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Founded by Edgar F. Allen in 1922 in Elyria, Ohio as The International Society for Crippled Children, today Rehabilitation International (RI) is a global network promoting and implementing the rights, inclusion and rehabilitation of people with disabilities. From the beginning, the organization dedicated itself to assist disabled people, doing so by providing direct services, by disseminating information, and by influencing political decisionmaking. Uniquely, it has been a cross-disability, cross-disciplinary, and international organization from the start. Further, in its first decade as in its eighth, conceiving and publicizing bills of rights were a key feature of the organization's mission.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: OVERVIEWS OF THE FIELD -- 1 International Organization: A State of the Art on an Art of the State -- 2 Theories and Empirical Studies of International Institutions -- 3 What are International Institutions? -- PART II: CORE CONCEPTS AND COMPETING THEORIES -- 4 Power and Interdependence Revisited -- 5 Structural Causes and Regime Consequences: Regimes as Intervening Variables -- 6 International Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Economic Order -- 7 International Institutions: Two Approaches -- 8 Concerts, Collective Security, and the Future of Europe -- 9 The False Promise of International Institutions -- PART III: NEW DIRECTIONS -- 10 Introduction: Epistemic Communities and International Policy Coordination -- 11 Multilateralism and World Order -- 12 Is American Multilateralism in Decline? -- 13 Imagined (Security) Communities: Cognitive Regions in International Relations -- 14 Governance, Good Governance and Global Governance: Conceptual and Actual Challenges -- 15 The Emerging Roles of NGOs in the UN System: From Article 71 to a People's Millennium Assembly -- PART IV: COMPLIANCE, EFFECTIVENESS AND THE DOMESTIC DIMENSION -- 16 Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: The Logic of Two- Level Games -- 17 The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International Organizations -- Name Index

Introduction --The criterion of an armed attack in the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice --The criteria of necessity and proportionality --The trouble with armed attack and the merged conceptions of self-defence --A proposal for redefining armed attack --The ICJ : roles and restrictions --Conclusion.

"International relations are generally understood as a realm of anarchy in which countries lack any superior authority and interact within a Hobbesian state of nature. In Hierarchy in International Relations, David A. Lake challenges this traditional view, demonstrating that states exercise authority over one another in international hierarchies that vary historically but are still pervasive today. Revisiting the concepts of authority and sovereignty, Lake offers a novel view of international relations in which states form social contracts that bind both dominant and subordinate members. The resulting hierarchies have significant effects on the foreign policies of states as well as patterns of international conflict and cooperation. Focusing largely on U.S.-led hierarchies in the contemporary world, Lake provides a compelling account of the origins, functions, and limits of political order in the modern international system. The book is a model of clarity in theory, research design, and the use of evidence. Motivated by concerns about the declining international legitimacy of the United States following the Iraq War, Hierarchy in International Relations offers a powerful analytic perspective that has important implications for understanding America's position in the world in the years ahead."--Jacket

The fully revised and extensively updated seventh edition has a two-colour internal design, is supported by an extensive online resource and offers three brand new chapters on Exchange Rate Dynamics, Financial Crises and European Monetary Integration

For patriotic citizens, living in their native country is intrinsically preferable compared to living in the diaspora. In this paper, we analyze the implications of such a patriotic lock-in in a world with international migration and redistributive taxation. In a formal model of redistribution with international migration and fiscal competition we derive the main hypothesis: that countries with a more patriotic population should have higher redistributive taxes. Using ISSP survey data and combining them with OECD taxation data, we find robust evidence suggesting that a) higher patriotism is associated with higher tax burdens, and b) this relation is stronger for the upper-middle range of the income distribution. ; Die individuelle Entscheidung, dauerhaft im Ausland zu leben, wird sowohl von finanziellen als auch von nicht-monetären Aspekten beeinflusst. Patriotismus (Heimatbindung) ist einer dieser nicht-monetären Faktoren, der zwischen den Ländern aber auch innerhalb eines Landes variiert. Ausgehend davon analysieren wir zunächst theoretisch die Auswirkungen von Patriotismus auf den Steuerwettbewerb zwischen zwei Ländern. In der ersten Stufe des Spieles entscheiden die Individuen, ob sie auswandern oder nicht und in der zweiten Stufe erheben die Länder vom hoch-produktiven Anteil der Bevölkerung (unabhängig vom Ursprung der Individuen) Steuern zur Umverteilung. Wenn die ursprüngliche Bevölkerung (vor Migrationsbewegungen) in Land A im Durchschnitt heimatverbundener als die in Land B ist, reagiert sie weniger elastisch auf den Steuersatz. Im Gleichgewicht führt daher höherer (durchschnittlicher) Patriotismus zu höheren Steuersätzen. Im zweiten Teil überprüfen wir diese Hypothese empirisch, indem wir ISSP-Surveydaten und OECDSteuerdaten zusammenführen. Im Ländervergleich besteht für gleiche relative Einkommen ein positiver Zusammenhang zwischen Patriotismus und Steuerbelastung.

