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Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: prelude to an argument -- Usage note -- The founders, independence, and the colonies. Interesting and irrelevant, the religion of the founders ; "Religion and morality": religion for the masses, reason for the founders ; Declaring independence from Judeo-Christianity ; Referrals: the Declaration's references to a higher power ; Christian settlements: colonizing the continent, not building a nation -- United States v. The Bible. Biblical influence ; Christian arrogance and the golden rule ; Biblical obedience or American freedom? ; Crime and punishment: Biblical vengeance or American justice? ; Redemption and original sin or personal responsibility and the presumption of innocence ; The American experiment: religious faith or reason? ; A monarchy and "the morrow" or a republic and "our posterity" -- The Ten Commandments v. the Constitution. Which ten? ; The threat display: the First Commandment ; Punishing the innocent: the Second Commandment ; Suppressed speech: the Third Commandment ; Forced rest: the Fourth Commandment ; On family honor: the Fifth Commandment ; Unoriginal and tribal: the Sixth, Eighth, and Ninth Commandments ; Perverting sex and love: the Seventh Commandment ; Misogyny, slavery, thoughtcrime, and anti-capitalism: the Tenth Commandment ; The Ten Commandments: a religious, not a moral code -- American verbiage. Argument by idiom ; "In God we trust": the belligerent motto ; "One nation under God": the divisive motto ; "God bless America": the diversionary motto -- Conclusion: take alarm, this is the first experiment in our liberties.

Intro -- Praise for The Inter-American Human Rights System -- Editor's Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Charts -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Rethinking the Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System -- Introduction -- The Inter-American Human Rights System Beyond Compliance -- Perspectives on the Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System -- The Future of the Inter-American Human Rights System: Prospects and Comparative Reflections -- References -- Chapter 2: Mobilising the Inter-American Human Rights System: Regional Litigation and Domestic Human Rights Impact in Latin America -- Introduction -- The Inter-American Human Rights System and Legal Mobilisation -- Transnational Opportunity Structures and Resource Mobilisation -- Issue Framing and Identity Formation -- Strategically Engaging the Inter-American Human Rights System -- Petitioning the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights -- Mobilising the Inter-American Human Rights System: Three Case Studies -- Peru -- Colombia -- Brazil -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Friendly Settlements in the Inter-American Human Rights System: Efficiency, Effectiveness and Scope -- Introduction -- Advantages and Disadvantages of Friendly Settlements in Human Rights Matters -- The Victims' Perspective -- The Perspective on the Basis of the General Protection of Human Rights -- The Perspective of States -- Questions and Data -- Friendly Settlements in the Inter-American Human Rights System: Background and General Overview -- Efficiency -- Effectiveness -- Scope -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: The Impact of Precautionary Measures on Persons Deprived of Liberty in the Americas -- Introduction -- Precautionary Measures in the Inter-American Human Rights System -- Precautionary Measures with Special Focus on Persons Deprived of Liberty.

Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Introduction -- New Political Governance and the End of Whitehall? -- The Whitehall Model -- The Recent History of Whitehall Reform -- NPG Under Cameron and the Coalition -- The Post-Bureaucratic State -- New Public Management and NPG -- The Structure of the Book -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Government by 'Permanent Campaign' -- Introduction -- Governing from the Centre -- Whitehall Under the Coalition -- The Permanent Campaign and the Whitehall Bureaucracy -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: The Growth of Political Advisory Staff -- Introduction -- The Growth of Special Advisers -- The Marginalisation of the Civil Service -- Extended Ministerial Offices -- Challenging the Civil Service 'Monopoly' over Policy Advice -- Opening up the Marketplace of Ideas -- The Contestable Policy Fund -- Ministerial-Civil Service Relationships: Mutual Dependency and Institutional Resilience? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: The Personalisation of Appointments -- Introduction -- Civil Servants: Pleasing Their Political Masters? -- The Civil Service Appointments Process -- Appointing Permanent Secretaries -- Recruitment Beyond Whitehall -- Departmental Boards -- Demoralising the Civil Service -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: A 'Promiscuously Partisan' Bureaucracy -- Introduction -- Defending Government Policy -- The Public Visibility of Mandarins -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Conclusion -- Introduction -- Resistance to NPG -- The Erosion of the Whitehall Model -- Whitehall Cutbacks -- The End of Whitehall -- The Quality of Governance in Britain -- Whitehall: A Public Service Under Threat? -- Conclusion: NPG and the British Constitution -- Postscript: Brexit -- Bibliography -- Bibliography -- Index.

