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This book develops a conceptual framework that captures not only
the tensions between constitutional values that are common to
liberal democracies - human rights, democracy, and the rule of law
- and the investment treaty regime, but also the potential for
co-existence and complementarity. Contributions from leading
experts in the field address how different systems of
constitutional law interact with the investment treaty regime.
Chapters provide a detailed overview of the various forms of
interaction, and critically engage with the competing claims for
supremacy that constitutional law and international investment law
formulate. The book also addresses the reactions within the
investment treaty regime to the demands formulated by
constitutional law, in particular the use of constitutional
analogies to understand international investment law and
investor-state dispute settlement. Investigating the leading
questions and issues surrounding this growing topic, this book will
be an ideal read for students and scholars interested in financial,
economic, and international law. Practitioners of constitutional
law will also benefit from this innovative book.
This book questions whether investment law influences the wider
field of general international law, and more specifically, whether
approaches adopted by tribunals in investment arbitrations have
radiated, or should radiate, into other fields of international
law. To answer this question, the book engages in a detailed
analysis of pronouncements by investment tribunals on state
responsibility, the law of treaties, and general principles of
dispute resolution, and evaluates their impact beyond the narrow
field of investment law. The perspectives provided in the book
highlight how rules of general international law are concretised,
specified, and at times moulded in investment arbitration practice.
By doing so, the book enhances our understanding of the
relationship between general international law and one its most
dynamic sub-disciplines. Combining conceptual and practical
perspectives, and offering a detailed analysis of the pertinent
case law, the book is a plea for a fuller engagement directed at
both general international lawyers and international investment
lawyers. It will help investment lawyers better understand the role
of general international law in their field of practice. General
international lawyers will benefit from paying close attention to
how investment lawyers apply and interpret rules of general
international law.
James Maley, George Watters, Donald Renton and Archibald Williams
were members of Machine Gun Company No. 2 of the XV International
Brigade. This is the first book to focus on a small group of men
from different starting-points, ended up in the same battleground
at Jarama, and then in the same prisons after capture by Franco’s
forces. Their remarkable story is told both in their own words and
in the recollections of their sons and daughters, through a prison
notebook, newspaper reports, stills cut from newsreels, interviews,
anecdotes and memories, with a foreword by Daniel Gray. Our Fathers
Fought Franco is a collective biography that promises to add
significantly to the understanding of the motives of those who
‘went because their open eyes could see no other way’.
Historiographical approaches to international investment law
scholarship are becoming ever more important. This insightful book
combines perspectives from a range of expert international law
scholars who explore ways in which using a broad variety of
historical methods and historical research can lead to a better
understanding of international investment law. International
Investment Law and History critically analyses the use of
historical argument in international investment law. It examines
the vital roles that historical arguments play in interpreting
investment treaties, resolving investor-state disputes, and
justifying or criticising the current system of investment
protection. This book is the first in-depth study on the
methodological challenges and benefits of historical analysis in
international investment law. As such, it is a vital tool for
scholars and practitioners in the field who wish to understand ways
in which to use historical research and analysis to improve and
redefine international investment law. Contributors include: M.
Boase, H. Bray, Y. Chernykh, J. Ho, R. Hofmann, J. Kammerhofer, A.
Kulick, K. Miles, M. Pinchis-Paulsen, S.W. Schill, T. St. John,
C.J. Tams, J. Yackee
The global crises of the early 21st century have tested the
international financial architecture. In seeking to ensure
stability, governments have regulated financial and capital
markets. This in turn has implicated international investment law,
which investors have invoked as a shield against debt
restructuring, bail-ins or bail-outs. This book explores whether
investment law should protect against such regulatory measures,
including where these have the support of multilateral
institutions. It considers where the line should be drawn between
legitimate regulation and undue interference with investor rights
and, equally importantly, who draws it. Across the diverse chapters
herein, expert international scholars assess the key challenges
facing decision makers, analyze arbitral and treaty practice and
evaluate ways towards a balanced system of investment protection in
the financial sector. In doing so, they offer a detailed analysis
of the interaction between investment protection and financial
regulation in fields such as sovereign debt restructuring and bank
rescue measures. Combining high-level analysis with a detailed
assessment of controversial legal issues, this book will provide
guidance for both academics and legal practitioners working in
international economic law, international arbitration, investment
law, international banking and financial law. Contributors include:
