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China in Global Governance of Intellectual Property - Implications for Global Distributive Justice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023):... China in Global Governance of Intellectual Property - Implications for Global Distributive Justice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Wenting Cheng
R3,614 Discovery Miles 36 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book analyses how China has engaged in global IP governance and the implications of its engagement for global distributive justice. It investigates five cases on China's IP engagement in geographical indications, the disclosure obligation, IP and standardisation, and its bilateral and multilateral IP engagement. It takes a regulation-oriented approach to examine substate and non-state actors involved in China's global IP engagement, identifies principles that have guided or constrained its engagement, and discusses strategies actors have used in managing the principles. Its focus on engagement directs attention to processes instead of outcomes, which enables a more nuanced understanding of the role that China plays in global IP governance than the dichotomic categorisation of China either as a global IP rule-taker or rule-maker. This book identifies two groups of strategies that China has used in its global IP engagement: forum and agenda-related strategies and principle-related strategies. The first group concerns questions of where and how China has advanced its IP agenda, including multi-forum engagement, dissembling, and more cohesive responsive engagement. The second group consists of strategies to achieve a certain principle or manage contesting principles, including modelling and balancing. It shows that China's deployment of engagement strategies makes its IP system similar to those of the EU and the US. Its balancing strategy has led to constructed inconsistency of its IP positions across forums. This book argues that China still has some way to go to influence global IP agenda-setting in a way matching its status as the second largest economy.

Adolf Hitler - The Curious and Macabre Anecdotes (Paperback): Patrick Delaforce Adolf Hitler - The Curious and Macabre Anecdotes (Paperback)
Patrick Delaforce
R424 R395 Discovery Miles 3 950 Save R29 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Adolf Hitler was born in Austria in April 1889, and shot himself in a bunker in Berlin in April 1945 with Russian soldiers beating at the door, surrounded by the ruins of the country he had vowed to restore to greatness. Adolf Hitler: The Curious and Macabre Anecdotes - part biography, part miscellany, part historical overview - presents the life and times of der Fuhrer in a unique and compelling manner. The early life of the loner son of an Austrian customs official gave little clue as to his later years. As a decorated, twice-wounded soldier of the First World War, through shrewd manipulation of Germany's offended national pride after the war, Hitler ascended rapidly through the political system, rousing the masses behind him with a thundering rhetoric that amplified the nation's growing resentment and brought him the adulation of millions. By the age of 44, he had become both a millionaire with secret bank accounts in Switzerland and Holland, and the unrivalled leader of Germany, whose military might he had resurrected; six years later, he provoked the world to war. Patrick Delaforce's book is a masterly assessment of Hitler's life, career and beliefs, drawn not only from its subject's own writings, speeches, conversation, poetry and art, but also from the accounts of those who knew him, loved him, or loathed him. The journey of an ordinary young man to callous dictator and architect of the 'Final Solution' makes for provocative and important - thought not always comfortable - reading.

The Impeachment of Chief Justice David Brock - Judicial Independence and Civic Populism (Hardcover): John Cerullo, David C.... The Impeachment of Chief Justice David Brock - Judicial Independence and Civic Populism (Hardcover)
John Cerullo, David C. Steelman
R2,946 Discovery Miles 29 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

At this juncture in American history, some of our most hard-fought state-level political struggles involve control of state supreme courts. New Hampshire witnessed one of the most dramatic of these, culminating in the impeachment of Chief Justice David Brock in 2000, but the issues raised by the case are hardly confined to New Hampshire. They involved the proper nature and operation of judicial independence within a "populist" civic culture that had long assumed the primacy of the legislative branch, extolled its "citizen legislators" over insulated and professionalized elites, and entrusted those legislators to properly supervise the judiciary. In the last few decades of the 20th Century, New Hampshire's judiciary had been substantially reconfigured: constitutional amendments and other measures endorsed by the national judicial-modernization movement had secured for it a much higher level of independence and internal unification than it had historically enjoyed. However, a bipartisan body of legislators remained committed to the principle of legislative supremacy inscribed in the state constitution of 1784. The 1980s and 1990s witnessed a series of clashes over court administration, allegations of judicial corruption, and finally a bitter and protracted battle over Court decisions on educational funding. Chief Justice Brock publicly embodied the judicial branch's new status and assertiveness. When information came to light regarding some of his administrative actions on the high court, deepening antipathy toward him exploded into an impeachment crisis. The struggle over Brock's conduct raised significant questions about the meaning and proper practice of impeachment itself as a feature of democratic governance. When articles of impeachment were voted by the House of Representatives, the state Senate faced the difficult task of establishing trial protocols that would balance the political and juridical responsibilities devolved on them, simultaneously, by the state constitution. Having struck that balance, the trial they conducted would finally acquit Brock of all charges. Nevertheless, David Brock's impeachment was a highly consequential ordeal that provided a needed catalyst for reforms intended to produce a productive recalibration of legislative-judicial relations.

