutions: targeted research, robust international institutions, and tools for effective global action.Trade ReviewGostin draws on the lessons of AIDS, SARS, Ebola, and the COVID-19 pandemic to lay out a roadmap for global health security, making a powerful and persuasive case for how the principles of solidarity, equity, and justice must guide the international community in preparing for and responding to the health crises of the future. -- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health OrganizationGlobal Health Security is invaluable, drawing critical lessons from the world’s epic struggle with COVID-19, and looking far beyond. Gostin incisively analyses future threats, from superbugs and antimicrobial resistance to bioterrorism, and charts a better course through global solidarity and enlightened self-interest. If you read only one book on global health this year, make it this one. -- Sir Jeremy Farrar, Director of WellcomeThe world has learned valuable lessons from infectious disease outbreaks. Yet the power of lessons is in their use. In this book, Gostin provides a sweeping view of what is needed to avert disaster in the future. The crucial question is: will people read and act on his suggestions? -- William Herbert Foege, 10th Director of the Centers for Disease Control and PreventionWe are entering an age of pandemics, one marked with more frequent disease outbreaks and increasingly greater threats to our social order. There is no one better than Gostin to connect the dots across outbreaks, laying out how climate change, economic development, and globalization have created new risks. But more than sounding the alarm, he brilliantly charts a path forward for how nations and indeed the world can be better prepared to meet these threats head on. -- Ashish K. Jha, Dean of the Brown University School of Public HealthAs a leading public health legal scholar and global health activist, Gostin has influenced the course of every major public health crisis of our time, from HIV/AIDS, to SARS, Ebola, and now COVID-19. Global Health Security draws on those important experiences but looks forward, charting a clear and compelling framework to assess future biological threats and effectively address them. Masterfully insightful. -- Peggy Hamburg, former Foreign Secretary of the National Academy of MedicineDiscouraged but inspired by COVID‑19, [Gostin’s] wide-ranging study analyzes the science and politics of past and present global disease, with hypothetical exercises about a new influenza, bioterrorism, and cholera. He recommends steps to reduce pandemic risk, such as increasing surveillance of animal pathogens and their movement. Above all, he calls for a ‘new politics,’ free from nationalistic populism. -- Andrew Robinson * Nature *[A] comprehensive and detailed blueprint for responding to global health crises. Gostin casts a wide net, addressing the overuse of antibiotics, climate change, and the lack of universal health coverage…Gostin goes further to explain how lessons from Covid-19 can remake society to be better prepared for future health threats. * Publishers Weekly *A comprehensive blueprint for global reforms. * Georgetown Law *
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Harvard University Press Life Imprisonment
Book SynopsisLife imprisonment has replaced the death penalty as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. Consequently, it has become the leading issue of international criminal justice reform. In the first survey of its kind, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Catherine Appleton argue for a human rightsbased reappraisal of this harsh punishment.Trade ReviewPart treatise, part worldwide empirical investigation, and part normative argument, Life Imprisonment is a tour de force. It shines bright light on a legislatively prescribed and judicially imposed sentence that, remarkably, has drawn practically no scholarly attention. Until now. For the foreseeable future this book will stand as the definitive source of information on and critique of the most serious punishment practically all countries regularly impose. -- James B. Jacobs, New York University School of LawThe authors have succeeded magnificently in weaving a vast array of materials into an authoritative text. Years of network building, data collection, fact checking, and interpretation have enabled them to make a major contribution to a pressing area of criminal law. This humane and important book will become the touchstone for scholars of extreme punishment. -- Ian O’Donnell, University College Dublin School of LawVan Zyl Smit and Appleton have provided the first comprehensive study of the most common form of harsh punishment in the world today: the penal life sentence. For the first time research on this crucial topic can move on a comparative basis. This volume is an essential resource for the libraries of penal reformers, human rights lawyers, and students everywhere of comparative law, punishment, and society. -- Jonathan Simon, University of California Berkeley School of LawWill inspire and influence scholars and public policy advocates everywhere…This excellent book is in a class by itself. * Choice *
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Princeton University Press All Politics Is Global
Book SynopsisTesting the revisionist model of global regulatory governance on an unusually wide variety of cases, including the Internet, finance, genetically modified organisms, and intellectual property rights, this book shows why there is such disparity in the strength of international regulations.Trade Review"Rewarding... Mr. Drezner ... finds that the challenges of the future will be increasingly transnational. As globalization intensifies, the rewards for coordination will increase as well."--Economist "Important... Drezner shows that it is control of their own large domestic markets that give major states the ability to wield power in the global economy. His main contribution, however, is to explode a popular notion of globalization and thereby to set an agenda for the study of global regulatory politics."--G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs "All politics is global is a highly readable, authoritative, and well-investigated piece of political science literature on the globalization-global governance nexus. The explicit strength of the book is the logical and consistent development of the theory of regulatory outcomes, as well as the rigorous review of the scholarly literature. In this respect, it is strongly recommended to advanced graduate and doctoral students interested in the setting-up of game-theoretical models... [T]he detailed case studies enhance the book's attractiveness for a broader readership."--Jale Tosun, Cambridge Review of International Affairs "Among the many strengths of the book lie Drezner's skill in developing a clear and cogent analysis of state power in the global economy and the meticulous way he develops his argument for the key role state preference continues to play in international regulatory regimes... Drezner never wearies in his task of refining our understanding of international regulation and in providing a more lucid insight into the politics of great power preference. The result is a book that challenges popular notions of globalization by placing the power and interests of governments back into the centre stage of debate."--Stephen G. Hughes, International Affairs "All Politics is Global is a more than just a welcome contribution to current international relations scholarship... Drezner takes a fresh look at the role of the powerful states in governing the world economy. Using simple game-theory, he provides a convincing explanation for why the great powers (the US and the EU) have not lost their influential role. In doing so, the book makes a strong case against a growing literature in international relations that attributes a significant degree of agency to international organizations or transnational private actors in shaping international regulatory outcomes."--World Trade Review "Drezner makes an important contribution to the literature by bringing greater focus to the regulatory side of global governance in a small book that is well worth reading... Drezner is to be credited for bringing a much needed discussion about the global politics of the regulatory state to the forefront of International Relations theory and practice."--Rex B. Hughes, International Affairs "This is a detailed, scholarly book that explicates the arcane aspects of regulatory agreements. It won't crack the popular market. However, it will percolate and influence because it also explains quite well the 'big picture' elements of global trade and global regulation."--Austin Bay, Time Record NewsTable of ContentsList of Tables ix Preface xi Glossary of Acronyms xix PART I: THEORY CHAPTER ONE: Bringing the Great Powers Back In 3 CHAPTER TWO: A Theory of Regulatory Outcomes 32 CHAPTER THREE: A Typology of Governance Processes 63 PART II: PRACTICE CHAPTER FOUR: The Global Governance of the Internet 91 CHAPTER FIVE: Club Standards and International Finance 119 CHAPTER SIX: Rival Standards and Genetically Modified Organisms 149 CHAPTER SEVEN: The "Semi-Deviant" Case: TRIPS and Public Health 176 CHAPTER EIGHT: Conclusions and Speculations 204 Index 221
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Princeton University Press American Exceptionalism and Human Rights
Book SynopsisDoes America still play by the rules it helped create? This book addresses this question as it applies to US behavior in relation to international human rights. It seeks to show and explain how America's approach to human rights differs from that of other Western nations. It includes essays by Stanley Hoffmann, Paul Kahn, and Harold Koh.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2006 "An excellent new collection of essays on American exceptionalism... Michael Ignatieff ... seeks to distinguish between US 'exemptionalism,' double standards and legal isolationism."--Quentin Peel, Financial Times "This collection on American exceptionalism seeks to explain the seeming paradox of US governmental support for, and aversion to, global human rights... This study is an important contribution to the scholarship of international humanitarian law and US foreign policy."--Choice "[An] important collection of essays by leading scholars... Together the authors wonderfully capture the complex interplay between values, law, and American power."--G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs Magazine "Beyond providing a highly valuable and innovative study of American exceptionalism, this book makes an original contribution to scholarship and may start a long overdue conversation with conservatives about the origins of their grievances with international human rights standards."--Michael J. Boyle, International AffairsTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: American Exceptionalism and Human Rights by Michael Ignatieff 1 PART I. THE VARIETIES OF EXCEPTIONALISM 27 Chapter 2. The Exceptional First Amendment by Frederick Schauer29 Chapter 3. Capital Punishment and American Exceptionalism by Carol S. Steiker 57 Chapter 4. Why Does the American Constitution Lack Social and Economic Guarantees? By Cass R. Sunstein 90 Chapter 5. America's Jekyll-and-Hyde Exceptionalism by Harold Hongju Koh 111 PART II. EXPLAINING EXCEPTIONALISM 145 Chapter 6. The Paradox of U.S.Human Rights Policy by Andrew Moravcsik 147 Chapter 7. American Exceptionalism, Popular Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law by Paul W. Kahn 198 PART III. EVALUATING EXCEPTIONALISM 223 Chapter 8. American Exceptionalism: The New Version by Stanley Hoffmann 225 Chapter 9. Integrity-Anxiety? by Frank I. Michelman 241 Chapter 10. A Brave New Judicial World by Anne-Marie Slaughter 277 Chapter 11. American Exceptionalism, Exemptionalism, and Global Governance by John Gerard Ruggie 304 Contributors 339 Index 341
£38.25
Princeton University Press Rules for the Global Economy
Book SynopsisAn examination of the conditions under which international rules of globalization come into existence, enabling world economic and financial systems to function and stabilize. It demonstrates that the rules result from a trial-and-error process - and usually after a crisis - in order to prevent pointless transaction costs and risks.Trade Review"A useful contribution to the international economics literature."--ChoiceTable of ContentsForeword vii Preface ix Chapter I: The Concept of aWorld Economic Order 1 Chapter II: Globalization and Its Impact on the International Rule System 20 Chapter III: How Rules Are Established 32 Chapter IV: How Rules Are Stabilized 50 Chapter V: Rules for International Product Markets 75 Chapter VI: Rules for Border-Crossing Factor Movements 100 Chapter VII: Rules for the Global Environment 121 Chapter VIII: Preventing Financial Instability 150 Chapter IX: Avoiding Currency Crises 177 Chapter X: Ethical Norms, Human Rights, Fairness, and Legitimacy: Restraints for the International Rule System 197 Chapter XI: Interdependence of Orders, Structure of the Rule System, and Institutional Fit 215 Chapter XII: Major Challenges to the Rule System in the Future 231 References and Further Reading 249 Index 263
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Princeton University Press Punishing the Prince A Theory of Interstate
