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1. Transformed Australian Eduscape: the Mobility of Asian International Students and Academics -- 2. Theorising the Eduscape I: the Neoliberal, the Managerial and the Regulatory State -- 3. Theorising the Eduscape II: Contesting 'Modernity', the Global South and Alternative Framing -- 4. Asian International Students on Australian Campus -- 5. Asian Academic Mobility in Australia -- 6. Mobility and Governance: toward an internationalised higher education?

Despite social policy being one of the most quantified policy fields today, there is no singular indicator or set of indicators of social policy quality or performance on the global level that is universally accepted and influential, comparable to GDP in the economy. The article analyses and explains the unsuccessful indicatorisation in the ILO's International Survey of Social Services of the interwar years. During this first elaborate study of social policies worldwide by an international organisation, difficult issues of defining, comparing, and quantifying social policy had to be solved for the first time. Theoretically, a sociology of knowledge approach on indicatorisation is utilised that highlights how social policy was questioned and evaluated. This illustrates the demanding work of comparing including a politicized knowledge production, identifying conditions and hindrances of defining and quantifying the 'social'. It is observed that different interests of participants, epistemic cultures, and practices, as well as bureaucratic procedures resulted in the mere inclusion of a provisional indicator of cost and little quantified data in the final Survey. Empirically, the article relies on an in-depth analysis of historical ILO documents.

This open access book focuses on public actors with a role in the settlement of investment disputes. Traditional studies on actors in international investment law have tended to concentrate on arbitrators, claimant investors and respondent states. Yet this focus on the "principal" players in investment dispute settlement has allowed a number of other seminal actors to be neglected. This book seeks to redress this imbalance by turning the spotlight on the latter. From the investor's home state to domestic courts, from sub-national governments to international organisations, and from political risk insurance agencies to legal defence teams in national ministries, the book critically reviews these overlooked public actors in international investment law.

Introduction. 1. The Variety of International Rules. 2. The International Legal Rule-Creating Process. 3. A Methodology for Determining an International Legal Rule. 4. Legal Rules and International Politics. 5. The Future of the International Legal System. 6. Legal Rules and International Society. Notes. Index.

Intro -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Understanding Musical Diplomacies-Movements on the "Scenes" -- The Acoustic Turn in IR: Origins and Trajectories -- The Concept of "Scenes": From Sociology to IR -- Dimensions of Musical Diplomacies in International Scenes -- Bibliography -- Part I: Shaping the Musical Scene. Sounds and Voices as Objectives of Diplomacy -- Chapter 2: Europe in Rome/Rome in Europe: Diplomacy as a Network of Cultural Exchanges -- Some Examples of Feste -- Model, Circulation and the Role of Ambassadors -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Eighteenth-Century Diplomats as Musical Agents -- Exchanges -- Collaborations and Interventions -- Connections -- Conclusion: Future Work -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Targeting New Music in Postwar Europe: American Cultural Diplomacy in the Crafting of Art Music Avant-Garde Scenes -- Avant-Garde Music in Postwar Europe and America -- Nicolas Nabokov and Art Music Avant-Garde in Europe: A Composer in the Political Play -- Paris's Scene: The Festival L'Œuvre du XXe siècle -- The Symphonic and Lyrical Program -- The Chamber Music Programming -- La Revue Musicale's Special Issue -- The Rome Scene: La Musica nel XX Secolo, Convegno Internazionale di Musica Contemporanea -- Boulez's Reaction -- Fred Goldbeck's Musical Chronicle in Preuves: Outlining The Presence of History in Musical Creation -- Opening Other Paths to Musical Innovation -- Building a New Cultural Scene: Nabokov in West Berlin -- Bibliography -- Part II: Shaping the Diplomatic Scene. Sounds and Voices as Frameworks of Diplomacy -- Chapter 5: The Diplomatic Viol -- Elite Instruments -- Negotiating Materials -- The "Viol" Sound of Diplomacy -- Bibliography

The war in Iraq unleashed disastrous global instability—from the strengthening of Al-Qaeda, to the creation of ISIS, and civil war in Syria accompanied by a massive exodus of refugees. The war in Afghanistan is continuing in perpetuity, with no clear goals or objectives other than the United States' commitment to its sunk cost. The so-called war on terror is a vague catch-all phrase for a military campaign against moving targets and goalposts, with no end date and no conceivable way to declare victory. The toll of these wars on civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere in the Middle East, on US troops, and on the US economy is staggering. But these ambiguous campaigns are also fundamentally changing US state identity—its view of itself, its role in the world, and its commitment to a liberal international order. They are producing profound anxiety in the US body politic and anxiety in US relationships with other international actors. To understand the sources and consequences of this anxiety, we adopt an ontological security perspective on state identity. We enrich ontological security scholarship by introducing the concept of moral injury and its three main consequences: loss of control, ethical anxiety, and relational harm. We demonstrate how the concept of moral injury illuminates some of the most central anxieties at the core of US identity, offering a new understanding of our global moment of crisis.