A Clear and Present Danger - Narcissism in the Era of Donald Trump [Hardcover] (Hardcover): Steven Buser, Leonard Cruz A Clear and Present Danger - Narcissism in the Era of Donald Trump [Hardcover] (Hardcover)
Steven Buser, Leonard Cruz; Contributions by Jean Shinoda Bolen
R1,002 Discovery Miles 10 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Politics of Eurozone Reforms (Hardcover): Sonja Puntscher Riekmann, Fabio Wasserfallen, Zdenek Kudrna The Politics of Eurozone Reforms (Hardcover)
Sonja Puntscher Riekmann, Fabio Wasserfallen, Zdenek Kudrna
R2,466 Discovery Miles 24 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Recent Eurozone reforms mark the most profound deepening of European integration since Maastricht. This book analyses how member states formed preferences in the politics of these reforms, and how preferences translated into policy outcomes on the European level. The chapters summarize insights on the role of different actors and institutions from four datasets based on 200 expert interviews, the analysis of 5000 policy documents and constitutional court cases in all EU member states. The findings confirm some common wisdom, dispel some myths, and provide insights into mechanisms facilitating further reforms. While quantitative analyses show that 'Northern' and 'Southern' member states were deeply divided, case study chapters provide more refined view. Empirical data also indicate that reform decisions were dominated by governments and EU institutions but dispel the notion that Germany alone imposed its preferred policy. This book goes further and unpacks the legacies of the EMU crisis that make future reforms dependent on the reduction of financial sector risks, which is a necessary condition for rebuilding trust and restarting the gradual convergence of Eurozone reform preferences.

Hope and Hard Truth - A Life in Texas Politics (Hardcover): Mary Beth Rogers Hope and Hard Truth - A Life in Texas Politics (Hardcover)
Mary Beth Rogers
R687 Discovery Miles 6 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Mary Beth Rogers has led an eventful life rooted in the weeds of Texas politics, occasionally savoring a few victories-particularly the 1990 governor's race when, as campaign manager for Ann Richards, she did the impossible and put a Democratic woman in office. She also learned to absorb her losses-after all, she was a liberal feminist in America's most aggressively conservative state. Rogers's road to a political life was complex. Candidly and vulnerably, she shares both public and private memories of how she tried to maintain a rich family life with growing children and a husband with a debilitating illness. She goes on to provide an insider's account of her experiences as Richards's first chief of staff while weaving her way through the highs and lows of political intrigue and legislative maneuvering. Reflecting on her family heritage and nascent spiritual quest, Rogers discovers a reality at once sobering and invigorating: nothing is ever completely lost or completely won. It is a constant struggle to create humane public policies built on a foundation of fairness and justice-particularly in her beloved Texas.

Elements of International Law (1836) - With a Sketch of the History of the Science (Hardcover): Henry Wheaton Elements of International Law (1836) - With a Sketch of the History of the Science (Hardcover)
Henry Wheaton
R1,096 Discovery Miles 10 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Right to Petition - A Practical Guide to Creating Change in Government with Political Advocacy Tools and Tips (Hardcover):... Right to Petition - A Practical Guide to Creating Change in Government with Political Advocacy Tools and Tips (Hardcover)
Nicole Tisdale
R634 R573 Discovery Miles 5 730 Save R61 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rescue Thyself - Change In Sub-Saharan Africa Must Come from Within (Paperback): Sylvanus Ayeni Rescue Thyself - Change In Sub-Saharan Africa Must Come from Within (Paperback)
Sylvanus Ayeni
R774 Discovery Miles 7 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is an in-depth and bold dialogue with several constituencies about the necessity of finding alternative pathways to solve the monumental problems facing the nations of Sub-Saharan Africa. It asserts that the most formidable barriers to progress in Sub-Saharan Africa are Sub-Saharan Africans, particularly the leaders. Thus, for these nations to escape from destitution, change must originate from within. African leaders are reminded that life anchored on the pursuit of money, material wealth, and power by any means, is hollow, empty, and meaningless. The future leaders of Sub-Saharan Africa are reminded that the Creator has endowed them and the citizens of their nations with the talents they need to develop themselves and their societies. Furthermore, nature has been so kind to their nations, endowing them with more than sufficient natural resources. Thus, they need not continue the culture of dependency on the rest of the human race.

