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The scope of the current European crisis calls for a rereading of mainstream economic theory. Europe is experiencing a 'deja vu' history through which Latin America has already lived. The recurrent crises from the 1970s up to the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy are manifestations of the financialization process and relate to its different facets. The objective of this article is to analyze financialization in the current economic and financial crisis in Europe as well as its role in the Latin American debt crisis. A heterodox perspective is necessary to understand this long process of economic deterioration and discern the global fragility of the current financial system. An explanation of the structural crisis in the Eurozone implies an understanding of the financial and monetary agreements laid out in the Maastricht Treaty and the position of the Central Bank with regard to financial markets. Today, financial investors have been especially attuned to interest rate risks and profitability in the international financial system, in the same way that transnational banks owned Latin American sovereign debt years before. Adapted from the source document.

This authoritative handbook looks at the entire news cycle and provides a bridge between the theoretical and academic study of journalism and its actual contemporary practice. The book's main merit is that it brings theory and practice together, with contributors discussing these issues from different perspectives in a way that scholars, students, and practitioners can find useful in the study of journalism. The handbook is also unique as it undertakes an international scope across regions and cultures, both from the West and the Global South, while providing an overview which balances the (over-) emphasis on content in most academic approaches to journalism. The book is divided into four major parts: (1) Conceptual foundations, (2) Interlink between journalism as scholarship and journalism as practice, (3) Regions and cultures, and (4) The practitioner world. The first two sections lay down the foundation for section (3) which provides an overview of journalism practice in different regions and cultures. Section (4) includes contributions by practitioners in which they attempt to respond to some of the issues raised in preceding sections. This handbook will appeal to academics, practitioners, and professionals alike, who are interested in a better understanding of the academic study of journalism and its actual contemporary practice

"Mexico's Drug War and Criminal Networks examines the effects of technology on three criminal organizations: the Sinaloa cartel, the Zetas, and the Caballeros Templarios. Using social network analysis, and analyzing the use of web platforms Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, Nilda M. Garcia provides fresh insights on the organizational network, the central nodes, and the channels through which information flows in these three criminal organizations. In doing so, she demonstrates that some drug cartels in Mexico have adopted the usage of social media into their strategies, often pursuing different tactics in the search for new ways to dominate. She finds that the strategic adaptation of social media platforms has different effects on criminal organization's survivability. When used effectively, coupled with the adoption of decentralized structures, these platforms do increase a criminal organization's survival capacity. Nonetheless, if used haphazardly, it can have the opposite effect. Drawing on the fields of criminology, social network analysis, international relations, and organizational theory and featuring a wealth of information about the drug cartels themselves, Mexico's Drug War and Criminal Networks will be a great source for all those interested in the presence, behavior, purposes, and strategies of drug cartels in their forays into social media platforms in Mexico and beyond"--

Regions in a globalized world : bridging the social sciences-humanities gap / Galia Press-Barnathan, Ruth Fine, and Arie M. Kacowicz -- Preferential trade agreements in the developing world / Edward D. Mansfield -- Linking economic performance and regional institutionalism : more local, less global? / Yoram Z. Haftel and Daniel F. Wajner -- Overlapping regionalism and region-building in Africa / Christof Hartman -- Focusing on regions as the way to understand war and peace / Benjamin Miller -- A new cultural geography of East Asia : imagining a "region" through popular culture / Nissim Otmazgin -- Nationalism, religion, and sub-state national identity in Southeast Asia : regional and global relevance / Jacques Bertrand -- The Middle East : a volatile region in transition / Avraham Sela -- The Cantonese Pacific in the making of nations / Henry Yu -- "Linguistic peace"? : reflections on the interstate security consequences of Iberian American linguistic kinships versus European linguistic fragmentation / Carlos Escudé -- Regions of history : the International Congress for the Defense of Culture, Paris 1935 / Susanne Zepp -- The role of translatio/n in the constitution of community (regional) identities : the interdependence of Europe and Latin America / Michael Roessner -- How the Ethiopians changed their skin : the Orient, Africa, and their diasporas / Steven Kaplan -- Conclusions : imagining, perceiving, constructing, explaining, and understanding regions / Galia Press-Barnathan, Ruth Fine, and Arie M. Kacowicz

Drawing worldwide acclaim from critics and audiences alike, programmes like The Killing, Borgen, The Bridge and The Legacy demonstrate widespread fascination with Danish style, aesthetics and culture as seen through television narratives. This book uses familiar, alongside lesser known, case studies of drama series to demonstrate how the particular features of Danish production - from work cultures, to storytelling techniques and trans-national cooperation - have enhanced contemporary Danish drama's appeal both at home and abroad. The era of globalisation has blurred national and international television cultures and promoted regular cross-fertilisation between film and television industries. Important questions have emerged from this context surrounding, for example, the 'Americanisation' of foreign television formats, the meaning and practice behind the term 'quality television', and the purpose and efficacy of public service broadcasting. Beyond the Bridge tackles these issues in relation to Danish television, by examining the so-called 'scaffolded production processes' behind the making of quality serials and their thought-provoking content. Drawing on popular motifs from these celebrated dramas such as foreign politics, organised crime, global warming, and the impact of multinational corporations, this timely book provides crucial insight into the Danish dramas at the forefront of sophisticated, forward-thinking, fictional television

