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This article will analyse the use of genealogy in the context of race, place, and justice via the concepts of nationality/citizenship and cultural/national identity, including "imagined communities". Analysis is undertaken through the legal concept of "jus sanguinis" and simultaneous differing interpretations of "citizen", including the concept of "effective nationality". The latter incorporates the Nottebohm principle "shared sentiments and interests" and is particularly relevant in "security situations. This article argues that "effective nationality" is indicative of the Anderson's famous landmark study of nationalism, "Imagined Communities". The legal concept of jus sanguinis draws upon genealogy: "A line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor". However, the imagined communities to which someone perceives they belong, through ancestral lineage, or cultural, political or religious affinity are often highly contested cultural notions, not least in times of political unrest. This article will focus on the UK and show how liberal policies and criteria initially aimed at the expansion of citizenship have, in the 21st century, similarly enabled exclusion. However, I argue that the current exclusion process is the simultaneous use of jus sanguinis and cultural interpretations of "effective nationality" when applied to those who supported proscribed groups, for example ISIS in Syria. This paper uses legislation, media comment, and the legal case studies of Nottebohm and Shamima Begu.

For much of the twentieth century the Mediterranean was a colonized sea. Italy s Sea: Empire and Nation in the Mediterranean (1895-1945) reintegrates Italy, one of the least studied imperial states, into the history of European colonialism. It takes a critical approach to the concept of the Mediterranean in the period of Italian expansion and examines how within and through the Mediterranean Italians navigated issues of race, nation and migration troubling them at home as well as transnational questions about sovereignty, identity, and national belonging created by the decline and collapse of the Ottoman empire in North Africa, the Balkans, and the eastern Mediterranean, or Levant. While most studies of Italian colonialism center on the encounter in Africa, Italy s Sea describes another set of colonial identities that accrued in and around the Aegean region of the Mediterranean, ones linked not to resettlement projects or to the rhetoric of reclaiming Roman empire, but to cosmopolitan imaginaries of Magna Graecia, the medieval Christian crusades, the Venetian and Genoese maritime empires, and finally, of religious diversity and transnational Levantine Jewish communities that could help render cultural and political connections between the Italian nation at home and the overseas empire in the Mediterranean. Using postcolonial critique to interpret local archival and oral sources as well as Italian colonial literature, film, architecture, and urban planning, the book brings to life a history of mediterraneità or Mediterraneanness in Italian culture, one with both liberal and fascist associations, and enriches our understanding of how contemporary Italy-as well as Greece-may imagine their relationships to Europe and the Mediterranean today

1. Numbering normal -- 2 Measuring disability -- 3. The artificial ear and the disability data gap -- 4. The audiometer and the medicalization of hearing loss -- 5. The spirometer and the normal subjects -- 6. The respirator and the mechanization of normal breathing -- 7. Measuring ourselves -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Preface -- Dedication Page -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Chapter I. Introduction -- Chapter II. Review of the Literature -- Decision Making Under Risk -- Decision Making Under Uncertainty -- Portfolio Selection Under Risk and Uncertainty -- Risk and Uncertainty in Agriculture -- Applications of Risk Theory to Historical Issues -- Chapter III. Price, Yield, and Income Variability Measures -- Estimation Procedure -- Introduction -- The Variate Difference Method -- Problems and Limitations -- Absolute and Relative Variability Measures -- Results -- General Observations -- Random Price Variability of Major Crops -- Random Yield Variability of Major Crops -- Random Income Variability of Major Crops -- Summary -- Chapter IV. Crop Diversification and Risk in the Cotton South -- Introduction -- Measures of Risk for the South -- Price Variability of Cotton and Corn -- Yield Variability of Cotton and Corn -- Gross Income Variability of Cotton and Corn -- Portfolio Selection -- The Model -- Estimation Procedure -- Results -- Chapter V. Agrarian Discontent as a Response to Uncertainty -- Background -- Introduction to the Tests -- The Cross-Sectional Analysis -- The Time-Series Analysis -- Results -- Chapter VI. Summary and Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Appendix A: Discussion of the Data and the Variability Measures (Tables A1 through A144 included) -- Appendix B: Discussion of Subjective Risk Coefficient Calculations (Tables B1 through B9 included) -- Appendix C: Discussion of Risk Measures and Agrarian Discontent (Tables C1 through C24 Included).

Members of Congress and Administrations have periodically considered reorganizing the federal government's trade and development functions to advance various policy objectives. This book examines the Trump administration's 2019 budget request to consolidate OPIC and other agency development finance functions, specifically the DCA of the USAID, into new US development foreign agencies. The second report shows in tabular form how much the Administration requested and how much Congress appropriated for US payments to the multilateral development banks (MDBs) since 2000. The third report included in this book looks at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) that provides economic assistance through a competitive selection process to developing nations that demonstrate positive performance in 1. Ruling justly, 2. Investing in people and 3. Fostering economic freedom. Next, an overview of US foreign assistance to Israel is provided. It includes a review of past aid programs, data on annual assistance and analysis of current issues. Finally, this book examines the legislative authorization and appropriation of funds for foreign aid and security cooperation which are potential vehicles for congressional responses to developments in Cameroon, along with oversight activities. Additionally, to date, the US has directed nearly $7.7 billion toward Syria-related humanitarian assistance, and Congress has appropriated billions more to support security and stabilization initiatives in Syria and in neighboring countries. The chapters herein provide an overview on the Syria conflict and the US response in what is now its seventh year of conflict

Causarum Cognitio -- Naked in the marketplace -- The courage and scourge of truth -- Excursus : Sloterdijk on a motorbike! (or, Zen and the art of neo-Kynicism) -- The resistible rise of Rawlsian reasonableness -- Thomas Pogge : ethics and the ire of the beholden -- Nancy Fraser's Subaltern Weltburger blues -- Excursus : the poverty of Agonism -- Jurgen Habermas' postmetaphysical paralysis? -- Defacing the political currency : cynicism as a normative perspective for critical theory.