Where Else but the Streets - A Street Art Dossier (Hardcover, Revised ed.): John Wellington Ennis Where Else but the Streets - A Street Art Dossier (Hardcover, Revised ed.)
John Wellington Ennis
R811 Discovery Miles 8 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Participation and Non-Participation in Student Activism - Paths and Barriers to Mobilising Young People for Political Action... Participation and Non-Participation in Student Activism - Paths and Barriers to Mobilising Young People for Political Action (Hardcover)
Alexander Hensby
R3,526 Discovery Miles 35 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Why might some students convert their political interests into activism when others do not? There is a strong need to understand the changing dynamics of contemporary youth participation: how they engage, what repertoires are considered efficacious, and their motivations to get involved. This book uses the 2010/11 UK student protests against fees and cuts as a case study for analysing some of the key paths and barriers to political participation today. These paths and barriers - which include an individual's family socialisation, network positioning, and group identification (and dis-identification) - help us explain why some people convert their political sympathies and interests into action, and why others do not. Drawing on an original survey dataset of students, the book shows how and why students responded in the way that they did, whether by occupying buildings, joining marches, signing petitions, or not participating at all. Considering this in the context of other student movements across the globe, the book's combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, and its theoretical contribution provide a more holistic picture of student protest than is found in existing studies.

Summary Transcript of Donald Trump's Phone Conversation with Volodymyr Zelenskyy; Whistleblower Complaint Against... Summary Transcript of Donald Trump's Phone Conversation with Volodymyr Zelenskyy; Whistleblower Complaint Against President Trump; and US House of Representatives - The Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report (Hardcover)
U.S. House of Representatives
R878 Discovery Miles 8 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The India I Know and of Hinduism - From a South Indian Woman Writer (Hardcover): Indira G The India I Know and of Hinduism - From a South Indian Woman Writer (Hardcover)
Indira G
R669 Discovery Miles 6 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mad Men - The Death and Redemption of American Democracy (Hardcover): Sara MacDonald, Andrew Moore Mad Men - The Death and Redemption of American Democracy (Hardcover)
Sara MacDonald, Andrew Moore; Contributions by T.D. Anderson, Barry Craig, Matthew Dinan, …
R3,167 R2,235 Discovery Miles 22 350 Save R932 (29%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For seven seasons, AMC's Mad Men captivated audiences with the story of Don Draper, an advertising executive whose personal and professional successes and failures took viewers on a roller coaster ride through America's tumultuous 1960s. More than just a television show about one of advertising's "bad boys," the series investigates the principles of the American regime, exploring whether or not the American Dream is a sustainable vision of human flourishing and happiness. This collection of essays investigates the show's engagement with the philosophic and political foundations of American democracy.

Leadership Accountability in Government - Defining, Measuring & Managing for Results (Hardcover): Richard Demeritte Leadership Accountability in Government - Defining, Measuring & Managing for Results (Hardcover)
Richard Demeritte
R541 Discovery Miles 5 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Bill Ratliff - A Profile of Courage and Leadership in American Politics (Paperback): Robert Edward Sterken Bill Ratliff - A Profile of Courage and Leadership in American Politics (Paperback)
Robert Edward Sterken
R1,153 Discovery Miles 11 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Lt. Governor Bill Ratliff is an engineer, a widely respected senator, and according to Caroline Kennedy he is "an inspiration to all who serve in government, and to all Americans." Senator Ratliff, nicknamed "Obi Wan Kenobi" by his colleagues, was a revered and much loved leader in Texas for more than a decade. He singularly wrote the Texas Robin-Hood school finance law, a major Ethics reform law, a Texas tort reform law, and held a great disdain for narrow partisanship and politics. This is the inspirational story of a great man doing good work in a time when many are cynical about political leadership and government. His courageous stand on principle brought him to a showdown with powerful forces in the Bush White House and earned him the public vitriol of right-wing billionaires.

