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Regulation has been stimulated by industrialisation and particularly by the advent of the consumer economy. This book draws on international scholarship in sociology, political science, law and economics on the working and regulation, both in public and private, in many areas of business to map the reality of regulation, and to identify why it sometimes fails and how it can succeed.

NGOs have played an important role worldwide in the fight to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS through achieving behaviour change. NGOs have often been at the forefront of innovative changes, influencing government and international programming activities. This paper identifies and analyses the evolution of the HIV/AIDS programmes of one NGO in Thailand over a period of ten years. Three generations of programming are identified both through distinct approaches to this area of work and through the changing jargon used to describe the people the programmes are aimed at. (DSE/DÜI)

DETERRENCE IN THE COLD WAR WAS REGARDED AS A WELL-UNDERSTOOD SYSTEM THAT PROVIDED THE BEST BALANCE OF STRATEGIC VIRTUES IN A DIFFICULT SITUATION. THIS PAPER ATTEMPTS TO LOOK AT THE FORCES AND RATIONALES THAT HAVE UNDERPINNED DETERRENCE THINKING IN BRITAIN AND FRANCE DURING THE COLD WAR AND THE WAY SUCH THINKING HAS BEEN AFFECTED BY THE NEW SITUATION, AND TO INDICATE THAT THERE IS A CREDIBLE NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT LOGIC THAT CAN BE FOLLOWED EITHER IN WHOLE OR IN PART TO THE ADVANCE OF BOTH COUNTRIES AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE. TAKEN TOGETHER, IT SUGGESTS THAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE ARE ONLY A SMALL PART OF THE GLOBAL PICTURE AND HAVE A LIMITED CAPACITY TO AFFECT NUCLEAR POLITICS FOR EITHER GOOD OR ILL; BUT THE CHOICES THEY PRESENTLY FACE ARE IN SOME WAYS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THOSE OF RUSSIA OR THE UNITED STATES, SINCE THEIR SITUATIONS BEAR MORE CLOSELY ON OTHER NUCLEAR OR NEAR-NUCLEAR STATES IN THE WORLD. IT CONCLUDES THAT A DECISION TO ABANDON NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL NOT ALONE SERVE TO REVERSE NUCELAR PROLIFERATION IN THE REST OF THE WORLD BUT THAT IT IS A NECESSARY BUT NOT SUFFICIENT CONDITION.

__Abstract__ The question of damages for failure to pay sums due came before the House of Lords in 2007 in the Sempra case. Although not the main ground of the decision, the House stated that a claimant would succeed, if the claimant satisfied the usual tests of 'remoteness' of loss. The article shows how difficult and thus expensive it is to reach what to most is an obvious result, underlining the importance of particular judges, and that counsel need to 'know' the judges before whom they argue a case. People might well conclude that the Sempra ruling covers failure by insurers to pay insurance money on time. The article explains why it does not, with reference to leading cases, including those supporting a bizarre rule of English insurance contract law concerning the nature of insurance cover. The article then considers the likely response to the issue in other countries of common law, and how it might be seen in Europe. The article concludes that English law needs reform - not new precedent, but new legislation, and the chance that through current work at the Law Commission, this will occur.