Book SynopsisReveals how targeting individual leaders for punishment rather than the nations they represent creates incentives for cooperation between nations and leaves room for future relations with pariah states. This book demonstrates that theories of leader punishment explain a great deal about international behavior and interstate relations.Trade Review"Punishing the Prince provides both a compelling explanation for observed patterns of democratic cooperation and additional empirical content beyond previous explanations of the same phenomenon, including the effects of leadership change itself on patterns of cooperation. In other words, it provides valuable, and all too rare, predictions that can discriminate among competing explanations."--Scott Wolford, Perspectives on Politics "This is an important and impressive book, supporting and extending a theoretical view of politics that integrates the analysis of domestic and international processes in a manner that is necessary to the understanding of both."--James Lee Ray, International History Review "Punishing the Prince is an important study that will be influential in a number of key scholarly debates. The theory developed in this book offers a compelling perspective on the causes of change in interstate relations, the success of international cooperation, the causal mechanisms behind 'audience costs,' and the broad influence of domestic political institutions on international relations. I fully expect this book to become assigned reading in many core seminars on international relations and for the arguments developed herein to spawn significant further research."--Brett Ashley Leeds, Cambridge JournalsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix List of Tables xi Preface xiii Chapter 1: We Have No Quarrel with the People 1 Leader Specifi c Punishments and Interstate Relations 3 Proper Nouns in International Relations 12 International Cooperation 15 Chapter 2: A Theory of Leader Specifi c Punishments 31 A Stochastic Prisoners' Dilemma with Leader Mortality 33 A Continuous Choice Prisoners' Dilemma 50 Appendix 65 Chapter 3: Political Institutions, Policy Variability, and the Survival of Leaders 77 Leader Survival 77 Selectorate Politics 79 Selectorate Institutions, Policy Choice, and Leader Survival 80 Policy Variability and the Turnover of Leaders 83 Chapter 4: Leader Specifi c Strategies in Human Subject Experiments 89 Human Subject Experiments 90 Results 93 Conclusions 101 Chapter 5: International Trade, Institutions, and Leader Change 109 Data 111 Setup of Econometric Tests and Model Specifi cation 115 Results 119 Conclusions 140 Chapter 6: Putting the Sovereign Back into Sovereign Debt 142 Institutions, Credibility, and Explanations of Debt 143 Modeling the Debt Repayment 145 Data 154 Debt, Repayment, and Leader Replacement 157 Conclusions 172 Chapter 7: Confl ictual Interactions 173 International Crises 173 Economic Sanctions 182 Chapter 8: Positive Political Theory and Policy 190 Building Trust and Cooperation 190 Positive Political Theory or Policy Advice? 192 Conclusions 199 Bibliography 201 Index 217
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Princeton University Press The Evolution of the Trade Regime
Book SynopsisOffers a comprehensive political-economic history of the development of the world's multilateral trade institutions, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and its successor, the World Trade Organization (WTO). This book examines the institutions' rules, principles, practices, and norms.Trade Review"The multi-disciplinary approach taken by The Evolution of the Trade Regime will provide any student (graduate and undergraduate) from the fields of political science, law, or economics (or any future policy maker) great insights, both theoretical and practical, into the current and future operations and challenges of the WTO."--Matthew Schaefer, Law and Politics Book Review "This book deserves a broad audience... I highly recommend it for students that have already had some introduction to the politics and the economics of trade. It would be useful in advanced classes in trade, global governance, and law. The volume is a good synthesis of intellectual perspectives that can help students gain greater understanding of the nuances of trade."--Susan Ariel Aaronson, EH.Net "The Evolution of the Trade Regime is a scholarly, well written, and well organized book ... [that] provides a cogent and concise account of the trade regime's evolution... It would be useful for courses in international law, international organization, and the politics of international trade."--Susan K. Sell, Review of International Organization "The authors have made a worthy contribution to our understanding of the politics of the world trading system."--Alfred E. Eckes, International History Review "The book is well written and achieves an admirable balance between depth and breadth in its analysis of a complex regime. As an up-to-date review of the trade regime, with original theoretical insights about international institutions, the book should be required reading for both scholars and practitioners of international trade policy."--Christian Davis, Political Science Quarterly "The Evolution of the Trade Regime makes a useful contribution to the literature. For those who want to place the current problems in a larger perspective, this book would be a natural selection."--Craig VanGrasstek, World Trade Review "The scope of this book is impressive... The Evolution of the Trade Regime is an excellent study of the trading system, cohesive and robust."--Kerry A. Chase, Perspectives on Politcs "A scholarly, well-written, and well-organized book... [that] provides a cogent and concise account of the trade regime's evolution."--Susan K. Sell, Review of Industrial OrganizationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations, Box, and Tables ix Preface xi Chapter 1: Political Analysis of the Trade Regime 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Understanding the Political Economy of the GATT/WTO Regime 5 1.3 State Power and International Trade Institutions 10 1.4 Nonstate Actors and Domestic Institutional Design 14 1.5 Ideas and Institutional Design 16 1.6 Accommodating Changes in Power, Interests, and Ideas 18 1.7 Alternative Perspectives on the Trade Regime 22 Chapter 2: Creating Constituencies and Rules for Open Markets 27 2.1 Why Create a Trade Regime? 29 2.2 The GATT 1947 Trade Regime 38 2.3 The Early GATT 41 2.4 Creating the WTO 47 2.5 Making Authoritative Decisions 48 2.6 Alternatives to Multilateralism: Preferential Trade Agreements 52 2.7 Conclusion: The Trade Regime, Domestic Constituencies, and Free Trade 55 Chapter 3: The Politics of the GATT/WTO Legal System: Legislative and Judicial Processes 61 3.1 Legislative Rules and Processes --and Transatlantic Power 61 3.2 Implementation and Dispute Settlement: The Expansion of Judicial Lawmaking --and Transatlantic Power 67 3.3 Conclusion: Prospects for Continued Viability of WTO Legislative and Judicial Rules 87 Chapter 4: Expanding Trade Rules and Conventions: Designing New Agreements at the Border 91 4.1 Introduction 91 4.2 The Uruguay Round Tasks 92 4.3 Extension of Scope of Trade System 94 4.4 Incorporating the "Laggard" Sectors 98 4.5 Consolidating the Codes 108 4.6 The Un ?nished Business 119 4.7 Conclusion 120 Chapter 5: Extending Trade Rules to Domestic Regulations: Developing "Behind the Border" Instruments 125 5.1 Introduction 125 5.2 Bringing in Services: Negotiation of the GATS 127 5.3 Health, Agricultural Regulations, and Industrial Standards 135 5.4 Intellectual Property Protection and the Trading System 139 5.5 The Newest Problems: New Tools, Actors, and Coalitions? 143 5.6 The Search for New Principles and New Coalitions 149 Chapter 6: Expansion of GATT/WTO Membership and the Proliferation of Regional Groups 153 6.1 Introduction 153 6.2 GATT/WTO Membership Conditions 154 6.3 Increasing Involvement of Developing Countries 160 6.4 Different Perspectives and Coalitions 169 6.5 Responding to the Concerns of the Developing Nations 172 6.6 Preferential Trade Arrangements and Developing Countries 174 Chapter 7: Accommodating Nonstate Actors: Representation of Interests, Ideas, and Information in a State-Centric System 182 7.1 The Role of Nonstate Actors 183 7.2 Complaints about Process: "Underrepresentation" of New Nonstate Actors'Interests 192 7.3 Domestic Institutional Processes of Interest Representation and Intermediation 194 7.4 Representation at the WTO: The Legislative Process 198 7.5 Representation at the WTO: The Judicial Process 199 7.6 Conclusions 201 Chapter 8: Conclusions 204 8.1 Is Trade Politics "Low" Politics? 205 8.2 What Is New about the WTO? 208 8.3 An International Bureaucracy 211 8.4 Measuring Success 213 8.5 In Conclusion: Trade Relations in the Twenty-First Century 214 Bibliography 219 Index 233
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Princeton University Press Does Peacekeeping Work
Book SynopsisFrom Croatia and Cambodia, to Nicaragua and Namibia, international personnel have been sent to maintain peace around the world. But does peacekeeping work? And if so, how? This title answers these questions through the systematic analysis of civil wars that have taken place since the end of the Cold War.Trade Review"In this well-researched and solidly argued book, Fortna examines the casual relationship between peacekeeping and durable peace in a number of different settings... Using quantitative analysis and qualitative case analysis of conflicts of Bangladesh, Mozambique, and Sierra Leone, the author provides detailed information on international peacekeeping."--N. Entessar, Choice "This is an excellent book which addresses an interesting, important, and understudied issue... Does Peacekeeping Work? is a very important study and a model of social science research that makes a major contribution and that should be read, and assigned, widely. Peacekeeping is an important topic with academic and policy relevance, and scholars interested in working in this area should start with Fortna's book."--David E. Cunningham, Review of International Organizations "This book is an outstanding illustration of how research should be carried out: careful conception of the research problem, scrupulous data analysis, and subtle examination of case studies to better understand and delineate the causal foundations of the results... Scholars and policymakers should pay close attention to these findings, and to her more detailed discussions of how the various capacities of peacekeeping missions can best be tailored to the conditions of specific conflicts."--Jack A. Goldstone, Perspectives on Politics "Students of politics have much to learn from the author's seamless integration of current international debates into [her] work."--Nicholas Gammer, International Journal "Does Peacekeeping Work is readable, rigorous, and covers an important topic in the fields of international relations and conflict resolution. The text would be an excellent choice for graduate-level research methods classes to demonstrate the use of both qualitative and quantitative techniques in a problem-driven format; it also would work well in courses on international conflict management or international relations more broadly."--Maia Carter Hallward, International Journal on World PeaceTable of ContentsLIST OF FIGURES, MAPS, AND TABLES ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi CHAPTER ONE: Peacekeeping and the Peacekept Questions, Definitions, and Research Design 1 CHAPTER TWO: Where Peacekeepers Go I Hypotheses and Statistical Evidence 18 CHAPTER THREE: Where Peacekeepers Go II Evidence from the Cases 47 CHAPTER FOUR: A Causal Theory of Peacekeeping 76 CHAPTER FIVE: Peacekeeping Works Evidence of Effectiveness 104 CHAPTER SIX: How Peacekeeping Works Causal Mechanisms from the Perspective of the Peacekept 127 CHAPTER SEVEN: Conclusion and Implications 172 APPENDIX A: The Data 181 APPENDIX B: Predicting the Degree of Difficulty of Maintaining Peace 187 REFERENCES 191 INDEX 207
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Princeton University Press Climate Change Justice
Book SynopsisFavoring both a climate change agreement and efforts to improve economic justice, this title makes a case that the best - and possibly only - way to get an effective climate treaty is to exclude measures designed to redistribute wealth or address historical wrongs against underdeveloped countries.Trade Review"Anyone taking part in the next round of climate negotiations in Mexico in December should take this book with them. It is ... certainly a guide. Legislating for the future is always tricky. This area is trickier than most."--Sir Crispin Tickell, Financial Times "[T]his book is a potent attack on an argument that is growing rapidly in popularity yet declining in clarity and focus... Chapter 1 provides what must be one of the most comprehensive, comprehensible, and yet still succinct accounts of the science of anthropogenic climate change currently in print."--Jamison E. Colburn, Concurring Opinions blog "[B]y reflecting so clearly on the current 'economic consensus', Posner and Weisbach provide a useful introduction to the current state of play in climate change politics."--Joy Paton, Australian Journal of Political ScienceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Ethically Relevant Facts and Predictions 10 Chapter 2: Policy Instruments 41 Chapter 3: Symbols, Not Substance 59 Chapter 4: Climate Change and Distributive Justice: Climate Change Blinders 73 Chapter 5: Punishing the Wrongdoers: A Climate Guilt Clause? 99 Chapter 6: Equality and the Case against Per Capita Permits 119 Chapter 7: Future Generations: The Debate over Discounting 144 Chapter 8: Global Welfare, Global Justice, and Climate Change 169 A Recapitulation 189 Afterword: The Copenhagen Accord 193 Notes 199 Index 219
