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Scholars from Japan and a range of other countries explore in this
book the still-unfinished effort to achieve the reconciliation of
old enmities left over from past wars in East Asia. They present
concrete policy proposals for a 'grand design' of peace based on
the Japanese concept of 'kyosei', a word roughly translated as
'conviviality'. A positive peace through kyosei means not only the
absence of violence, but also the amelioration of past injustices,
exploitation and oppression. The diversity of disciplines
represented in the volume-international law and politics, history,
philosophy and theology - enrich the contributors' search for an
intellectually appropriate, practically transformative and viable
grand theory of peace in the twenty-first century. Chapters address
issues such as security in North-South conflict situations, foreign
policy strategies for Japan, the perspective of comparative
religions, and current skepticism for the possibility of peace and
reconciliation. These insightful and compelling analyses will be of
great interest to students and researchers of East Asia and the
politics of peace in general.
This book explores the modern relationship between religion and
science, highlighting the public backlash over teaching evolution
in U.S. public schools as an example of the conflict between
religious faith and scientific reason. The author explores the
middle ground between the two most extreme arguments, arguing that
it is possible for science and religion to exist in harmony. The
book also provides an analysis of 10 world religions, including
Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism, revealing how
each finds compatibility with differing religions and scientific
doctrine.
This updated edition of the 1979 original covers the landmark
struggle to save the New River from damming in the 1970s. The
grassroots movement emphasized the river's cultural and historical
value rather than narrow environmental issues and became one of the
great victories of the environmental movement. This edition also
includes a new epilogue examining the current ecological status of
the New River and the ongoing impact of the original conservation
efforts in the face of new environmental threats. The 1979 edition
won the Weatherford Award presented by Berea College and the
Appalachian Studies Association.
Noted international scholars from a range of disciplines present in
this book Japanese and East Asian perspectives on the changed
prospects for international peace post September 11. Because East
Asia has not been preoccupied with the ongoing conflicts in the
Middle East, the authors' views serve as a balance to the war on
terror declared in the United States. The book begins with chapters
that explore the attacks from an historical perspective, and
discuss whether they were indeed watershed events that changed the
world. Further chapters explore pacifism in philosophy and religion
through Kant, Christianity, Islam and constitutional pacifism in
postwar Japan. The concluding chapters discuss concrete ways to
move toward peace in the twenty-first century. Scholars of
international studies and politics, the Middle East and religion
will find this insightful book a valuable addition to their
library.
From the time of Elizabeth I in the second half of the sixteenth
century, London has dominated the marine insurance markets. This
led the English to develop a law of marine insurance as well: a
Chamber of Assurances was established in England in 1575, and the
law of marine insurance, rooted in custom, developed through the
cases decided by the courts.
In the United States, marine insurance underwriting began in the
eighteenth century, although British firms continued to dominate.
The American law of marine insurance took its cue from English law;
English legal precedents were cited routinely in American courts.
For fifty years after the English law was codified in the Marine
Insurance Act 1906 (MIA), it could truly be said that there was a
unified Anglo-American law of marine insurance, and that English
law was part of the "general maritime law" of the United
States.
The unity of the Anglo-American law, which was so beneficial to
the functioning of the international marine insurance industry, was
broken abruptly in 1955 by the decision of the United States
Supreme Court in Wilburn Boat v. Fireman's Fund Insurance Co., a
case that created controversies over the uniformity of the law,
which have yet to subside. The purpose of this work is to explore
the extent of the breakdown of the uniformity of the law and to
point to its cure.
This book takes an in-depth look at Japan's long-festering
territorial and maritime disputes with its three neighbors - China,
South Korea and the Russian Federation. Japan has established
friendly relations with all three former adversaries since the end
of World War II, but these sovereignty issues remain. All three
disagreements have recently flared into potentially violent
incidents that could erupt again at any time. The book explores
each situation and proposes concrete compromise solutions to each
of the outstanding disputes. The key recommendation the book sets
forth is that the disputes in question be resolved through the
conclusion of separate negotiated agreements between Japan and each
of its neighbors, whereby separate Zones of Cooperation and
Environmental Protection are established in northeast Asia. These
three agreements would be international treaties with the purpose
of establishing ongoing permanent cooperation in the three disputed
areas. The book concludes with a discussion of the need for broader
multilateral institutions of cooperation. International relations
specialists, government officials, international lawyers and
scholars of Asian politics will find great value in the
knowledgeable discussions of these complex issues.
This book seeks to answer the questions: how do the rules of
international treaties on trade and investment apply to the new
laws and policies relating to energy-related trade, and do the
rules of the multilateral system contribute to or detract from
sustainable development? An emerging set of new problems in the law
of international trade is how to reconcile the rules of the
multilateral trading system with shortages of certain natural
resources and the necessity to develop renewable energy resources.
The chapters in this book provide a comprehensive analysis of the
international trade issues presented by national trade laws and
policies with regard to natural resources and energy. This book is
about the extent to which we are interpreting existing rules to
cover emerging problems and how the rules of the multilateral
trading system can be adapted to achieve sustainable development in
natural resources and energy. The book begins with a survey of
selected national laws relating to recent restrictions on the
export of natural resources, both resources used to produce energy
as well as natural resources essential for industrial production.
After examining the range of such laws in selected important
countries, we turn to the application of the rules of the
multilateral trading system to such export restrictions. We discuss
the major rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) as well as
the natural resources rules in selected regional preferential free
trade agreements. While there is not a comprehensive global legal
regime on competition law, we believe it is also important to
examine how selected national competition laws impact export
restrictions on natural resources. This book will be a major
contribution to the international dialogue on international
economic law issues with respect to trade in natural resources and
energy.
