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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- The focus of the book -- Data and methods: getting to the roots of UN success and failure -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Theories and concepts -- The great cosmopolitan transformation -- Preventing violence by means of military operation -- What about UN interventions? Are they any better? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Pitfalls of unilateral protective military operations by great powers -- Introduction -- Consequences of unilateral protection: level of individual conflicts -- Consequences of unilateral protection: level of target countries -- Target regime's relationship with the operation: genuine and non-genuine interventions -- Level of state fragility -- Agent of protective military operation -- Path to failure of protection -- Unilateralism -- Selfish humanitarianism -- Ethnicization of protection -- Power centricity and militarism in cosmopolitan protection -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 Measuring success of UN military operations -- UN military operations -- Timeline of fatalities -- Timeline of state fragility -- Fatalities before, during and after UN operations -- State fragility before, during and after UN operations -- Selection bias: consent, great power consensus and the existence of a peace agreement as covariates in the development of the n -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 UN approach and identity: Beyond unilateralism, selfishness and militarism -- Introduction -- Unilateralism vs. collectivist paralysis: is too little too late better than too much too soon? -- The primacy of the conflicting parties as agents of protection -- Consent and impartiality -- Beyond selfish protection -- Who does the UN protect?.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- 1 Argumento -- Argument and Rationale -- Historical Significance -- Methodology -- Literature Review -- Sources -- Organization -- 2 The Formation of Las Casas's Juridical Voice: Historical Matrix -- Ascendancy of the Renaissance -- Continuity and Change in Fifteenth-Century Spain -- Demographic and Economic Developments in Spain -- Political Power of Isabel and Ferdinand -- Religious Purview of the Catholic Monarchs -- Possession and Destruction of the Indies -- 3 The Formation of Las Casas's Juridical Voice: Disciplines of and Studies in Canon Law and Theology -- Discipline of Canon Law -- Las Casas's Canon Law Studies -- Discipline of Theology and Dominican Reforms -- Las Casas's Dominican Formation -- Convergence of Canon Law and Theology -- Distinctiveness of Las Casas's Juridical Voice -- 4 The Articulation of Las Casas's Juridical Voice: Debates about Level of Humanity and Religious Capacity -- Anthropo-status Debate -- Assessment of Initial Appraisals -- Initiation of Public Debate -- Response of Las Casas, the Young Cleric -- Polarized Discourse in Church, Academia, and Court -- Response of Las Casas, the Friar and Bishop -- Religious Debate -- Primary Goal of Evangelization -- Missiological Challenges of Ignorance -- Missiological Challenge of Goals -- Missiological Challenge of Methods -- Las Casas's Peaceful and Persuasive Missiology -- Ultimate Goal of Salvation and Las Casas's Soteriology -- 5 The Articulation of Las Casas's Juridical Voice: Debates about Economic Institutions and Political Dominium -- Economic Debate -- Initial Economic Development -- Emergence and Development of Encomienda -- Emergence and Development of Slavery -- Las Casas's Juridical Assessment and Condemnation.