Aldous Huxley - The Political Thought of a Man of Letters (Paperback): Alessandro Maurini Aldous Huxley - The Political Thought of a Man of Letters (Paperback)
Alessandro Maurini
R1,069 Discovery Miles 10 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Aldous Huxley: The Political Thought of a Man of Letters argues that Huxley is not a man of letters engaged in politics, but a political thinker who chooses literature to spread his ideas. His preference for the dystopian genre is due to his belief in the tremendous impact of dystopia on twentieth-century political thought. His political thinking is not systematic, but this does not stop his analysis from supplying elements that are original and up-to-date, and that represent fascinating contributions of political theory in all the spheres that he examines from anti-Marxism to anti-positivism, from political realism to elitism, from criticism of mass society to criticism of totalitarianism, from criticism of ideologies to the future of liberal democracy, from pacifism to ecological communitarianism. Huxley clearly grasped the unsolved issues of contemporary liberalism, and the importance of his influence on many twentieth-century and present-day political thinkers ensures that his ideas remain indispensable in the current liberal-democratic debate. Brave New World is without doubt Huxley's most successful political manifesto. While examining the impassioned struggle for the development of all human potentialities, it yet manages not to close the doors definitively on the rebirth of utopia in the age of dystopia.

Doing Politics with Citizen Art (Hardcover): Fawn Daphne Plessner Doing Politics with Citizen Art (Hardcover)
Fawn Daphne Plessner
R2,509 Discovery Miles 25 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines how 'citizen art' practices perform new kinds of politics, as distinct from normative (status, participatory and cosmopolitan) models. It contends that at a time in which the conditions of citizenship have been radically altered (e.g., by the increased securitization and individuation of bodies etc.), there is an urgent drive for 'citizen art' to be enacted as a tool for assessing the 'hollowed out' conditions of citizenship. 'Citizen art', it shows, stands apart from other forms of Art by performing 'acts of citizenship' that reveal and transgress the limitations of state-centred citizenship regimes, whilst simultaneously enacting genuinely alternative modes of (non-statist) citizenship. This book explains how 'citizen art' can make citizenship manifest in ways that do not reify or valorize the nation-state, status rights, or cosmopolitan imaginaries. It shows instead that the outcomes of 'citizen art', such as the institutions of solidarity, assembly and interventions, reconfigure the 'tools' of politics in the act of 'doing politics' that, in turn, perform new and nascent modes of (non-statist) citizenship. This book offers a new formulation of 'citizen art' - one that is interrogated on both critical and material levels, and as such, that remodels the foundations on which citizenship is conceived, performed and instituted.

Women, Peace and Security and International Law (Hardcover, New Ed): Christine Chinkin Women, Peace and Security and International Law (Hardcover, New Ed)
Christine Chinkin
R3,104 Discovery Miles 31 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In 2000, the UN Security Council adopted the ground-breaking Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) placing women at the centre of the agenda, thanks to years of campaigning. The Resolution recognises the differential impact of armed conflict on women and men, draws attention to the 'inextricable links between gender equality and international peace and security' and stresses the 'important role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts and in peace-building'. But what exactly is the WPS agenda and what is its content? What are its implications for peace and for security? And what does it mean for international lawyers? Through the narratives of women's activism and of international law this book seeks to make the WPS agenda better known to international lawyers and to ask whether it is, or could become, an international legal regime that conforms and responds to the realities of women's lives.

Leadership Upgrade - 10 Keys to Become the Leader Your World Is Waiting For - Home, Community, Work: 10 Keys to Become the... Leadership Upgrade - 10 Keys to Become the Leader Your World Is Waiting For - Home, Community, Work: 10 Keys to Become the Leader Your World Is Waiting For - Home, Community, Work (Hardcover)
Michael Rowell
R1,124 Discovery Miles 11 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
MAGA Mindset - Making YOU and America Great Again (Hardcover): Mike Cernovich MAGA Mindset - Making YOU and America Great Again (Hardcover)
Mike Cernovich; Edited by Vox Day
R628 Discovery Miles 6 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
More Worlds to Negotiate: John Dunlop and the Art of Problem Solving (Paperback): Jennifer C. Berkshire More Worlds to Negotiate: John Dunlop and the Art of Problem Solving (Paperback)
Jennifer C. Berkshire
R1,039 Discovery Miles 10 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

