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BullShit: This Is Not a Love Story
Cedric loves me, I know he does. He loves me. So believes Chloe, so much so that this mantra becomes a way of surviving. A way of denying Cedric's sometimes cruel behavior. Because when he takes her in his arms, she is close to understanding love, is sure she will never again feel abandoned. Never mind the insults and screams, never mind a few small bruises or unsettling sexual requests. Eventually Cedric's sexual abuse becomes more tolerable than his verbal scorn and emotional instability. Chloe forgets how to use the word "no", learning quickly that "yes" will grant her respite, and even sometimes the love for which she yearns.Like the bull in a bullfight, Chloe is blinded by Cedric's manipulative game. Like the doomed animal, Chloe lowers her head and surrenders. Following the ritualized acts of a corrida, "BullShit: this is not a love story" draws the reader into the darker side of human nature. A suffocating and emotional auto-fiction thriller, this page-turning debut auto-fiction novel by Nicole Kranz is a gripping portrait of a narcissistic pervert. Who will win: the matador or the bull? Cedric or Chloe?
Effective Governance Under Anarchy
Democratic and consolidated states are taken as the model for effective rule-making and service provision. In contrast, this book argues that good governance is possible even without a functioning state.
Back to Basics
No scholar better exemplifies the intellectual challenges foisted on the Neorealist school of international relations than prominent scholar Stephen Krasner (Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Studies, the Senior Associate Dean for the Social Sciences, School of Humanities & Sciences, and Director of Policy Planning at the US State Department 2005-2007). Throughout his career he has wrestled with realism's promises and limitations. Krasner has always been a prominent defender of realism and the importance of power understood in material terms, whether military or economic. Yet realist frameworks rarely provided a complete explanation for outcomes, in Krasner's analyses, and much of ...
Environmental Leadership
This reference handbook tackles issues relevant to leadership in the realm of the environment and sustainability.
When Norms Collide
When Norms Collide examines the conditions under which transnational activism leads individuals and communities to abandon local norms and embrace international ones. It investigates the local dynamics of norm conflicts around female genital mutilation and early marriage.
Participation for Sustainability in Trade
Presenting extensive new research, this ground-breaking study addresses the critical dimensions of participatory and democratic processes in the field of trade-sustainability relationships and sustainability assessments of trade rules. The specific issues in trade include social and environmental concerns for which there is a wide disparity of preferences and no economic benchmark. The contributors provide analytical responses to questions of how deliberative processes can adequately close the democratic gap in global governance and how institutional reforms can ensure better access to information, transparency, deliberation and more accountability. The book provides the necessary theoretical background as well as case studies to understand these issues and is suitable for students and academics in international law, international relations and economics.
Research Handbook on International Law and Environmental Peacebuilding
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This incisive Research Handbook addresses the growing recognition within the international law community that natural resource governance and environmental protection are crucial aspects of peace processes, both as a security imperative and as an opportunity for peacebuilding. Examining the impact of international normative and institutional frameworks on environmental peacebuilding, this Research Handbook features contributions from distinguished experts and global case studies on integrated legal approaches to the governance of natural resources.
The Persistent Power of Human Rights
The Power of Human Rights (published in 1999) was an innovative and influential contribution to the study of international human rights. At its center was a 'spiral model' of human rights change which described the various socialization processes through which international norms were internalized into the domestic practices of various authoritarian states during the Cold War years. The Persistent Power of Human Rights builds on these insights, extending its reach and analysis. It updates our understanding of the various causal mechanisms and conditions which produce behavioural compliance, and expands the range of rights-violating actors examined to include democratic and authoritarian Great Powers, corporations, guerrilla groups, and private actors. Using a unique blend of quantitative and qualitative research and theory, this book yields not only important new academic insights but also a host of useful lessons for policy-makers and practitioners.
The UN Watercourses Convention in Force
At the UN General Assembly in 1997, an overwhelming majority of States voted for the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses – a global overarching framework governing the rights and duties of States sharing freshwater systems. Globally, there are 263 internationally shared watersheds, which drain the territories of 145 countries and represent more than forty percent of the Earth's land surface. Hence, inter-State cooperation towards the sustainable management of transboundary water supplies, in accordance with applicable international legal instruments, is a topic of crucial importance, especially in the context of th...