Karl Marx is the most important modern philosopher. His work has radically changed the course of world history, continental philosophy, political theory, literary criticism, and cultural studies. The sheer range of his achievements, and the depth of his critical insights, continue to speak to our present moment. This book places Marx's writings in their historical context, providing a clear guide to his key ideas and intellectual legacy. Written for both students and scholars, it illustrates Marx's ideas with examples drawn from William Shakespeare, Herman Melville, Leo Tolstoy, Bertolt Brecht, Theodor Dreiser, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, Sally Rooney, Claude McKay, Tennessee Williams, Mad Men, and Margin Call. Key ideas discussed in this guide include: Tracing historical contexts and developments in Marx's work over his lifetime; Focusing on Marxism as an interpretative strategy, paying special attention to its impact on literary criticism and cultural studies; Examining recent developments in Marxist theory, such as a stronger focus on the environment, climate crisis, and world ecology; Exploring the continued relevance of Marx and Marxism today. This Routledge Critical Thinkers guide will enable readers to critically assess and interpret Marx's major works, while also introducing his methods of critical analysis. Preparing readers to approach his original texts, this guide ensures that readers of all levels will find Marx accessible, challenging and of continued relevance. Andrew Rowcroft offers a comprehensive introduction to Marx's revolutionary ideas, examining the influence Marx had on literary studies, cultural studies, modernism, and philosophy

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Europeanization "beyond Europe": Promoting LGBTI rights in third countries -- Europeanization and international norms diffusion -- Domestic actors of Europeanization -- Political instrumentalization of homosexuality and LGBTI rights -- On the case selection -- A note on methods -- Reflection of terminology: on missing letters -- Chapters and topics -- Notes -- 2 Politics of LGBTI rights and non-discrimination in the enlarged European Union -- History of the legal protection of LGBTI rights in the European Union -- European Union conditionality, enlargement, ENP, and the protection of LGBTI rights -- European institutions and instruments to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in third countries -- LGBTI rights in the European Union: discrepancies between the Member States -- Notes -- 3 European integration as Turkey's civilizational project -- Kemalism and Westernization of Turkey -- Looking back at EU-Turkish relations -- LGBTI rights in Turkey before Helsinki Summit -- The rise to power of the AK party -- The EU and the development of civil society in Turkey after Helsinki Summit -- The worsening of Turkey-EU relations after 2005 -- Turkish political parties at the beginning of the twenty-first century -- Changing rhetoric on "European values": failing democratic conditionality politics -- Political parties in Turkey after general elections in 2011 - same actors, new alliances -- Empowering civil society in Turkey in 2008-2014 -- Notes -- 4 Eurocrisis and transformations of the political system in Turkey -- Istanbul Gezi protest and politicization of the Turkish LGBTI community -- European aid and political participation of LGBTI people in Turkey.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Part I Water Pollution and Its Security -- Chapter 1 Water Security and Human Health in Relation to Climate ChangeAn Indian Perspective -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Quantity of Available Water Resources in India -- 1.3 Quality of Available Water Resources in India -- 1.4 The Impact of Climate Change on the Quantity of Water Resources -- 1.5 Impact of Climate Change on the Quality of Water Resources -- 1.6 The Health Perspective in Association with Water Security and Climate Change -- 1.7 Major Challenges to Water Security -- 1.8 Government Initiatives to Ensure Water Security -- 1.9 Managing Water Resources Under Climate Change -- 1.10 Conclusion and Recommendations -- References -- Chapter 2 Assessment of Anthropogenic Pressure and Population Attitude for the Conservation of Kanwar Wetland, Begusarai, India: A Case Study -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Materials and Method -- 2.3 Results -- 2.4 Discussion -- 2.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Grossly Polluting Industries and Their Effect on Water Resources in India -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Industrialization in India -- 3.3 Categorization of Industries -- 3.4 Criteria for Determination of Grossly Polluting Industries -- 3.5 Different Type of Grossly Polluting Industries and their Impact on Water Bodies -- 3.6 Major Water Body Pollution Due to Grossly Polluting Industries -- 3.7 Environmental Infrastructure in Grossly Polluting Industries and its Performance -- 3.8 Challenges Faced in Industrial Water Regulations -- 3.9 Conclusion -- References -- Part II Phytoremediation of Water Pollution -- Chapter 4 Phytoremediation: Status and Outlook -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Status of Heavy Metal Pollution: Global and Indian Scenarios -- 4.3 Status of Phytoremediation -- 4.4 Metal Hyperaccumulators for Phytoremediation.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Section 1 Monitoring and Modeling Flood Processes and Hazards -- Chapter 1 - Earth Observation for Flood Applications: Progress and Perspectives -- 1 - Motivation of this book -- 2 - Summary of content -- 2.1 - Section 1: Monitoring and modeling flood processes and hazards -- 2.2 - Section 2: Estimating flood exposure, damage, and risk -- 2.3 - Section 3: Emerging applications and challenges -- Chapter 2 - An Automatic System for Near-Real Time Flood Extent and Duration Mapping Based on Multi-Sensor Satellite Data -- 1 - Introduction -- 2 - Satellite-based multi-sensor flood mapping system -- 2.1 - NRT Flood extent mapping -- 2.1.1 - Auxiliary datasets -- 2.1.2 - TerraSAR-X Flood Service -- 2.1.3 - Sentinel-1 Flood Service -- 2.1.4 - Sentinel-2/Landsat-8 Flood Service -- 2.2 - Flood duration mapping -- 2.2.1 - Backward Flood Duration -- 2.2.2 - Total Flood Duration -- 2.2.3 - Flood duration quality layer -- 3 - Results -- 3.1 - Study area and dataset -- 3.2 - Flood extent masks -- 3.3 - Flood duration products -- 4 - Conclusion -- List of acronyms -- References -- Chapter 3 - Flood Mapping with Passive Microwave Remote Sensing: Current Capabilities and Directions for Future Development -- 1 - Introduction -- 1.1 - Microwave flood mapping for sovereign risk transfer -- 1.2 - Managing flood map ambiguities in applications -- 2 - Methods for passive microwave remote sensing for flood mapping -- 2.1 - Estimating flooded fraction -- 2.2 - Downscaling flooded fraction to map flooding -- 3 - Current capabilities -- 3.1 - Microwave flood mapping verification examples -- 3.2 - Microwave flood mapping uncertainties and limitations -- 3.2.1 - Flooded fraction noise and minimum detectability threshold -- 3.2.2 - Urban areas -- 3.2.3 - Flash false positives -- 3.2.4 - Flood duration.