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Princeton University Press The Politics of Global Regulation
Book SynopsisPresents an analytical framework to explain regulatory outcomes at the global level. This book offers a series of case studies that illustrate the challenges of a global economy in which many institutions are less transparent and are held much less accountable by the media and public officials than are domestic institutions.Trade ReviewSpecial Recognition for the 2010 Levine Prize, Research Committee on the Structure of Governance, International Political Science Association "The Politics of Global Regulation makes a significant contribution to this field of research, focusing on global regulatory changes in different policy areas... The book provides a well-structured and coherent set of contributions that focus on the difficulties faced by supranational regimes in avoiding regulatory capture at the global level."--Jacint Jordana, Governance "This impressive new volume demonstrates some of the best new thinking on global regulation and the ways in which the context and process of policy making affect the rules, standards and institutions that increasingly govern people's lives. Walter Mattli and Ngaire Woods provide the analytical centrepiece of the volume, which seeks to explain which interests are likely to be represented in global regulation... Thanks to this impressive volume, future work in this area will no doubt have a richer analytical grounding than before."--Kevin Young, Global Policy "The recent global financial crisis and recession have forced the issue of financial regulation to the top of the international political agenda. The current economic difficulties may provide the world with a one-in-a generation opportunity to formulate a set of constructive rules for the century's economy. The book deals with the general issue of how regulatory regimes are created and evolve... What a joy to find an edited volume in which the constituent chapters actually fit together in a coherent whole... All of the chapters refer back to the basic constructs presented in the opening theoretical piece--a rarity in this kind of work. The book is thus highly recommended to both experts in the field and neophytes."--Joel Campbell, International Affairs "[This book] ... is likely to make a significant impact on the field of international political economy."--Tim Dunne, Times Higher EducationTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables vii Introduction ix CHAPTER ONE: In Whose Benefit? Explaining Regulatory Change in Global Politics by Walter Mattli and Ngaire Woods 1 CHAPTER TWO: The Governance Triangle: Regulatory Standards Institutions and the Shadow of the State by Kenneth W. Abbott and Duncan Snidal 44 CHAPTER THREE: Filling a Hole in Global Financial Governance? The Politics of Regulating Sovereign Debt Restructuring by Eric Helleiner 89 CHAPTER FOUR: From State Responsibility to Individual Criminal Accountability: A New Regulatory Model for Core Human Rights Violations by Kathryn Sikkink 121 CHAPTER FIVE: The Private Regulation of Global Corporate Conduct by David Vogel 151 CHAPTER SIX: Racing to the Top ... at Last: The Regulation of Safety in Shipping by Samuel Barrows 189 CHAPTER SEVEN: Regulatory Shift: The Rise of Judicial Liberalization at the WTO by Judith L. Goldstein and Richard H. Steinberg 211 CHAPTER EIGHT: Economic Integration and Global Governance: Why So Little Supranationalism? By Miles Kahler and David A. Lake 242 List of Contributors 277 Index 279
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Princeton University Press The Crisis of American Foreign Policy
Book SynopsisWas George W Bush the true heir of Woodrow Wilson, the architect of liberal internationalism? And was the Iraq War a result of liberal ideas about America's right to promote democracy abroad? This book considers America's position on the global stage and what future directions might be possible for the nation in the post-Bush era.Trade ReviewOn the list for The People's Choice: Carnegie Council Top Ten for 2009 "The Crisis of American Foreign Policy examines Wilson's resonance today. Four noted scholars--three Wilson sympathizers and one caustic critic--offer thoughtful essays on what Wilsons historical example might offer twenty-first-century leaders... It is the combatitive essays by Tony Smith and Anne-Marie Slaughter that invigorate the collection... For Smith, Wilsonianism is a distracting Kantian echo in an increasingly Hobbesian world. Slaughter offers a spirited defense of Woodrow Wilson... This academic clash will resonate with progressives, for Smith's skepticism and Slaughter's optimism reside in many of us. And this same battle of ideas--the pragmatic versus the internationalist--will likely be repeated during high-level debates in the Obama administration."--David Milne, The Nation "This slender volume by fout prominent foreign policy analysts offers a provocative and informative analysis of the impact of Woodrow Wilson's global vision on American foreign policy over the past century and its potential implications for the twenty-first century."--James M. McCormick, Perspectives on Politics "I recommend this book wholeheartedly on a number of levels: it provides an articulate account of Wilsonianism; the opportunity to see a substantive and expertly argued discourse among intellectual heavyweights is very much welcomed; and the added relevance--perhaps--of Slaughter's new position as director of policy planning at the State Department in the new Obama administration means US foreign policy could have a distinct Wilsonian flavour in the run-up to the centenary of Wilson's arrival in the White House."--J. Simon Rofe, International Affairs "Particularly timely... The question the book addresses in four short essays is whether Mr Bush's policies--most notably the Iraq invasion--were 'Wilsonian' in inspiration and whether the reverses have weakened or doomed the tradition."--Daniel Dombey, Financial Times "This is not a j'accuse account of the Bush presidency. Rather, its focus is a discussion of the tradition of Wilsonianism in American foreign policy, and whether or not George W. Bush's presidency ought to be described as being part of this tradition. While the authors come to different conclusions, using different criteria, the debate is interesting and intelligent, offering plenty for students, historians and enthusiasts alike. The Crisis of American Foreign Policy is the most readable, balanced and lucid theory-based publication I've read in quite some time. Very highly recommended."--Stefan Fergus, Civilian Reader "This short book warrants close attention by anyone concerned about Obama's foreign policy and the meaning of his Inaugural Address... [Slaughter] offers nothing less than a blueprint for 21st-century Wilsonianism."--Richard M. Gamble, The American Conservative "Was George W. Bush the heir of Woodrow Wilson? That is the important question addressed by the four authors who created this short but lucid contribution to the U.S. foreign policy debate. The liberal Wilsonians Ikenberry and Slaughter want to answer with a resounding no but are serious and fair-minded enough to give a full airing to the contrary view. The resulting debate does not settle the issue, but it clarifies some of the conflicting and contradictory elements in the legacy that Wilson left."--Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs "In The Crisis of American Foreign Policy ... G. John Ikenberry, Thomas J. Knock, Tony Smith and Anne-Marie Slaughter debate whether George W. Bush channelled Woodrow Wilson or buried him... [If] the American empire is still in its infancy, the debate articulated in The Crisis in American Foreign Policy is not only highly relevant but will remain so for the foreseeable future."--Dennis Phillips, Australian Review of Public Affairs "Debates both the Bush legacy and the prospects for reinvigorating American foreign policy and consequently American international leadership."--Tara McCormack, Spiked Review of Books "Engages with the debate on the future of democratisation after the Bush era... The various authors engage in a rather lively exchange on the Bush presidency's legacy."--Emiliano Alessandri, International Spectator "[A] formidable contribution to the understanding of the differences between these two internationalisms... Whatever one's views on the issues developed in this short book, the authors have done a wonderful job in demarcating their disagreements. Indeed, this book should be compulsory reading for students and practitioners of American foreign policy. Listening to Obama's UN speech, one might think that he also found it useful reading."--Sergio Fabbrini, International Journal "This collection of essays allows the reader to transcend simplistic notions of Wilsonianism, for which the authors should be applauded."--Mark J. L. McClelland, Political Studies Review "This slim volume (117 pages plus notes) is interesting on a couple of levels, and to at least two audiences... Foreign policy specialists can salivate over the contest between the academic titans; the rest of us get a front-row seat at a sharp but civil and provocative exchange on foundational concepts underlying U.S. foreign policy."--Jerry Petr, Prairie Fire "This collection makes a definite contribution... [The essays] present comprehensive interpretations of Wilson's thought and of the approach of the Bush administration [as well as] analyzing the substance of the Bush policies and suggesting directions for the future of American policy."--Max J. Skidmore, European LegacyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Woodrow Wilson, the Bush Administration, and the Future of Liberal Internationalism by John Ikenberry 1 Chapter 1: "Playing for a Hundred Years Hence" Woodrow Wilson's Internationalism and His Would-Be Heirs by Thomas J. Knock 25 Chapter 2: Wilsonianism after Iraq The End of Liberal Internationalism? By Tony Smith 53 Chapter 3: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century by Anne-Marie Slaughter 89 Notes 119 Contributors 141 Index 143
£19.80
Princeton University Press Climate Change Justice
Book SynopsisClimate change and justice are so closely associated that many people take it for granted that a global climate treaty should--indeed, must--directly address both issues together. But, in fact, this would be a serious mistake, one that, by dooming effective international limits on greenhouse gases, would actually make the world's poor and developinTrade Review"Anyone taking part in the next round of climate negotiations in Mexico in December should take this book with them. It is ... certainly a guide. Legislating for the future is always tricky. This area is trickier than most."--Sir Crispin Tickell, Financial Times "[T]his book is a potent attack on an argument that is growing rapidly in popularity yet declining in clarity and focus... Chapter 1 provides what must be one of the most comprehensive, comprehensible, and yet still succinct accounts of the science of anthropogenic climate change currently in print."--Jamison E. Colburn, Concurring Opinions blog "[B]y reflecting so clearly on the current 'economic consensus', Posner and Weisbach provide a useful introduction to the current state of play in climate change politics."--Joy Paton, Australian Journal of Political ScienceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Ethically Relevant Facts and Predictions 10 Chapter 2: Policy Instruments 41 Chapter 3: Symbols, Not Substance 59 Chapter 4: Climate Change and Distributive Justice: Climate Change Blinders 73 Chapter 5: Punishing the Wrongdoers: A Climate Guilt Clause? 99 Chapter 6: Equality and the Case against Per Capita Permits 119 Chapter 7: Future Generations: The Debate over Discounting 144 Chapter 8: Global Welfare, Global Justice, and Climate Change 169 A Recapitulation 189 Afterword: The Copenhagen Accord 193 Notes 199 Index 219
£19.80
Princeton University Press Rules for the Global Economy
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A useful contribution to the international economics literature."--ChoiceTable of ContentsForeword vii Preface ix Chapter I: The Concept of aWorld Economic Order 1 Chapter II: Globalization and Its Impact on the International Rule System 20 Chapter III: How Rules Are Established 32 Chapter IV: How Rules Are Stabilized 50 Chapter V: Rules for International Product Markets 75 Chapter VI: Rules for Border-Crossing Factor Movements 100 Chapter VII: Rules for the Global Environment 121 Chapter VIII: Preventing Financial Instability 150 Chapter IX: Avoiding Currency Crises 177 Chapter X: Ethical Norms, Human Rights, Fairness, and Legitimacy: Restraints for the International Rule System 197 Chapter XI: Interdependence of Orders, Structure of the Rule System, and Institutional Fit 215 Chapter XII: Major Challenges to the Rule System in the Future 231 References and Further Reading 249 Index 263
£22.50
Princeton University Press Vigilantes beyond Borders
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Princeton University Press Vigilantes beyond Borders
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£25.20
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Repugnant Laws Judicial Review of Acts of
Book SynopsisIn a polarized time of partisan fervor, the US Supreme Court's routine work of judicial review is increasingly viewed through a political lens, decried by one side or the other as judicial overreach, or ""legislating from the bench"". But is this really the case? Keith Whittington asks in this volume, a first-of-its-kind history of judicial review.
