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Contents: 1. Going beyond GDP: theoretical approaches / Enrico Giovannini and Tommaso Rondinella -- 2. Going beyond GDP: empirical findings / Carlotta Balestra, Romina Boarini and Nicolas Ruiz -- 3. Human development and poverty: theoretical approaches / Suman Seth and Antonio Villar -- 4. Human development and poverty: empirical findings / Suman Seth and Antonio Villar -- 5. Multidimensional poverty and material deprivation: theoretical approaches / Satya R. Chakravarty and Nachiketa Chattopadhyay -- 6. Multidimensional poverty and material deprivation: empirical findings / Anne-Catherine Giuo -- 7. Social exclusion: theoretical approaches / Luna Bellani and Alessio Fusco -- 8. Social exclusion: empirical findings / Bea Cantillon, Tim Goedemé, András Gábos and István Tóth -- 9. Poverty over time: theoretical approaches / Micheal Hoy and Buhong Zheng -- 10. Poverty over time: empirical findings / Coral del Rio, Carlos Gradin and Olga Cantó -- 11. Vulnerability to poverty: theoretical approaches / Cesar Calvo -- 12. Vulnerability to poverty: empirical findings / Lidia Ceriani -- 13. Economic insecurity: theoretical approaches / Nicholas Rohde and Kam Ki Tang -- 14. Economic insecurity: empirical findings / Lars Osberg -- 15. Relative deprivation and satisfaction: theoretical approaches / Lucio Esposito -- 16. Relative deprivation and satisfaction: empirical findings / Paolo Verme -- 17. Social inequality: theoretical approaches / Casilda Lasso de la Vega -- 18. Social inequality: empirical findings / Indranil Dutta and Gaston Yalonetzky -- 19. Income and social polarization: theoretical approaches / Inaki Permanyer -- 20. Income and social polarization: empirical findings / Chiara Gigliarano -- 21. Segregation: theoretical approaches / Oscal Volij -- 22. Segregation: empirical findings / Ricardo Mora and Jacques Silber -- 23. Diversity and social fractionalization: theoretical approaches / Mariateresa Ciommi Ernesto Savaglio and Stefano Vannucci -- 24. Diversity and social fractionalization: empirical findings / Mariateresa Ciommi -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction to the Fourth Edition -- Introduction to the First Edition, 1967 -- Part I: Orientation:Constructing Meaning -- 1. The Family as a Psychosocial Organization -- 2. Marriage and the Construction of Reality:An Exercise in the Microsociology of Knowledge -- 3. Marriage and the Construction of Reality:Then and Now -- Part II: Research Methods -- 4. Using Qualitative Methods to Study Families -- 5. Qualitative Study of Whole Families in a Time ofGreat Change -- 6. Family Research:A Case for Interviewing Couples -- 7. Ethical Dilemmas in Qualitative Family Research -- Part III: The Meanings of Family Boundaries -- 8. The Three Phases of Systemic Maturation -- 9. Family Boundary Ambiguity:Perceptions of Adult Stepfamily Members -- 10. Challenging Boundaries:An Adolescent in a Homosexual Family -- Part IV: Familiesd and Culture -- 11. An Anthropological Approach to Family Studies* -- 12. Family Ecologies of Ethnic Minority Children -- 13. Determinants of Family Culture:Effects on Fatherhood -- Part V: The Family as a Universe of Communication -- 14. The Appropriation of the Parental Role ThroughCommunication During the Transitionto Parenthood -- 15. The D ialectic of Marital and Parental RelationshipsW ithin the Stepfamily -- 16. Television and Family Interaction -- Part VI: Love, Work, Power, Gender, and Making a Home Life -- 17. Constructing the Family -- 18. The Work of Love -- 19. Women, Work, and Family Changing Gender Roles and Psychological Well-Being -- 20. Power in the Family -- 21. Reconstructing the Family* -- 22. Making Family under a Shiftwork Schedule: Air Force Security Guards and Their Wives -- Part VII: Patterning Separateness and Connectedness -- 23. Marital Conflict O ver Intimacy

