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Many loyalist prison officers in Northern Ireland suspect that the criminalisation of loyalist prisoners is the result of a bungled British government policy. Had a more humane approach been adopted, the peace process would have worked sooner.
Second volume of Deutscher prize-winning trilogy on the future of IR, tracing the defining characteristics of 'foreign encounters' over time.
Reproduction of the original: Scottish Sketches by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
'Scottish sketches' is a novel written by Amelia E. Barr. The story begins with a man named Alexander Crawford reading his private ledger, which contained his bank account. He was in a contemplative mood and fondly remembered his past, considering himself a proud Scotchman. He thought about the land of Crawford and Traquare, which he considered his inheritance, and was pleased with himself for having done well by it, with 80,000 pounds in the Bank of Scotland and all mortgages paid off. He was proud to have honored his father's wishes.
Netflix’s Speculative Fictions: Financializing Platform Television argues that Netflix’s scaled expansion has hinged upon its ability not only to create, but more importantly to communicate, new forms and flows of potential value in platform capitalism, wherein capital is mobilized not only from direct revenue streams but also the new value assigned to inputs and investments of data, debt, attention, behavior, taste, time, sociality, and speculation. To interpret and critique these new communications and projections of value, Colin Jon Mark Crawford performs a discursive analysis of the platform television industry leader Netflix and its ‘investor lore’: the multi-sited narrative of ...
White Hall Centre for Open Country Pursuits, near Buxton in Derbyshire, England was set up in 1950 by Jack Longland, Derbyshire’s director of education. The Story of White Hall Centre describes White Hall’s origins and its sixty-seven years in existence.
The aim of this book is to analyse whether the implementation of the peacebuilding elements of the Belfast Agreement contributed to the transformation of the protracted Northern Ireland Conflict. Therefore, this book deals with the following sections of the Agreement: Rights, Safeguards and Equality of Opportunity, Decommissioning, Security, Policing and Justice, and Prisoners. The author comes to the conclusion that the majority of the peacebuilding elements contributed to the transformation of the Northern Ireland Conflict. The results of the study were obtained in conducting interviews, in consulting surveys, and in studying reports and other relevant literature on the recent developments in Northern Ireland.
First Published in 1992. This volume, based on a special issue of the journal Local Government Studies, takes up a leading issue of the structure and role of the political executive in the context of the inaugurated British Government (1987-92). It does so by reference to examples from Norway, Sweden, Germany, and Italy as the countries selected for this volume all, to some degree, share with Britain a more collective style of political leadership. This is indispensable reading for all those wishing to gain a more balanced understanding of the contemporary role of Parliaments in Western Europe.
Law is a component of Encyclopedia of Social Sciences and Humanities in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on Law provides certain general perspectives and discusses such aspects as: Philosophies and Systems of Law; Fields of Law Specialization; Law, Ethics, and Justice. This volume is aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students, Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers and NGOs.