£41.36
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Global Governance
Book SynopsisFriends and foes of international cooperation puzzle about how to explain order, stability, and predictability in a world without a central authority. How is the world governed in the absence of a world government? This probing yet accessible book examines global governance or the sum of the informal and formal values, norms, procedures, and institutions that help states, intergovernmental organizations, civil society, and transnational corporations identify, understand, and address trans-boundary problems. The chasm between the magnitude of a growing number of global threats - climate change, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, financial instabilities, pandemics, to name a few - and the feeble contemporary political structures for international problem-solving provide compelling reasons to read this book. Fitful, tactical, and short-term local responses exist for a growing number of threats and challenges that require sustainTrade Review"If you are trying to understand and improve global policy, this is the place to start. Weiss takes the major issues on the global agenda and subjects them to a rigorous five-fold analysis that lets us see where the greatest gaps in the policy process really are. Some may be surprised to learn that the biggest problem may not be the lack of enforcement of global norms within our system of separate sovereign states. Rather, it may be our inability to understand the causes of many of today's global problems. This is great food for thought with lots of suggestions for practical action."—Craig N. Murphy, Wellesley College and University of Massachusetts Boston "The most cogent, compelling, and engaging text yet written on this notoriously slippery and mystifying topic. Weiss knows the subject like few others and his passions and insights make for a page-turner. This book is a must read for anyone - student, scholar, and practitioner alike - interested in working out how the contemporary world is governed and how to make it a better place."—Rorden Wilkinson, University of Manchester "Global Governance works across so many levels. It is a terrific summary of the history of the concept. It is a terrific synthesis of debates and perspectives. It also represents a stand-alone statement of how the past shapes and reshapes what sort of global governance is possible and desirable. As expected from the scholar who has done so much to put the concept on the table and contributed to our understanding, Weiss is the ultimate guide."—Michael Barnett, George Washington University "Weiss is probably the most productive and reliable specialist on the UN, international organisations and global government."—Survival "This book will be of interest to those who study human rights because Weiss considers the promotion and protection of human rights, including the Responsibility to Protect as a key example to support his overall argument." (Human Rights Review 2015)Table of ContentsTables and Figures vi Abbreviations vii About the Author x Foreword by Craig N. Murphy xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1 Why Did Global Governance Emerge? 8 2 What Is Global Governance? 27 3 What Are Global Governance Gaps? 45 4 Knowledge Gaps 62 5 Normative Gaps 84 6 Policy Gaps 106 7 Institutional Gaps 127 8 Compliance Gaps 149 9 Whither Global Governance? 169 Notes 186 Selected Readings 211 Index 214
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Global Governance
Book SynopsisFriends and foes of international cooperation puzzle about how to explain order, stability, and predictability in a world without a central authority. How is the world governed in the absence of a world government? This probing yet accessible book examines global governance or the sum of the informal and formal values, norms, procedures, and institutions that help states, intergovernmental organizations, civil society, and transnational corporations identify, understand, and address trans-boundary problems. The chasm between the magnitude of a growing number of global threats - climate change, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, financial instabilities, pandemics, to name a few - and the feeble contemporary political structures for international problem-solving provide compelling reasons to read this book. Fitful, tactical, and short-term local responses exist for a growing number of threats and challenges that require sustainTrade Review"If you are trying to understand and improve global policy, this is the place to start. Weiss takes the major issues on the global agenda and subjects them to a rigorous five-fold analysis that lets us see where the greatest gaps in the policy process really are. Some may be surprised to learn that the biggest problem may not be the lack of enforcement of global norms within our system of separate sovereign states. Rather, it may be our inability to understand the causes of many of today's global problems. This is great food for thought with lots of suggestions for practical action."—Craig N. Murphy, Wellesley College and University of Massachusetts Boston "The most cogent, compelling, and engaging text yet written on this notoriously slippery and mystifying topic. Weiss knows the subject like few others and his passions and insights make for a page-turner. This book is a must read for anyone - student, scholar, and practitioner alike - interested in working out how the contemporary world is governed and how to make it a better place."—Rorden Wilkinson, University of Manchester "Global Governance works across so many levels. It is a terrific summary of the history of the concept. It is a terrific synthesis of debates and perspectives. It also represents a stand-alone statement of how the past shapes and reshapes what sort of global governance is possible and desirable. As expected from the scholar who has done so much to put the concept on the table and contributed to our understanding, Weiss is the ultimate guide."—Michael Barnett, George Washington University "Weiss is probably the most productive and reliable specialist on the UN, international organisations and global government."—Survival "This book will be of interest to those who study human rights because Weiss considers the promotion and protection of human rights, including the Responsibility to Protect as a key example to support his overall argument." (Human Rights Review 2015)Table of ContentsTables and Figures vi Abbreviations vii About the Author x Foreword by Craig N. Murphy xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1 Why Did Global Governance Emerge? 8 2 What Is Global Governance? 27 3 What Are Global Governance Gaps? 45 4 Knowledge Gaps 62 5 Normative Gaps 84 6 Policy Gaps 106 7 Institutional Gaps 127 8 Compliance Gaps 149 9 Whither Global Governance? 169 Notes 186 Selected Readings 211 Index 214
£17.09
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Global Governance at Risk
Book Synopsis* A major new collection examining the economic and political challenges currently faced by multilateral and transnational governance institutions.Trade Review"Among the many troubling things made clear by the current protracted crisis, a crucial one is that progress in global governance has been fragile and is very much at risk. In this book, Held and Roger have brought together distinguished contributors to explore the ways this is so, why, and what the implications are. The results are sobering but also helpful and consistently insightful."Craig Calhoun, director of the London School of Economics and Political ScienceTable of ContentsContributors vii Preface xi 1 Editors’ Introduction: Global Governance at Risk 1 David Held and Charles Roger 2 The Shift and the Shock: Prospects for the World Economy 19 Martin Wolf 3 The Coming Global Monetary (Dis)Order 31 Benjamin J. Cohen 4 Will Emerging Markets Shape or Shake the World Economy? 51 George Magnus 5 Protecting Power: Western States in Global Organizations 77 Robert H. Wade 6 Why the West Rules for Now – And is Likely to for a Long Time to Come 111 Michael Cox 7 Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark: How Development has Disappeared from Today’s “Development” Discourse 129 Ha-Joon Chang 8 Keynes, Hobson, Marx and the Crisis of Capitalism 149 Robert Skidelsky 9 From the Financial Crisis to the Crisis of Global Governance 170 David Held and Kevin Young Index 202
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Global Governance at Risk
Book Synopsis* A major new collection examining the economic and political challenges currently faced by multilateral and transnational governance institutions.Trade Review"Among the many troubling things made clear by the current protracted crisis, a crucial one is that progress in global governance has been fragile and is very much at risk. In this book, Held and Roger have brought together distinguished contributors to explore the ways this is so, why, and what the implications are. The results are sobering but also helpful and consistently insightful."Craig Calhoun, director of the London School of Economics and Political ScienceTable of ContentsContributors vii Preface xi 1 Editors’ Introduction: Global Governance at Risk 1 David Held and Charles Roger 2 The Shift and the Shock: Prospects for the World Economy 19 Martin Wolf 3 The Coming Global Monetary (Dis)Order 31 Benjamin J. Cohen 4 Will Emerging Markets Shape or Shake the World Economy? 51 George Magnus 5 Protecting Power: Western States in Global Organizations 77 Robert H. Wade 6 Why the West Rules for Now – And is Likely to for a Long Time to Come 111 Michael Cox 7 Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark: How Development has Disappeared from Today’s “Development” Discourse 129 Ha-Joon Chang 8 Keynes, Hobson, Marx and the Crisis of Capitalism 149 Robert Skidelsky 9 From the Financial Crisis to the Crisis of Global Governance 170 David Held and Kevin Young Index 202
£17.09
Kogan Page Ltd The Handbook of International Trade and Finance
Book SynopsisAnders Grath has over 25 years' experience in international trade and finance within major European financial institutions, as head of both international departments and corporate units. He is the author of a series of similar titles on individual country markets.Table of Contents Chapter - 01: Trade risks and risk assessment; Chapter - 02: Methods of payment; Chapter - 03: Bonds, guarantees and standby letters of credit; Chapter - 04: Currency risk management; Chapter - 05: Export credit insurance; Chapter - 06: Trade finance; Chapter - 07: Structured trade finance; Chapter - 08: Terms of payment; Chapter - 09: The export quotation
£42.74
University of British Columbia Press International Environmental Law and Asian Values
Book SynopsisA comprehensive assessment of relevant Asian policies and their applications in key areas in light of international environmental norms and practices.Trade ReviewThe author usefully makes a presentation of the case for the universality of international environmental law with pragmatic considerations for implementation. -- Ronald F. MacIsaac * The Barrister *It does, indeed, add up to an interesting story which Muskat to her great credit presents as one that cries out for explanation. -- Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith, Professor of Political Science, University of California * Law and Politics Book Review *Table of ContentsForeword by Ved P. Nanda Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Culture and International Law 2 Cultural Relativism and the Asian Values Debate 3 Asian Values and Environmental Protection 4 A Regional Approach to International Environmental Norms? 5 Factors Affecting the Domestic Implementation of InternationalEnvironmental Law in the Asia Pacific Region 6 The Impact of International Trade 7 The Effects of Globalization on the Implementation ofInternational Environmental Law in the Asia PaciWc Region 8 Globalization of Norms and Regionalization of Implementation Conclusion Appendices Notes Index
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press International Environmental Law and Asian Values
Book SynopsisA comprehensive assessment of relevant Asian policies and their applications in key areas in light of international environmental norms and practices.Trade ReviewThe author usefully makes a presentation of the case for the universality of international environmental law with pragmatic considerations for implementation. -- Ronald F. MacIsaac * The Barrister *It does, indeed, add up to an interesting story which Muskat to her great credit presents as one that cries out for explanation. -- Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith, Professor of Political Science, University of California * Law and Politics Book Review *Table of ContentsForeword by Ved P. Nanda Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Culture and International Law 2 Cultural Relativism and the Asian Values Debate 3 Asian Values and Environmental Protection 4 A Regional Approach to International Environmental Norms? 5 Factors Affecting the Domestic Implementation of InternationalEnvironmental Law in the Asia Pacific Region 6 The Impact of International Trade 7 The Effects of Globalization on the Implementation ofInternational Environmental Law in the Asia PaciWc Region 8 Globalization of Norms and Regionalization of Implementation Conclusion Appendices Notes Index
£999.99
University of British Columbia Press The Canadian Yearbook of International Law Vol.