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword: Into the Lion's Den Once Again -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Chapter 1 Opening Arguments -- Chapter 2 The Genesis of the Delimitation Issue -- Chapter 3 The Political Approach: A Fistful of Theories -- Chapter 4 The Political Approach: For a Few Theories More -- Chapter 5 The Spatial Approach: Arbitrary Altitudes -- Chapter 6 The Spatial Approach: Natural Phenomena -- Chapter 7 The Spatial Approach: Aerodynamic Lift -- Chapter 8 The Spatial Approach: Myths and Misconceptions -- Chapter 9 The Spatial Approach: Aerostatic Buoyancy -- Chapter 10 The Spatial Approach: Lowest Perigee -- Chapter 11 The Functional Approach: Security of the State -- Chapter 12 The Functional Approach: Its Rise and Stall -- Chapter 13 The Functional Approach: What Are Space Activities? -- Chapter 14 The Functional Approach: What Are Space Objects? -- Chapter 15 What is Outer Space? -- Chapter 16 A Temporal Approach -- Chapter 17 National Practices and Legislation -- Chapter 18 Right of Passage -- Chapter 19 Effective Control and State Interest Reconsidered -- Chapter 20 A Hybrid Approach -- Chapter 21 A Draft Space Delimitation Convention -- Chapter 22 Practical Considerations and the Convention -- Chapter 23 The Outer Limits -- Chapter 24 Summation -- Appendix 1 Altitudes of Interest with Regard to Spatial Delimitation -- Appendix 2 Space Object Perigees below 100 Kilometers -- Appendix 3 Selected Suborbital Flights -- Appendix 4 Space Vehicle Reentry Altitude and Range Profiles -- Appendix 5 Space Vehicle Ground Tracks -- Appendix 6 Draft Convention Regarding Delimitation -- Appendix 7 Proyecto de Convenio Relativo a la Delimitación -- Appendix 8 Projet de Convention Concernant la Délimitation -- Appendix 9 Проект Конвенция Относительно Разграничении -- Appendix 10 Progetto di Convenzione sulla Delimitazione -- Bibliography

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introducing the language-politics nexus -- Part I Theoretical approaches to language and politics -- 1 Rhetoric as a civic art from antiquity to the beginning of modernity -- 2 From Karl Marx to Antonio Gramsci and Louis Althusser -- 3 Jürgen Habermas: between democratic deliberation and deliberative democracy -- 4 Michel Foucault: discourse, power/knowledge and the modern subject -- 5 Jacques Lacan: negotiating the psychosocial in and beyond language -- 6 The discourse theory of Ernesto Laclau -- 7 Pierre Bourdieu: ally or foe of discourse analysis? -- 8 Conceptual history: the history of basic concepts -- 9 Critical Discourse Studies: a critical approach to the study of language and communication -- Part II Methodological approaches to language and politics -- 10 Content analysis -- 11 Corpus analysis -- 12 Cognitive Linguistic Critical Discourse Studies: connecting language and image -- 13 Competition metaphors and ideology: life as a race -- 14 Legitimation and multimodality -- 15 Narrative analysis -- 16 Rhetorical analysis -- 17 Understanding political issues through argumentation analysis -- 18 Conversation analysis and the study of language and politics -- 19 Politics beyond words: ethnography of political institutions -- Part III Genres of political action -- 20 Parliamentary debates -- 21 Government communication -- 22 Press conferences -- 23 Policy-making: documents and laws -- 24 The semiotics of political commemoration -- 25 Mediatisation and political language -- 26 Performing politics: from the town hall to the inauguration -- 27 Genres of political communication in Web 2.0 -- 28 Music and sound as discourse and ideology: the case of the national anthem