John Dunlop assumed the office of secretary of labor with a stern warning about the creeping menace of over-regulation. A mounting tide of red tape was creating a backlash among the people who were on the receiving end of all of these rules, breeding a climate of hostility that would make it all but impossible to solve the nation's most pressing problems. Dunlop's cautionary words, delivered nearly five decades ago, seem eerily prescient today as resentment against elites fuels a right-wing populist rebellion in the US and beyond. Yet even as he feared for the future, Dunlop was intent on demonstrating that it was possible to craft lasting solutions to seemingly intractable problems: soaring health-care costs; racial inequity in the workplace and higher education; the lack of basic labor protections for whole categories of workers; and the loss of manufacturing jobs to globalization and automation. Whatever the specific problem he was called upon to help solve, Dunlop began with the view that no matter the intensity of the divide, getting people talking was absolutely key to crafting an enduring solution. In our own era of discord and fracture, Dunlop's insights into the vital importance of talking, listening and persuading as a means of working through complicated social issues are more relevant than ever. Drawing on Dunlop's personal diary and extensive interviews with his colleagues and co-workers, this volume reconstructs key examples of Dunlop's problem-solving work. A portrayal of his work and legacy, the book functions as a how-to guide for applying Dunlop's approach to problem solving to the urgent challenges that confront us today.

For the Fallen - Honouring the Unsung Heroes and Heroines of the Liberation Struggle (Paperback): Mzwakhe Ndlela For the Fallen - Honouring the Unsung Heroes and Heroines of the Liberation Struggle (Paperback)
Mzwakhe Ndlela
R414 Discovery Miles 4 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

While South Africa has many stories about the struggle years, yet many more remain untold. For the Fallen; honouring the unsung heroes and heroines of the liberation struggle was inspired by a radio interview with the late Govan Mbeki. In that interview Mbeki emphasised the need for South Africans to tell their stories and spread knowledge. It took a while for Ndlela to heed those words and tell his story in this book. This book is as much about the author’s concerns that a generation who have only known freedom will forget or never even understand the great price it took to gain that freedom, as it is about the often forgotten heroes and heroines who showed their ultimate commitment to their ideals. The book chronicles the author’s journey from Bedford in the Eastern Cape as a young boy, fearful and yet defiant of the police who harassed him and his friends, to the young militant who became an MK soldier whose exile took him to Lesotho, Zambia, Angola and Swaziland. He describes the inspiration he gained from the heroes and heroines he encountered on this journey. These heroes and heroines included the primary school teacher who encouraged parents to broaden their thinking and who stressed the importance of education; the radical high school teacher who defied the “system “and the school curriculum to teach real, “current” history and the man of God who was required to save souls in more ways than one. As the reader accompanies Ndlela on this retrospective journey, one will encounter individuals who would later play a pivotal role in the establishment and concretisation of the democratic South Africa, people such as Thenjiwe Mtintso, Chris Hani, Jeff Radebe, Rev Makhenkesi Stofile, Mvuyo Tom and many others. For the Fallen is above all, a reminder that our freedom was not lightly gained and that we should keep telling these stories, lest we forget.

Politics of African Anticolonial Archive (Paperback): Shiera S. El-Malik, Isaac A. Kamola Politics of African Anticolonial Archive (Paperback)
Shiera S. El-Malik, Isaac A. Kamola
R1,266 Discovery Miles 12 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

African political writing of the mid-20th century seeks to critically engage with questions of identity, history, and the state for the purpose of national and human liberation. This volume collects an array of essays that reflect on anticolonialism in Africa, broadly defined. Each contribution connects the historical period with the anticolonial present through a critical examination of what constitutes the anticolonial archive. The volume considers archive in a Derridean sense, as always in the process of being constructed such that the assessment of the African anticolonial archive is one that involves a contemporary process of curating. The essays in this volume, as well as the volume itself, enact different ways of curating material from this period. The project reflects an approach to documents, arguments, and materials that can be considered "international relations" and "world politics," but in ways that that intentionally leaves them unhinged from these disciplinary meanings. While we examine many of the same questions that have been asked within area studies, African studies, and International Relations, we do so through an alternative archive. In doing so, we challenge the assumption that Africa is solely the domain of policy makers and area studies, and African peoples as the objects of data

The Starr Report - Referral from Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr Regarding President Clinton (Hardcover): U.S. Department... The Starr Report - Referral from Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr Regarding President Clinton (Hardcover)
U.S. Department of Justice, Office Of Special Counsel
R639 Discovery Miles 6 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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