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The rule of law is indispensable for sustained peace, good governance, and economic growth, especially in countries recovering from civil war. Yet despite its importance, we know surprisingly little about how to restore the rule of law in the wake of conflict. In this book, Robert A. Blair proposes a new theory to explain how the international community can help establish the rule of law in the world's weakest and most war-torn states, focusing on the crucial but often underappreciated role of the United Nations. Blair tests the theory by drawing on original household surveys in Liberia, highly disaggregated data on UN personnel and activities across Africa, and hundreds of interviews with UN officials, local leaders, citizens, and government and civil society representatives. The book demonstrates that UN intervention can have a deeper, more lasting, and more positive effect on the rule of law than skeptics typically believe.

Green growth has proven to be politically popular, but economically elusive. Can Green Sustain Growth? asks how we can move from theoretical support to implementation, and argues that this leap will require radical experimentation. But systemic change is costly, and a sweeping shift cannot be accomplished without political support, not to mention large-scale cooperation between business and government. Insightful and timely, this book brings together eight original, international case studies to consider what we can learn from the implementation of green growth strategies to date. This analysis reveals that coalitions for green experimentation emerge and survive when they link climate solutions to specific problems with near-term benefits that appeal to both environmental and industrial interests. Based on these findings, the volume delivers concrete policy recommendations for the next steps in the necessary shift toward sustainable prosperity

"Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. His influence extends beyond academic philosophy to areas as diverse as anti-colonial movements, youth culture, literary criticism, and artistic developments around the world. Beginning with an introduction and biography of Jean-Paul Sartre by Matthew Eshleman, 42 chapters by a team of international contributors cover all the major aspects of Sartre's thought in the following key areas: Sartre's philosophical and historical context Sartre and phenomenology Sartre, existentialism and ontology Sartre and ethics Sartre and political theory Aesthetics, literature and biography Sartre's engagements with other thinkers. The Sartrean Mind is the most comprehensive collection on Sartre published to date. It is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy, as well as for those in related disciplines where Sartre's work has continuing importance such as literature, French studies, and politics"--

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 -- 1. The Pentateuch -- 2. The Prophets -- 3. The Writings -- Part 2 -- 4. From Kingdom to Serfdom -- 5. Between Powerlessness and Empowerment -- 6. The Zionist Controversy -- 7. Zionist Diplomacy in the Post-World War I International System -- 8. The British Mandate and Its Dilemmas -- Part 3 -- 9. Israel and the Middle East at the Beginning of the Cold War -- 10. The Periphery Strategy and Its Aftermath -- 11. Israel and the Arab States -- 12. Israel and the Palestinians -- Part 4 -- 13. The European Paradox -- 14. The American Alliance -- 15. The Russian Enigma -- 16. The Long March to Asia -- 17. The Scramble for Africa -- 18. Latin American Dilemmas -- 19. The United Nations Saga -- 20. The Diaspora Challenge -- 21. Israel and the Geopolitics of Energy -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Natalie Davidson offers an alternative account of Alien Tort Statute litigation by revisiting the field's two seminal cases, Filártiga (filed 1979) and Marcos (filed 1986), lawsuits ostensibly concerned with torture in Paraguay and the Philippines, respectively. Combining legal analysis, archival research and ethnographic methods, this book reveals how these cases operated as transitional justice mechanisms, performing the transition of the United States and its allies out of the Cold War order. It shows that US courts produced a whitewashed history of US involvement in repression in the Western bloc, while in Paraguay and the Philippines the distance from US courts allowed for a more critical narration of the lawsuits and their underlying violence as symptomatic of structural injustice. By exposing the political meanings of these legal landmarks for three societies, Davidson sheds light on the blend of hegemonic and emancipatory implications of international human rights litigation in US courts.