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Going Along to Get Along: Conforming to Group Norms -- 2 Clashing Cognitions: When Actions Prompt Attitudes -- 3 Baptism of Fire: When Suffering Leads to Liking -- 4 Just Following Orders: A Shocking Demonstration of Obedience to Authority -- 5 "Who, Me?": The Failure of Bystanders to Intervene in Emergencies -- 6 Of Roaches and Men: Social Enhancement and Inhibition of Performance -- 7 Us and Them: Discrimination on the Basis of Trivial Social Categorization -- 8 The Sauntering Samaritan: When Context Conquers Character -- 9 Taking the Magic Out of the Markers: The Hidden Cost of Rewards -- 10 The Burglar's Situation: Actor-Observer Differences in Explaining Behavior -- 11 We're Number One!: Basking in Others' Glory -- 12 Hooded Hoodlums: The Role of Deindividuation in Antisocial Behavior -- 13 Familiarity Breeds Liking: The Endearing Effects of Mere Exposure -- 14 Strangers to Ourselves: The Shortcomings of Introspection -- 15 What Did You Expect?: The Behavioral Confirmation of the Physical Attractiveness Stereotype -- 16 The Calvinist's Conundrum: Unconsciously Engineering Good Omens -- 17 Believing Is Seeing: Partisan Perceptions of Media Bias -- 18 Love Thy Neighbor or Thyself?: Empathy as a Source of Altruism -- 19 When Two Become One: Expanding the Self to Include the Other -- 20 The Eye Is Quicker Than the Mind: Believing Precedes Disbelieving -- 21 Mythical Memories: Reconstructing the Past in the Present -- 22 Pitfalls of Purpose: Ironic Processes in Mood Control -- 23 Digital Diagnosis: Technical Tools for Unearthing the Unconscious -- 24 Frames of Mind: Taking Risks or Playing Safe? -- 25 The Wrath of the Rejected: Being Shut Out Makes One Lash Out -- 26 Prosocial Scuttlebutt: Sharing the Bad to Promote the Good

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction: Modern Political Economy and the Policy Revolution in Latin America -- PART ONE Theoretical Perspectives -- Section 1 Contending Perspectives on Market Failure and Government Failure -- 1 The Origins of Structuralism -- 2 Government Failures in Development -- 3 What Washington Means by Policy Reform -- 4 How Can States Foster Markets? -- 5 Improving the State's Institutional Capability -- Section II Explanations of Government Policy -- 6 The Method of Analysis: Modern Political Economy -- 7 Political Models of Macroeconomic Policy and Fiscal Reforms -- 8 Understanding Economic Policy Reform -- 9 What Do We Know about the Political Economy of Economic Policy Reform? -- 10 Uses and Limitations of Rational Choice -- PART TWO Applications -- Section III The Political Economy of Growth since Independence -- 11 Obstacles to Economic Growth in Nineteenth-Century Mexico -- 12 Economic Retardation in Nineteenth-Century Brazil -- 13 Factor Endowments, Institutions, and Differential Paths of Growth Among New World Economies -- 14 Latin American Manufacturing and the First World War -- 15 Latin America in the 1930s -- Section IV Foreign Trade and Industrial Policy -- 16 Import Substitution Industrialization -- 17 Was Latin America Too Rich to Prosper? -- 18 The Case for Trade Liberalization in Developing Countries -- 19 The Origins of Mexico's Free Trade Policy -- 20 The Political Economy of MERCOSUR -- Section V Foreign Capital and the Macroeconomy -- 21 Forms of External Capital and Economic Development in Latin America: 1820-1997 -- 22 External Debt and Macroeconomic Performance in Latin America and East Asia -- 23 Inflows of Capital to Developing Countries in the 1990s -- 24 Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries: Progress and Problems

Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- I | The Israélite of the Republic -- 1 | Joseph Salvador, The People -- 2 | James Darmesteter, Preface, The Prophets of Israel -- 3 | Zadoc Kahn, Speech on the acceptance of his position as chief rabbi of France -- 4 | Bernard Lazare, Judaism's Conception of the Social and the Jewish People -- Jewish Capitalism and Democracy -- 5 | André Spire, Preface (1959) to Jewish Poems -- Prologue (1919) to Jewish Poems -- Jewish Dreams -- 6 | Sylvain Lévi, Alliance israélite universelle -- 7 | Edmond Fleg, Why I Am a Jew -- II | The Cataclysm and the Aftermath -- 8 | Simone Weil, What Is a Jew? -- 9 | Robert Gamzon, Tivliout: Harmony -- 10 | Jacob Gordin, The Galuth -- 12 | Vladimir Jankélévitch, Judaism, an "Internal Problem" -- 11 | Emmanuel Levinas, The Jewish Experience of the Prisoner -- 13 | Sarah Kofman, Smothered Words -- III | Universal and Particular: The Jew and the Political Realm -- 14 | Albert Memmi, The Jew, the Nation and History -- 15 | Richard Marienstras, The Jews of the Diaspora, or the Vocation of a Minority -- 16 | André Neher, The Jewish Dimension of Space: Zionism -- 17 | Henri Atlan, Jerusalem: The Terrestrial, the Celestial -- 18 | Shmuel Trigano, Klal Israel: The Totality minus One -- IV | Identification, Disidentification -- 19 | Jacqueline Mesnil-Amar, The Lost Children of Judaism -- 20 | Léon Ashkénazi, Tradition and Modernity -- 21 | Alain Finkielkraut, From the Novelesque to Memory -- 22 | Hélène Cixous, Albums and Legends -- The Dawn of Phallocentrism -- 23 | Jacques Derrida, Avowing-the Impossible "Returns,": Repentance, and Reconciliation, a Lesson -- 24 | Stéphane Mosès, Normative Modernity and Critical Modernity -- Acknowledgments -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index -- Publication Credits.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I Foundations of trust -- 1 Reconsidering affect-based trust: A new research agenda -- 2 Reciprocal trust: A self-reinforcing dynamic process -- 3 Swift trust: state-of-the-art and future research directions -- 4 Distrust -- PART II Levels of analysis -- 5 Determinants, consequences and functions of interpersonal trust within organizations: What is the empirical evidence? -- 6 Trust in teams: A review across levels -- 7 Cooperation and coordination: The role of trust in inter-organizational relationships -- 8 Multilevel trust: Antecedents and outcomes of trust at different levels -- PART III Theories of trust -- 9 Why do people trust? Moving toward a more comprehensive consideration of the antecedents of trust -- 10 Trust and fairness -- 11 Social exchange theory: Where is trust? -- 12 Institutions and trust -- 13 Trust and contracts: Complements versus substitutes in business-to-business exchanges -- 14 The contributions of attribution theories to trust research -- PART IV Trust repair -- 15 An interactive perspective on trust repair -- 16 Organizational trust repair -- 17 Trust and distrust: Their interplay with forgiveness in organizations -- PART V Applications -- 18 'Right-touch' trust: Thoughts on trust in healthcare -- 19 The production and reproduction of trust violations: An exploration of theory and practice in universal banks prior to the global financial crisis -- 20 Trust in public professionals and their professions -- 21 Employment relations and trust -- 22 Individual trust and the internet -- 23 Trust in the entrepreneurial process -- 24 Trust in safety-critical contexts -- 25 Trust in food: Assuring quality, sustainability, price and availability -- PART VI Future directions

