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Covering a time period from the 1990s to the present-day, and using unprecedentedly rich empirical evidence, Edward Howell makes the overarching argument that North Korea has strategically deployed behaviour that breaks international norms in order to reap benefits.

For a state that has gained a global reputation as a violator of international norms, not least through its unwavering pursuit of nuclear weapons, North Korea's determination to become a nuclear-armed state is puzzling. If nuclear weapons beget security, insecurity, and other costs for the state, how might we understand this pursuit, and the delinquent behaviour that has arisen from it? In North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order, Edward Howell offers an answer to this question, focusing on North Korea's quest for status in the international system and developing the theoretical framework of 'strategic delinquency'. Featuring previously unpublished and new interviews with international negotiators with North Korea, and drawing upon new academic literature, Howell proffers an original theoretical framework to apply to the North Korean case. Covering a time period from the 1990s to the present-day, and using unprecedentedly rich empirical evidence, he makes the overarching argument that North Korea has strategically deployed behaviour that breaks international norms in order to reap benefits. In so doing, this book posits how over time, North Korea has learnt that despite the low status and opprobrium that might ensue, bad behaviour can pay.

Dirt, development and displacement -- Preservation and its permutations -- Building bridges and digging moats : the infrastructure for affordable housing preservation -- Policy and practice foundations for preservation -- Strange bedfellows : governance infrastructures for preservation -- Housing for community power and voice -- Conclusion and lessons learned.

Written c. 1567 (though unpublished until 1603), this is the work of an extraordinary scholar, a radical and polemicist, rival of many of the leading intellectual and political figures of his day. According to François Hotman's distinguished biographer Donald Kelley the Antitribonian 'is, or should be, a landmark in the history of social and historical thought'. It is also a landmark in the history of legal thought. The present edition is the first to evaluate Hotman's text in the context of the history of Roman law from the time of the sixth-century Byzantine Emperor Justinian I to the Germany of the Enlightenment

What is climate change? -- Fossil fuels -- Global warming -- Rising sea levels -- Focus on the Greenland ice sheet -- Farming and food -- Habitats and wildlife -- Focus on sea turtles -- Desertification -- Focus on desertification in China -- Extreme weather -- Focus on Hurricane Harvey -- Stopping climate change -- Glossary.

What is pollution? -- Water -- Focus on Lake Erie -- Ocean plastic -- Focus on the great Pacific garbage patch -- Landfill -- Air -- The greenhouse effect -- Focus on air pollution in India -- Nuclear waste -- Focus on Fukushima -- Light and sound -- Reducing pollution.

Picture Post' magazine was made famous by its pioneering photojournalism, which vividly captured a panorama of wartime events and the ordinary lives affected. This book is the first to examine this fascinating primary source as a cultural record of women's dress history. Reading the magazine's visual narratives from 1938 to 1945, it weaves together the ways in which design, style and fashion were affected by, and responded to, the state of being at war - and the new gender roles it created for women

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Origins -- Chapter One: The Crossroads Cabinet -- Chapter Two: The Wind Changes -- Chapter Three: The Seventy-Niners -- Chapter Four: The Tigress Emerges -- Chapter Five: Manoeuvres at Court -- Chapter Six: Origins and Fears -- Chapter Seven: Unspinning the Past -- PART TWO: Roots and False Dawns -- Chapter Eight: Roots of the Revolution -- Chapter Nine: Heath and Hopes -- Chapter Ten: Wrong from the Start -- Chapter Eleven: A Diversion: What If? -- Chapter Twelve: A Tale of Two Roles -- Chapter Thirteen: Ireland, Europe and the Eternal Question -- PART THREE: The Inheritance -- Chapter Fourteen: Technology Unravels the Global Order -- Chapter Fifteen: Asian Reset -- Chapter Sixteen: The Mother of All Networks -- Chapter Seventeen: Flaws in the Tapestry -- Chapter Eighteen: What Is to Be Done? -- Chapter Nineteen: The New Labyrinth -- Chapter Twenty: The Case for Looking Back -- Chapter Twenty-one: How to Safeguard Democracy Now -- Chapter Twenty-two: Conclusions, Answers, Lessons, Hopes -- Chapter Twenty-three: Afterthoughts: On the Head of a Dictator, the Power of Us and Catching Up -- Appendix I: A 'Chequered Career' -- Appendix II: The Times: Mr Howell's Account of the Whitelaw Years in Belfast -- Bibliography -- Index -- By the Same Author -- Copyright.