"French theorist Rene Girard was one of the major thinkers of the twentieth century. Read by international leaders, quoted by the French media, Girard influenced such writers as J.M. Coetzee and Milan Kundera. Dubbed "the new Darwin of the human sciences" and one of the most compelling thinkers of the age, Girard spent nearly four decades at Stanford exploring what it means to be human and making major contributions to philosophy, literary criticism, psychology and theology with his mimetic theory. This is the first collection of interviews with Girard, one that brings together discussions on Cervantes, Dostoevsky, and Proust alongside the causes of conflict and violence and the role of imitation in human behavior. Granting important insights into Girard's life and thought, these provocative and lively conversations underline Girard's place as leading public intellectual and profound theorist."-- Back cover

Intro -- Vorwort -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Herausgeber- und Autorenverzeichnis -- I Einleitung -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- 1 Einleitung -- 1.1 Kinderwunsch und assistierte Reproduktion -- 1.2 Überblick über die Beiträge -- 1.2.1 Medizin -- 1.2.2 Recht -- 1.2.3 Ethik -- 1.2.4 Sozioempirische Befunde -- 1.2.5 Psychosoziale Beratung -- 1.2.6 Lebenswelt und Familienrealitäten -- 1.2.7 Internationale Perspektiven -- II Medizin -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- 2 Fortpflanzungsmedizin und Familienbildung mit Hilfe Dritter -- 2.1 Einleitung -- 2.2 In-vitro-Fertilisation (IVF) und intracytoplasmatische Spermieninjektion (ICSI)-Methode -- 2.2.1 Probleme der IVF und der ICSI-Methode -- 2.2.2 Schwangerschaftsverlauf und Gesundheit der Kinder -- 2.2.3 Problem "Dreier-Regel" im Embryonenschutzgesetz -- 2.2.4 Sozialrechtliche Regelungen -- 2.3 Donogene Insemination -- 2.3.1 Eizellspende -- 2.3.2 Embryospende/-adoption -- 2.3.3 Leihmutterschaft -- 2.3.4 Konfliktfelder -- Fazit -- Literatur -- 3 Keimzell- und Embryospende aus medizinischer Perspektive -- 3.1 Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen für die Keimzellspende in Deutschland -- 3.2 Samenspende -- 3.2.1 Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen für die Kinderwunschbehandlung mit Spendersamen -- 3.3 Das Samenspender-registergesetz -- 3.3.1 Inhalt und Umsetzung -- 3.3.2 Behandlung von gleichgeschlechtlichen und alleinstehenden Frauen -- 3.3.3 Kritik am Samenspenderregistergesetz -- 3.3.3.1 Ungenaue Erfassung von Geburten durch -- 3.3.3.2 Unbefriedigende Situation für den Samenspender -- 3.3.3.3 Auskunftsanspruch der Empfängerin/Eltern versus Schutz der Spenderanonymität -- 3.3.3.4 Übergangsregelung für die Verwendung gefrierkonservierter befruchteter Eizellen und Embryonen -- 3.3.3.5 Behandlung mit Spendersamen von ausländischen Samenbanken.

"Carl Schmitt, one of the most influential legal and political thinkers of the twentieth century, is known chiefly for his work on international law, sovereignty, and his doctrine of political exception. This book argues that greater prominence should be given to his early work in legal studies. Schmitt himself repeatedly identified as a jurist, and Hugo E. Herrera demonstrates how for Schmitt, law plays a key role as an intermediary between ideal, conceptual theory and the messiness and complexity of practical, concrete situations. Law is concerned precisely with balancing the extremes of theory and reality, and in this respect, Schmitt associates it with philosophical thinking broadly as being able to understand and explain the tensions in human experience. Reviewing and analyzing prevailing interpretations of Schmitt by Jacques Derrida, Heinrich Meier, and others, Herrera argues that the importance of Schmitt's legal framework is both significant and overlooked"--

An important and topical contribution to the field of Middle East studies, this innovative, provocative, and timely study tackles head-on the main assumptions of the foundation of Israel as a Jewish state. Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, Yaacov Yadgar provides a novel analysis of the interplay between Israeli nationalism and Jewish tradition, arriving at a fresh understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through its focus on internal questions about Israeli identity. By critiquing and transcending the current discourse on religion and politics in Israel, this study brings to an international audience debates within Israel that have been previously inaccessible to non-Hebrew speaking academics. Featuring discussions on Israeli jurisprudence, nation-state law, and rabbinic courts, Israel's Jewish Identity Crisis will have far-reaching implications, not only within the state of Israel but on politics, society and culture beyond its borders.

