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1 An Introduction to Co-benefits: Core Concepts and Applications -- Part I Quantitative Modeling of Climate co-benefits and Sustainable Development -- 2 Urban Sustainable Development Index: Comparative Analysis of Low Emission Strategies in urban areas -- 3 A quantitative model for forecasting energy demand and CO2 emissions in Pakistan, towards a sustainable energy system -- 4 Multiple benefits assessment of the utilization of high-efficiency Heat Only Boilers in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia -- Part II Co-benefits of Climate Change Mitigation Strategies -- 5 Quantifying and integrating co-benefits of renewable energy policies in South Korea -- 6 The Co-benefits of Renewable Energy Policies in Japan: Barriers and Ways Forward -- 7 Quantifying and integrating the co-benefits of solar energy in China -- Part III New Perspectives on Co-benefits -- 8 Biodiversity Co-benefits: Narrowing the Gap between Analysis and Action -- 9 Creating Social Co-benefits for Sustainable and Just Society -- 10 Enabling Japan's low-emissions technology collaboration with Southeast Asia: The role of co-innovation and co-benefits.

Rethinking comparison : an introduction / Erica S. Simmons and Nicholas Rush Smith -- Beyond mill : why cross-case qualitative causal inference is weak, and why we should still compare / Jason Seawright -- Two ways to compare / Frederic Charles Schaffer -- Unbound comparison / Nick Cheesman -- On casing a study versus studying a case / Joe Soss -- From cases to sites : studying global processes in comparative politics / Thea Riofrancos -- Comparing complex cases using archival research / Jonathan Obert -- Composing comparisons : studying configurations of relations in social network research / Sarah E. Parkinson -- Against methodological nationalism : seeing comparisons as encompassing through the Arab uprisings / Jillian Schwedler -- Comparative analysis for theory development / Mala Htun and Francesca R. Jensenius -- Problems and possibilities of comparison across regime types : examples involving China / Benjamin L. Read -- Comparisons with an ethnographic sensibility : studies of protest and vigilantism / Erica S. Simmons and Nicholas Rush Smith -- Theory and imagination in comparative politics : an interview with Lisa Wedeen / Erica S. Simmons and Nicholas Rush Smith with Lisa Wedeen.

Galtieri, Lukashenka, and Putin are some of the dictators whose untrammelled personal power has been seen as typical of the dog-eat-dog nature of leadership in authoritarian political systems. This book provides an innovative argument that, rather than being characterised by permanent insecurity, fear, and arbitrariness, the leadership of dictatorships is actually governed by a series of rules. The rules are identified, and their operation is shown in a range of different types of authoritarian regime. The operation of the rules is explained in ten different countries across five different regime types: the Soviet Union and China as communist single party regimes; Argentina, Brazil, and Chile as military regimes; electoral authoritarian Malaysia and Mexico; personalist dictatorships in Belarus and Russia; and the Gulf monarchies. Through close analysis of the way leadership functions in these different countries, the book shows how the rules have worked in different institutional settings. It also shows how the power distribution in authoritarian oligarchies is related to the rules. The book transforms our understanding of how authoritarian systems work.

This volume brings together established and emerging scholars from academia and think tanks to reflect on important, conceptual, strategic and developmental issues in India's national security. It provides a comprehensive understanding of national security through a more open approach, covering both traditional and non-traditional concerns that have a bearing on the survival and well-being of humanity. It discusses key themes such as perceptions about China, civil-military relations, gender and military, nuclear safety, arms trade and cybersecurity, human security, food and water security, soft power and the media's role in covering security issues. As a festschrift for Commodore C. Uday Bhaskar, it highlights and adds to his scholarly contributions to the national security debate in the country for the past three decades. A unique contribution, this volume will be indispensable for students and researchers of politics and international relations, national security, human security, geopolitics, non-traditional security, military and strategic studies, and South Asian studies.

Prologue: Corpus Delecti -- Unhooking from Whiteness: Beginning the Journey -- Decivilization in the Trump Error: A Call for Humanity without the Whiteness of Man -- Four Domains of Benefiting from Racism: A Multi Year Autoethnography of a High School Student Exchange -- Loving Blackness to Dismantle Whiteness: On Pushing Ideals of Social Justice to Unhook from Whiteness -- Gay Is Not the New Black: Decentering Whiteness in the Quest for Equality -- The Least Racist White Person in the Room: Towards Critical Authenticity -- I Must Confront What Is Uncomfortable -- Diversity Bang: Who Benefits from Interest Convergence in Higher Ed? -- Defecting from Whiteness: Coalescing toward Liberation -- Hey, I Live There!: Unpacking Environmental Justice Education and Whiteness in a Rust Belt City -- Complicating the Ally/Enemy Dichotomy: White Teachers, Critical Whiteness, and Racial Justice Identifications -- The Enemy Is White Supremacy: How South Korea and China Got Hooked -- Beyond the Color Lines: A Duoethnography of Multiraciality and Unhooking -- Your Whiteness Is Showing, and Yes, It Is Racist: How Whites Stay in the Dark -- There Is No Turning Back.