A. Asteriti, P. Athanassiou, C.N. Brower, A. De Luca, A.
Goetz-Charlier, A. Gourgourinis, R. Hofmann, H. Kupelyants, Y. Li,
M. Mendelson, M.W. Muller, M
The Research Handbook on the Law of Treaties provides an
authoritative treatment of fundamental issues in international
treaty law. Identifying key challenges facing the modern law of
treaties, the Handbook addresses the current regime and comments on
potential directions of the law.Rather than an article-by-article
commentary on provisions applicable to treaties, the Handbook
offers an innovative study of their spatial, personal and temporal
dimensions and of the tensions that arise due to the need for both
flexibility and certainty in treaty relations. It analyses the
interaction between treaty regimes and potential ruptures, as well
as the expansion of treaty law to international organisations,
corporations and individuals. Each chapter includes an 'agenda for
research', highlighting areas where future work could yield
significant results. This pioneering Handbook will prove an
invaluable resource for researchers and advanced students, as well
as providing unique insights for practitioners of international
law. Contributors: E. Cannizzaro, J. d'Aspremont, K. del Mar, J.
Devaney, J. Finke, M. Fitzmaurice, M. Karavias, M. Kotzur, S-I.
Lekkas, V. Lowe QC, P.Merkouris, M. Milanovic, A. Nollkaemper, M.
Paparinskis, I. Plakokefalos, A. Proelss, S. Ranganathan, A.
Rasulov, Y. Ronen, C. J. Tams, A. Tzanakopoulos, M. Waibel, P.
Webb, A. Zimmermann
Originally published in 1985, this study investigates the actual
experience in mechanization during the Fourth Five Year Plan
period, a period which represented, in many ways, a new stage in
China’s rural development. It examines the historical perspective
and the development approach under which mechanization efforts were
exerted during this 5-year period and the mechanism, outcomes and
problems these entailed. The book addresses the issues involved in
agricultural development and mechanization through a more integral
analysis of the way technological transformation has been linked to
China’s quest for social and economic development.
The Research Handbook on the Law of Treaties provides an
authoritative treatment of fundamental issues in international
treaty law. Identifying key challenges facing the modern law of
treaties, the Handbook addresses the current regime and comments on
potential directions of the law.Rather than an article-by-article
commentary on provisions applicable to treaties, the Handbook
offers an innovative study of their spatial, personal and temporal
dimensions and of the tensions that arise due to the need for both
flexibility and certainty in treaty relations. It analyses the
interaction between treaty regimes and potential ruptures, as well
as the expansion of treaty law to international organisations,
corporations and individuals. Each chapter includes an 'agenda for
research', highlighting areas where future work could yield
significant results. This pioneering Handbook will prove an
invaluable resource for researchers and advanced students, as well
as providing unique insights for practitioners of international
law. Contributors: E. Cannizzaro, J. d'Aspremont, K. del Mar, J.
Devaney, J. Finke, M. Fitzmaurice, M. Karavias, M. Kotzur, S-I.
Lekkas, V. Lowe QC, P.Merkouris, M. Milanovic, A. Nollkaemper, M.
Paparinskis, I. Plakokefalos, A. Proelss, S. Ranganathan, A.
Rasulov, Y. Ronen, C. J. Tams, A. Tzanakopoulos, M. Waibel, P.
Webb, A. Zimmermann
For the engineering and scientific professional, A Physicist's
Guide to Mathematica, 2/e provides an updated reference guide based
on the 2007 new 6.0 release, providing an organized and integrated
desk reference with step by step instructions for the most often
used features of the software as it applies to research in physics.
For Professors teaching physics and other science courses using the
Mathematica software, A Physicist's Guide to Mathematica, 2/e is
the only fully compatible (new software release) Mathematica text
that engages students by providing complete topic coverage, new
applications, exercises and examples that enable the user to solve
a wide range of physics problems.
- Does not require prior knowledge of Mathematica or computer
programming
- Can be used as either a primary or supplemental text for
upper-division physics majors and an Instructor's Solutions Manual
is available
- Provides over 450 end-of-section exercises and end-of-chapter
problems
- Serves as a reference suitable for chemists, physical scientists,
and engineers
- Compatible with Mathematica Version 6, a recent major
release
- Compact disk contains all of the Mathematica input and output in
this book
Since the 1970's, there has been a great deal of research effort
spent on studying
chaotic systems and the properties of the chaotic signals
generated. Characterized by their wideband, impulse-like
autocorrelation and low cross-correlation properties, chaotic
signals are useful spread-spectrum signals for carrying digital
information. Spectrum spreading has become one of the most popular
modulation techniques for high-speed wireless communications. It
makes use of signals of very wide bandwidth to carry information at
relatively low data rates, and possesses advantages such as low
probability of interception, resistance to jamming, multiple-access
capability and mitigation to multipath effect, which are
particularly important in a wireless scenario. In addition to
enjoying the aforementioned benefits, chaotic signals can be
generated using simple circuitries, thus lowering the cost of
transceivers.
