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The Political Economy of the World Trading System is a
comprehensive textbook account of the economics, institutional
mechanics and politics of the world trading system. This third
edition has been expanded and updated to cover developments in the
World Trade Organisation (WTO) since its formation, including the
Doha Round, presenting the essentials of trade negotiations and the
WTO's rules and disciplines.
The authors focus in particular on the WTO's role as the primary
organisation through which trading nations manage their commercial
interactions and the focal point for cooperation on policy
responses to the rapidly changing global trading environment. It is
the forum in which many features of the globalisation process are
considered, and it currently faces an unprecedented set of
challenges. The increasing importance of countries in Asia, Latin
America and Africa in international trade relations, the revealed
preference towards regionalism, intensification of trade conflicts,
the role of business groups and NGOs in trade policy formation and
negotiations, and pressures for more leadership in an institution
threatened by paralysis are examples of issues that are discussed
in some detail; all are critical for the operation of the system
and for international business in the coming decade. This edition
also includes numerous real-world examples to illustrate how the
WTO impinges on business, workers and households, written from the
perspective of managers and business associations.
An insider's view of the institutional history of the WTO allows
the authors to use a variety of conceptual tools to analyse the
working of the WTO in a non-technical manner. Suggestions for
Further Reading at the end of each chapter and an extensive
bibliography make the volume suitable both for introductory and
postgraduate courses on international economics and business,
international relations, and international economic law.
In The Ohio State Constitution, Steven Steinglass and Gino
Scarselli provide a comprehensive and accessible resource on the
history of constitutional development and law in Ohio. This
essential volume begins with an introductory essay outlining the
history of the Ohio State Constitution and includes a detailed
section-by-section commentary, providing insight and analysis on
the case law, politics and cultural changes that have shaped Ohio's
governing document. A complete list of all proposed amendments to
the Constitution from 1851 to the present and relevant cases are
included in easy-to-reference tables along with a bibliographical
essay that aids further research. Previously published by
Greenwood, this title has been brought back in to circulation by
Oxford University Press with new verve. Re-printed with
standardization of content organization in order to facilitate
research across the series, this title, as with all titles in the
series, is set to join the dynamic revision cycle of The Oxford
Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United States.
The Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United
States is an important series that reflects a renewed international
interest in constitutional history and provides expert insight into
each of the 50 state constitutions. Each volume in this innovative
series contains a historical overview of the state's constitutional
development, a section-by-section analysis of its current
constitution, and a comprehensive guide to further research.
Under the expert editorship of Professor G. Alan Tarr, Director of
the Center on State Constitutional Studies at Rutgers University,
this series provides essential reference tools for understanding
state constitutional law. Books in the series can be purchased
individually or as part of a complete set, giving readers unmatched
access to these important political documents.
This introductory book offers a rich, stimulating, and authoritative account of key debates and issues in the discipline from a range of highly regarded experts in the field. Carefully structured and edited, it explores sociological understandings of a range of core topics and critically examines what key issues have emerged for debate from past and current research. As state-of-the-art guide to its subject, this volume offers a refreshing and stimulating path through contemporary debates within a familiar and accessible format.
Recent years have seen the rise of a remarkable partnership between
the social and computational sciences on the phenomena of emotions.
Rallying around the term Affective Computing, this research can be
seen as revival of the cognitive science revolution, albeit garbed
in the cloak of affect, rather than cognition. Traditional
cognitive science research, to the extent it considered emotion at
all, cases it as at best a heuristic but more commonly a harmful
bias to cognition. More recent scholarship in the social sciences
has upended this view.
Increasingly, emotions are viewed as a form of information
processing that serves a functional role in human cognition and
social interactions. Emotions shape social motives and communicate
important information to social partners. When communicating
face-to-face, people can rapidly detect nonverbal affective cues,
make inferences about the other party's mental state, and respond
in ways that co-construct an emotional trajectory between
participants. Recent advances in biometrics and artificial
intelligence are allowing computer systems to engage in this
nonverbal dance, on the one hand opening a wealth of possibilities
for human-machine systems, and on the other, creating powerful new
tools for behavioral science research.