"Cover" -- "Half Title Page" -- "Title Page" -- "Copyright Page" -- "Original Tilte Page" -- "Original Copyright Page" -- "Dedication Page" -- "Contents" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Tables" -- "Illustrations" -- "Abbreviations" -- "Chapter 1: Introduction" -- "The U.S. Countervailing Duty Mechanism" -- "Literature Review" -- "Countervailing Duty Proceedings since 1980" -- "Appendix A: CVD Investigations Initiated Since 1980" -- "Appendix B: Overview of the Commerce Department's Identification and Measurement of Countervailable Subsidies" -- "Chapter 2: Empirical Analysis of International Trade Commission Behavior" -- "The U.S. ITC Material Injury Investigation" -- "An Econometric Model of ITC Behavior" -- "Data Sources and Variable Construction" -- "Estimation of the ITC Determination Function" -- "Conclusion" -- "Chapter 3: The CVD Statute and the Material Injury Requirement" -- "Effect of Foreign Subsidization on Cournot Duopoly" -- "Modelling ITC Determination Behavior" -- "Modelling a Domestic CVD Statute" -- "Effects of Various ITC Determination Functions" -- "An Example" -- "Endogenous Subsidization" -- "Conclusion" -- "Appendix: Mathematics for Example" -- "Chapter 4: Empirical Analysis of Strategic Behavior" -- "Strategic Behavior and the Empirical ITC Determination Function" -- "An Empirical Model of Strategic Behavior" -- "The Strategic Behavior Hypothesis" -- "An Empirical Test of the Strategic Behavior Hypothesis" -- "Conclusion" -- "Chapter 5: The ADD Statute and the Material Injury Requirement" -- "A One-period Dumping Model" -- "Modelling a Domestic ADD Statute" -- "The Equilibrium" -- "The Effect of Various Forms of the ITC Determination Function" -- "Conclusion" -- "Chapter 6: Conclusion" -- "Bibliography

In The Century of Science, a multicultural, international team of authors examine the global rise of scholarly research in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and health (STEM+) fields. This insightful text provides historical and sociological understandings of the ways that higher education has become an institution that, more than ever before, shapes science and society. Case studies, supported by the most historically and spatially extensive database on STEM+ publications available, of selected countries in Europe, North America, East Asia, and the Middle East, emphasize recurring themes: the institutionalization and differentiation of higher education systems to the proliferation of university-based scientific research fostered by research policies that support continued university expansion leading to the knowledge society. Growing worldwide, research universities appear to be the most legitimate sites for knowledge production. The chapters offer new insights into how countries develop the university-based knowledge thought fundamental to meeting social needs and economic demands. Despite repeated warnings that universities would lose in relevance to other organizational forms in the production of knowledge, these findings demonstrate incontrovertibly that universities have become more - not less - important actors in the world of knowledge. The past hundred years have seen the worldwide triumph of the research university.

This book contains twelve selected papers presented at the International Workshop on Traffic Data Collection and its Standardization held on September 8-9th 2008 in Barcelona. Organized and chaired by Barcelo and Kuwahara, the workshop was intended to examine the purposes and quality of data and how it is collected and used in traffic analysis, with the overall intent of improving and standardizing the practice. Traffic data is the cornerstone to everything from the most classical traffic control analysis to the most advanced real-time control and management implementing modern Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) applications. These applications are primarily based on the availability of traffic data supplied by a Data Collection System which, equipped with more or less sophisticated technologies, provides measurements on the fundamental traffic variables, ideally with the required level of temporal aggregation, and perhaps, when the technology allows it, additional measurements on other variables of interest, depending on the type of application in which they will be used. The applications are in turn supported by models, and in fact the primary use of the data is to provide the input to traffic models whose quality depends on the quality, consistency, robustness, completion and other characteristics of the data.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Chapter I. Protecting the Right to Life of At-risk Children: the Street Children Case -- Chapter II. Children as True Legal Persons -- Chapter III. The First International Law Cases Concerning the Protection of Children in Times of War in the World -- Chapter IV. The Right to Nationality and to Equal Protection: Th E Yean and Bosico Children Case -- Chapter V. Consolidating Principles on the Protectionof Children in Internal Armed Conflicts: the Case of the Massacre of Mapiripán and the Case of the Massacres of Ituango vs. Colombia -- Chapter VI. The Protection of Children of Indigenous Peoples: the Case of the Sawhoyamaxa Indigenous Community volume Paraguay -- Chapter VII. The Meaning of the Superior Interest of the Child in Post Conflict Societies: Servellón García and Others vs Honduras -- Chapter VIII. Child Soldiers in Paraguay: the Case of Vargas Areco -- Chapter IX. The Pending Task of Construing the Meaning of the Rights of the Family in the Jurisprudence of the Court -- Chapter X. Reparation in Cases of Violations of Human Rights of Children -- Chapter XI. Upcoming Contentious Cases on Childrens Rights in the System -- Concluding Remarks -- Annexes Instruments -- Other Documents and Materials -- Index.

This book brings together contributions from leading scholars around the world on the most relevant and pressing economic themes surrounding the UK-EU relationship. With contributions spanning from the UK's accession to the bloc to the aftermath of its decision to leave, the book explores key themes in UK economic growth and EU membership, international trade, foreign direct investment, financial markets and migration. Chapters interrogate the history of the relationship, the depth of foreign direct investment, and responses to the financial crisis. Considering both the history and future of UK and EU relations, the book is a relevant and timely volume that gives welcome context to a fast-changing relationship.

We understand very little about the billions of dollars that flow throughout the world from migrants back to their home countries. In this rigorous and illuminating work, Matt Bakker, an economic sociologist, examines how these migrant remittances—the resources of some of the world's least affluent people—have come to be seen in recent years as a fundamental contributor to development in the migrant‑sending states of the global south. This book analyzes how the connection between remittances and development was forged through the concrete political and intellectual practices of policy entrepreneurs within a variety of institutional settings, from national government agencies and international development organizations to nongovernmental policy foundations and think tanks.