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Impressions of Israeli war resisters are presented on the basis of personal experience with four types of resistance. (1) A group of anarchists sought to evade any involvement with the army. (2) A radical critic of Israeli policies agreed to serve in a role in which he could attempt to reform the army from within. (3) One war resister undertook alternative service, though it was not officially defined as such. (4) A pacifist, whose convictions emerged once he was in the army, repeatedly got into trouble because he was too shy to assert his convictions firmly & negotiate an alternative. The army goes to great length to get everyone to serve; it is willing to negotiate extensively, but will not accept that anyone has a right to stay out of the army. W. H. Stoddard.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. What Is Capacity Building? -- 2. Build Your Spiritual Capacity -- 3. Build Your Intellectual Capacity -- 4. Build Your Physical Capacity -- 5. Build Your Emotional Capacity -- 6. Build a Better Path -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Back Cover.

"Sovereignty-the authority of a state to wield ultimate power over its territory, its citizens, its institutions-is everywhere undergoing change as states respond in various ways to the challenges posed, from above and below. "Above" the state is the widening net of international institutions and treaties dealing with human rights, trade, investment, and monetary affairs; and "below" it are rising claims within states from long-resident groups discontented with the political order and from new migrants testing its authority. Sovereignty under Challenge deals with a range of such challenges and responses, analyzed in authoritative studies by leading scholars. The introductory chapter sets forth the theme that sovereignty is asserted clearly, but often unpredictably, when governments respond to challenge. It suggests ways of classifying these responses as variables that help explain the changing nature of sovereignty. Part 1, "The Citizen and the State," treats the rising tide of dual citizenship and the concerns this arouses in the United States; the work of national human rights commissions in Asia; and the challenge posed to the state by the Falungong movement in China. The two chapters in Part 2, "The Government as Decision-Maker," examine Japan's response to global warming and the problems of the World Health Organization in orchestrating collaboration among Southeast Asian states in implementing infectious disease control. Part 3, "Sovereignty and Culture," looks at conflicts engendered by outside change on indigenous economic, cultural, and legal institutions in India, Fiji, Indonesia, and Malaysia. The chapters in Part 4, "Sovereignty and the Economy," analyze the economic and cultural instability induced by Chinese migration to Russia's far east; the impact on state sovereignty brought about by transnational regulatory campaigns and social activism; the question of indigenous land rights in the Philippines; and the impact of transnational cor"--Provided by publisher

This paper develops a theory of consumer boycotts. Some consumers care not only about the products they buy but also about whether the firm behaves ethically. Other consumers do not care about the behavior of the firm but yet may like to give the impression of being ethical consumers. Consequently, to affect a firm's ethical behavior, moral consumers refuse to buy from an unethical firm. Consumers who do not care about ethical behavior may join the boycott to (falsely) signal that they do care. In the firm's choice between ethical and unethical behavior, the optimality of mixed and pure strategies depends on the cost of behaving ethically. In particular, when the cost is (relatively) low, ethical behavior arises from a prisoners' dilemma as the firm's optimal strategy.

"Title Page" -- "Copyright Page" -- "Dedication" -- "Table of Contents" -- "Authors' Note" -- "1 - Higher Education" -- "2 - A Portrait of the Con Artist as a Young Man" -- "3 - Flash for the Cash" -- "4 - A Life of Crime" -- "5 - Bullets and Bikers" -- "6 - Kill or Be Killed" -- "7 - Undercover Cop" -- "8 - Outlaws and Outsiders" -- "9 - Going Hollywood" -- "10 - Blood in Redondo Beach" -- "11 - No Trust in Tinseltown" -- "12 - Dope and Duplicity" -- "13 - Getting Stung" -- "14 - On Trial" -- "15 - Behind Bars" -- "Epilogue

We consider taxation by a Leviathan government and by a utilitarian government in the presence of heterogenous locations within a country, when migration from one country to another is and is not possible. In a closed economy, a utilitarian government may transfer income from the poor to the rich to reduce rents earned by absentee landlords. When the rich are mobile, a tax on them induces little migration because the tax will reduce the rents on land inhabited by the rich. A race to the bottom need not appear.