Book SynopsisThe Yearbook contains articles of lasting significance in the field of international legal studies.Table of ContentsArticlesR. St. J. Macdonald -- International Law at the University of British Columbia, 1945-2000Pacifique Manirakiza -- Les juridictions traditionnelles et la justice pénale internationaleKyung Kwak and Gabrielle Marceau -- Overlaps and Conflicts of Jurisdiction between the World Trade Organization and Regional Trade AgreementsNathalie Chalifour -- Environmental Taxes and the WTO -- An Analysis of the WTO Implications of Using Fiscal Incentives to Promote Sustainable Forestry in CanadaA.J. Hobbins and Ann H. Steward -- Bringing Individual Human Rights Issues to the United Nations: John Humphrey and the Quest for CompensationStéphane Beaulac -- National Application of International Law: The Statutory Interpretation PerspectiveNotes and CommentsMichael Barutciski -- Les transferts de populations quatre-vingts ans après la Convention de LausanneEmily Carasco -- Canada-United States “Safe Third Country” Agreement: To What Purpose? Francois Larocque -- Bouzari v. Iran: Testing the Limits of State Immunity in Canadian CourtsChares-Emmanuel Côté -- L’invocabilité des traités de libre-échange en droit interne: nouveau regard sur l’arrêt Project Blue Sky v. Australian Broadcasting Authority de la Haute Cour d’AustralieChronique de Droit international économique en 2002 / Digest of International Economic Law in 2002Commerce, préparé par Richard Ouellet LeCanada et le système financier international en 2002, préparé par Bernard ColasInvestissement, préparé par Céline LévesqueCanadian Practice in International Law / Pratique canadienne en matière de droit internationalAt the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 2002-3 / Au ministère des Affaires étrangères en 2002-3, compiled by / préparé par Colleen SwordsParliamentary Declarations in 2002-3 / Déclarations parlementaires en 2002-3, compiled by / préparé par Aliaksandra LogvinTreaty Action Taken by Canada in 2002 / Mesures prises par le Canada en matière de traités en 2002, compiled by / préparé par André Bergeron Cases / JurisprudenceCanadian Cases in Public International Law in 2002-3 / Jurisprudence canadienne en matière de droit international public en 2002-3, compiled by / préparé par Karin MickelsonCanadian Cases in Private International Law in 2002-3 / Jurisprudence canadienne en matière de droit international privé en 2002-3, compiled by / préparé par Joost Blom Book Reviews / Recensions de livresAnalytical Index / Index analytiqueIndex of Cases / Index de la jurisprudence
£136.00
University of British Columbia Press Protection of First Nations Cultural Heritage
Book SynopsisA companion to "First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law". It looks at the key features of Canadian, US, and international law influencing indigenous cultural heritage in Canada. It examines legal and extralegal avenues for reform, including ethics codes, research protocols, institutional policies, human rights law, and First Nation legal orders.Trade Review"This book makes a major contribution to the field by demonstrating the multifaceted nature of cultural heritage issues, and the intersections of domestic, international, and First Nations law that are pivotal to understanding and resolving such issues. - Rebecca Tsosie, author of American Indian Law: Native Nations and the Federal System"Table of ContentsPreface: Towards Reconciliation / Darlene JohnstonIntroduction / Catherine Bell and Robert K. PatersonPart 1: Repatriation and Trade1 Restructuring the Relationship: Domestic Repatriation and Canadian Law Reform / Catherine Bell 2 International Movement of First Nations Cultural Heritage in Canadian Law / Catherine Bell and Robert K. Paterson3 The Protection and Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage in the United States / James NafzigerPart 2: Heritage Sites and Ancestral Remains4 Ancestral Remains in Institutional Collections: Proposals for Reform / Robert K. Paterson5 Unsitely: The Eclectic Regimes that Protect Aboriginal Cultural Places in Canada / Bruce Ziff and Melodie Hope6 Policies and Protocols for Archeological Sites and Associated Cultural Intellectual Property / George P. NicholasPart 3: Intangible Heritage7 The Interconnection of Intellectual Property and Cultural Property ("Traditional Knowledge") / Robert G. Howell and Roch Ripley8 First Nations Cultural Heritage Concerns: Prospects for Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions in International Law / Rosemary J. Coombe9 Non-Legal Instruments for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Key Roles for Ethical Codes and Community Protocols / Kelly BannisterPart 4: Human Rights and First Nations Law10 Indigenous Cultural Heritage Rights in International Human Rights Law / Mohsen al Attar, Nicole Aylwin, and Rosemary J. Coombe11 From Time Immemorial: The Recognition of Aboriginal Customary Law in Canada / Norman Zlotkin12 Looking beyond the Law: Questions about Indigenous Peoples' Tangible and Intangible Property / Val NapoleonConcluding Thoughts and Fundamental Questions / Michael AschAppendixIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press A Perilous Imbalance
Book SynopsisAs citizens of a middle power, Canadians know how it feels to be objects of global forces. But they are also agents of globalization who have helped build structures of transnational governance that have highly uneven impacts on prosperity, human security, and the environment, often for the worse. This timely book argues that these imbalances need to be recognized and corrected.A Perilous Imbalance situates Canada's experience of globalization in the context of three interlinked trends: the emergence of a global supraconstitution, the transformation of the nation-state, and the growth of governance beyond the nation-state. The authors advocate a revitalization of the Canadian state as a vehicle for pursuing human security, ecological integrity, and social emancipation, and for creating spaces in which progressive, alternative forms of law and governance can unfold. This book shines an urgent light on the dangerous imbalances in contemporary forms of globalized gTable of Contents1 IntroductionPart 1: Canada’s Emerging Supraconstitution2 The Supraconstitution: A Framework for Analysis3 Making the World Safe for Transnational Capital: The Economic Supraconstitution4 Good Citizens of Planet Earth? The Weakness of Global Social and Environmental Governance5 Taking the Measure of the SupraconstitutionPart 2: Consolidating or Confronting Hegemony? Governance Within and Beyond the State6 From Retreat to Revitalization: The Paradoxes of the Globalized State7 Global Law Beyond the State: Governance by Business and Civil Society8 Rethinking Canadian Governance and Law in a Globalized WorldNotesReferencesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Modern Warfare
Book SynopsisA multifaceted exploration of how humanitarian organizations, private militaries, and non-state armed groups are shaking the foundations of international humanitarian law.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction / Benjamin PerrinPart 1: Non-State Armed Groups – The Compliance Challenge1 Asymmetrical Reciprocity and Compliance with the Laws of War / René Provost2 The Pragmatic Value of Reciprocity: Promoting Respect for International Humanitarian Law among Non-State Armed Groups / Sophie Rondeau3 Armed Non-State Actors and Humanitarian Norms: Lessons from the Geneva Call Experience / Elisabeth Decrey Warner, Jonathan Somer, and Pascal Bongard4 The Ownership of International Humanitarian Law: Non-State Armed Groups and the Formation and Enforcement of IHL Rules / Sandesh Sivakumaran5 Armed Groups and the Arms Trade Treaty: Challenges and Opportunities / Pablo Policzer and Valerie Yankey-WaynePart 2: Private Military and Security Companies and Humanitarian Organizations6 Private Security Companies and Humanitarian Organizations: Implications for International Humanitarian Law / Benjamin Perrin7 The Case for Humanitarian Organizations to Use Private Security Contactors / Andrew Bearpark8 The Use of Armed Security Escorts: A Challenge to Independent and Neutral Humanitarian Action / Jamie Williamson9 Obligations of Private Military and Security Companies under International Humanitarian Law / Fred SchreierPart 3: The “Humanitarian Space” Debate10 “Humanitarian Space” in Search of a New Home: (Limited) Guidance from International Law / Sylvain Beauchamp11 Humanitarian Space and Stability Operations / Michael Khambatta12 The Implications for Women of a Shrinking Humanitarian Space / Valerie Oosterveld13 Whither Humanitarian Space? The Costs of Integrated Peacebuilding in Afghanistan / Emily Paddon and Taylor OwenPart 4: Addressing Endemic Urban Violence14 Silent Wars in Our Cities: Alternatives to the Inadequacy of International Humanitarian Law to Protect Civilians during Endemic Urban Violence / Carlos Iván Fuentes15 Rethinking Stabilization and Humanitarian Action in “Fragile Cities” / Robert Muggah and Oliver Jütersonke16 Stabilization and Humanitarian Action in Haiti / Robert Muggah17 Violence against Children in Urban Settings: Private Hurt, Public Manifestations / Gurvinder Singh and Judi FairholmConclusion / Benjamin PerrinIndex
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MN - University of British Columbia Press Assessing Treaty Performance in China Trade and
Book SynopsisThis volume examines the normative and operational dimensions of China’s legal performance related to international standards on trade and human rights.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1 Encounters with International Trade Standards: China and the WTO2 Performance of International Trade Standards I: Contract Law in China3 Performance of International Trade Standards II: Property Law in China4 Encounters with International Human Rights Standards5 Treaty Performance on Human Rights: Sustainability and Social JusticeConclusionAppendicesNotesIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press The Canadian Yearbook of International Law Vol.