Early study of chaos-based communication systems was focused on a
single-user case. In the past few years, more effort has been put
on investigating systems with multiple-access capability, which is
a key feature of spread-spectrum communication systems. This book
presents a detailed study of some multiple-access schemes used for
chaos-based communications, and evaluates their performance. In
addition, the effectiveness of the multiuser detection techniques,
whose primary objective is to reduce interference between users and
hence improve performance, is evaluated in the context of
multiple-access digital communication systems.
* Hot research topic
* Describes communication technologies for the future
* Authors among the pioneers researching in chaos-based
communications
This book develops a model to evaluate and assess life-cycle
greenhouse gas emissions based on typical Australian commercial
building design options. It also draws comparisons between some of
the many green building rating tools that have been developed
worldwide to support sustainable development. These include:
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) by the United
States Green Building Council (USGBC), Building Research
Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) by the
Building Research Establishment, Comprehensive Assessment System
for Building Environmental Efficiency (CASBEE) by the Japanese
Sustainable Building Consortium, and Green Star Environmental
Rating System by the Green Building Council of Australia.
Life-cycle assessment (LCA), life-cycle energy consumption, and
life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions form the three pillars of
life-cycle studies, which have been used to evaluate environmental
impacts of building construction. Assessment of the life-cycle
greenhouse gas emissions of buildings is one of the significant
obstacles in evaluating green building performance. This book
explains the methodology for achieving points for the categories
associated with reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the
Australian Green Star rating system. The model for the assessment
uses GaBi 8.7 platform along with Visual Basic in Microsoft Excel
and shows the relationship between the building's energy
consumption and greenhouse gas emissions released during the
lifetime of the building. The data gathered in the book also
illustrates that the green building design and specifications are
becoming more popular and are being increasingly utilized in
Australia. This book is important reading for anyone interested in
sustainable construction, green design and buildings and LCA tools.
In recent years transgender has emerged as a subject of increasing
social and cultural interest. This volume offers vivid accounts of
the diversity of living transgender in today's world. The first
section, "Emerging Identities," maps the ways in which social,
cultural, legal and medical developments shape new identities on
both an individual and collective level. Rather than simply
reflecting social change, these shifts work to actively construct
contemporary identities. The second section, "Trans Governance,"
examines how law and social policy have responded to contemporary
gender shifts. The third section, "Transforming Identity," explores
gender and sexual identity practices within cultural and
subcultural spaces. The final section, "Transforming Theory?",
offers a theoretical reflection on the increasing visibility of
trans people in today's society and traces the challenges and the
contributions transgender theory has brought to gender theory,
queer theory and sociological approaches to identity and
citizenship. Featuring contributions from throughout the world,
this volume represents the cutting-edge scholarship in transgender
studies and will be of interest to scholars and students interested
in gender, sexuality, and sociology.
How are Christians capable of believing? Is it faith or delusion?
Or is there something wrong with me? I do not believe in spirits,
gods, miracles, resurrection or eternal life. But I will seek to
cast off my prejudices and give God a chance. At least for a year.
Danish writer Svend Brinkmann spent a year with God, exploring
faith and religion through the eyes of a sceptic. Each month, from
January to December, he grappled with questions that had nagged at
him since he was a child: Why does God let the innocent suffer?
Does science disprove the existence of God? Does faith make you a
better person? Can you doubt and still believe? It became a year of
deep reflection and surprising revelations that challenged the
bounds of his scientific worldview and led him to a new
appreciation of faith and its place within a secular, mostly
fulfilled life.
The development of intelligent transportation systems has become
significant in marine engineering especially Autonomous Underwater
Vehicles with an aim to enhance energy efficiency management and
communication systems. This book covers different aspects of
optimization autonomous underwater vehicles and their propulsion
systems via machine learning techniques. It further analyses
hydrodynamic characteristics including study of experimental
investigation combined with hydrodynamic characteristics backed my
MATLAB® codes and simulation study results. Features: Covers
utilization of machine learning techniques with a focus on marine
science and ocean engineering. Details effect of the intelligent
transportation system (ITS) into the sustainable environment and
ecology system. Evaluates performance of particle swarm intelligent
based optimization techniques. Reviews propulsion performance of
the remoted control vehicles based on machine learning techniques.
