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In the face of rising inequality, financial crisis, and painful austerity, the idea of a basic, guaranteed income - a citizen's income - is an idea whose time has come. In '101 Reasons for a Citizen's Income', Malcolm Torry lays out the case for guaranteeing a universal, unconditional income, and he goes on to show how a citizen's income would help solve problems of poverty, social cohesion, and economic efficiency.

Part I: Introductory chapters -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The definition and characteristics of Basic Income -- Chapter 3: A short history of the Basic Income idea -- Part II: Some of the likely effects of Basic Income -- Chapter 4: Employment market effects of Basic Income -- Chapter 5: Social effects of Basic Income -- Chapter 6: The health case for Basic Income -- Chapter 7: Some effects of Basic Income on economic variables -- Chapter 8: Ecological effects of Basic Income -- Chapter 9: The gender effects of a Basic Income -- Chapter 10: Basic Income for development and peacebuilding in post-conflict settings -- Part III: The feasibility and implementation of Basic Income -- Chapter 11: Feasibility and implementation -- Chapter 12: Alternative funding methods -- Chapter 13: Analysis of the financial effects of Basic Income -- Chapter 14: Public opinion on Basic Income: What have we learnt so far? -- Chapter 15: Alternatives to Basic Income -- Part IV: Pilot projects and other experiments -- Chapter 16: The Negative Income Tax experiments of the 1970s -- Chapter 17: Citizen's Basic Income in Brazil: The reality of pilot experiences -- Chapter 18: Basic Income by default: Lessons from Iran's 'cash subsidy' programme -- Chapter 19: The Namibian Basic Income Grant Pilot -- Chapter 20: Pilots, evidence, and politics: The Basic Income debate in India -- Chapter 21: A primer on the Finnish Basic Income experiment: From design and implementation to evaluation and impact -- Chapter 22: A variety of experiments -- Chapter 23: Current and recent Basic Income and Guaranteed Income pilots in the United States -- Chapter 24: Problems with pilot projects -- Part V: Political and ethical perspectives -- Chapter 25: Libertarian perspectives on Basic Income -- Chapter 26: Socialist arguments for Basic Income -- Chapter 27: Neither left nor right -- Chapter 28: Trade unions and Basic Income -- Chapter 29: The ethics of Basic Income -- Part VI: Concluding chapter -- Chapter 30: Tentative conclusions.

This book offers an analysis of how the Chemical and Biological Weapons (CBW) regime has responded in the immediate aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Coronavirus has highlighted the need to better protect modern societies from natural, accidental and deliberate disease affecting humans, animals and plants. Within that context preventing the deliberate hostile use of biological and chemical agents will be of increasing importance. Dando asks to what extent there has been a significant strengthening to the CBW non-proliferation regime in the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic using an analysis focused on two proposals to strengthen the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention which aim to constrain advances in science and technology developments that could be misused. On this basis he concludes that it would be hard to argue that to date there has been a significant strengthening of the CBW regime. Malcolm Dando is Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, Division of Peace Studies and International Development, School of Social Studies, University of Bradford, UK.

A study of the interaction between ideology, electoral politics and the constitution in post-war Scotland Examines post-war Scottish politics from a distinctive perspective Reassesses the decline of Scottish Unionism and the rise of the SNP Exploits previously untapped sources, including election materials, local and national newspapers, diaries and memoirs, and interviews with contemporary political figures Proposes new directions for the study of twentieth-century Scottish politics, emphasising the role of ideology and rhetoric in shaping political allegiances Links historical scholarship with debates in political science and constitutional theory Petrie reappraises Scottish politics in the decades after 1945, augmenting existing accounts of this period by foregrounding the importance of ideology and language. Founded upon original archival research, the book recovers the central role played within modern Scottish politics by an individualist, anti-bureaucratic critique of central government. Deployed initially by those on the political right to attack the programme of nationalisation implemented by the post-war Labour government, by the 1960s this rhetoric was being exploited by advocates of constitutional change. As liberty came to be framed in constitutional rather than economic terms, understandings of political representation also changed: crucially, the arrival of the referendum in British politics granted credibility to the belief that there existed a distinctive Scottish tradition of popular sovereignty. Focused upon Scotland, this study nevertheless engages with broader debates and will appeal to historians of modern Britain as well as political and legal scholars

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. European Empires and the Making of the Irish Pacific -- 2. Colonial Contacts and Island Encounters -- 3. Populating the Irish Pacific -- 4. Radicalism, Protest, and Dissent -- 5. Keeping Faith -- 6. Nationalism at Long Distance -- 7. War and Revolution -- 8. The Receding Tide -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

In the years before the Second World War, in a sleepy air force base in central Alabama, a small group of renegade pilots put forth a radical idea. What if we made bombing so accurate that wars could be fought entirely from the air? What if we could make the brutal clashes between armies on the ground a thing of the past? This book tells the story of what happened when that dream was put to the test. The Bomber Mafia follows the stories of a reclusive Dutch genius and his homemade computer, Winston Churchill's forbidding best friend, a team of pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard, a brilliant pilot who sang vaudeville tunes to his crew, and the bomber commander, Curtis Emerson LeMay, who would order the bloodiest attack of the Second World War. In this tale of innovation and obsession, Gladwell asks: what happens when technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war? And what is the price of progress?

Current revolutions in biotechnology and neuroscience are changing military technologies, necessitating dramatic reevaluations in arms regulatory regimes. This book assesses how these new technologies can be used in weapons systems—by governments and terrorists alike—and whether this frightening development can be brought under effective international control. Dando begins by surveying the existing (and arguably inadequate) control mechanisms for chemical and biological weapons. He then discusses how earlier generations of toxin and bioregulatory weapons have been developed by such states as Iraq, the former Soviet Union, and the U.S. and explains, in nontechnical terms, the scientific advances that have implications for new weapons technology. Considering how international law might be applied to constrain undesirable military developments without restricting technological developments for peaceful purposes, Dando concludes with a proposal for an integrated control regime that would link international agreements, national legislation, and trade regulations