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: Toward a New Enlightenment -- Part One: Ethics and the Planetary Society -- Introduction to Part One -- 1. Humanist Ethics: Eating the Forbidden Fruit -- 2. The Relevance of Science to Ethics -- 3. The Twenty-First Century and Beyond: The Need for a New Global Ethic and a Declaration of Interdependence -- Part Two: Democratic Ideas, Pluralism -- Introduction to Part Two -- 4. Humanism and the Freedom of the Individual -- 5. Democracy without Theology: Dialogue with Evangelists -- 6. Excellence and Irrelevance: Democracy and the Higher Learning -- 7. Misuses of Civil Disobedience -- 8. The Limits of Tolerance -- 9. Beyond Multiculturalism: Toward a Humanist Universalism -- 10. Will Secularism Survive? -- Part Three: Skepticism: Science and Antiscience -- Introduction to Part Three -- 11. The Scientific Attitude vs. Antiscience and Pseudoscience -- 12. Antireason -- 13. Science and the Paranormal: An Overview -- 14. Skepticism about the Paranormal: Legitimate and Illegitimate -- Part Four: Atheism, Humanism, and Religion -- Introduction to Part Four -- 15. Humanism and the Open Society: Dialogues with Marxists and Roman Catholics -- 16. Militant Atheism vs. Freedom of Conscience: Reflections on the Moscow Atheist/Humanist Dialogue -- 17. Humanism and Atheism: Exploring Similarities and Differences -- 18. The Church under Siege: Reflections on the Vatican/Humanist Dialogue -- 19. The Argument from Revelation Reexamined -- 20. Is Life Meaningful in a Universe without God? -- 21. Finding a Common Ground between Believers and Unbelievers -- 22. The Growth of Fundamentalism Worldwide: A Humanist Response -- Part Five: Paul Kurtz in Person and in Action -- Introduction to Part Five -- 23. In Defense of Eupraxophy -- 24. Promethean Love: Unbound

Intro -- Cover -- Brief Contents -- Detailed Contents -- List of Exhibits -- Preface -- Chapter 1 - The Rise of Medical Expenditures -- Chapter 2 - How Much Should We Spend on Medical Care? -- Chapter 3 - Do More Medical Expenditures Produce Better Health? -- Chapter 4 - In Whose Interest Does the Physician Act? -- Chapter 5 - Rationing Medical Services -- Chapter 6 -How Much Health Insurance Should Everyone Have? -- Chapter 7 - Why are Those Who Most Need Health Insurance Least Able to Buy It? -- Chapter 8 - Medicare -- Chapter 9 - Medicaid -- Chapter 10 - How Does Medicare Pay Physicians? -- Chapter 11 - The Impending Shortage of Physicians -- Chapter 12 - Why is Getting into Medical School So Difficult? -- Chapter 13 - The Changing Practice of Medicine -- Chapter 14 - Physician Malpractice Reform -- Chapter 15 - Do Nonprofit Hospitals Behave Differently than For-Profit Hospitals? -- Chapter 16 - Competition Among Hospitals: Does It Raise or Lower Costs? -- Chapter 17 - The Future Role of Hospitals -- Chapter 18 - Cost Shifting -- Chapter 19 - Can Price Controls Limit Medical Expenditure Increases -- Chapter 20 - The Evolution of Managed Care -- Chapter 21 - Has Competition Been Tried - and Has It Failed - to Improve the US Healthcare System? -- Chapter 22 - Comparative Effectiveness Research -- Chapter 23 - Who Bears the Cost of Employee Health Benefits? -- Chapter 24 - Will a Shortage of Registered Nurses Reoccur? -- Chapter 25 - The High Price of Prescription Drugs -- Chapter 26 - Ensuring Safety and Efficacy of New Drugs: Too Much of a Good Thing? -- Chapter 27 - Why are Prescription Drugs Less Expensive Overseas? -- Chapter 28 - The Pharmaceutical Industry: A Public Policy Dilemma -- Chapter 29 - Should Kidneys and Other Organs Be Bought and Sold? -- Chapter 30 - Should Profits in Healthcare Be Prohibited?

