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"This series started in 1981 with the Erice Seminars when the danger of a nuclear East-West confrontation was menacing the world. The volumes reproduce the crucial steps, from the Nuclear Winter to the Strategic Defense Initiative. After the collapse of the U.S.S.R., new emergencies are now to be faced such as the danger of proliferation of Weapons for Mass Destruction (WMD), the North-South confrontation on ecological problems and the new deal for Science and Technology to help developing countries in their struggle for a better standard of life. The Erice Seminars have attracted the attention of world leaders in Science, Technology and Culture."--

"the U.S.S.R., new emergencies are now to be faced such as the danger of proliferation of Weapons for Mass Destruction (WMD), the North-South confrontation on ecological problems and the new deal for Science and Technology to help developing countries in their struggle for a better standard of life. The Erice Seminars have attracted the attention of world leaders in Science, Technology and Culture. "--Publisher's description

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 officially ended the explicit prejudice in American immigration policy that began with the 1790 restriction on naturalization to free White persons of 'good character.' By the 1980s, the rest of the Anglo-European world had followed suit, purging discriminatory language from their immigration laws and achieving what many believe to be a colorblind international system. 'Undesirable Immigrants' challenges this notion, revealing how racial inequality persists in global migration despite the end of formally racist laws. In this eye-opening book, Andrew Rosenberg argues that while today's leaders claim that their policies are objective and seek only to restrict obviously dangerous migrants, these policies are still correlated with race.

This handbook draws together leading and emerging scholars to provide a comprehensive critical analysis of international refugee law. This book provides an account as well as a critique of the status quo, setting the agenda for future research in the field

Der Beitrag untersucht den Vorschlag, Internationale Politische Theorie als Demokratiewissenschaft zu verstehen im Hinblick auf seine gesellschaftstheoretischen und sozialen Implikationen. Dazu wird die Debatte um Postdemokratie herangezogen und gezeigt, dass die üblichen Implikationen der Diagnose der 'postnationalen Konstellation' vom Verhältnis von Demokratie und Kapitalismus, wie es dem aktuellen demokratiewissenschaftlichen Verständnis zugrunde liegt, nicht ausreichen, um IPT als eine globale Demokratiewissenschaft in der 'postdemokratischen Konstellation' zu fundieren. Dies kann nur durch eine Verbindung von Demokratiewissenschaft und Internationaler Politischer Ökonomie gelingen, die wir abschließend aufzeigen.

Contributing to the literature on the economic effects of international migration, considered here are the effects of migration in the presence of a non-traded-goods sector when the migrants leave behind a portion of the capital stock they own, due to legal or institutional factors, or because they might not be able to make cumbersome & costly arrangements to take their capital stock abroad. In such cases, nonmigrants experience a significant increase in their capital stock, which may enable them to increase their production & thus further enrich their capital, improving the welfare of the remaining residents. Further, if during the postmigration period the domestic price ratio between traded & nontraded goods influences the amount of capital moved by the migrants, then the magnitude of the capital-enrichment effect on the nonmigrants will be more if the non-traded-goods sector is relatively capital intensive. 3 Figures, 7 References. Adapted from the source document.

A great diversity of points of view on international security, one of the most current subjects in the area of international relations, coexist in Latin America and the Caribbean. This region is immersed in an interesting debate in which reticence and enthusiasm coexist and confront themselves in order to enlarge the functions of regional mechanisms of security, or to evaluate experiences acquired either through UN action or recent tendencies of the Security Council. The center of debate is also found in the impossible to ignore role of the United States. Does the end of the Cold War modify the U.S. interests in Latin America in the field of security? Should existing mechanisms of collective security in the region be strengthened? Or should new alternatives be found? How far is a shared agenda for security, not only with the United States but also between the countries in Latin America itself, and among them and the Caribbean, possible or desirable? How acceptable are the new tendencies of the multilateral organizations in the field of security of the countries in the region? These are some of the questions that this book deals with from different points of view. It presents a new perspective on the contemporary debate over international security in Latin America and the Caribbean. -- Provided by publisher.

A major part of the British government's privatization programme, which has been heralded as a radical break in government, were its oil assets. This book uses institutional public choice models to examine the case study of the sale of Britoil, British Petroleum, Enterprise Oil and Wytch Farm, and then re-assembles the pieces to better understand the whole. The extensive interviews provide a full and flavourful background to exploring the actors at four levels of structures: international, state-owned companies, civil service and the political process

Questions concerning the ownership of space are nothing new. The difference today is that states are becoming more and more capable of making good on their claims to outer space. Today, the 'scramble for space' occurs at least nominally for scientific reasons, not for political ones. However, scientific exploration of outer space is by no means free from geopolitical implications or motivations. The way the international community reacts to a recent National Aeronautics and Space Administration proposal to capture an asteroid will likely be highly formative for future international law on space. Ideally, international law would shape the way the world works. In the fast-paced world of space science, though, the opposite seems to be true: the way events unfold will shape the law. As human beings get closer to colonizing Mars or to geoengineering other planets, this body of international law will become even more important. Adapted from the source document.