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsArticlesThe Canada–China FIPPA: Its Uniqueness and Non-Reciprocity / Gus van HartenMore Honey Than Vinegar: Peer Review as a Middle Ground between Universalism and National Sovereignty / Elvira Domínguez-Redondo and Edward R. McMahonLa révision de 2012 de l’Accord de l’OMC sur les marchés publics: Son contexte et les dimensions de son champ d’application / Philippe PelletierNuclear Non-Proliferation and “Preventive Self-Defence”: Why Attacking Iran Would Be Illegal / Patrick C.R. Terry and Karen S. OpenshawRenewable Energy and Trade: Interpreting against Fragmentation / Maureen IrishNotes and Comments / Notes et commentairesThe Scottish Independence Referendum in an International Context / Jure VidmarDoes International Criminal Law Create Humanitarian Law Obligations? The Case of Exclusively Non-State Armed Conflict under the Rome Statute / Alain-Guy Tachou-SipowoDigest of Inter-American Law in 2013 / Chronique de droit interamericain en 2013Les développements en droit interaméricain pour l’année 2013 / Bernard Duhaime et Elise HansburyDigest of International Economic Law in 2013 / Chronique de droit international économique en 2013Commerce / Hervé A. PrinceInvestissement / Charles-Emmanuel CôtéCanadian Practice in International Law / Pratique canadienne en matière de droit internationalAt the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development in 2013 / Au ministère des Affaires étrangères, Commerce et Développement en 2013 / compiled by / préparé par Bill CrosbieParliamentary Declarations in 2013 / Déclarations parlementaires en 2013 / compiled by / préparé par Alexandra LogvinTreaty Action Taken by Canada in 2013 / Mesures prises par le Canada en matière de traités en 2013 / compiled by / préparé par Gary LutonCases / JurisprudenceCanadian Cases in Public International Law in 2013 / Jurisprudence canadienne en matière de droit international public en 2013 / compiled by / préparé par Gib van Ert, Greg J. Allen, and / et Rebecca RobbCanadian Cases in Private International Law in 2013 / Jurisprudence canadienne en matière de droit international privé en 2013 / compiled by / préparé par Joost BlomBook Reviews / Recensions de livresAnalytical Index / Index analytiqueIndex of Cases / Index de la jurisprudence
£140.25
University of British Columbia Press Resisting Rights
Book SynopsisFrom 1948 to 1966, the United Nations worked to create a common legal standard for human rights protection around the globe. Resisting Rights traces the Canadian government's changing policy toward this endeavour, from initial opposition to a more supportive approach. Jennifer Tunnicliffe takes both international and domestic developments into account to explain how shifting cultural understandings of rights influenced policy, and to underline the key role of Canadian rights activists in this process.In light of Canada's waning reputation as a traditional leader in developing human rights standards at the United Nations, this is a timely study. Tunnicliffe situates policies within their historical context to reveal that Canadian reluctance to be bound by international human rights law is not a recent trend, and asks why governments have found it important to foster the myth that Canada has been at the forefront of international human rights policy.Trade ReviewTunnicliffe weaves primary sources including parliamentary debates with private and public archival materials and secondary sources to produce a fascinating reflection. -- Charlotte Skeet, University of Sussex * British Journal of Canadian Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Resisting Rights 1 The Roots of Resistance: Canada and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights2 Canada’s Opposition to a Covenant on Human Rights 3 A Reversal in Policy: The Decision to Support the Covenants 4 The Road to Ratification, 1966–765 Conclusion: The Making of the MythAppendicesNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Grey Zones in International Economic Law and
Book SynopsisGrey Zones in International Economic Law and Global Governance examines contested zones of global governance to understand state policy and market behaviour in the current era.Table of ContentsForeword / Pitman B. PotterIntroduction: Grey Zones of International Economic Law and Global Governance / Daniel Drache and Lesley A. JacobsPart 1: Hot Button Issues in Global Governance1 A Crafty Madness Kept Aloof: Anti-Dumping as Faulted Global Governance / Tomer Broude2 The Anti-Dumping Wars: An Analysis of Unfair Trading Suits, 1995–2011 / Daniel Drache and Yin Jiyuan3 Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms in International Economic Law / Lesley A. Jacobs4 The WTO and the Future of Subsidies and Food Security / Carlos M. CorreaPart 2: Global Trade and Local Adaptation5 Is Anti-Dumping a Smart Policy for Global South Countries? / Welber Barral6 Grey Zones in the European Union: Between Flexibility and Uniformity of the State Aid Rules / Ljiljana BiukovicPart 3: Labour and Food Rights in the Global Policy Arena7 A New Grey Zone in Global Trade Governance? Recent Developments on Food Security at the WTO / Matias E. Margulis8 Labour Relations and Trade Policy in China: Opportunities for Coordinated Compliance / Pitman B. Potter9 What Constitutes Legitimate Policy Space for Food Security? / Katie SykesPart 4: The Greening of International Economic Law10 Renewable Energy and WTO Law: More Policy Space or Enhanced International Disciplines? / Thomas Cottier11 Green Energy Programs and the WTO Subsidies Agreement: Is There Enough Policy Space? / Debra P. StegerConclusion: Living in a Dangerous Age: Trade Policy Options for Canada / Daniel Drache and Lesley A. JacobsIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Good Governance in Economic Development
Book SynopsisGood Governance in Economic Development examines what happens at the intersection of international and Chinese conceptions of transparency, accountability, and public participation.Table of ContentsForeword / Pitman B. Potter1 International Good Governance Norms between the Global and the Local: China, Transparency, and Accountability / Sarah Biddulph and Ljiljana BiukovićPart 1: International Principles of Good Governance, Transparency, and Accountability2 Belts That Fasten Roads to Prosperity and Development: Transparency and Governance of New International Banks / Ljiljana Biuković3 Corporate Legal Consciousness in Investor-State Dispute Settlement and the United Nations' Responsibility to Respect Human Rights: New Challenges for Global Governance / Lesley A. Jacobs4 Regulatory Change, Good Governance, and Fair and Equitable Treatment in International Investment Law / Moshe Hirsch5 Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement and Human Rights Impact Assessments: Coordinating Compliance between International Trade, Human Rights, Labour Rights, and Good Governance in Colombia / Alison Yule6 Transparency Obligations in International Investment and Trade Treaties: Governance Reforms in Shanghai’s Pilot Free Trade Zone / Wang HaifengPart 2: Case Studies from China: Domestic Engagement with Good Governance Norms7 Transparency and Accountability in Governance in China: Evaluating Legal Reforms / Sarah Biddulph and Wang Haifeng8 The Concept of Public Participation: Planning and Housing Resumption Decisions in Shanghai / Sarah Biddulph9 The Impact of Transparency and Accountability Mechanisms on Bureaucratic Inertia: A Case Study of Work Safety Regulation / Sarah Biddulph10 New Trends in Promoting Capacity in Environmental Governance in China / He WeidongConclusion: Who Are the Important Actors in Shaping the Good Governance, Transparency, and Accountability Principles? / Sarah Biddulph and Ljiljana BiukovićIndex
£62.90
University of British Columbia Press Crossing Laws Border
Book SynopsisThe UN Refugee Agency considers resettlement the selection and transfer of refugees from the state where they seek asylum to another state that volunteers to take them a tool of refugee protection and an expression of international burden sharing. In this account of Canada's resettlement program from the Indochinese crisis of the 1970s to the Syrian crisis of the 2010s, Shauna Labman explores how rights, responsibilities, and obligations intersect in the absence of a legal scheme for refugee resettlement. In particular, she examines the role of the law on the voluntary act of resettlement and the effect of resettlement on asylum policies. This pathbreaking book looks at the interplay between resettlement and asylum in one of the world's most successful refugee protection programs and shows how resettlement can either complement or complicate in-country asylum claims at a time when refugee crises and fear of outsiders are causing countries to close their borders to asTrade Review…the book is incredibly well researched, citing numerous cases and legislation. Because of the uniqueness of its subject matter on immigration resettlement, it is a must-have for any academic law library. -- Daniel Perlin, Osgoode Hall Law School Library * Canadian Law Library Review *Table of Contents1 Law’s Role in Resettlement2 Movement3 History, Humanitarianism, and Law4 Numbers, Access, and Rights5 Privatized Protection6 The State of Sponsorship7 Beyond the Convention8 Unsettling Refugee ResettlementAppendix: Federal Court of Canada Resettlement CasesNotes; Index
£62.90
University of British Columbia Press Crossing Laws Border
Book SynopsisThe UN Refugee Agency considers resettlement the selection and transfer of refugees from the state where they seek asylum to another state that volunteers to take them a tool of refugee protection and an expression of international burden sharing. In this account of Canada's resettlement program from the Indochinese crisis of the 1970s to the Syrian crisis of the 2010s, Shauna Labman explores how rights, responsibilities, and obligations intersect in the absence of a legal scheme for refugee resettlement. In particular, she examines the role of the law on the voluntary act of resettlement and the effect of resettlement on asylum policies. This pathbreaking book looks at the interplay between resettlement and asylum in one of the world's most successful refugee protection programs and shows how resettlement can either complement or complicate in-country asylum claims at a time when refugee crises and fear of outsiders are causing countries to close their borders to asTrade Review…the book is incredibly well researched, citing numerous cases and legislation. Because of the uniqueness of its subject matter on immigration resettlement, it is a must-have for any academic law library. -- Daniel Perlin, Osgoode Hall Law School Library * Canadian Law Library Review *Table of Contents1 Law’s Role in Resettlement2 Movement3 History, Humanitarianism, and Law4 Numbers, Access, and Rights5 Privatized Protection6 The State of Sponsorship7 Beyond the Convention8 Unsettling Refugee ResettlementAppendix: Federal Court of Canada Resettlement CasesNotes; Index
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Exporting Virtue
Book SynopsisExporting Virtue? critically explores the ways in which China is attempting to change international human rights standards to accommodate its interests.Trade ReviewExporting Virtue is a meticulously researched and forcefully argued indictment of faux human rights activism that "seems mainly to be an exercise in justifying authoritarianism, virtue claims notwithstanding." -- Scott Costen * The Sidebar *This book is a sound corrective to the often-heard but untenable claims by communist dictators in general that economic, social and cultural rights have precedence over civil and political ones. -- Alex Dessein, King's College London * Europe-Asia Studies Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Human Rights in China Past and Present: From Confucian Governance to Regime-led Development2 China’s Challenge to International Human Rights Standards: From Qualified Acceptance to Active Revision3 Case Study: Controlling Political Expression4 China’s International Economic Relations: Coordination with Human Rights Orthodoxy5 Case Studies: Coordinating Human Rights and Trade Policy in Labour Relations and Environmental ProtectionConclusion Notes; Authorities Cited; Index