Includes MATLAB® examples and simulation study results. This book
is aimed at graduate students and researchers in marine engineering
and technology, computer science, and control system engineering.
The on-going reconfiguration of geo-political and economic forces
across the globe has created a new institutional and moral
environment for East Asian family life and gender dynamics. Indeed,
modernisation in East Asia has brought about increases in women's
education levels and participation in the labour force, a delay in
marriage age, lower birth rates, and smaller family size. And yet,
despite the process of modernization, traditional systems such as
Confucianism and patriarchal rules, continue to shape gender
politics and family relationships in East Asia. This book examines
gender politics and family culture in East Asia in light of both
the overwhelming changes that modernization and globalization have
brought to the region, and the structural restrictions that women
in East Asian societies continue to face in their daily lives.
Across three sections, the contributors to this volume focus on
marriage and motherhood, religion and family, and migration. In
doing so, they reveal how actions and decisions implemented by the
state trigger changes in gender and family at the local level, the
impact of increasing internal and transnational migration on East
Asian culture, and how religion interweaves with the state in
shaping gender dynamics and daily life within the family. With case
studies from across the region, including South Korea, Japan,
mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, this book will be of great
interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, gender studies,
anthropology, sociology and social policy.
In September 2014, with the Scottish independence referendum, the
United Kingdom came close to being broken apart after three
centuries as one of the most successful political unions in
history. Yet despite a conclusive No vote, the SNP took almost
every seat in Scotland at the 2015 general election. In this book
Tam Dalyell offers a personal reflection on why the UK is on the
brink of the most serious constitutional crisis in its history. But
this is not just a history of why we have ended up where we are.
Dalyell also offers sage advice and suggests ways forward which
will inform debate as the UK moves into a new political era.
The on-going reconfiguration of geo-political and economic forces
across the globe has created a new institutional and moral
environment for East Asian family life and gender dynamics. Indeed,
modernisation in East Asia has brought about increases in women's
education levels and participation in the labour force, a delay in
marriage age, lower birth rates, and smaller family size. And yet,
despite the process of modernization, traditional systems such as
Confucianism and patriarchal rules, continue to shape gender
politics and family relationships in East Asia. This book examines
gender politics and family culture in East Asia in light of both
the overwhelming changes that modernization and globalization have
brought to the region, and the structural restrictions that women
in East Asian societies continue to face in their daily lives.
Across three sections, the contributors to this volume focus on
marriage and motherhood, religion and family, and migration. In
doing so, they reveal how actions and decisions implemented by the
state trigger changes in gender and family at the local level, the
impact of increasing internal and transnational migration on East
Asian culture, and how religion interweaves with the state in
shaping gender dynamics and daily life within the family. With case
studies from across the region, including South Korea, Japan,
mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, this book will be of great
interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, gender studies,
anthropology, sociology and social policy.
Lively debates around property, access to resources, legal rights,
and the protection of livelihoods have unfolded in Vietnam since
the economic reforms of 1986. Known as Doi Moi (changing to the
new), these have gradually transformed the country from a socialist
state to a society in which a communist party presides over a
neoliberal economy. By exploring the complex relationship between
property, the state, society, and the market, this book
demonstrates how both developmental issues and state-society
relations in Vietnam can be explored through the prism of property
relations and property rights. The essays in this collection
demonstrate how negotiations over property are deeply enmeshed with
dynamics of state formation, and covers debates over the role of
the state and its relationship to various levels of society, the
intrusion of global forces into the lives of marginalized
communities and individuals, and how community norms and standards
shape and reshape national policy and laws. With contributors from
around the world, this book will be of great interest to students
and scholars of East and Southeast Asian studies, including
politics, culture, society, and law, as well as those interested in
the role of the state and property relations more generally.
