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Why Institutions Matter
This important new text provides a broad-ranging introduction to the 'new' institutional theories which have become increasingly influential in recent years and gives an assessment of their application and utility in political analysis.
The Law and Practice of the United Nations
This fully up-dated, third revised edition of Conforti's thought-provoking and challenging textbook, The Law and Practice of the United Nations, provides a comprehensive legal analysis of problems concerning membership, the structure of UN organs, their functions and their acts, taking into consideration the text of the Charter, its historical origins, and, particularly, the practice of the organs. Its main focus is on the practice of the Security Council. In particular the action of the Security Council under Chapter VII has been taken into account. The legal literature on Chapter VII - a literature which has grown enormously in recent times - has also been considered. The fact that the leg...
The Fourth Discontinuity
Discusses the relationship between humans and machines, pondering the implications of humans becoming more mechanical and of computer robots being programmed to think. He describes early Greek and Chinese automatons and discusses ideas of previous centuries and of individuals on this subject.
Fundamental Rights in Europe and North America : Basic Work
Fundamental rights have not only gained an ever-increasing impact in the framework of international and regional human rights conventions, but also in the national legal orders of European and American societies. This unique collection constitutes the first systematic presentation of fundamental rights in the case law and doctrine of countries of Western, Middle, and Eastern Europe, and the United States (North America). Special attention is paid to the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (Strasbourg) and the European Court of Justice (Luxembourg). This ground-breaking collection offers a comprehensive, comparative legal overview of the general doctrine of fundamental rights,...
Globalization, Value Change and Generations
Values are a hot topic in Europe, both in the public and political debate as well as in the social sciences. Is Europe a community of values? What are the cultural borders of the European Union? How united are Europeans with respect to their fundamental values? How does globalization affect European values? Do national values vanish? There is also a clear moral overtone in the debate: basic values are believed to erode, community values are waning, values become fragmented, and civic engagement is rapidly declining while hedonism and consumerism are prevailing. But are these far-reaching assumptions true? Answers are provided in this book. The three core issues that guide the various chapters in this book are the following: do basic values in European countries converge or diverge? Do we observe a marked decline in traditional values in European societies? Is it the youngest generation in Europe that embraces new values?
Work Stress and Coping Among Professionals
While aspiring to escape from the drudgery and alienation which seem to be the fate of manual workers, professionals have long realized to their distress that their professionalism and work commitment by no means reduce the stressfulness of their work. Such an awareness of the impact of work on their physical and emotional well-being has led the professionals to make efforts to maximize their person-environment fit and to enhance their coping and adapation, knowing, sometimes helplessly, that society, bureaucracy, and work organization continue to be a potent source of work stress. This book offers deep analyses of work stress and coping among professionals by a multidisciplinary research te...
El multiculturalismo de Charles Taylor y el universalismo de los derechos de Jürgen Habermas
¿Cuál es la aplicabilidad ético-política del modelo de Estado sugerido en la interpretación multicultualista de Charles Taylor y en la explicación universalista de los derechos de Jürgen Habermas respecto a la articulación de las demandas de las comunidades indígenas y la construcción de unidad política democrática en Colombia? La respuesta es planteada luego de evaluar ambos modelos de Estado, los cuales se disputan la solución normativa de ese problema. Se acoge la idea según la cual la condición moral y política a garantizar para que estas comunidades logren realizar sus demandas y necesidades es la participación ciudadana en pie de igualdad de derechos, por medio de una ...