"What does it mean to be media literate in today's world? How are we transformed by the many media infrastructures around us? We are immersed in a world mediated by information and communication technologies (ICTs). From hardware like smartphones, smartwatches, and home assistants to software like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat, our lives have become a complex, interconnected network of relations. Scholarship on media literacy has tended to focus on developing the skills to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media messages without considering or weighing the impact of the technological medium—how it enables and constrains both messages and media users. Additionally, there is often little attention paid to the broader context of interrelations which affect our engagement with media technologies.

This book addresses these issues by providing a transdisciplinary method that allows for both practical and theoretical analyses of media investigations. Informed by postphenomenology, media ecology, philosophical posthumanism, and complexity theory the author proposes both a framework and a pragmatic instrument for understanding the multiplicity of relations that all contribute to how we affect—and are affected by—our relations with media technology. The author argues persuasively that the increased awareness provided by this posthuman approach affords us a greater chance for reclaiming some of our agency and provides a sound foundation upon which we can then judge our media relations. This book will be an indispensable tool for educators in media literacy and media studies, as well as academics in philosophy of technology, media and communication studies, and the post-humanities."

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Editors -- Contributors -- Chapter 1 Is the Human Development Index Still Appropriate for the Assessment of Quality of Life? -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Methodology -- 1.3 Quality of Life: What Is It? -- 1.4 About Human Development -- 1.5 Is the HDI Still Relevant? -- 1.6 Opportunities for Future Research and Development of the HDI -- 1.7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 2 Workers' Well-Being and Workplace Environment: Crossed Case Studies of Workplaces in Italy, Greece and Portugal -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Theoretical Underpinnings on Well-Being -- 2.2.1 Defining and Crafting Environmental Workplace Conditions -- 2.2.2 Designing and Organizing Healthy Working Conditions -- 2.3 Research Methodology -- 2.3.1 Aims -- 2.3.2 Desk Research -- 2.3.3 Experiment Set-Up -- 2.3.4 Sample Characterization -- 2.3.5 HRV Measurements -- 2.4 Results and Discussion -- 2.5 Conclusions, Limitations and Future Research -- Funding -- Acknowledgements -- Conflicts of Interest -- References -- Chapter 3 Quality of Life in Nursing Homes: A European Approach for Improvement -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Nursing Home Care in Europe -- 3.3 Quality of Care in Nursing Homes and European Answers -- 3.4 The Paradigm Shift from Quality of Care to Quality of Life -- 3.4.1 Introduction of the Compendium -- 3.4.2 Autonomy -- 3.4.3 Participation -- 3.4.4 Human Dignity -- 3.5 Serious Board Game -- 3.5.1 Building the Game -- 3.6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4 International Students' Well-Being Achievements through the Lens of the Capability Approach: A Case Study -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Capability Approach -- 4.3 Participants and Methods -- 4.4 Findings and Discussion -- 4.4.1 Practical Reason -- 4.4.2 Affiliation.