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An exciting, challenging new way to approach the study of world politics, this book focusses on the multifaceted nature of concepts and systematically explains them in a clear, critical and engaging way.

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. World at a tipping point -- 2. Framing earth governance -- 3. Commons -- 4. The global commons -- 5. Trusteeship -- 6. State as environmental trustee -- 7. Trusteeship and the United Nations -- 8. Institutionalizing trusteeship for the global commons -- 9. Conclusion: there is another way -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Bioterrorism -- Conflict and Terrorism -- Disaster Prevention and Management -- Homeland Security and Emergency Management -- Peace and Conflict Management -- Police Strategies and Management -- Security Research -- Security Studies -- Index.

Jackson provides a concise and comprehensive introduction to the history and meaning of sovereignty. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from the US Declaration of Independence to 9/11, he shows how sovereignty operates in our daily lives and analyses the issues raised by its universality and centrality in the world.

This is the first of five volumes reporting on the UNU-WIDER study on New Regionalism. It deals with the conceptions and meanings of two processes which probably will have a crucial influence on the shape of the 'new world order' - globalization and regionalization. These studies relate to each other as challenge to response, globalization being the challenge of economic and cultural homogenization of the world and regionalization being a social and political reaction. The leading writers in the field contribute thought-provoking and fascinating articles to this volume