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- History -- 1. Law as History -- The Anisminic saga -- Crime at common law -- Politics and slavery -- Law's whiteout -- History and law -- 2. The History of English Law -- Final appeals -- The Law Courts -- Public law -- The Plimsoll line -- Public administration and crime -- Women as persons -- 3. Human Rights and the Whirligig of Time -- Rights in space -- A British bill of rights? -- Rights in time -- Why human rights? -- How evident is self-evident? -- Engines of change -- Lawful violations -- Relativism and absolutism -- Sources -- 4. A Glorious Revolution? -- 5. Judges and Ministers -- 6. Obscenity and the Margin of Appreciation -- Strasbourg and Europe -- 7. Does the Separation of Powers Still Work? -- Law and Rights -- 8. The Role of the Judge -- Independence and Dicey -- The separation of powers -- Impartiality and independence -- Accountability -- Judges and the media -- Judicial immunity -- 9. Anonymity and the Right to Lie -- Trolling -- Lying -- Anonymity -- Sources -- Legal controls -- Secret ballots -- 10. Dealing with Strasbourg -- 11. Speaking in Tongues -- A problem -- A solution -- 12. The Public Interest -- Relator actions -- 13. Judicial Misconduct -- 14. Recusal: When Should a Judge Not Be a Judge? -- Mr Dimes and Lord Cottenham -- General Pinochet and Lord Hoffmann -- Affinity and the reasonable observer -- Dealing with contempt -- Lay tribunals -- 15. The Right to Die -- 16. The Brexit Case -- 17. The Supreme Court -- 18. Arbitration -- 19. Detention without Trial -- 20. Originalism -- 21. Colonels in Horsehair -- 22. The British Constitution -- 23. A New Constitution? -- 24. Freedom of Expression -- 25. The Abuse of Power -- The abuse of parliamentary power -- The royal prerogative -- 26. A Compensation Culture? -- People -- 27. Rudy Narayan -- 28. John Warr

Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Executive summary -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1. Background -- Inequality is increasing -- Figure 1.1. Disposable income Gini coefficients, mid-1980s and 2015 (or latest available year) in 22 OECD countries -- Figure 1.2. Distributions of household disposable income and net wealth across deciles -- Populations are ageing -- Figure 1.3. Old-age dependency ratios, 2015 -- Figure 1.4. Old-age dependency ratio over time, OECD average -- 1.2. The effects of taxation on savings -- The effect of taxation on portfolio composition -- The effect of taxation on the level of savings -- 1.3. Outline of the report -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 How countries tax savings -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Approaches taken to taxing household savings -- 2.3. Overall trends in countries' approaches to taxing savings -- Table 2.1. Broad approaches to taxation of savings -- 2.4. Results across asset types -- Bank accounts -- Bonds -- Equities (purchase of corporate shares) -- Investment funds -- Pension funds -- Tax-favoured savings accounts -- Owner-occupied residential property -- Rented residential property -- Table 2.2. Tax treatment of different forms of saving: bank accounts -- Table 2.3. Tax treatment of different forms of saving: bonds -- Table 2.4. Tax treatment of different forms of saving: shares -- Table 2.5. Tax treatment of different forms of saving: investment funds -- Table 2.6. Tax treatment of different forms of saving: private pensions -- Table 2.7. Tax treatment of different forms of saving: tax-favoured savings accounts -- Table 2.8. Tax treatment of different forms of saving: owner-occupied residential property -- Table 2.9. Tax treatment of different forms of saving: rented residential property -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Marginal effective tax rates on household savings

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: reclaiming "minorities" in the Middle East -- SECTION I: Majority-minority relations in the Middle east -- 2 Religious minorities in the diversity of Islamic thought -- 3 Balancing identities: minorities and Arab nationalism -- 4 The praxis of Islamist models of citizenship in a post-Arab revolt Middle East: implications for religious pluralism -- 5 Minorities, civil society, and the state in the contemporary Middle East: a framework for analysis -- SECTION II: Religious and ethnoreligious minorities -- 6 Tracing the Coptic Question in contemporary Egypt -- 7 The Maronites -- 8 Palestinian Christians: situating selves in a dislocated present -- 9 Persistent perseverance: a trajectory of Assyrian history in the modern age -- 