Social Emotions in Nature and Artifact reports on the
state-of-the-art in both social science theory and computational
methods, and illustrates how these two fields, together, can both
facilitate practical computer/robotic applications and illuminate
human social processes.
This edition of the writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-98),
barrister, United Irishman, agent of the Catholic Committee and
later an officer in the French revolutionary army, is intended to
comprehend all his writings and largely to supersede the two-volume
Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone. ..written by himself that was edited
by his son William, and published at Washington in 1826. It
consists mainly of Tone's correspondence, diaries, autobiography,
pamphlets, public addresses, and miscellaneous memoranda (both
personal and public); it is based on the original MSS if extant or
the most reliable printed sources.
Tone's participation in Irish politics in the early 1790s and his
presence on the periphery of the ruling circle in revolutionary
France from February 1796 to September 1798 would be sufficient to
make his writings a major historical source. The literary quality
of his writings, diaries, and autobiography enhances their
importance. The unique quality of Tone's writings is that they are
the production of a gifted and convivial young Irishman who moved
widely in intellectual and political circles.
This volume - France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly, and the Death of
Tone - completes the edition, following the last part of Tone's
life, until his death following the abortive Irish uprising of
1798. It includes addenda, corrigenda, an iconography, a
bibliography, and a complete index to all three volumes.
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From the world-leaders in strategic thinking and the multi-million
copy bestselling authors of Thinking Fast and Slow and Nudge, the
next big book to change the way you think. We like to think we make
decisions based on good reasoning - and that our doctors, judges,
politicians, economic forecasters and employers do too. In this
groundbreaking book, three world-leading behavioural scientists
come together to assess the last great fault in our collective
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The aim of this volume is to open up reflection on the nature of
vulnerability, the responsibilities owed to the vulnerable, who
bears these responsibilities, and how they are best fulfilled. In
canvassing responses to these questions, the contributors engage
with a range of ethical traditions and with issues in contemporary
political philosophy and bioethics. Some essays in the volume
explore the connections between vulnerability, autonomy, dignity,
and justice. Other essays engage with a feminist ethics of care to
articulate the relationship between vulnerability, dependence, and
care. These theoretical approaches are complemented by detailed
examination of vulnerability in specific contexts, including
disability; responsibilities to children; intergenerational
justice; and care of the elderly. The essays thus address
fundamental questions concerning our moral duties to each other as
individuals and as citizens. Contributing significantly to the
development of an ethics of vulnerability, this volume opens up
promising avenues for future research in feminist philosophy, moral
and political philosophy, and bioethics.
Although Tijuana has historically been one of the primary crossing
points between Mexico and the United States for undocumented
migrants, representations of the city primarily focus on its
reputation for sex, drugs, and crime, excluding its significance in
the international migration dynamic. In Border Lives, Sergio Chavez
moves beyond Tijuana's infamous image to tell the story of a
diverse group of individuals who live in Tijuana and use both sides
of the border as a resource to construct their livelihoods. Based
on ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews, Chavez explores
the complex and often contradictory ways in which the border shapes
the lives of border crossers. Due to the precarious nature of
access to the border, some were only able to use the border as a
resource in the past, while others continue to seek ways to access
the border in the future. Yet for all of these border
crossers-past, present, and future-the border itself plays a
significant role not only in their livelihood strategies, but also
their lifestyles. The border shapes respondents' knowledge and
relationships, controls their time, and allows them to convert U.S.
wages into a Mexican standard of living without losing the social
and cultural comforts of Tijuana as their home. Beyond mere
ethnography, this book provides empirical grounding to theories of
how the border shapes human action, offering a substantial
contribution to migration and labor theory.
Paul Hammond explores how sexual relationships between men were
represented in English literature during the seventeenth century.
