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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Part I International Law in General: from Asian Perspectives -- 1 Jurisdictional Immunities In Contemporary International Law from Asian Perspectives -- 2 The Social Science of International Law: Its Evolution in Japan -- Part II International Economic Law -- 3 Financial Liberalization and Regulation in East Asia: Lessons from Financial Crises and the Chinese Experience of Controlled Liberalization -- 4 Reforms In FDI Policy and the Investment Climate in Vietnam -- Part III International Human Rights Law -- 5 Human Rights and Sexual Abuse: The Impact of International Human Rights Law on Japan -- 6 The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: One Covenant, Two Chinese Texts? -- Part IV International Environmental Law -- 7 Transnational Cooperation for Managing the Control of Environmental Disputes in East Asia -- Part V International Ocean Law -- 8 The Chinese Traditional Maritime Boundary Line in the South China Sea and Its Legal Consequences for the Resolution of the Dispute over the Spratly Islands -- 9 Indonesia and the South China Sea Initiative -- 10 Vietnam and the Code of Conduct for the South China Sea -- Part VI International Criminal Law -- 11 Implementation of International Criminal Law: Reconsideration from the Perspective of Japanese Law -- 12 China and the International Criminal Court: Current Situation -- Part VII International Security Law -- 13 Arms Control Law in Crisis? A Study of the North Korean Nuclear Issue -- 14 Establishment of a de Jure Peace on the Korean Peninsula: Inter-Korean Peace Treaty-Making under International Law -- Part VIII International Dispute Settlement -- 15 The Experience of Asia with International Adjudication

This working paper offers an international legal perspective on the diverse and conflicting international reactions in response to Kosovo's Declaration of Independence on 17 February 2008. Considering the failure of the UN Security Council in conjuring up a common position, whether a condemnation or approval of Kosovo's desire to become an independent and sovereign member of the international community, each State was left to decide, on its own terms, how to react. The Council's failure is the upshot to what may be defined as the 'politics of recognition', ie, a diversity of differing and conflicting reactions of third States in response to the Kosovo Declaration, which reproduce the main positions in the original dispute rather than settling it. Against this background, the aim of this paper is three-fold. First, it seeks to explain the emergence of these politics. Secondly, it examines the complex nature of the disagreement that lies behind the diverse reactions, which includes a consideration of the reasons behind the different positions of recognising and objecting States as well as an interpretation of why so many States have chosen to remain silent. Thirdly, the paper reflects on the unfortunate implications of these politics. While by no means discarding the inherent international legal dimensions to the original dispute between Pristina and Belgrade, and a role for the International Court of Justice, the paper expresses hesitation about the capacity of international law and the Court to settle the disagreement about international law that is now developing. Furthermore, an exclusive focus on international law detracts attention from the need to continue to approach realities on the ground with a view to establishing a sustainable peace in the Balkan region.

Through case studies of newspaper carriers, rural route mail couriers, personal care workers, and freelance editors - four groups who have led pioneering efforts to organize - the authors provide a window into the ways political and economic conditions interact with class, ethnicity, and gender to shape the meaning and strategies of working men and women and show how these strategies have changed over time. They argue that the experiences of these workers demonstrate a pressing need to expand collective bargaining rights to include them.