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Author -- Introduction -- 1. Causes of Climate Change and Legal Regulations -- 1.1 Causes of Climate Change -- 1.2 The Consequences of Climate Change -- 1.3 Sources and Dynamics of Greenhouse Gases -- 1.3.1 Energy -- 1.3.2 Transport -- 1.3.3 Industry -- 1.3.4 Forest Sector -- 1.4 Legal Regulation -- 2. Sustainable Development and Climate Change -- 2.1 The Concept and Objectives of Sustainable Development -- 2.1.1 Sustainable Development Goals -- 2.1.2 Integration of Culture to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals -- 2.2 The Link between Sustainable Development and Climate Change -- 2.2.1 Development Targets and Sustainable Development Tasks -- 2.3 Implementation of Sustainable Development and Climate Change Policies -- 2.4 Sustainability Assessment Methods -- 2.4.1 Indicators and Indices -- 2.4.2 Conceptual Framework and System Dynamics -- 2.4.3 Multi-Criteria Analysis -- 2.4.4 Vulnerability Analysis -- 3. Globalisation and Climate Change -- 3.1 Globalisation -- 3.2 Liberalisation of Markets and Climate Change -- 3.3 The Impact of Climate Change Mitigation Policies on Business Development -- 4. Climate Change Mitigation -- 4.1 Climate Change Mitigation Concept -- 4.2 Economic Climate Change Mitigation Approaches -- 4.2.1 Economic Instruments of Environmental Protection -- 4.2.2 Features of Taxes and Market Instruments -- 4.3 Emissions Trading Theory -- 4.4 Environmental Management Systems -- 4.5 Eco-Labelling of Goods -- 5. Adaptation to Climate Change Impacts -- 5.1 Climate Change and Migration -- 5.2 Climate Change and Developing Countries -- 5.3 Climate Change and Cities -- 5.3.1 Extreme Heat -- 5.3.2 Extreme Heat and Poverty -- 5.3.3 Water Availability -- 5.3.4 Food Security -- 5.3.5 Sea-Level Rise -- 5.3.6 Sea-Level Rise and Energy Supply.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2: Some Introductory Thoughts -- 2.1 Alberto Giovannini (1955-2019): Selected Scientific Contributions -- Reference -- Part I: The European "Postwar Consensus" and the European Project -- Chapter 3: The Origins of the Idea of European Integration: A German Perspective -- 3.1 The Inexorability of European Economic Integration: The Consequence of "Unstoppable" Modern Forces? -- 3.2 General Challenges to European Economic Integration -- 3.3 Challenges to Germany Posed by European Integration: History's Doormat or Herbert Giersch's Volcano? -- 3.4 When Does European Integration Reach an Inflection Point? The German View -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: The European "Postwar Consensus" and the Birth of the EEC -- 4.1 The Italians -- 4.2 The Americans -- 4.3 France and Germany -- References -- Chapter 5: "Large Switzerland" or "Large France"? The Ordoliberals and Early European Integration -- 5.1 Introduction: Two Visions of Europe -- 5.2 Europe's Diverse Faces: From Zeus and Europa to Festung Europa -- 5.3 Disintegration Before Integration, Identity Through Friends and Foes -- 5.4 Wilhelm Röpke as a Theorist of (Dis-)integration -- 5.5 Wilhelm Röpke as an Activist Observer of Integration -- 5.6 Ludwig Erhard and Alfred Müller-Armack: Functionalist or Institutionalist Integration -- 5.7 Conclusion: Swerving Toward a "Large Switzerland"? -- References -- Chapter 6: Hayek's Europe: The Austrian School and European Federalism -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Why a Federation? -- 6.3 Architecture of a European Federation -- 6.4 Has the EU Been a Classical Liberal Project? -- References -- Chapter 7: The Monnet Method and the Obsolescence of the EU -- References.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Stumbling into Alpha -- 1.1 The Origin Story -- 1.2 Speaking Alpha, Being Alpha -- 1.3 Plural Masculinities: Connections and Situations -- 1.4 How to Approach This Book -- 1.5 Author Positionality and Stance -- References -- 2: Masculinities, Language, and the Alpha Male -- 2.1 Foundations and Interrogations -- 2.2 Positivism and Hybridization: Masculinities in the Twenty-First Century -- 2.2.1 Masculinities, Misogynies, and Toxicities -- 2.2.2 Alpha by Any Other Name -- 2.2.3 Masculinities and Hegemonies -- 2.2.4 (Re)Interrogating Alpha -- 2.3 Masculinities and Language, Masculinities in Language -- 2.3.1 Feminist and Queer Linguistics: Othering the Other -- 2.3.2 Language and Men: Complexifying the Self -- 2.3.3 The State of the (Language) Art: Hegemonies and Linguistic Performance -- References -- 3: The Evidentiary Bases of Alpha Male Discourse -- 3.1 Corpus Selection -- 3.2 Narrowing Focus and Field -- 3.3 Self-Publishing, Social Media, and the Blurring of Discursive Domains -- 3.4 To Be Alpha: Corpus Overview -- 3.5 From Beta Male to Alpha Gay: Corpus Overview -- 3.6 What Women Want: Corpus Overview -- 3.7 Data: Methods and Procedure -- 3.8 Discussion -- References -- 4: Enlanguaging Alpha: Making Reality by Making Language -- 4.1 Reality, the Mind, and Language: Controversies Past and Present -- 4.2 Discourse, Materiality, and the Place of Language -- 4.3 Language as Matter, Matter in Language, and Language That Matters -- References -- 5: Representing Alpha: The Forms of Male Hegemony -- 5.1 Participant Delimitation -- 5.2 Participant Reference: Naming and Labeling -- 5.3 Attributives: Being and Becoming -- 5.4 Modification: Participant Qualities -- 5.5 Pronominalization: Deictic Labeling and Participant Framing.