Figuring Sex between Men from Shakespeare to Rochester is built
around two principal themes: firstly the literary strategies
through which writers created imagined spaces for the expression of
homosexual desire; and secondly the ways in which such texts were
subsequently edited and adapted to remove these references to sex
between men. The author begins with a wide-ranging analysis of the
forms in which both homosexual desire and homophobic hatred were
expressed in the period, focusing on the problems of defining male
relationships, the erotic dimension to male friendships, and the
uses of classical settings. Subsequent chapters offer four case
studies. The first focuses on how Shakespeare adapted his sources
to introduce the possibility of sexual relations between male
characters, with special attention to Twelfth Night, The Merchant
of Venice, and the Sonnets, and shows how these elements were
removed in later adaptations of his plays and poems. Subsequent
chapters chart the often satirical representation of homosexual
rulers from James I to William III; the ambiguous sexuality figured
in the poetry of Andrew Marvell; and the libertine homoeroticism of
the poetry of the Earl of Rochester. Paul Hammond draws on a wide
range of poems, plays, letters, and pamphlets, and discusses a
substantial amount of previously unknown material from both printed
and manuscript sources.
The Royal Navy had most of its greatest triumphs in the decades up
to 1815, but there has been relatively little study of its social
life and shipboard administration, beyond popular myth and
sensational accounts. This volume starts with the formal structure
of naval discipline, with Admiralty instructions and captains'
orderbooks. It then looks at how things really happened, using
diaries, medical journals, petitions, court martial reports and
even the menu book of a semi-literate steward. It reveals many
strong characters and colourful incidents of shipboard life, while
providing material for study.
This text considers the relationship between the Royal Navy and the
US Navy during the years 1917-1919.
Eva Tichauer was born in Berlin at the end of the First World War
into a socialist Jewish family. After a happy childhood in a
well-off intellectual milieu, the destiny of her family was turned
upside-down by the rise of Hitler in 1933. They emigrated to Paris
in July of that year, and life started to become difficult. Eva was
in her second year of medical studies in 1939 when war was
declared, with fatal consequences for her and her family: they sere
forced to the Spanish frontier, then returned to Paris to a flat
which had been searched by the Gestapo. Eva was then compelled to
break off her studies due to a quota system being imposed on Jewish
students.
Social psychologists and peace scholars have both contributed a
great deal of knowledge of the factors that enhance or inhibit
conflict and the likely effectiveness of practices and
interventions that address such conflict. However, contributions
from these scholarly communities have grown apart and lack the
integration that helped to create the interdisciplinary
investigations of early peace research. This Handbook brings these
perspectives together to encourage a more integrative approach to
the study of intergroup conflict and peace.
With insightful chapters from key social psychologists and peace
scholars, this volume offers an extensive overview of critical
questions, issues, processes, and strategies relevant to
understanding and addressing intergroup conflict. Chapters on
sources of intergroup conflict examine dynamic processes in
intractable conflict, ideological bases of conflict, and processes
of delegitimization and moral exclusion. Other chapters on the
perpetuation of intergroup conflict highlight processes associated
with retribution and revenge, group identities, historical
memories, victimization, and divergent perspectives between groups
in conflict. Authors review strategies for reducing and resolving
intergroup conflict using a variety of interventions that may be
useful at different stages of conflict, with particular emphasis on
strategies such as intergroup contact, dialogues, and interactive
problem solving. Finally, the authors survey the ways groups can
move beyond conflict, exploring topics such as the prevention of
genocide and mass violence, reconciliation, apology and reparation,
transitional justice, and approaches to building sustainable peace.
In a concluding chapter, Herbert Kelman offers reflections of past
and current efforts to bridge social psychological and peace
perspectives on intergroup conflict and peace. This Handbook will
provide a more integrative and cohesive foundation for research-
and practice-oriented scholars who seek to develop effective
approaches for reducing and resolving conflict and promoting
peaceful relations.
Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence, written in
1780-2, is the continuation of An Introduction to the Principles of
Morals and Legislation, and thus part of the introduction to the
projected penal code on which Bentham worked in the late 1770s and
early 1780s. The work emerged from Bentham's attempt to distinguish
between civil and penal law, which led him into an exposition of
the nature and scope of an individual law and an analysis of such
key legal terms as power, duty, right, property, contract, and
conveyance. Bentham addresses the relationship between different
'aspects' of the legislator's will, such as command, prohibition,
and permission, and in so doing develops a 'logic of the will'
which anticipates modern deontic logic. He explains that the
disposition of the people to obey constitutes the basis of
political and legal power, and distinguishes between law addressed
to the sovereign and law addressed to the people. Dealing with some
of the most fundamental problems in jurisprudence and the theory of
human action, Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence is
a work of outstanding originality and seminal importance in the
field of legal philosophy. The volume contains an Editorial
Introduction which explains the provenance of the text, and the
method of presentation. The text is fully annotated with textual
and historical notes, and the volume is completed with detailed
subject and name indices. This edition of Of the Limits of the
Penal Branch of Jurisprudence supersedes Of Laws in General, edited
by H.L.A. Hart and published by the Athlone Press in 1970, as a
volume in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham.
