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Confronting Global Neoliberalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 270

Confronting Global Neoliberalism

With the world’s attention fixed on the travails of leading global economies due to a still unfolding financial crisis of gigantic proportions, there has been a studied silence on the fate of the third world as the malaise increasingly impacts it. This silence is particularly disturbing because questions of potential pitfalls in the neoliberal policy package, which the third world (unlike Western Europe and Japan) was largely forced to adopt, were never countenanced. as One third world state after another discovered that international institutions were in effect hostile to their governments if they chose alternative developmental models or otherwise resisted the neoliberal triage of libera...

Global Governance, Poverty & Inequality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 357

Global Governance, Poverty & Inequality

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-06-10
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Pt. 1. Development and the governance of poverty and inequality -- pt. 2. Bretton Woods and the amelioration of poverty and inequality -- pt. 3. Promising poverty reduction, governing indebtedness -- pt. 4. Complex multilateralism, public-private partnerships and global business -- pt. 5. Horizontal inequalities and faith institutions.

An Unborn Desire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 174

An Unborn Desire

These stories take you on a multicultural rollercoaster that has diverse characters and subjects, but with the quintessential twist in the tale. Find out what happens to a happy young man when he challenges a past-life regression therapist whose discovery of his origin changes his life forever. Uncover the secret inspiration of an old artist of abstract paintings in Paris and then join a woman from Cape Town, who makes a journey to Istanbul and Prague in the hope of self-discovery. Revel in the story of a lady who alters the face of Egyptian history forever by finding her way through a maze of conspiracies, and a girl who, centuries later in India, inspires an entire society to act in the mo...

Research Handbook on the Politics of International Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 609

Research Handbook on the Politics of International Law

  • Categories: Law

What is the relationship between politics and international law? Inspired by comparative politics and socio-legal studies, this Research Handbook develops a novel framework for comparative analysis of politics and international law at different stages of governance and in different governance systems. It applies the framework in a wide range of fields—from human rights and environmental standards, to cyber conflict and intellectual property—to show how the relationship between politics and international law varies depending on the sites where it unfolds.

Being Middle-class in India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

Being Middle-class in India

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-06-25
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Hailed as the beneficiary, driving force and result of globalisation, India’s middle-class is puzzling in its diversity, as a multitude of traditions, social formations and political constellations manifest contribute to this project. This book looks at Indian middle-class lifestyles through a number of case studies, ranging from a historical account detailing the making of a savvy middle-class consumer in the late colonial period, to saving clubs among women in Delhi’s upmarket colonies and the dilemmas of entrepreneurial families in Tamil Nadu’s industrial towns. The book pays tribute to the diversity of regional, caste, rural and urban origins that shape middle- class lifestyles in ...

Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 452

Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-11-04
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making addresses the question how and to what extend the development of commercial law and practice, from Ancient Greece to the colonial empires of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, were indebted to colonial expansion and maritime trade. Illustrated by experiences in Ancient Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and Australia, the book examines how colonial powers, whether consciously or not, reshaped the law in order to foster the prosperity of homeland manufacturers and entrepreneurs or how local authorities and settlers brought the transplanted law in line with the colonial objectives and the local constraints amid shifting economic, commercial and political realities. Contributors are: Alain Clément (†), Alexander Claver, Oscar Cruz-Barney, Bas De Roo, Paul du Plessis, Bernard Durand, David Gilles, Petra Mahy, David Mirhady, M. C. Mirow, Luigi Nuzzo, Phillip Lipton, Umakanth Varottil, and Jakob Zollmann.

Nationbuilding, Gender and War Crimes in South Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

Nationbuilding, Gender and War Crimes in South Asia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-07-26
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book gives a detailed political analysis of nationbuilding processes and how these are closely linked to statebuilding and to issues of war crime, gender and sexuality, and marginalization of minority groups. With a focus on the Indian subcontinent, the author demonstrates how the state itself is involved in the construction of a gendered identity, and how control of women and their sexuality is central to the nationbuilding project. She applies a critical feminist approach to two major conflicts in the Indian subcontinent – the Partition of India in 1947 and the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971 – and offers suggestions for addressing historical injustices and war crimes in the ...

Global Strategy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Global Strategy

Looking at the question of how firms can compete in a global environment, the authors examine the issues considered central to the study of strategic management in a global context. They deal with a diverse set of important strategic topics by integrating research with practical examples and case studies.

Design, User Experience, and Usability: User Experience Design Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 501

Design, User Experience, and Usability: User Experience Design Practice

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-06-11
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  • Publisher: Springer

The four-volume set LNCS 8517, 8518, 8519 and 8520 constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2014, held as part of the 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2014, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece in June 2014, jointly with 13 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1476 papers and 220 posters presented at the HCII 2014 conferences were carefully reviewed and selected from 4766 submissions. These papers address the latest research and development efforts and highlight the human aspects of design and use of computing systems. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field of Human-Computer Interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas. The total of 256 contributions included in the DUXU proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this four-volume set. The 45 papers included in this volume are organized in topical sections on DUXU in the enterprise, design for diverse target users, emotional and persuasion design, user experience case studies.

Disasters and the Networked Economy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Disasters and the Networked Economy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-05-02
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  • Publisher: Routledge

In the wake of Katrina and Haiti, it is evident that disaster response, economic policy and development are intrinsically linked; this book is a welcome intervention. Albala-Bertrand is a renowned expert in the area of disasters and development; this book is the long awaited follow up to his 1993 book with Clarendon Press.