Part I State of the Art in sensors for the protection of critical infrastructures -- 1 Sensor Data Fusion and Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles for the Protection of Critical Infrastructures -- Part II Beyond QCLs, ICLs and Superlattices: competing technologies for detection of explosives and CBRN -- 2 High Power, Widely Tunable, and Beam Steerable Mid-infrared Quantum Cascade -- 3 Broadband terahertz gas spectroscopy through multimode self-mixing in a quantum cascade laser -- 4 Crucial aspects of the device processing of quantum cascade lasers -- 5 Broadband gas QEPAS detection exploiting a monolithic DFB-QCL array -- 6 Global optimization methods for the design of MIR-THz QCLs applied to explosives detection -- Part III Superlattices and other technologies for GHz-THz sensing -- 7 Non-Destructive testing THz systems: fast postal scanner case study -- 8 Recent advances in superlattice frequency multipliers -- 9 Solid-State Millimeter-Wave through Terahertz Transceivers -- 10 Transmission and reflection characteristics of textiles in the Terahertz range -- 11 Transition between localized and delocalized terahertz conductivity in modulated nanostructures studied by Monte-Carlo calculations -- 12 THz Sources and Detectors Fabricated from High Temperature Superconductors -- 13 Semiconductor components for THz-TDS systems activated by compact fibre lasers -- 14 Soft chemical ionization mass spectrometry analyses of hazardous gases and decomposition products of explosives in air -- 15 On the prospect of application of point-contact sensors to solving the global security problems: an analytical review -- 16 Development of Gas Sensor Systems in the Infrared Region -- 17 Raman Cooperative UV Generation with Possible Applications in microbiology -- 18 THz Spectroscopy of Advanced Materials.

Front cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Boxes, Tables, and Figures -- Preface -- Part I: Understanding Continuity, Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change in Families -- Chapter 1: Family Matters: An Introduction to the Sociology of Canadian Families -- Chapter 2: Family Theory and Methods: Windows on Families and Family Research -- Chapter 3: Canadian Families in Historical, Cross-Cultural, and Global Context -- Chapter 4: First Families: Indigenous Peoples and Family Life in Pre- and Post-Confederate Canada -- Chapter 5: Immigration and the Changing Ethnic Mosaic of Canadian Families -- Chapter 6: More than a Labour of Love: Gender, Unpaid Work, and the Cult of Domesticity -- Part II: The Ties that Bind: Family Formation and Generational Connections -- Chapter 7: Close Relations in Youth and Young Adulthood: Establishing Partnerships and Forming Families -- Chapter 8: Families and Children in the Early Years: Childhood, Socialization, and Shifting Ideologies of Parenthood -- Chapter 9: All Our Families: Diversity, Challenge, and Continuity in Non-conforming Coupled Relationships -- Chapter 10: Family Dissolution and the Brady Bunch: Separation, Divorce, and Remarriage -- Chapter 11: Families in the Middle and the Launching of Children: Home-Leaving, Boomerang Kids, and the Empty Nest -- Chapter 12: Aging Families and the Sunset Years: Caregiving and Support across Generations -- Part III: Families on the Fault Line and Social Policy Issues -- Chapter 13: Families, Health, and Well-Being: Choices and Constraints over the Life Course -- Chapter 14: Trying to Make Ends Meet: Family Poverty, Living on the Margins, and Financial Struggle -- Chapter 15: Families in Crisis: Family Violence, Abuse, and Stress.