Chapter 1: Green Business Practices in Emerging Economies, Ayentimi, D.T., Nyarkoh, B. J, and Kuuyelleh, E. N. University of Tasmani -- Chapter 2: Green Business Practices in Emerging Economies, Ayentimi, D.T., Nyarkoh, B. J, and Kuuyelleh, E. N., University of Tasmania, Australia -- Chapter 3: Green Human Resources Management as an Innovation Mechanism, Yvonne Ayerki Lamptey, University of Ghana Business School -- Chapter 4: Treating and Managing People the Green Way, Professor Anna-Marie (A.M.F.) Pelser, North-West University, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, South Africa -- Chapter 5: Exploring the Interrelationships between Green People Management, Internal Communications and Employee Engagement, Kuuyelleh, E. N., Ayentimi, D.T. and Abadi, H. A., University of Tasmania -- Chapter 6: Green People Management Practices and Its Implementation in Green Marketing Firms in China, Dr. Helen Song-Turner Dr. Damian Morgan, Federation University Australia -- Chapter 7: Conclusion and Implications for Theoretical Development, Policy Formulation and Firm Managerial Decision Making , Hinson R, Adeola O, Adisa I - University of Ghana Business School, Ghana, Lagos Business School, Nigeria; Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria.

San Juan queer : mobile apps, urban spaces, and LGBTQ identities / Regner Ramos -- A kindr Grindr : moderating race(ism) in techno-spaces of desire / Sharif Mowlabocus -- Learning to become an extremophile : trans symbiosis and survival in Berlin / Ged Ribas-Goody -- Fluid territories : intersectional subjectivities through hereditary and digital spaces / Mabia Camargo and Eduardo Martins -- Queer infrastructures : LGBTQ networks and urban governance in global London / Ben Campkin -- Digital dogma : relating the manifestations of religion online to the practices and experiences of Arab MSMs / Khaliden Alsaleh -- The carceral feminism of SESTA-FOSTA : reproducing spaces of exclusion from IRL to URL / Jody Liu -- Queering the map : on designing digital queer space / Lucas LaRochelle -- Transformismo : a spatial, cultural, and racial intervention in Chicago's Queer and Latinx communities / Liliana Macias -- Communicating 'race' in a digitized gay China / Tianyang Oscar Zhou -- The Kenwood ladies' bathing pond : instrumentalizing spatial imaginaries in the 'trans debate' in Britain / Lo Marshall -- Hear, here : preserving and sharing the history of queer stories in La Crosse, Wisconsin / Ariel Beaujot and Víctor M. Macías-González.

The United States-Australia alliance / Scott D. McDonald and Andrew T.H. Tan -- The strategic environment of the US-Australia alliance in the Indo-Pacific era / Alexander L. Vuving -- The United States' security perspectives in the Asia-Pacific and the value of the alliance with Australia / Paul J. Smith -- Security threats and challenges to Australia / Andrew T.H. Tan -- The common interests that bind the United States and Australia / Bates Gill -- The evolution of the US-Australia strategic relationship / Shannon Brandt Ford -- Defence co-operation between Australia and the United States / Alan Bloomfield -- China-US-Australia : redefining the strategic triangle / Adam Lockyer, Scott D. McDonald and Yves Heng-Lim -- The US-Australian alliance and its implications for Australian defence strategy and procurement / Fred Smith, Yves-Heng Lim and Adam Lockyer -- The future of Australia-US strategic and defence cooperation : an Australian perspective / Andrew O'Neil -- The future of Australia-US strategic and defence cooperation : a US perspective / Scott D. McDonald.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Disclaimer -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- South China Sea since 2000 -- Iran -- Russia -- United States freedom of navigation operations -- Other nations -- The law -- Outline -- 1 General principles on the use of force and their application at sea -- The right to use force in general international law -- The use of force at sea involving warships - the cases -- Conclusion - collected rules from case law on the use of force at sea -- 2 Unit and collective self-defence -- Unit self-defence v national self-defence? -- Collective self-defence -- Imminence -- Conclusion -- 3 Proportionality and the threshold of armed conflict -- Proportionality -- The applicability and relevance of the law of armed conflict -- Conclusion -- 4 Territorial and internal waters -- Territorial sea -- Internal waters -- Case study - submerged contacts in Swedish waters in the 1980s -- Conclusion -- 5 Straits and archipelagos -- International straits -- Archipelagic waters and archipelagic sea lanes -- Under a UNSCR? -- Conclusion -- 6 International waters -- Exclusive economic zone -- Contiguous zone -- High seas -- De-escalation and disputed waters -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Index.

This book examines the role of external powers in Latin America in the 21st century. Non-traditional partners have significantly increased their political and economic engagement with the continent. Five key questions arise: why has this surge taken place; when has it happened; in which regions and sectors is it mostly felt; what is the Latin American perspective; and what are the actual results? The book analyses 16 case studies: the United States, the European Union, China, Russia, Japan, Canada, India, Turkey, Iran, Israel, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, the ASEAN countries, South Africa and Australia. The spectrum of existing explanations in the literature spans from neo-extractivism to South-South cooperation. This volume places them in context and proposes a more multifaceted approach, stressing a combination of systemic factors and internal dynamics both in Latin America and in the external partner countries. Geopolitics still matters and so do nation states, their interests and leaders. Ultimately, this surge in engagement has largely reproduced past patterns. Are new partners that different from the old ones?