The Second World War affected the lives and shaped the experience
of millions of individuals in Germany--soldiers at the front,
women, children and the elderly sheltering in cellars, slave
laborers toiling in factories, and concentration-camp prisoners and
POWs clearing rubble in the Reich's devastated cities.
Taking a "history from below" approach, the volume examines how
the minds and behaviour of individuals were moulded by the Party as
the Reich took the road to Total War. The ever-increasing numbers
of German workers conscripted into the Wehrmacht were replaced with
forced foreign workers and slave labourers and concentration camp
prisoners. The interaction in everyday life between German civilian
society and these coerced groups is explored, as is that society's
relationship to the Holocaust.
From early 1943, the war on the home front was increasingly
dominated by attack from the air. The role of the Party,
administration, police, and courts in providing for the vast
numbers of those rendered homeless, in bolstering civilian morale
with "miracle revenge weapons" propaganda, and in maintaining order
in a society in disintegration is reviewed in detail.
For society in uniform, the war in the east was one of ideology
and annihilation, with intensified indoctrination of the troops
after Stalingrad. The social profile of this army is analysed
through study of a typical infantry division. The volume concludes
with an account of the various forms of resistance to Hitler's
regime, in society and the military, culminating in the failed
attempt on his life in July 1944.
This book is the first attempt that has ever been made to give a
comprehensive account of the religious life of ancient Athens. The
city's many festivals are discussed in detail, with attention to
recent anthropological theory; so too, for instance, are the cults
of households and of smaller
groups, the role of religious practice and argumentation in public
life, the authority of priests, the activities of religious
professionals such as seers and priestesses, magic, the place of
theatrical representations of the gods within public attitudes to
the divine. A long final section considers
the sphere of activity of the various gods, and takes Athens as a
uniquely detailed test case for the structuralist approach to
polytheism. The work is a synchronic, thematically organized
complement (though designed to be read independently) to the same
author's Athenian Religion: A History (OUP,
1996).
This is the credo and seminal text of the movement which was later
characterized as liberation theology. The book burst upon the scene
in the early seventies, and was swiftly acknowledged as a
pioneering and prophetic approach to theology which famously made
an option for the poor, placing the exploited, the alienated, and
the economically wretched at the centre of a programme where "the
oppressed and maimed and blind and lame" were prioritized at the
expense of those who either maintained the status quo or who abused
the structures of power for their own ends. This powerful,
compassionate and radical book attracted criticism for daring to
mix politics and religion in so explicit a manner, but was also
welcomed by those who had the capacity to see that its agenda was
nothing more nor less than to give "good news to the poor", and
redeem God's people from bondage.
Honours fulfil one of the most fundamental desires of human beings,
namely, to be recognised and held in esteem by others. There are
thousands of awards in all areas of society: the state, arts and
media, sports, religion, the voluntary sector, academia, and
business. Awards are well visible, can raise the recipients'
intrinsic motivation and creativity, and establish a bond of
loyalty to the giver. They have distinct advantages over money and
other rewards. Presenting empirical evidence using modern
statistical techniques Honours versus Money argues that awards can
significantly raise performance in different contexts even if they
are purely symbolic, recommending how this can be used in practice.
It makes the case for reorienting our focus- away from the monetary
or material dimensions of work and private life, and towards the
symbolic dimensions to celebrate and shine a light on merit and
achievement. Honours versus Money discusses award bestowals in
their different forms and facets, including as signals and as
components of organisations' human resource strategies. It opens
our perspective for motivational strategies beyond money, while
also outlining their potential pitfalls.
