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Since 2018, a political campaign to integrate leadership by the Communist Party as the core force in corporate governance in China has reversed the course of market reform in the past 40 years, which was predicated on separation of the Party's political functions from company business operations. This article critically reviews the trend of developments from a historical perspective and analyses the impact of the political campaign on China's socialist market economy and rule of law conditions. Some institutional implications are also examined in the comparative context with reference to the OECD Corporate Principles. The major argument of this article is that enhancing the Party's leadership in companies will negatively affect development of the market economy and rule of law as well as China's attempt to create an innovative society for its economic upgrading. (China Perspect/GIGA)

Introduction -- Anxiety and perversion in postwar Paris -- The aesthetics of dismemberment -- The advertisement of emasculation -- Man Ray, Lee Miller, and the photography of surrealist sexuality -- The lessons of Barbette -- Conclusion: on masculinity and reconstruction

"This volume, now in its second and revised edition, deals with the legal status of the three Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - as a consequence of the illegality of the Soviet annexation in 1940-1991. It offers a detailed historical overview of the Soviet takeover of the Baltic States in 1939/1940 and analysis of international law as it was in force, also regionally and bilaterally, at the time. It examines the role of the continuity of the diplomatic representations of the Baltic States and other manifestations of the Western non-recognition of the Soviet annexation. Moreover, the book examines the nature of the restoration of the Baltic States in 1991 based on their State continuity claim. It also studies in detail questions such as borders, citizenship and reparation claims, and asks to what extent State continuity could or could not be restored in practice. Compared to the first edition, the text has been updated (for example, on developments regarding border treaties) but also more background references have been added on the history of the Baltic States, Soviet and post-Soviet Russian responses to the continuity claim of the Baltic States, etc. The book interprets the Soviet annexation and Baltic States' continuity case against the wider backdrop of developments in international law in the 20th century and argues that the outcome reflected important normative developments in international law, away from mere effectivity. The case of the Baltic States will be relevant for current and future cases of illegal annexation, following the threat and use of military force prohibited under international law"--

Introduction: material formalism and dynamic materiality -- Play with periodical pagescapes. Henry James experiments with print culture pagescapes in transatlantic periodicals -- Bookish bodies. Reading the body of Boni & Liveright's & Djuna Barnes's A book -- Broken arcs and black super-vaudeville: design and dismemberment in the Boni & Liveright production of Jean Toomer's Cane -- Mixed-media material aesthetics. Reframing the book -- Mixed-media modernism and the book-as-object

Introduction: It starts with a test -- When the FBI calls -- The bomb shelter -- Profiling the profilers -- Reading the crime scene -- A female killer -- The kidnapping of Missy Ackerman -- Victimology 101 -- Beneath the mask -- "There's no cookbook" -- A deeper look -- Fantasy or reality -- You can't have both -- Patterns of dismemberment -- Reading between the lines -- Bind them, torture them, kill them -- Ego will be your downfall -- Gazing into the abyss -- The monster within.

Jesus Christ and General Jackson -- The most terrible responsibility any man ever faced -- May days -- Our troubles might not be over yet -- A vast undertaking: coming to Potsdam -- What a scene of destruction -- In seventeen days you can decide anything -- I dreamed that my life was over -- Dismemberment as a permanent fate?: Solving the problem of Germany -- The bastard of Versailles -- Dr. Groves' son and the fate of East Asia -- Conclusion

Introduction / Marko Milanović and Michael Wood -- Explaining Serbia's decision to go to the ICJ / James Ker-Lindsay -- Arguing the Kosovo case / Marko Milanoviâc -- The practicalities of representing a client in complex multipart proceedings : the example of Kosovo / Qudsi Rasheed and Michael Wood -- The settling of a self-determination conflict? Kosovo's status process and the 2010 advisory opinion of the ICJ / Bernhard Knoll-Tudor -- Questions of jurisdiction and the discretion to decline a request for an advisory opinion / Vladimir Djeriâc -- The question question / Daniel Mèuller -- Reflections on the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Kosovo : interpreting Security Council Resolution 1233 (1999) / Sean Murphy -- The UN Secretary General and the Advisory Opinion / Mathias Forteau -- The sounds of silence : making sense of the supposed gaps on the Kosovo Opinion / Marc Weller -- The Court and its multiple constituencies : three perspectives on the Kosovo Advisory Opinion / Andrâe Nollkaemper -- The political aftermath of the ICJ's Kosovo opnion / Tatjana Papiâc -- Kosovo -- the questions not asked : self-determination, secession, and recognition / Alain Pellet -- Kosovo and the criteria for statehood in international law / James Crawford -- Has the Advisory Opinion's finding that Kosovo's declaration of independence was not contrary to internationa law set an unfortunate precedent? / Anne Peters -- Some implications of the Advisory Opinion for the resolution of the Serbia-Kosovo conflict / Richard Caplan and Stefan Wolff -- Old problems, fresh frameworks : Kosovo, Serbia and the EU -- the virtue of a 'free territory' / James Gow -- Reflections on the law and politics of the Kosovo case / Harold Hongju Koh