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We could not have a global economy without a system to resolve
commercial disputes across borders, but the international regime
that performs this key role bears little resemblance to other
institutions underpinning the global economy. A hybrid of private
arbitral institutions, international treaties, and domestic laws
and courts, the regime for commercial dispute resolution shows that
effective transborder institutions can take a variety of forms.
This book offers the first comprehensive social scientific account
of this surprisingly effective regime. It maps and explains its
evolution since the Industrial Revolution, both at the global level
and in the United States, Argentina, and China. The book shows how
both political economy approaches and socio-legal theories have
shaped institutional outcomes. While economic interests have been
the chief determinants, legal processes have played a key role in
shaping the form institutions take. The regime for commercial
dispute resolution therefore remains between interests and law.
It is increasingly clear that the world of climate politics is no
longer confined to the activities of national governments and
international negotiations. Critical to this transformation of the
politics of climate change has been the emergence of new forms of
transnational governance that cut across traditional state-based
jurisdictions and operate across public and private divides. This
book provides the first comprehensive, cutting-edge account of the
world of transnational climate change governance. Co-authored by a
team of the world's leading experts in the field and based on a
survey of sixty case studies, the book traces the emergence, nature
and consequences of this phenomenon, and assesses the implications
for the field of global environmental politics. It will prove
invaluable for researchers, graduate students and policy makers in
climate change, political science, international relations, human
geography, sociology and ecological economics.
The 400-year-old Kepler conjecture asserts that no packing of
congruent balls in three dimensions can have a density exceeding
the familiar pyramid-shaped cannonball arrangement. In this book, a
new proof of the conjecture is presented that makes it accessible
for the first time to a broad mathematical audience. The book also
presents solutions to other previously unresolved conjectures in
discrete geometry, including the strong dodecahedral conjecture on
the smallest surface area of a Voronoi cell in a sphere packing.
This book is also currently being used as a blueprint for a
large-scale formal proof project, which aims to check every logical
inference of the proof of the Kepler conjecture by computer. This
is an indispensable resource for those who want to be brought up to
date with research on the Kepler conjecture.
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