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Global Health Security in China Japan and India
Book SynopsisGlobal Health Security in China, Japan, and India uses the targets set by the UN Sustainable Development Goals to conduct an impressively thorough assessment of coordinated health care in three major Asian countries.Table of ContentsForeword / Pitman B. PotterIntroduction: Framing Global Health Security in China, Japan and India Using the Sustainable Development Goals / Lesley A. Jacobs, Yoshitaka Wada, and Ilan VertinskyPart 1: Strengthening Access to Health Services1 Providing Access to Affordable Medicines and Health Care for All in China / Wenqin Liang and Ilan Vertinsky2 Mixed Billing and New Medicine in Japan: Will Lifting the Ban on Mixed Billing Improve Access to Health Care or Crash the System? / Yoshitaka Wada3 Health for All: Can India Meet Its International Human Rights Obligations? / Tiffany Chua, Marc McCrum, and Ilan VertinskyPart 2: Protecting and Promoting Public Health4 Linking Public Health Targets of the Sustainable Development Goals to Human Rights Performance in China / Lesley A. Jacobs5 Moving Japan Towards the Global Standard for Vaccines / Toshimi Nakanashi6 Global Health Standards and Food Security: Exploring the Double Science Standard of Review Under the SPS Agreement after India – Agricultural Products / Mariela de AmstaldenPart 3: Engaging and Integrating Global Markets in Primary Health Care and Public Health7 Does China National Tobacco Corporation Threaten Global Public Health? / Jennifer Fang, Kelley Lee, and Nidhi Sejpal Pouranik8 Exit and Voice Strategies by Patients in Dealing with Incentive Structures in the Chinese Healthcare System / Neil Munro and Ziying He9 Global Markets in Medicine: Japan’s Health Care Service Exports to Singapore and India / Hiroyuki KojinReferences; Contributors; Index
£62.90
University of British Columbia Press Global Health Security in China Japan and India
Book SynopsisGlobal Health Security in China, Japan, and India uses the targets set by the UN Sustainable Development Goals to conduct an impressively thorough assessment of coordinated health care in three major Asian countries.Table of ContentsForeword / Pitman B. PotterIntroduction: Framing Global Health Security in China, Japan and India Using the Sustainable Development Goals / Lesley A. Jacobs, Yoshitaka Wada, and Ilan VertinskyPart 1: Strengthening Access to Health Services1 Providing Access to Affordable Medicines and Health Care for All in China / Wenqin Liang and Ilan Vertinsky2 Mixed Billing and New Medicine in Japan: Will Lifting the Ban on Mixed Billing Improve Access to Health Care or Crash the System? / Yoshitaka Wada3 Health for All: Can India Meet Its International Human Rights Obligations? / Tiffany Chua, Marc McCrum, and Ilan VertinskyPart 2: Protecting and Promoting Public Health4 Linking Public Health Targets of the Sustainable Development Goals to Human Rights Performance in China / Lesley A. Jacobs5 Moving Japan Towards the Global Standard for Vaccines / Toshimi Nakanashi6 Global Health Standards and Food Security: Exploring the Double Science Standard of Review Under the SPS Agreement after India – Agricultural Products / Mariela de AmstaldenPart 3: Engaging and Integrating Global Markets in Primary Health Care and Public Health7 Does China National Tobacco Corporation Threaten Global Public Health? / Jennifer Fang, Kelley Lee, and Nidhi Sejpal Pouranik8 Exit and Voice Strategies by Patients in Dealing with Incentive Structures in the Chinese Healthcare System / Neil Munro and Ziying He9 Global Markets in Medicine: Japan’s Health Care Service Exports to Singapore and India / Hiroyuki KojinReferences; Contributors; Index
£26.99
Cornell University Press Unsettled States Disputed Lands Britain and
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIan Lustick... has written a valuable study concerning the changing relationship of Britain to Ireland (1834-1922); France to Algeria (1936-62) and Israel to the West Bank/Gaza (since 1967). This richly detailed and thoroughly documented book can be read on a number of different levels and therefore has much to offer to a wide variety of audiences. -- Robert Bookmiller * Middle East Policy *In a major study that moves between path-breaking theorizing and analysis that is relevant to today's headlines, the author examines the process by which states expand and contract.... He develops a useful model of state expansion and contraction, focusing on how the issue of incorporating outlying territories is dealt with in the political arena.... While written before the recent Israeli-PLO agreement, this book has been made more, not less, timely by events that could only be guessed at when the author was writing this stimulating, often difficult, but ultimately very rewarding study. * Foreign Affairs *
£44.65
Cornell University Press Freer Markets More Rules
Book SynopsisOver the past fifteen years, the United States, Western Europe, and Japan have transformed the relationship between governments and corporations. The changes are complex and the terms used to describe them often obscure the reality. In Freer Markets...Trade ReviewA simple suggestion: anyone who cares to comment on Japan's commitment to deregulation must first read this book. As Steven Vogel explains,... deregulation comes in many guises. * Japan Times *There is growing acceptance of the claim that international market forces have been compelling reluctant governments to deregulate, liberalize, and privatize ever more segments of their domestic economies.... Steven Vogel's refreshing book presents a compelling political challenge to such oversimplifications. * Comparative Political Studies *This is undoubtedly the finest comparative study we have of the regulatory reform movement that has spread across the advanced industrial countries over the last decade or so. * Political Studies *This masterly work... elevates the reader to a higher stage where he/she can start asking cutting-edge questions about comparative political economy. Rarely does a book leave the reviewer grateful for the opportunity to have looked into an issue so carefully. I welcome this exception. -- Hiwatari Nobuhiro, University of Tokyo * Social Science Japan Journal *
£42.30
MB - Cornell University Press Toxic Exports The Transfer of Hazardous Wastes from Rich to Poor Countries
Book SynopsisEnvironmentalists and the governments of developing countries have lobbied intensively to halt hazardous transfers from Northern industrialized nations to the Third World, but the practice continues. Jennifer Clapp addresses this alarming problem.Trade ReviewClapp examines the transfer of hazardous wastes and technologies from rich to poor countries, focusing on the sources that contribute to that transfer, as well as the political responses to it. * SciTech BookNews *That the economy and many environmental problems are global is incontestable. Illustrating and documenting that reality, Clapp details the story of hazardous waste and toxic technology transfer and the complex history of international efforts to curtail and eliminate it. With so many stakeholders... the story demonstrates that solving environmental problems is a far more extensive task than many realize. Particularly noteworthy is Clapp's demonstration of the dynamism involved in toxic transfers. * Choice *Jennifer Clapp's Toxic Exports is the definitive scholarly work on this subject. Clapp provides an engaging account of waste export and hazardous technology transfer problems and an accessible analysis of the various international conventions and amendments that were developed to address these concerns. Clapp is persuasive in her writing because she presents the perspective of all the major stakeholders in this drama: governments, environmental NGOs, and industry.... This study makes a significant contribution to the literature on nonstate actors in international relations. -- David N. Pellow * Journal of Environment and Development *The book does a very good job covering the issue of the trade in hazardous waste, a key issue in global environmental justice. There is a wealth of information in the book and an explicit tying of hazardous waste transfers to global capitalism is a key point.... This book will be of interest to those working in the field of environmental justice and international political economy and is to be recommended. * Environmental Politics *The book's most important contribution lies in its examination of the movement not only of hazardous wastes but also of the industries that generate them.... More analytical progress would be made if hazardous waste analysts, who have tended to examine either the international or the domestic policy arenas but not both, were, like Clapp, to focus more on the interrelationships between the two. -- Don Munton * Canadian Journal of Development Studies *This provocative and compelling study of hazardous waste transfers from developed (OECD) to developing countries sheds new light on the 'tragedy of the commons' problem.... The solution to the problem, Clapp concludes, is strengthening the international regime. In the final chapter, she discusses ways of accomplishing this goal. She raises important questions, but, lacking archival material from corporations and their representatives, Toxic Exports is more suggestive than definitive concerning cooperate behavior. Clapp, for instance, too easily dismisses industry arguments that the ban on waste recycling would harm the economies of developing countries and undermine the international trade regime. She also argues against the liberal notion that economic growth and environmental protection go hand-in-hand. -- Michael Adamson * Enterprise and Society *
£42.30
Cornell University Press The End of the West
Book SynopsisAre we witnessing a deepening transatlantic rift between the U.S. and the nationals of western Europe, with wide-ranging consequences for the future of world order? This volume examines core structural features of the transatlantic order to determine whether current disagreements are transient or permanent.Trade Review"In this must-read book, an outstanding group of scholars tackles one of the most critical international issues of our time: how the transatlantic partnership will evolve in the years to come. To what extent are the forces of change structural and so largely immutable to control; to what extent can policy decisions mold events? Everyone concerned about the future of American political, security, and economic relations with the European Union and NATO is sure to find in The End of the West? compelling arguments for thought and debate."—Tony Smith, Cornelia M. Jackson Professor of Political Science, Tufts University"The End of the West? is the best overview of the transatlantic order in the past decade. The authors of this excellent book take a big-picture approach, addressing the issue from varying theoretical perspectives in a first-rate series of essays. The book should be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the changing transatlantic partnership or its implications for theories of international relations."—Mark A. Pollack, Temple UniversityTable of Contents1. Explaining the Crisis and Change in Transatlantic Relations: An Introduction by G. John Ikenberry2. Inevitable Decline versus Predestined Stability: Disciplinary Explanations of the Evolving Transatlantic Order by Gunther Hellmann3. The Ghost of Crises Past: The Troubled Alliance in Historical Perspective by William I. Hitchcock4. Iraq and Previous Transatlantic Crises: Divided by Threat, Not Institutions or Values by Henry R. Nau5. The Atlantic Order in Transition: The Nature of Change in U.S.-European Relations by Charles A. Kupchan6. Trade Is No Superglue: The Changing Political Economy of Transatlantic Relations by Jens van Scherpenberg7. The Ties That Bind?: U.S.-EU Economic Relations and the Institutionalization of the Transatlantic Alliance by Kathleen R. McNamara8. Crisis, What Crisis?: Transatlantic Differences and the Foundations of International Law by Michael Byers9. The Sovereign Foundations of Transatlantic Crisis in the Post-9/11 Era by Jeffrey Anderson10. Passions within Reason by John A. Hall11. American Exceptionalism or Western Civilization? by Dieter Fuchs and Hans-Dieter Klingemann12. The End of the West?: Conclusions by Thomas RisseIndex