The city is a paradoxical space, in theory belonging to everyone,
in practice inaccessible to people who cannot afford the high price
of urban real estate. Within these urban spaces are public and
social goods including roads, policing, transit, public education,
and culture, all of which have been created through multiple hands
and generations, but that are effectively only for the use of those
able to acquire private property. Why should this be the case? As
Margaret Kohn argues, when people lose access to the urban commons,
they are dispossessed of something to which they have a rightful
claim - the right to the city. Political theory has much to say
about individual rights, equality, and redistribution, but it has
largely ignored the city. In response, Kohn turns to a mostly
forgotten political theory called solidarism to interpret the city
as a form of common-wealth. In this view, the city is a
concentration of value created by past generations and current
residents: streets, squares, community centers, schools and local
churches. Although the legal title to these mixed spaces includes a
patchwork of corporate, private, and public ownership, if we think
of the spaces as the common-wealth of many actors, the creation of
a new framework of value becomes possible. Through its novel mix of
political and urban theory, The Death and Life of the Urban
Commonwealth proposes a productive way to rethink struggles over
gentrification, public housing, transit, and public space.
For the past several years, child advocates, parents, and educators
have expressed concern over the sexualization of girls. Has the
cultural sexual objectification of girls and women increased? Are
younger and younger girls sold a "sexed-up" version of femininity,
and are adult women sold a girlish sexuality?
The Sexualization of Girls and Girlhood: Causes, Consequences, and
Resistance includes the best empirical research, theory, and
practice stemming from the report of the American Psychological
Association's Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls.
Contributors discuss evidence for this phenomenon from media and
marketing, to interpersonal interaction, to girls' own efforts to
fashion themselves after sexualized role models around them. A
variety of consequences of the sexualization of girls and
girlhood--for girls themselves, for others, and for society at
large--are presented. Individual chapters cover topics such as
athletics as a solution and problem for the sexualization of girls,
sexual harassment by peers, gendered violence, body image,
adolescent girls' sexual development, and healthy sexuality for
girls and young women. Importantly, positive alternatives and
suggestions are included so that those who care for girls can
address this troubling cultural trend and help counter the
significant risk to girls' wellbeing that it represents. This
volume is a valuable resource for child advocates, parents, and
educators and useful for undergraduate and graduate courses that
address gender across disciplines such as psychology, sociology,
anthropology, education, communication, media studies, and women's,
and sexuality studies.
A staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada
Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their
shared obsession with a great poetWhen Ada Calhoun stumbled upon
old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic
Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography
of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had
started forty years earlier. As a lifelong O'Hara fan who grew up
amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the
project would be easy, even fun, but the deeper she dove, the more
she had to face not just O'Hara's past, but also her father's, and
her own. The result is a groundbreaking and kaleidoscopic memoir
that weaves compelling literary history with a moving, honest, and
tender story of a complicated father-daughter bond. Also a Poet
explores what happens when we want to do better than our parents,
yet fear what that might cost us; when we seek their approval, yet
mistrust it. In reckoning with her unique heritage, as well as
providing new insights into the life of one of our most important
poets, Calhoun offers a brave and hopeful meditation on parents and
children, artistic ambition, and the complexities of what we leave
behind.
The 45th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyses developments in
2013 in Security and conflicts Military spending and armaments
Non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament The SIPRI Yearbook
contains extensive annexes on the implementation of arms control
and disarmament agreements and a chronology of events during the
year in the area of security and arms control.
The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies introduces and
reviews current thinking in the interdisciplinary field of material
culture studies. Drawing together approaches from archaeology,
anthropology, geography, and Science and Technology Studies,
through twenty-eight specially commissioned essays by leading
international researchers, the volume explores contemporary issues
and debates in a series of themed sections - Disciplinary
Perspectives, Material Practices, Objects and Humans, Landscapes
and the Built Environment, and Studying Particular Things. From
Coca-Cola, chimpanzees, artworks, and ceramics, to museums, cities,
human bodies, and magical objects, the Handbook is an essential
resource for anyone with an interest in materiality and the place
of material objects in human social life, both past and present. A
comprehensive bibliography enhances its usefulness as a research
tool.
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