China's recent economic reforms have led to impressive growth, and
an unprecedented enthusiasm for establishing foreign enterprises in
China. Since 1993, China has been the second largest recipient of
foreign direct investment in the world and is now considered to be
the world's third biggest economy. Its greater economic integration
with the rest of the world, especially since its accession to the
World Trade Organisation (WTO), has further accelerated its
market-oriented economic reforms. China is now opening its
protected markets and beginning to submit to the rule of
international law. This ongoing transition and increasing
participation in the world economy has resulted in significant
changes in human resource management and social welfare practices
in China's enterprises. The book examines the key areas, all of
which are linked, where China is grappling with institutional
reforms as it opens up to the outside world: state-owned enterprise
reform, capital markets and financial reform, human resources and
labour market reform, social welfare reform, and China's accession
to the WTO and the growth of the private sector.
In recent years transgender has emerged as a subject of
increasing social and cultural interest. This volume offers vivid
accounts of the diversity of living transgender in today's world.
The first section, "Emerging Identities," maps the ways in which
social, cultural, legal and medical developments shape new
identities on both an individual and collective level. Rather than
simply reflecting social change, these shifts work to actively
construct contemporary identities. The second section, "Trans
Governance," examines how law and social policy have responded to
contemporary gender shifts. The third section, "Transforming
Identity," explores gender and sexual identity practices within
cultural and subcultural spaces. The final section, "Transforming
Theory?," offers a theoretical reflection on the increasing
visibility of trans people in today's society and traces the
challenges and the contributions transgender theory has brought to
gender theory, queer theory and sociological approaches to identity
and citizenship. Featuring contributions from throughout the world,
this volume represents the cutting-edge scholarship in transgender
studies and will be of interest to scholars and students interested
in gender, sexuality, and sociology.
China's recent economic reforms have led to impressive growth, and
an unprecedented enthusiasm for establishing foreign enterprises in
China. Since 1993, China has been the second largest recipient of
foreign direct investment in the world after the USA and is now
considered to be the world's third biggest economy after the USA
and Japan. Its greater economic integration with the rest of the
world, especially since its accession to the World Trade
Organization (WTO), has further accelerated its market-oriented
economic reforms. China is now opening its protected markets and
beginning to submit to the rule of international law. This ongoing
transition and increasing participation in the world economy has
resulted in significant changes in human resource, management and
social welfare practices in China's enterprises. The book examines
the key areas, all of which are linked, where China is grappling
with institutional reforms as it opens up to the outside world -
state-owned enterprise reform; capital markets and financial
reform; human resources and labor market reform; social welfare
reform; and China's accession to the WTO and the growth of the
private sector.
This important and timely book examines how corporate governance
has and should be developed in China to meet the challenges of
enterprise and financial reform. It highlights key economic, social
and political issues that China has to confront in order to
transform the state owned industrial enterprises into a competitive
and modern corporate sector. On Kit Tam critically appraises the
main analytical frameworks and models of corporate governance in
industrialized countries. He then assesses China's development in
terms of current Western debates in relation to the role, function
and evolution of corporate governance arrangements. He examines how
the Chinese government has adopted a top-down approach combined
with a market based Anglo-American model. The author also presents
surveys of company directors, managers and supervisors reporting
the current environment and analyses the choices available in the
light of China's particular problems. He concludes with suggestions
for a model of corporate governance in China. This book will be
welcomed by economists and those interested in management studies,
Chinese reform, international business, Asian studies, industrial
organization and business strategy.
Seismic Performance of Soil-Foundation-Structure Systems presents
invited papers presented at the international workshop (University
of Auckland, New Zealand, 21-22 November 2016). This international
workshop brought together outstanding work in earthquake
engineering that embraces a holistic consideration of
soilfoundation-structure systems. For example, the diversity of
papers in this volume is represented by contributions from the
fields of shallow foundation in liquefiable soil, spatially
distributed lifelines, bridges, clustered structures (see photo on
front cover), sea floor seismic motion, multi-axial ground
excitation, deep foundations, soil-foundation-structurefluid
interaction, liquefaction-induced settlement and uplift with SFSI.
A fundamental knowledge gap is manifested by the isolated manner
geotechnical and structural engineers work. A holistic
consideration of soil-foundation-structures systems is only
possible if civil engineers work collaboratively to the mutual
benefit of all disciplines. Another gap occurs by the retarded
application of up-to-date research findings in engineering design
practices. Seismic Performance of Soil-Foundation-Structure Systems
is the outcome from the recognized need to close this gap, since it
has been observed that a considerable delay exists between
published research findings and application of the principles
revealed by the research. Seismic Performance of
Soil-Foundation-Structure Systems will be helpful in developing
more understanding of the complex nature of responses these systems
present under strong earthquakes, and will assist engineers in
closing the gaps identified above.
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