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Paul Maginn, Susan Thompson, and Matthew Tonts' (2008) new edited work entitled Qualitative Urban Analysis: An International Perspective introduces its readers to emergent qualitative research and evaluation methodologies indigenous to urban policy studies. These local lessons can prove quite valuable for all qualitative researchers regardless their fields or discipline.

Action against corruption is required ofgovernments seeking loans from development banks. How coercive and how effective are these international interventions? The article uses ideas about policy transfer to compare and avaluate several attempts to induce governments to act against corruption in the Pacific islands. (Asian J Polit Sci/NIAS-Han)

This book is about how distinctions are drawn between civilians and combatants in modern warfare and how the legal principle of distinction depends on the technical means through which combatants make themselves visibly distinguishable from civilians. The author demonstrates that technologies of visualisation have always been part of the operation of the principle of distinction, arguing that the military uniform sustained the legal categories of civilian and combatant and actively set the boundaries of permissible and prohibited targeting, and so legal and illegal killing. Drawing upon insights from the theory of legal materiality, visual studies, critical fashion studies, and a dozen of military manuals he shows that far from being passive objects of regulation, these technologies help to draw the boundaries of the legitimate target. With its attention to the co-productive relationship between law, technologies of visualisation and legitimation of violence, this book will be relevant to a large community of researchers in international law, international relations, critical military studies, contemporary counterinsurgency operations and the sociology of law.

The book focuses on Social Work with refugees in African, Middle East and European countries. Published as a follow-up to the 'International Social Work Week' in Würzburg/Germany with professionals and experts from all over the globe, this book intends to share insights into country-specific developments, challenges and potentials of Social Work in forced migration contexts. The objectives are to map Social Work in this field of action across several countries, to bring into sharper focus an International Social Work in forced migration contexts as well as to contribute in connecting Social Work scholars and experts around the globe.

Based on a case list of 72 international disputes, 1945-84.

This article shows that the EU has exerted uneven influence within the global regime complex in shadow banking. Why? We seek to explain the variation in the EU's ability to exert influence across different elemental regimes—those on hedge funds and securitization—in the broader regime complex over time. In hedge funds regulation, the EU has pursued more stringent international rules, to no avail. In securitization, the EU has been more successful in promoting more lenient regulation at the international level. We focus on the EU's internal cohesiveness (which can change over time) as the key explanatory variable.

The John Bassett Moore Society of International Law, University of Virginia School of Law, in cooperation with the Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, sponsored a conference, "Beyond the U.S. War on Terrorism: Comparing Domestic Legal Remedies to an International Dilemma," on February 25-26, 2005. Over 160 people participated in the conference conducted at The University of Virginia. Conference participants included representatives from government agencies involved in the U.S. war on terrorism, students and faculty members from other universities participating in fields related to the topic of the conference, and members of the local community and the University of Virginia.

Utilization of nuclear energy in many countries is a particular concern for international. This not talk only have a positive impact, but also have a negative impact. The damage of Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, Japan is one example of the negative impacts of the use of nuclear energy. March, 11th 2011, 9.2 magnitude earthquake followed by tsunami has destroyed a nuclear power plant that located on the edge of Japan's sea. This problem get a special concern for International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) because it involves the safety and security of utilizing nuclear energy.The approach of this research is a qualitative; the method is descriptive analyzing technique. Data were collected through library research, website research, and interview. Those data were analyzed by theory approach based on International Relation sciences.This research use main theory is role of International Organization theory, such as international organizations as an instrument, as an arena, and as an actor to shows that international organizations, in this case IAEA, show its role in the nuclear