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"How did humans and the environment impact each other in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean? How did global climatic fluctuations affect the Byzantine Empire over the course of a millennium? And how did the transmission of pathogens across long distances affect humans and animals during this period? This book tackles these and other questions about the intersection of human and natural history in a systematic way. Bringing together analyses of historical, archaeological, and natural scientific evidence, specialists from across these fields have contributed to this volume to outline the new discipline of Byzantine environmental history. Contributors are: Johan Bakker, Henriette Baron, Chryssa Bourbou, James Crow, Michael J. Decker, Warren J. Eastwood, Dominik Fleitmann, John Haldon, Adam Izdebski, Eva Kaptijn, Jürg Luterbacher, Henry Maguire, Mischa Meier, Lee Mordechai, Jeroen Poblome, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Abigail Sargent, Peter Talloen, Costas Tsiamis, Ralf Vandam, Myrto Veikou, Sam White, and Elena Xoplaki"--

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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 South-South Migration and Inequality: An Introduction -- The Scale and Importance of South-South Migration -- The Relationships Between Migration and Inequality -- The Importance of Global South Perspectives -- The Contributions to this Handbook -- References -- Part I Conceptualising South-South Migration -- 2 The Enduring Impacts of Slavery: A Historical Perspective on South-South Migration -- Introduction: A Critical View of the Minority World and South-South Migration -- An Overview of the Transatlantic Slave Trade -- The Legacy of Slavery -- Slavery and the Protracted Displacement of Liberians in West Africa -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 3 Recentring the South in Studies of Migration -- Introduction -- Redressing Eurocentrism in Migration Studies -- Examining the applicability of classical concepts and frameworks in the South -- Studying Migration in the South and South-South Migration -- The Geopolitics of Knowledge Production -- Decentring the North Qua Recentring the South? -- The Politics of Recentring -- The "South" or "Southern Theories"? -- The Politics of Citation: Beyond Diversity and Inclusion -- The Politics of "Quoted" Knowledge: Rethinking the Wound -- References -- 4 Writing the Refugee Camp: A Southern-Southern Correspondence -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Writing the Camp -- Refugees Are Dialectical Beings -- Anthropologists -- 5 Migration Research, Coloniality and Epistemic Injustice -- Introduction -- The State of Academic Migration Research -- Migration Research, Epistemic Injustice and Epistemic Oppression -- Eurocentrism in Migration Studies -- Epistemic Exploitation -- Wilful Hermeneutical Ignorance -- Addressing the Eurocentrism of Migration Research -- Conclusion.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Transformations of European Welfare States and Social Rights -- Analysing the Role of Welfare Rights -- The Macro Level of State Regulation -- The Meso Level of Welfare Professional-Citizen Encounters -- The Micro Level of Mobilising Social Rights -- Outline -- References -- Part I State Regulation, Transformation of State Regulation, and Agents Acting on Behalf of the State -- 2 Claim and Blame: How Welfare Law institutionalises Deservingness -- Introduction -- Social Rights in Action: The Rise and Rise of Welfare Conditionality -- Who Deserves Social Rights, or the Limits of Welfare Universalism -- The Long Shelf Life of Paternalistic Assumptions: Beeler v. Switzerland -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 What Is the Function of Welfare Law Today? Consequences of the Work-Line Policy -- Introduction: What Is the Dilemma of Welfare Law? -- A Methodological Note -- General Arguments in Current Welfare Law Reforms -- Historical Background for the Norwegian Welfare State -- The Main Case Study: A Combined New Labour and Welfare Authority-The Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) and Its Work-Line Basis -- Assessing the Combined Labour and Welfare Authority Reform: What Are the Economic, Social and Rhetorical Arguments for the Work-Line -- Conclusion: The Function of Welfare Law Today -- References -- 4 The Penal Voluntary Sector's Role in the Nordic Countries: A Shadow State? -- Introduction -- State of the Art -- Data and Method -- The PVSOs in the Three Nordic Countries -- The Challenges of PVSOs Operating in the Nordic Penal Field -- Precarious Funding -- Disorganised Co-operation -- Discussion -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Part II Encounters Between Welfare Professionals and Citizens.