£97.20
Cornell University Press Hijacked Justice
Book SynopsisJelena Subotic traces the design, implementation, and political outcomes of institutions established to deal with the legacies of violence in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars.Trade ReviewSubotic argues that... international and national courts and truth commissions... have been used... to dispose of political opponents, secure economic assistance, or grease the way into the European Union. How this has happened and what those committed to making the new norms stick should do about it drive this book. Subotic goes about her study in an exceedingly clearheaded fashion; not only is she in full command of the relevant theoretical literature, but she deploys and then extends it in compact, crystal-clear paragraphs. The writing and argumentation are a model of what social science should be. -- Robert Legvold * Foreign Affairs *
£35.15
Cornell University Press Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice
Book SynopsisIn the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as universal rights. He shows that any conception of human rights—and the idea of human rights itself—is historically specific...Trade ReviewEvery once in a while a book appears that treats the leading issues of a subject in such a clear and challenging manner that it becomes central to understanding that subject. Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice is just such a book. Donnelly's interpretations are clear and argued with zest. * American Political Science Review *This wide-ranging book looks at all aspects of human rights, drawing on political theory, sociology, and international relations as well as international law. * Foreign Affairs *What Donnelly does better than anyone else is to lay before the reader a coherent conceptual framework for an understanding of international human rights as an operative part of international life. The book remains at the top of any bibliography of indispensable books dealing with human rights. * Human Rights & Human Welfare *Table of ContentsPreface to the Third EditionIntroductionPart I. Toward a Theory of Human Rights1. The Concept of Human RightsHow Rights WorkSpecial Features of Human RightsHuman Nature and Human RightsHuman Rights and Related PracticesAnalytic and Substantive TheoriesThe Failure of Foundational AppealsCoping with Contentious Foundations2. The Universal Declaration ModelThe Universal DeclarationThe Universal Declaration ModelHuman Dignity and Human RightsIndividual RightsInterdependence and IndivisibilityThe State and International Human RightsRespecting, Protecting, and Providing Human RightsRealizing Human Rights and Human Dignity3. Economic Rights and Group RightsThe Status of Economic and Social RightsGroup Rights and Human Rights4. Equal Concern and RespectHegemony and Settled NormsAn Overlapping Consensus on International Human RightsMoral Theory, Political Theory, and Human RightsEqual Concern and RespectToward a Liberal Theory of Human RightsConsensus: Overlapping but BoundedPart II. The Universality and Relativity of Human Rights5. A Brief History of Human RightsPolitics and Justice in the Premodern Non-Western WorldThe Premodern WestThe Modern Invention of Human RightsThe American and French RevolutionsApproaching the Universal DeclarationExpanding the Subjects and Substance of Human Rights6. The Relative Universality of Human Rights"Universal" and "Relative"The Universality of Internationally Recognized Human RightsThree Levels of Universality and ParticularityRelative Universality: A Multidimensional Perspective7. Universality in a World of ParticularitiesCulture and the Relativity of Human RightsAdvocating Universality in a World of ParticularitiesPart III. Human Rights and Human Dignity8. Dignity: Particularistic and Universalistic Conceptions in the WestDignitas: The Roman Roots of DignityBiblical Conceptions: Kavod and Imago DeiKantRights and Dignity in the WestDignity and the Foundations of Human Rights9. Humanity, Dignity, and Politics in Confucian ChinaCosmology and EthicsConfucians and the Early Empires“Neo-Confucianism” and Song Imperial RuleTwentieth-Century Encounters with “Rights”Human Rights and Asian Values10. Humans and Society in Hindu South AsiaCosmologySocial PhilosophyCasteHindu UniversalismOpposition to Caste DiscriminationHinduism and Human Rights in Contemporary IndiaPart IV. Human Rights and International Action11. International Human Rights RegimesThe Global Human Rights RegimePolitical Foundations of the Global RegimeRegional Human Rights RegimesSingle-Issue Human Rights RegimesAssessing Multilateral Human Rights MechanismsThe Evolution of Human Rights Regimes12. Human Rights and Foreign PolicyHuman Rights and the National InterestInternational Human Rights and National IdentityMeans and Mechanisms of Bilateral ActionThe Aims of Human Rights PolicyForeign Policy and Human Rights PolicyThe Limits of International ActionAppendix: Arguments against International Human Rights PoliciesPart V. Contemporary Issues13. Human Rights, Democracy, and DevelopmentThe Contemporary Language of LegitimacyDefining DemocracyDemocracy and Human RightsDefining DevelopmentDevelopment-Rights TradeoffsDevelopment and Civil and Political RightsMarkets and Economic and Social RightsThe Liberal Democratic Welfare State14. The West and Economic and Social RightsThe Universal Declaration of Human RightsDomestic Western PracticeThe International Human Rights CovenantsFunctional and Regional OrganizationsFurther Evidence of Western SupportUnderstanding the Sources of the MythWhy Does It Matter?15. Humanitarian Intervention against GenocideIntervention and International LawHumanitarian Intervention and International LawThe Moral Standing of the StatePolitics, Partisanship, and International OrderChanging Conceptions of Security and SovereigntyJustifying the Anti-genocide NormChanging Legal Practices“Justifying” Humanitarian InterventionMixed Motives and ConsistencyPolitics and the Authority to InterveneJudging the Kosovo InterventionDarfur and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention16. Nondiscrimination for All: The Case of Sexual MinoritiesThe Right to NondiscriminationNondiscrimination and Political StruggleDiscrimination against Sexual MinoritiesNature, (Im)morality, and Public MoralsStrategies for InclusionPaths of Incremental ChangeReferencesIndex
£97.20
Cornell University Press Toxic Exports
Book SynopsisIn recent years, international trade in toxic waste and hazardous technologies by firms in rich industrialized countries has emerged as a routine practice. Many poor countries have accepted these deadly imports but are ill equipped to manage the materials safely. For more than a decade, environmentalists and the governments of developing countries have lobbied intensively and generated public outcry in an attempt to halt hazardous transfers from Northern industrialized nations to the Third World, but the practice continues. In her insightful and important book, Jennifer Clapp addresses this alarming problem.Clapp describes the responses of those engaged in hazard transfer to international regulations, and in particular to the 1989 adoption of the Basel Convention. She pinpoints a key weakness of the regulationsbecause hazard transfer is dynamic, efforts to stop one form of toxic export prompt new forms to emerge. For instance, laws intended to ban the disposal of toxic wastesTrade ReviewClapp examines the transfer of hazardous wastes and technologies from rich to poor countries, focusing on the sources that contribute to that transfer, as well as the political responses to it. * SciTech BookNews *That the economy and many environmental problems are global is incontestable. Illustrating and documenting that reality, Clapp details the story of hazardous waste and toxic technology transfer and the complex history of international efforts to curtail and eliminate it. With so many stakeholders... the story demonstrates that solving environmental problems is a far more extensive task than many realize. Particularly noteworthy is Clapp's demonstration of the dynamism involved in toxic transfers. * Choice *Jennifer Clapp's Toxic Exports is the definitive scholarly work on this subject. Clapp provides an engaging account of waste export and hazardous technology transfer problems and an accessible analysis of the various international conventions and amendments that were developed to address these concerns. Clapp is persuasive in her writing because she presents the perspective of all the major stakeholders in this drama: governments, environmental NGOs, and industry.... This study makes a significant contribution to the literature on nonstate actors in international relations. -- David N. Pellow * Journal of Environment and Development *The book does a very good job covering the issue of the trade in hazardous waste, a key issue in global environmental justice. There is a wealth of information in the book and an explicit tying of hazardous waste transfers to global capitalism is a key point.... This book will be of interest to those working in the field of environmental justice and international political economy and is to be recommended. * Environmental Politics *The book's most important contribution lies in its examination of the movement not only of hazardous wastes but also of the industries that generate them.... More analytical progress would be made if hazardous waste analysts, who have tended to examine either the international or the domestic policy arenas but not both, were, like Clapp, to focus more on the interrelationships between the two. -- Don Munton * Canadian Journal of Development Studies *This provocative and compelling study of hazardous waste transfers from developed (OECD) to developing countries sheds new light on the 'tragedy of the commons' problem.... The solution to the problem, Clapp concludes, is strengthening the international regime. In the final chapter, she discusses ways of accomplishing this goal. She raises important questions, but, lacking archival material from corporations and their representatives, Toxic Exports is more suggestive than definitive concerning cooperate behavior. Clapp, for instance, too easily dismisses industry arguments that the ban on waste recycling would harm the economies of developing countries and undermine the international trade regime. She also argues against the liberal notion that economic growth and environmental protection go hand-in-hand. -- Michael Adamson * Enterprise and Society *
£28.49
Cornell University Press Unsettled States Disputed Lands
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIan Lustick... has written a valuable study concerning the changing relationship of Britain to Ireland (1834-1922); France to Algeria (1936-62) and Israel to the West Bank/Gaza (since 1967). This richly detailed and thoroughly documented book can be read on a number of different levels and therefore has much to offer to a wide variety of audiences. -- Robert Bookmiller * Middle East Policy *In a major study that moves between path-breaking theorizing and analysis that is relevant to today's headlines, the author examines the process by which states expand and contract.... He develops a useful model of state expansion and contraction, focusing on how the issue of incorporating outlying territories is dealt with in the political arena.... While written before the recent Israeli-PLO agreement, this book has been made more, not less, timely by events that could only be guessed at when the author was writing this stimulating, often difficult, but ultimately very rewarding study. * Foreign Affairs *
£39.60