Chapter Three State Rescaling, Policy Experimentation and Path-dependency in post-Mao China: A Dynamic Analytical FrameworkIntroduction; State Rescaling and Socioeconomic Reforms in Post-Mao China: A Critical Overview; Framing State Rescaling, Policy Experimentation and Institutional Path-dependency in China: A Dynamic Analytical Framework; Conclusion; Part III State Rescaling in the Pearl River Delta and Chongqing; Chapter Four Becoming 'More Special than Special' I: The Pressures and Opportunities for Change in Guangdong; Introduction

Chapter 1. The Roots of Communitarian Ideas -- Chapter 2. The Emergence of Communitarian Challenges: 1400s-1600s. Chapter 3. Towards Enlightened Communities: the 18th century -- Chapter 4. Beyond Gemeinschaft & Gesellschaft: 19th to early 20th century -- Chapter 5. Critiques of Depersonalisation: 1920s-1980s -- Chapter 6. Communitarianism Articulated: 1989-2001 -- Chapter 7. Tackling Community Disempowerment post-2001 -- Chapter 8. Tomorrow's Communities

Introduction : the changing geopolitical dynamics in South Asia : an overview -- Contours of China-Pakistan economic corridor : implications for India and the extended South Asia -- China's belt and road initiative : impact and assessment -- The Trump administration's Af-Pak policy in South Asia : retreat or reengagement? -- Russia-China-Iran trilateral engagement with Afghanistan : competitive interests -- Changing contours in India-Russia relations : a reassessment -- Russia-Pakistan defence and energy cooperation : motivations and long term outcomes -- Conclusion.

Part I Manfred Steger and the Theorizing Globalization -- 1. Blazing Scholarly Ground: From International Studies to Global Studies -- 2. Evolving Global Studies -- 3. The Social Imaginary in Theory and Practice -- 4. Global Studies: Contested Fields, One Domain? -- Part II Manfred Steger's Global Imaginary and Everyday Life -- 5. Searching for Sugar Man: Thinking on the Border of the Global/Apartheid Imaginary (Isaac Kamola) -- 6. Global Imaginaries Beyond Markets: The Globalization of Money, Family, and Financial Inclusion -- 7. Into the Glorious Future: The Utopia of Cybernetic Capitalism According to Google's Ideologues -- 8. Imagining Global Non-violent Consciousness -- 9. The Symbolic Power of the Global: Interpreting Cultural and Ideological Change in Melbourne, Australia -- 10. The 'Craic' Goes Global: Irish Pubs and the Global Imaginary -- 11. Afterword

Chapter 1 The rise and rise of permitted development in England -- Chapter 2 Deregulation, neoliberalism and the planning system -- Chapter 3 The planning context for office-to-residential change of use -- Chapter 4 Understanding office-to-residential permitted development -- Chapter 5 Overview of office-to-residential conversion in England and our case studies -- Chapter 6 The Camden story: threatening the creative economy? -- Chapter 7 The Croydon story: slums of the future? -- Chapter 8 The Leeds story: city centre students and industrial estate living -- Chapter 9 The Leicester story: positive reuse or threatening an emerging private rental sector? -- Chapter 10 The Reading story: loss of affordable housing in the vibrant South East? -- Chapter 11 Alternative approaches to governing change of use: Scotland and the Netherlands -- Chapter 12 Conclusions and implications for future practice

PART I – GLOBALISATION OF ANTI-APARTHEID -- Humanitarians, Human Rights and Anti-Apartheid; Rob Skinner -- 'We the people of the United Nations': The UN and the Global campaigns against Apartheid; Anna Konieczna -- From the theory to practice of liberation : Fanon, May '68 and the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa; Namara Burki -- PART II - SOLIDARITIES -- Cuba and apartheid; Adrien Delmas -- Race, Socialism and Solidarity: Anti-Apartheid in Eastern Europe; Paul Betts, James Mark, Idesbald Goddeeris and Kim Christiaens -- PART III - LEVERS AND NETWORKS -- 'Yusuf Dadoo, India and South Africa's liberation struggle'; Arianna Lissoni -- Anti-Apartheid Goes to Brussels: Forms of Transnational Cooperation between the Anti-Apartheid Movements of the European Community Countries, 1977-1992; Lorenzo Ferrari -- Afro-Asian Solidarity and the Anti-apartheid Movement in Japan; Kumiko Makino -- Solidarity or Anti-Apartheid? The Polish opposition and South Africa, 1976-1989; Idesbald Goddeeris and Kim Christiaens -- Anti-Apartheid, Decolonization and Transnational Solidarity: the Namibian case; Chris Saunders -- Index

Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Nature of Weapons Research -- Chapter 2: Weapons as the Means to Harm -- Chapter 3: Defence as Justification for Weapons Research -- Chapter 4. The Outcomes of Weapons Research -- Chapter 5: Just War Theory and Weapons Research -- Conclusion

1. Zhen's Story -- 2. Shun's Story: Number One Daughter -- 3. Ze's Story: Husband of First Daughter -- 4. Shi's Story: Second Daughter -- 5. Hua's Story: Third Daughter -- 6. Chun's Story: First Son, Fourth Child -- 7. Xia's Story: Second Son -- 8. Kai's Story: Fourth Daughter -- 9. Qiu's Story: Third Son -- 10. Dong's Story: Fourth Son -- 11. Grandma Remembers -- 12. Anthropological Themes