"Space tourism has become extremely significant in recent times, especially in pursuance of the new space race among corporate giants such as Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin and Space X. Each of these corporate giants has already booked thousands of space enthusiasts for a journey to outer space. Given this wide interest of private space players, space tourists as well as countries in space tourism, it is imperative to understand the legal issues involved in space tourism. This book presents important discussions in the domain of space tourism and its legal implications across the globe. It attempts to find solutions to various challenges like safety and security in space, status of space tourists during emergencies, liability aspects, environmental protection, etc., faced during the recent spurt of space tourism. It also discusses the role of insurance in space tourism, various crimes possible in outer space with the rise of space tourism, the mechanisms for adjudication of such crimes, the aspect of quarantining space tourists, the need to preserve the natural and cultural heritage of space, and other topics, besides examining the contemporary legal and policy-oriented issues of privatisation of space. A must read for scholars and researchers of law, space science, history and other fields who are interested in the space race and outer space law, this book will also be of interest to those exploring space studies, political studies, environmental studies, and political economy. It will be useful for policymakers, bureaucrats, think tanks as well as the interested general readers looking for fresh perspectives on the future of space"--

"This book offers an engaged discussion of the relationship between globalization and human development. Roni Kay M. O'Dell and Devin K. Joshi provide a comprehensive overview of the history and current practice of human development as it interacts with and is driven by multiple facets of globalization."

Fascist Europe -- Contents -- Note on Translations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Emergence of a Concept of Europe -- Chapter 2. The Utopia of a Fascist Europe (1932-35) -- Chapter 3. From the African Dream to an Axis Europe -- Chapter 4. Towards a Nazi-Fascist Order? -- Postface -- Bibliography -- Index.

Melinda A. Roberts introduces the newcomer to population ethics and investigates the key issues in a way that will be of interest to professional philosophers, economists, lawyers, and students in all those areas who seek to understand what a cogent, intuitively plausible theory of population will look like.

After the Second World War, the dissolution of European empires and emergence of 'new states' in Asia, Africa, Oceania, and elsewhere necessitated large-scale structural changes in international legal order. In Completing Humanity, Umut Özsu recounts the history of the struggle to transform international law during the twentieth century's last major wave of decolonization. Commencing in 1960, with the General Assembly's landmark decolonization resolution, and concluding in 1982, with the close of the third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea and the onset of the Latin American debt crisis, the book examines the work of elite international lawyers from newly independent states alongside that of international law specialists from 'First World' and socialist states. A study in modifications to legal theory and doctrine over time, it documents and reassesses post-1945 decolonization from the standpoint of the 'Third World' and the jurists who elaborated and defended its interests

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of Tables -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. The Custodianship of State Policies: A Government Out of Sight -- 1. A Government of Insiders: Unelected Governmental Elites Acting as Custodians of State Policies -- 2. Variations in the Custodian Role: From the NHI Project to the Clinton Plan -- Part II. The Making of Long-Term Health Insiders -- 3. Mapping the Unelected Governmental Health Coverage Policy Elites -- 4. The Clinton Plan Veterans: Career Paths Marked by a Collective Failure -- 5. From Late Clintonism to Obama: Shared Career Paths? -- Part III. The Hidden Origins of the Affordable Care Act: Elite Configurations and Programmatic Changes -- 6. The Clinton Plan: Programmatic Fragmentation and Divided Elites -- 7. The Impossible Government of "Strangers" -- 8. The George W. Bush Years: Clinton Plan Veterans Make the Next Reform Possible -- 9. Behind the Congressional Votes: Custodianship and the Politics of Accommodation -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Methodology: A Programmatic Elite Framework -- Appendix 2. Interviews for the OPERA (2009-2012) and PRoAcTA (2018-2021) Research Programs -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Examines how oil and other natural resources affected the making of sovereign states through decolonization, creating states that would otherwise not exist. Featuring theoretical explanations and rich historical evidence based on archival research, this book will appeal to students of international relations, political science, history and area studies"--

'Is This God's Country?' presents an exploration by noted philosopher Robert Audi on the tensions between church and state in the democratic United States. He investigates how and why America separates church and state, and whether this separation benefits both religious and secular citizens. Audi then proposes standards for discussing and resolving church-state issues in education, business, and medicine, using a multitude of examples. He addresses the question whether America can be Christian - or religious at all - in a way that still integrates religious liberty with democratic law-making, and expands the common ground we would need in order to overcome the cultural fragmentation that besets America.