10 Christians from a Muslim background in the Middle East -- 11 The Yezidis: an ancient people, tragedy, and struggle for survival -- 12 The Mandaeans in Iraq -- 13 Bahá'ís in the Middle East -- 14 The Alawites of Syria: the costs of minority rule -- 15 Particularism versus integration: the Druze communities in the modern Middle East -- 16 Alevis in Turkey -- 17 The Samaritans -- 18 Shi'i minorities in the Arab world -- SECTION III: Ethnic minorities -- 19 The Kurds in the Middle East -- 20 Armenians in the Middle East: from marginalization to the everyday -- 21 The Palestinian minority in the state of Israel: challenging Jewish hegemony in dic ffi ult times -- 22 The Bedouin in the Middle East -- 23 The Berbers (Amazigh) -- SECTION IV: Emerging issues and minorities in the Middle east -- 24 Sitting at the crossroads: sexual minorities in the Middle East -- 25 Minorities and armed conflict in the Middle East -- 26 Middle Eastern minorities in diaspora

Chapter 1: Human rights institutions: what legitimacy? what authority? -- Part 1: United Nations human rights institutions -- Chapter 3: The UN Human Rights Council: achievements 2006-2016 and challenges ahead -- Chapter 4: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and field operations -- Chapter 5: UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies: impact and future -- Chapter 6: The UN Human Rights Committee -- Chapter 7: The UN Committee of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -- Chapter 8: Gender in the UN: CEDAW and the Commission on the Status of Women -- Chapter 9: The UN Security Council and human rights -- Chapter 10: Why a World Court of Human Rights? -- Part 2: Human rights violations as crimes - international courts and tribunals -- Chapter 11: The Legacy of Nuremberg and Tokyo -- Chapter 12: Prosecuting human rights violations: what legacy of the ad hoc criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda? -- Chapter 13: What future for ad hoc tribunals? -- Chapter 14: The International Criminal Court between human Rights and realpolitik -- Chapter 15: Towards effective enforcement of international humanitarian law -- Chapter 16: Transitional Justice: the legacy and future of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions -- Part 3: Regional human rights systems -- Chapter 17: The European Court of Human Rights: achievements and prospects -- Chapter 18: The Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights -- Chapter 19: The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples' Rights -- Chapter 20: The Arab Human Rights Commission -- Chapter 21: The ASEAN Human Rights Commission -- Chapter 22 : An Agenda for Strengthening Human Rights Institutions.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Ethnography and U.S. Empire -- 1. The "Affects" of Empire: (Dis)trust among Osage Annuitants -- 2. Milking the Cow for All It's Worth: Settler Colonialism and the Politics of Imperialist Resentment in Hawai'i -- 3. Sovereignty, Sympathy, and Indigeneity -- 4. A School of Addicts: The Coloniality of Addiction in Puerto Rico -- 5. Inhabiting the Aporias of Empire: Protest Politics in Contemporary Puerto Rico -- 6. Training for Empire?: Samoa and American Gridiron Football -- 7. Exceptionalism as a Way of Life: U.S. Empire, Filipino Subjectivity, and the Global Call Center Industry -- 8. In Their Places: Cottica Ndyuka in Moengo -- 9. Shifting Geographies of Proximity: Korean-led Evangelical Christian Missions and the U.S. Empire -- 10. Sites of the Postcolonial Cold War -- 11. Time Standards and Rhizomatic Imperialism -- 12. Islands of Imperialism: Military Bases and the Ethnography of U.S. Empire -- 13. Domesticating the U.S. Air Force: The Challenges of Anti-Military Activism in Manta, Ecuador -- 14. The Empire of Choice and the Emergence of Military Dissent -- 15. Locating Landmines in the Korean Demilitarized Zone -- 16. Love and Empire: The CIA, Tibet, and Covert Humanitarianism -- 17. Trust Us: Nicaragua, Iran-Contra, and the Discursive Economy of Empire -- 18. Empire as Accusation, Denial, and Structure: The Social Life of U.S. Power at Brazil's Spaceport -- 19. Radicalizing Empire: Youth and Dissent in the War on Terror -- 20. Deporting Cambodian Refugees: Youth Activism, State Reform, and Imperial Statecraft -- 21. Hunters of the Sourlands: Empire and Displacement in Highland New Jersey -- 22. From Exception to Empire: Sovereignty, Carceral Circulation, and the "Global War on Terror" -- Afterword. Disassemblage: Rethinking U.S. Imperial Formations -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index