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Social Outbreak and Political Representation in Latin America -- 1.1 Theories of Representation and the Place of Parties -- References -- Part I: The Collapse of the Political Party System in Chile -- Chapter 2: Party System Crisis: The Exhaustion of Chile's Spine -- 2.1 Parties in the "Old Democracy" (1925-1973) -- 2.1.1 Features of the Party System Between 1960 and 1973 -- 2.2 The Party System Under the Authoritarian Regime -- 2.2.1 Changes in the Party System -- 2.3 The Party System After the Return to Democracy (1990-2020) -- 2.4 The Changes in the Party System (2010-2020) -- 2.5 The Party System After October 2019 -- References -- Chapter 3: Opportunities and Constraints of a Stagnate System. A Time of Representation Crisis or Political Innovation? -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Theory -- 3.3 Data and Methodology -- 3.4 Analysis -- 3.5 Conclusions -- References -- Part II: The Moment of the Street: Mobilization and Political Representation from the Social Movements -- Chapter 4: Political Parties and Social Movements in Post-transition Chile: Between Mistrust and Reconfiguration -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Interaction Between Social Movements and Institutional Politics: Between Autonomy and Reconfiguration -- 4.3 The Relation Between Social Movements and Institutional Political Actors in Post-transitional Chile -- 4.3.1 The Relation Between Social Movements and Institutional Actors Post 2011 -- 4.4 Data and Methods -- 4.4.1 Variables -- 4.5 Empirical Evidence -- 4.6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5: Please Mind the Gap: Autonomization and Street Politics -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Autonomization and Detachment from Political Parties -- 5.3 Understanding Chilean October -- 5.4 Street Politics Since the Outburst -- 5.5 Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Case Studies.

Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Table of Cases -- Table of Legislation -- 1. Subject Matter of Private International Law -- I. Definition of the Civil and Commercial Legal Relationships -- II. Definition of the Foreign-Related or International Factors -- III. Case Studies -- 2. Sources of Law -- I. Domestic Sources -- II. Judicial Interpretations -- III. International Treaty -- IV. International Custom and Practice -- V. Judicial Precedent and Authoritative Academic Theory -- 3. History of Private International Law -- I. Private International Law in Ancient China -- II. Transition to Modern Private International Law -- III. Private International Law in the PRC -- 4. Classification -- I. Definition -- II. Characterisation Conflict -- III. Case Studies -- 5. Preliminary Question -- I. Definition -- II. Solution of Preliminary Question Problems -- III. Current Practice in China on Preliminary Question Problems -- IV. Case Studies -- 6. Dépeçage -- I. Definition -- II. Legislation and Practice on Dépeçage in China -- III. Case Studies -- 7. Renvoi -- 8. Point of Contact -- I. Nationality -- II. Habitual Residence -- 9. Ascertainment of Foreign Law -- I. Nature of Foreign Law -- II. Method of Ascertaining Foreign Law -- 10. Public Order, Mandatory Rules and Evasion of Law -- I. Public Order -- II. Mandatory Rules -- III. Evasion of Law -- 11. Jurisdiction in Personam -- I. General Principles -- II. Special Rules -- 12. Jurisdiction in Shipping Claims -- I. Jurisdiction of the Chinese Maritime Courts -- II. Preservation Measures in Support of Maritime Claims -- 13. Immunities from Jurisdiction -- I. Sovereign Immunity -- II. Jurisdictional Immunity of State-Owned Enterprises -- 14. Law of Obligations -- I. Contracts -- II. Torts -- III. Unjust Enrichment and Negotiorum Gestio.