This provocative look at the global financial crisis argues that
the United States, the European Union and Japan have intentionally
and unwittingly adopted wrong-headed economic policies in a futile
attempt to deal with sovereign debt resulting from the global
financial crisis. It offers persuasive evidence of how the politics
of austerity fail to encourage economic recovery, and proposes
instead a number of alternative ideas and solutions. The book
begins with a detailed breakdown of the financial crisis and the
government response in the United States, with particular focus on
the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The
author then puts forth a basic three-part plan calling for (1)
fundamental tax and entitlement reform; (2) massive economic
stimulus in the form of public and private investment to modernize
the country's aging infrastructures; and (3) mortgage relief to
revitalize the nation's housing markets. The book concludes with
specific policy proposals designed to achieve these goals and
return the US economy to a state of full employment and robust
economic growth. This timely and insightful volume will appeal to
students and scholars of economics, public policy and finance, as
well as anyone with an interest in the recent economic history of
the United States.
This book seeks to answer the questions: how do the rules of
international treaties on trade and investment apply to the new
laws and policies relating to energy-related trade, and do the
rules of the multilateral system contribute to or detract from
sustainable development? An emerging set of new problems in the law
of international trade is how to reconcile the rules of the
multilateral trading system with shortages of certain natural
resources and the necessity to develop renewable energy resources.
The chapters in this book provide a comprehensive analysis of the
international trade issues presented by national trade laws and
policies with regard to natural resources and energy. This book is
about the extent to which we are interpreting existing rules to
cover emerging problems and how the rules of the multilateral
trading system can be adapted to achieve sustainable development in
natural resources and energy. The book begins with a survey of
selected national laws relating to recent restrictions on the
export of natural resources, both resources used to produce energy
as well as natural resources essential for industrial production.
After examining the range of such laws in selected important
countries, we turn to the application of the rules of the
multilateral trading system to such export restrictions. We discuss
the major rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) as well as
the natural resources rules in selected regional preferential free
trade agreements. While there is not a comprehensive global legal
regime on competition law, we believe it is also important to
examine how selected national competition laws impact export
restrictions on natural resources. This book will be a major
contribution to the international dialogue on international
economic law issues with respect to trade in natural resources and
energy.
Intended for non-lawyers, non-U.S. lawyers and students, graduate
and undergraduate students, as well as U.S. law students and
professionals, this book is designed as a flexible, modular tool to
provide a unique and comprehensive introduction to the legal system
and law of the United States through succinct and cogent notes as
well as excerpts from both famous cases and recent cases. The
second edition of this book provides an easy to understand yet
comprehensive survey of American law. This edition presents five
different perspectives on the law: (1) Historical perspective; (2)
Public Law perspectives; (3) Private Law perspectives; (4) Process
and Procedure; (5) Legal reasoning and jurisprudence The reader may
emphasize any or all of these perspectives and select among the
autonomous and modular sections or chapters to cover, providing for
a variety of syllabi and approaches from this book. The book also
features problems and exercises among the materials to facilitate
learning and further allow teachers to shape instruction they way
they see fit.
This Hornbook is a handy, streamlined one-volume abridgement of
Schoenbaum’s comprehensive Practitioners’ treatise on Admiralty
and Maritime Law. The Hornbook covers the essential topics of
jurisdiction, admiralty rules and practice, maritime torts,
seamen’s remedies, maritime workers’ compensation, carriage of
goods by sea in international trade, charter parties, towage,
pilotage, salvage, collision and limitation of liability. Ideal for
students and those wanting an introduction to this important field
of law, this book places emphasis on the international aspects of
maritime law. For this edition the author has reorganized and
rewritten most of the sections as well as added important new
sections. Every effort was made to analyze and cite every new and
recent case on admiralty law up to the time of publication. This
work in generally regarded as the definitive academic work on
admiralty and maritime law.
This Document Supplement contains a selection of the most important
provisions of United States' law, enabling the student to work with
the actual text of the U.S. Constitution and other laws.
This book is a comprehensive analysis of the relevance of
international law to the conduct of international relations and
foreign policy. Written by a distinguished international lawyer and
academic with over 35 years of experience, this book contains a
systematic treatment of both fields of study. This work serves as
an introduction to contemporary theories of international relations
and as a primer on international law especially for the non-lawyer.
Focusing on contemporary problems of terrorism, nuclear
non-proliferation, war and peace, economic development, protection
of the global environment, reform of the United Nations, democracy
and protection of human rights, this work develops the thesis that
international law is a neglected tool of foreign policy that can be
used to address many of today's difficult and unresolved problems.
It concludes by advocating a 'new global order' in the form of the
rule of law and multilateral solidarity in addressing world
problems.
This book is a comprehensive analysis of the relevance of
international law to the conduct of international relations and
foreign policy. Written by a distinguished international lawyer and
academic with over 35 years of experience, this book contains a
systematic treatment of both fields of study. This work serves as
an introduction to contemporary theories of international relations
and as a primer on international law especially for the non-lawyer.
Focusing on contemporary problems of terrorism, nuclear
non-proliferation, war and peace, economic development, protection
of the global environment, reform of the United Nations, democracy
and protection of human rights, this work develops the thesis that
international law is a neglected tool of foreign policy that can be
used to address many of today's difficult and unresolved problems.
It concludes by advocating a 'new global order' in the form of the
rule of law and multilateral solidarity in addressing world
problems.
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