Foreword / Sarhan Dhouib -- Intercultural philosophy as philosophy for better human conviviality / Raúl Fornet-Betancourt -- Responses to past injustice in democratizing societies and the universalization of human rights / Sarhan Dhouib -- Negotiating African identity in times of globalization : a comparative approach to Afropolitanism and negritude / Albert Kasanda -- The value of home in a global world : on migration and depopulated landscapes / Bianca Boteva-Richter -- A genealogy of displacement in the South African land question / Christopher Allsobrook -- The public legitimacy of minority claims in Eastern Europe / Plamen Makariev -- Cultural impoverishment : the hidden dimension of global Injustice / Mongi Serbaji -- "Detention and torture centers" in Latin American dictatorships : places of subjective and social reconfiguration / José Santos Herceg -- Confucian remonstrance in the dialectics of self-conscious identity between the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong / James Garrison -- Politics and reconciliation : the issue of comfort women in the dynamics of Japan's political reconciliation with South Korea / Naoko Kumagai -- Political reconciliation in liberal states / Henning Hahn -- Afterword / James Garrison.

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org This sweeping book details the extent to which the legal revolution emanating from the US has transformed legal hierarchies of power across the globe, while also analyzing the conjoined global histories of law and social change from the Middle Ages to today. It examines the global proliferation of large corporate law firms—a US invention—along with US legal education approaches geared toward those corporate law firms. This neoliberal-inspired revolution attacks complacent legal oligarchies in the name of America-inspired modernism. Drawing on the combined histories of the legal profession, imperial transformations, and the enduring and conservative role of cosmopolitan elites at the top of legal hierarchies, the book details case studies in India, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, and China to explain how interconnected legal histories are stories of both revolution and reproduction. Theoretically and methodologically ambitious, it offers a wholly new approach to studying interrelated fields across time and geographies

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- PART 1 Intellectual monopoly capitalism -- 2 The emergence of intellectual monopoly capitalism -- 3 Knowledge privatization and power relations in the knowledge commons -- 4 The interplays of the United States, China and their intellectual monopolies -- 5 Research universities: between subordination and intellectual monopoly -- PART 2 Global intellectual monopolies. Illustrative cases -- 6 Technological cooperation and competition among big pharmaceuticals -- 7 Apple: from legal towards data-driven intellectual rentiership -- 8 Amazon's data-driven intellectual monopoly -- 9 State Grid Corp: an intellectual monopoly relying on China's innovation system -- 10 Rentiership, predation and their implications for workers -- PART 3 Effects of intellectual monopoly capitalism on the peripheries -- 11 Why we need new development policies under intellectual monopoly capitalism -- 12 Singapore's innovation hub. A source of rents for intellectual monopolies -- 13 Pharmaceutical knowledge extractivism from a semi-peripheral university -- 14 Tilting the scale against intellectual monopoly capitalism -- Index.

Introduction : the changing politics of informality : collective organizing, alliances and scales of engagement / Ilda Lindell -- Seen but not heard : urban voice and citizenship for street traders / Alison Brown and Michal Lyons -- The politics of vulnerability : exit, voice and capture in three Nigerian informal manufacturing clusters / Kate Meagher -- Women leaders and the sense of power : clientelism and citizenship at the Dantokpa market in Cotonou, Benin / Ebbe Prag -- Alliances across the formal-informal divide : South African debates and Nigerian experiences / Gunilla Andrae and Björn Beckman -- Self-organized informal workers and trade union initiatives in Malawi : organizing the informal economy / Ignasio Malizani Jimu -- Moments of resistance : the struggle against informalization in Cape Town / David Christoffer Jordhus-Lier -- The possibilities for collective organization of informal port workers in Tema, Ghana / Owusu Boampong -- The 'China challenge' : the global dimensions of activism and the informal economy in Dakar / Suzanne Scheld -- Passport, please : the Cross-Border Traders Association in Zambia / Wilma S. Nchito and Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Informal workers in Kenya and transnational organizing : networking and leveraging resources / Winnie V. Mitullah.

Drawing on recent research in moral psychology and neuroscience, this book argues that universal moral beliefs and emotions shaped the evolution of the laws of war, and in particular laws that protect civilians. It argues that civilian protection norms are not just a figment of the modern West, but that these norms were embryonic in earlier societies and civilizations, including Ancient China, early Islam, and medieval Europe. However, despite their ubiquity, this book argues that civilian protection rules are inherently fragile, and that their fragility lies not just in failures of compliance, but also in how moral emotions shaped the design of the law. The same beliefs and emotions that lead people to judge that it is wrong to intentionally target civilians can paradoxically constitute the basis for excusing states for incidental civilian casualties, or collateral damage. To make the laws of war work better for civilians, this book argues that we need to change how we think about the ethics of killing in war.