Russia has deployed cyber operations to interfere in foreign elections, launch disinformation campaigns, and cripple neighboring states - all while maintaining a thin veneer of deniability and avoiding strikes that cross the line into acts of war. How should a targeted nation respond? In Russian Cyber Operations, Scott Jasper dives into the legal and technical maneuvers of Russian cyber strategies, proposing that nations develop solutions for resilience to withstand future attacks. Jasper examines the place of cyber operations within Russia's asymmetric arsenal and its use of hybrid and information warfare, considering examples from recent French and US presidential elections and the 2017 NotPetya mock ransomware attack, among others. Jasper shows the international effort to counter these operations through sanctions and indictments has done little to alter Moscow's behavior and instead proposes that nations use data correlation technologies in an integrated security platform to establish a more resilient defense.

This book proposes a new theoretical framework to move beyond the traditional tenets of modern international relations theory to investigate European integration and shed light on current events. Based on contemporary analyses, Hegel's political philosophy, and the fundamental role of historical interpretation, this book addresses the institutional dynamics as well as the discursive practices behind both the Eastern enlargement and the current critical situation. Looking back in particular at European integration in one of its most significant events, namely the enlargement of the European Union to include former Socialist countries, it offers a unique conceptualisation of the nature and limits of European integration and for understanding the current crisis between Brussels and the Visegrád countries, 30 years since the revolutions of 1989. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European integration, European politics and history, and political theory and philosophy.

Contemporary economists, when analyzing economic behavior of people, need to use the diversity of research methods and modern ways of discovering knowledge. The increasing popularity of using economic experiments requires the use of IT tools and quantitative methods that facilitate the analysis of the research material obtained as a result of the experiments and the formulation of correct conclusions. This proceedings volume presents problems in contemporary economics and provides innovative solutions using a range of quantitative and experimental tools. Featuring selected contributions presented at the 2018 Computational Methods in Experimental Economics Conference (CMEE 2018), this book provides a modern economic perspective on such important issues as: sustainable development, consumption, production, national wealth, the silver economy, behavioral finance, economic and non-economic factors determining the behavior of household members, consumer preferences, social campaigns, and neuromarketing. International case studies are also offered

"In 1995, with the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, Israel transferred responsibility for waste management in the West Bank to the nascent Palestinian government. While electricity, water, roads, and telecommunications remained largely controlled by Israel building new waste infrastructures and controlling the movements and effects of Palestinians' wastes became central to efforts to demonstrate the Authority's ability to be state-like. Waste Siege asks what is made possible, and what other ways of being are foreclosed, in the rubble, debris, and infrastructural fallout of decades of struggle to live a livable life among waste. Tracing Palestinians' own experiences of wastes over the past decade highlights the significance of the presence of multiple governing authorities in the West Bank-including municipalities, the Palestinian Authority, international aid organizations, NGOs, and political groups, as well as Israeli control-shows how all of these actors rule Palestinian lives by waste siege"--

This book examines the array of financial crises, slumps, depressions and recessions that happened around the globe during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It covers events including World War I, hyperinflation and market crashes in the 1920s, the Great Depression of the 1930s, stagflation of the 1970s, the Latin American debt crises of the 1980s, the post-socialist transitions in Central Eastern Europe and Russia in the 1990s, and the great financial crisis of 2008-9. In addition to providing wide geographic and historical coverage of episodes of crisis in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia, the book clarifies basic concepts in the area of recession economics, analysis of high inflation, debt crises, political cycles and international political economy. An understanding of these concepts is needed to comprehend big recessions and slumps that often lead to both political change and the reassessment of prevailing economic paradigms.

"This book delves into the theory and praxis of human security in South Asia. Home to almost a quarter of the world's population and fast emerging markets, South Asia holds social, geo-political, and economic significance in the current global context. The essays in the volume: examine the challenges to human security through an exploration of environmental issues including water availability, electric waste, environmental governance, and climate change; explore key themes such as development, displacement and migration, the role of civil society, sustainable development, and poverty discuss developmental issues in South Asia and provides a holistic picture of non-military security issues. Bringing together scholars from varied disciplines, this comprehensive volume will be useful for researchers, teachers and students of international relations, human rights, political science, development studies, human geography and demography, defence and strategic studies, migration and diaspora studies, and South Asian studies"--