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Covering a broad range of approaches within critical theory including Marxism and post-Marxism, hermeneutics, feminism, queer theory, deconstruction and psychoanalysis, this book provides students with an introduction to 32 key critical theorists whose work has been influential in the field of international relations.

Provides a comparative study of the role of international organizations in environmental governance and features case studies on the World Bank; OECD; the UN Environment Programme and secretariats to environmental treaties; and hybrid organizations.

The International Journal of Labour Research is published twice a year in English, French and Spanish, each issue focuses on a specific theme. Vol. 1, No.1: Trade union strategies towards global production systems. Vol. 1, No. 2: Global capital strategies and trade union responses.

Migration to OECD countries has been sharply rising over the past two decades and in recent years labour migration has significantly increased. This publication ,first ,examines the economic crisis and its impact on international migration, describes how flows and migration policy have been recently affected by the crisis, and analyses the forecast medium and long-term impact. Then, it turns to the management of labour migration, both of the highly and lesser skilled. It examines how countries should prepare now for future labour market demand and how best to redirect irregular migration into authorised channels. A dynamic link (StatLink) is provided for each table and graph. It directs the reader to a web page where the corresponding data are available in Excel® format.

Front Matter -- Adoption in Context. Nature, Nurture and Narratives / David Howe -- How Tight Was the Seal? A Reappraisal of Adoption Records in the United States, England and New Zealand, 1851-1955 / E Wayne Carp -- From Bucharest to Beijing: Changes in Countries Sending Children for International Adoption 1990 to 2006 / Peter Selman -- The Ecology of Adoption / Jesus Palacios -- Research Perspectives. Children from Care can be Adopted / Ruth G McRoy, Courtney J Lynch, Amy Chanmugam, Elissa Madden, Susan Ayers-Lopez -- Understanding Links Between Birth Parents and the Child They Have Placed for Adoption: Clues for Assisting Adopting Families and for Reducing Genetic Risk? / David Reiss, Leslie D Leve, Amy L Whitesel -- Effects of Profound Early Institutional Deprivation: An Overview of Findings from a UK Longitudinal Study of Romanian Adoptees / Michael Rutter, Celia Beckett, Jenny Castle, Emma Colvert, Jana Kreppner, Mitul Mehta, Suzanne Stevens, Edmund Sonuga-Barke -- International Adoption Comes of Age: Development of International Adoptees from a Longitudinal and Meta-Analytical Perspective / Femmie Juffer, Marinus H van IJzendoorn -- Attachment Representations and Adoption Outcome: On the Use of Narrative Assessments to Track the Adaptation of Previously Maltreated Children in Their New Families / Miriam Steele, Jill Hodges, Jeanne Kaniuk, Howard Steele, Kay Asquith, Saul Hillman -- Adopted Adolescents: Who and What Are They Curious About? / Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Kristin Dillon -- Emerging Voices : Reflections on Adoption from the Birth Mother's Perspective / Ruth Kelly -- The Corresponding Experiences of Adoptive Parents and Birth Relatives in Open Adoptions / Elsbeth Neil -- Emotional Distance Regulation over the Life Course in Adoptive Kinship Networks / Harold D Grotevant -- Connecting Research to Practice / Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Elsbeth Neil -- Index.

Key Features:Written by an author who is a co-developer of the Michigan Model of World Production and TradeIncludes a brief introduction to each chapter, with a review question component useful for instructors at the end of the chapterProvides references to current developments and more recent literature.

Contents: Walter Müller: Education research in international comparison: Inequality among students in European countries; Werner Georg: Individual and Institutional Factors in the Tendency to drop out of Higher Education. A Multilevel Analysis; Alain Fernex, Charles Hadji, Laurent Lima: L'évaluation de la qualité des études: est-ce que l'inégalité importe?; Jean-Francois Stassen: Universities and inequalities. Some results from OVE 2008 surveys Helmut Guggenberger, Paul Kellermann: Research about Students - Experiences and Results; Lette Hogeling, Maarja Lühiste: Quality and Equity in the Dutch Higher Education System; Heike Behle:
Futuretrack. Careers Clarity of UK students. Diversity and Choices; Dominic Orr: A brief presentation of the EUROSTUDENT project and selected results from the third round (2005-2008); Kai Mühleck: The Higher Education Quality Survey - Contents, Design, & Perspectives; René Krempkow: Qualification, Transition and the Tasks of Quality Management; Regina Sonntag-Krupp:
Studentische Mobilität mit der Einführung der Bachelor- und Masterstudiengänge; Gediminas Merkys:
Design and composition of questionnaires: Techniques for response behaviour by extremely long Instruments; Andrii Gorbachyk: Testing of school knowledge as a step towards the equality of access to higher education. Analysis of the first results.

Norway is a generous donor and enjoys high visibility as a peace broker. Public support is high, despite criticism from some quarters. It now wants to rejuvenate the UN and work more closely with the EU. This article discusses Norwegian development cooperation.

Daryl Copeland charts the course for a new kind of diplomacy, one in tune with the demands of today's interconnected, technology driven world. Eschewing platitudes and broadly rethinking issues of security and development, Copeland provides the tools needed to frame and manage issues ranging from climate change to pandemic disease to asymmetrical conflict and weapons of mass destruction. The essential keystone of his approach is the modern diplomat, able to nimbly engage with a plethora of new international actors and happier mixing with the population than mingling with colleagues inside embassy walls. Through the lens of Guerrilla Diplomacy, Copeland offers both a call to action and an alternative approach to understanding contemporary international relations.

With the unrelenting unrest in places such as Iraq, Afghanistan and the Sudan, the plight of refugees has become an increasingly discussed topic in international relations. Why do we have refugees? When did the refugee 'problem' emerge? How can the refugee ever be reconciled with an international system that rests on sovereignty? Looking at three key periods - the inter-war period, the Cold War and the present day - Emma Haddad demonstrates how a specific image has defined the refugee since the international states system arose in its modern form and that refugees have thus been qualitatively the same over the course of history. This historical and normative approach suggests new ways to understand refugees and to formulate responses to them. By examining the issue from an international society perspective, this book highlights how refugees are an inevitable, if unanticipated, result of erecting political borders

The current fi nancial crisis has not come about by chance. It is the result of a system that has emerged over the last 30 years and which Keynes may well have called the 'casino economy'. The dominance of fi nance over real economy characterises the fi nancial crisis, while fi nance itself is dominated by the all-encompassing target of maximum profi t at all times. Other aims of economic activity such as job creation, social welfare and development have fallen by the wayside. In response, new actors are surfacing, e.g. the institutional investor (hedge funds, private equity funds, etc.), while new instruments are leading to highly leveraged and destabilising derivatives. The casino system has been promoted by governments and intergovernmental institutions to liberalise and deregulate fi nancial markets. Although developing countries have not participated in the casino system, they have been suffering most from the spill-over into the real economy. The main lesson learnt is that the casino has to be closed. ; Paper presented at a meeting of the Joint Globalization Task Team of the Reformed Churches of Germany and South Africa, held at Arnoldsheim, Frankfurt, Germany, 26–30 May 2008. ; http://www.hts.org.za ; am2015

International migration has emerged in the last decade as one of the world's most controversial and pressing issues. This thought-provoking textbook offers the reader a more nuanced and extensive understanding of the complex economic, political, cultural, and moral concerns that arise when people move across borders seeking admission into other countries