Diplomacy does not take place simply between states but wherever people live in different groups. Paul Sharp argues that the demand for diplomacy, and the need for the insights of diplomatic theory, are on the rise. In contrast to conventional texts which use international relations theories to make sense of what diplomacy and diplomats do, this book explores what diplomacy and diplomats can contribute to the big theoretical and practical debates in international relations today. Sharp identifies a diplomatic tradition of international thought premised on the way people live in groups, the differences between intra- and inter-group relations, and the perspectives which those who handle inter-group relations develop about the sorts of international disputes which occur. He argues that the lessons of diplomacy are that we should be reluctant to judge, ready to appease, and alert to the partial grounds on which most universal claims about human beings are made

Offers the first comprehensive account of Pragmatism in IR by evaluating the main implications of a Pragmatist turn for three major dimensions of IR--theory, research and ethics.

This textbook chronicles the logic, evolution, application, and outcomes of the five major approaches to international conflict management.

Intro -- INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY -- INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 CLIMATE CHANGE TRENDS AND GOVERNANCE: HISTORY, CONTRADICTIONS AND PROSPECTS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. HISTORY OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND POLICY -- 2. POLITICAL ECONOMY CONTRADICTIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE -- 3. POLICY PLANS AND PRIORITIES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 GOVERNANCE, FISCAL POLICY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. GOVERNANCE -- 3. GOVERNANCE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH -- 4. EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF THE LARGEST 100 NON-FINANCIAL MULTINATIONALS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. METHODOLOGY -- 3. RESULTS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 EFFECTS OF THE TRANSVERSAL FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT ON THE PRODUCTIVITY OF THE MEXICAN ECONOMY -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THEORY DEVELOPMENT -- 3. METHODOLOGY -- 4. RESULTS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- ANNEX I -- Chapter 5 FINANCIAL GLOBALIZATION AND PERIPHERAL STRATEGIES: RECENT EXPERIENCES IN LATIN AMERICA AND LESSONS FROM ASIA -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE FINANCIAL WORLD SINCE BRETTON WOODS? -- 3. PERIPHERAL STRATEGIES IN THE FACE OF FINANCIAL INSTABILITY -- 4. TOWARDS THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS -- 5. FINAL REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 FINANCIAL AND TRADE LIBERALIZATION AND THEIR IMPACT ON PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENT IN TURKEY -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. TURKISH ECONOMIC BACKGROUND -- 3. FINANCIAL LIBERALISATION AND ITS IMPACT ON GROSS FIXED CAPITAL FORMATION -- 4. LIBERALIZATION PROGRAMMES AND THEIR IMPACT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH AND GROSS FIXED CAPITAL FORMATION -- 4.1. Test of Financial and Trade Liberalization on Real GDP Growth Rate -- 4.2. Test of Financial and Trade Liberalization on Gross Fixed Capital Formation Share of GDP.

Intro -- Contents / Matière -- Les processus canadien et communautaire de négociation des traités, la Société civile et le Principe démocratique: Leçons à tirer de la Communauté européenne -- Summary and Sommaire -- Weaving a Tangled Web: Hape and the Obfuscation of Canadian Reception Law -- Sommaire and Summary -- La responsabilité internationale d'État pour le fait d'entreprises militaires privées -- Summary and Sommaire -- The Special Court for Sierra Leone, Child Soldiers, and Forced Marriage: Providing Clarity or Confusion? -- Sommaire and Summary -- L'incorporation de la coutume internationale en common law canadienne -- Summary and Sommaire -- State Immunity, State Atrocities, and Civil Justice in the Modern Era of International Law -- Sommaire and Summary -- Notes and Comments / Notes et commentaires -- Canada and the 2003 Invasion of Iraq: Prime Minister Chrétien's Gloss on the UN Charter Principles on the Use of Force -- Sommaire and Summary -- Le processus d'adhésion de la Turquie à l'Union européenne: Le rôle déterminant des critères politiques de Copenhague -- Summary and Sommaire -- John Peters Humphrey: Canadian Nationalist and World Government Advocate -- Sommaire and Summary -- Chronique de Droit international économique en 2006 / Digest of International Economic Law in 2006 -- Commerce -- Le Canada et le système financier international en 2006 -- Investissement -- Canadian Practice in International Law / Pratique canadienne en matière de droit international -- At the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 2006-7 / Au ministère des Affaires étrangères et Commerce international en 2006-7 -- Parliamentary Declarations in 2006-7 / Déclarations parlementaires en 2006-7 -- Treaty Action Taken by Canada in 2006 / Mesures prises par le Canada en matière de traités en 2006 -- Cases / Jurisprudence.

This paper develops a theory of international currency portfolios that holds in general equilibrium, and that is therefore not subject to the criticisms directed at the portfolio balance literature of the 1980s. It shows that, under plausible assumptions about fiscal policy, the relationship between the rates of return of different currency bonds is not correctly described by an arbitrage relationship but instead also depends on outstanding bond stocks. Other findings are: (1) There is a monotonically increasing relationship between domestic interest rates and the portfolio share of domestic c