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Was migration to Germany a blessing or a curse? The main argument of this book is that the Greek state conceived labor migration as a traineeship into Europeanization with its shiny varnish of progress. Jumping on a fully packed train to West Germany meant leaving the past behind. However, the tensed Cold War realities left no space for illusions; specters of the Nazi past and the Greek Civil War still haunted them all. Adopting a transnational approach, this monograph retargets attention to the sending state by exploring how the Greek Gastarbeiter's welfare was intrinsically connected with their homeland through its exercise of long-distance nationalism. Apart from its fresh take in postwar migration, the book also addresses methodological challenges in creative ways. The narrative alternates between the macro- and the micro-level, including subnational and transnational actors and integrating a diverse set of primary sources and voices. Avoiding the trap of exceptionalism, it contextualizes the Greek case in the Mediterranean and Southeast European experience

"Interrogates the field of "transpacific studies," moving beyond a fixed geographical focus to highlight generative, if unexpected, connections and mobilizations against national, disciplinary, or methodological boundaries. Foregrounding affective relationships and intimacies, the volume explores the transpacific's often messy entanglements among settler/colonial practices, inter-Asia modernization, historic and ongoing militarization, and global racial capitalism"--

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Healthcare corruption An interdisciplinary problem -- Chapter 3. Types of Healthcare Corruption and the Problem of Measurement -- Chapter 4. The Costs and Impacts of Healthcare Corruption -- Chapter 5. Telemedicine Healthcare at a distance -- Chapter 6. Substandard, Unlicensed and Counterfeit Healthcare Products -- Chapter 7. Defensive Healthcare Practice An Environment for Corruption -- Chapter 8. The Healthcare Sector as part of a Carceral State -- Chapter 9. Exposing Corruption in the Healthcare Sector An Impenetrable Edifice -- Chapter 10. Uncaring Homes Control and Exclusion -- Chapter 11. Rational Choice and Behavioral Economics -- Chapter 12. A Nudge in the right Direction Persuading People to change -- Chapter 13. Reflections and Conclusion.

Part I – Insurance and ESG Impact -- The Insurance Sector's Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals: a Story Worth Telling? -- Insurance is Accelerating Economic and Social Change in the United States: a Legal and Sociological Perspective -- The role of insurance in dealing with disasters: the case of agricultural insurance -- Measurement of the Level of Government Intervention in the Compulsory Health Insurance System: Cross-country Comparative Analysis -- Part II – Financial Innovation in Insurance Regulation -- Historical, Definitional, and Implementional Issues of Financial Services Regulation in a Small Jurisdiction -- Public/ Private Risk Financing Innovation: the Case of Government Self- Insurance Risk Pools in the United States -- Comparison of Efficiency Levels of Turkish Insurance Companies with VZA Malmquist Total Factor Efficiency Analysis -- Unpacking the Impact of Capital Structure on Financial Performance in the Insurance Industry: Evidence from Kosovo's Market -- Part III –The Impact of New Technologies and Other Recent Developments in Insurance Law and Regulation -- The Principle of Proportionality in Solvency II -- Automatic Vehicles and Legal/Insurance Risks. A New British "Quasi-Legislative" Point of Observation and Glimpses of Liability in Tort in Italy -- A Study of the Effectiveness of the General Data Protection Regulation for Risk Mitigation in the Insurance Industry: a Maltese Perspective -- The Digitalization of the Insurance Industry and the Growth of Life Insurance in India -- Exploring the Suitability of the Protected Cell Company Structure for Shipping Business: a Call for Further Discussion and Research -- Goods and Services Tax Implications on the Insurance Sector: Assessment of Awareness and Knowledge -- The Effectiveness of Recent Policyholder-friendly Laws at Addressing Complaints in India.

Understanding the relationships between local communities and project-based organizations: Evidence from major public infra-structure and construction projects -- Searching the network core in mega projects teams -- New professional competencies for Italian Public Administration: Project Management and the Sole Responsible Project Manager in the new Procurement Code -- Administration Financial, Megaprojects and the Cooperative Compliance Regime -- Are (New) Developments on the Way? -- Megaprojects' Social Sustainability and Workers' Human Rights -- TAX CREDITS AND PILLAR 2: AN ASSESSMENT IN THE LIGHT OF THE UPCOMING IMPLEMENTATION OF THE GLOBAL MINIMUM TAX -- Ecological transition and megaprojects: what role for taxation? -- Sustainability disclosure of sports mega-events: a bibliometric review article -- Widening the vision: a holistic evaluation framework for megaproject performance -- Accounting for Impact: Bridging the Gap in Megaproject Social Impact Evaluation.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Private activists' undercover tactics and Vice Enforcement in Progressive Era America -- Chapter 3. The Irrelevance of Undercover Tactics to the French Conflict over Whether Prostitution Should be Regulated or Suppressed -- Chapter 4. American activists' efforts to export their undercover tactics and their abolitionist agenda to the League of Nations -- Chapter 5. Conclusion.

1. Introduction and Methodological Framework -- 2. Corporate Social Responsibility: Locating Contention and Scepticism -- 3. Socially Responsible Investment: New Challenges or Same Old Mindset? -- 4. The Fiduciary: The Overarching Contentious Concept.