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"This book explores how Chinese border provinces have become actors in international relations. Through an analysis of the international actorness - the inherent characteristics of a subnational entity as an international player - of Yunnan and two other geographically peripheral provinces, Guangdong and Guangxi, the domestic, economic and legislative circumstances that motivated these provinces to conduct transboundary engagements is determined. The study is based on an extensive field study including interviews with those involved in the implementation of Yunnan's foreign agenda, representatives from province-owned enterprises, universities and think tanks, and officials and experts from the countries neighbouring Yunnan. Acknowledging the role of external geopolitics, the authors analyse the efforts of these border provinces to incentivise neighbouring countries to cooperate with them on areas of trade, investment and non-traditional security. Yao Song and Tianyang Liu also observe how border provinces have leveraged their paradiplomatic strengths to affect China's foreign relations with neighbouring countries. This volume will appeal to researchers, academics and postgraduates in political science, international relations, and diplomacy as well as geography, Southeast Asian politics, political economy, Chinese periphery diplomacy, and non-federal paradiplomacy"--

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Here and Now: We Must Change -- The Urbanization Challenge and Environmental Impact -- IPCC - Cities Alliance -- Urbanity: A Double-Edged Sword -- Global Impact on Health -- Global Economic Impact -- A Sustainable Future via the 15-Minute City -- Chapter 2 Journey Through a Fragmented City -- Global Urban Tapestries -- The Rise of Cities and Cars -- The Impact of 1920s Innovations -- The Impact of Functionalism -- Le Corbusier's Urban Vision -- Le Corbusier's Legacy -- Le Corbusier's Influence in Europe -- And Elsewhere -- Chapter 3 The History of Urban Time -- From Natural Cycles to Mechanical Clocks -- Timekeeping Developments -- Industrial Development -- The Impact of Timekeeping on Urban Life -- Chapter 4 The Geography of Urban Time -- The Vautrin Lud Prize -- Torsten Hägerstrand and the Geography of Time -- Urban Time Introspection -- A Path to Human-Centric Cities -- Proximity: To Regain Useful Time -- Proximity: To Enhance Quality of Life -- Chapter 5 Exploring the Past to Reimagine the Future -- Echoes of Ancient Vibrancies: Reviving Urban Spaces -- Paving the Way for Proximity and Well-Being -- The Beginning of Revival: Amsterdam -- Rethinking Cities for Proximity -- Chapter 6 The City's Shape, Rhythm, and Time -- Living in Harmony: Sumak Kawsay -- Rediscovering Urban Circular Life -- The Neighborhood Unit vs. Urban Sprawl -- Seeds of Change -- The Rebirth of Neighborhoods -- A Sense of Place -- Chapter 7 Charting 50 Years of Change -- Seeking Connection in an Overwhelmed World -- Teleworking's Impact from Nilles to COVID-19 -- Green Recovery and Livable Cities -- Urban Impact of COVID-19 -- The Value of Proximity Rediscovered -- Chapter 8 The Genesis of the 15-Minute City -- Urban Life Through the Lens of Complexity.

Servile labor in India in a global context, 1500-1900 / Titas Chakraborty -- Woven, mined, milled, and packed: the global destinies of Indian commodities, 1500-2023 / Ben Siegel -- The news of 1857: the Indian Uprising and Belize during Yucatán's Caste war / Rajeshwari Dutt -- Would you deprive him of toddy?': Singapore's English-language press, and the racialization of alcohol consumption by Indians, 1900-1960 / Alexandra Sundarsingh -- Conspiracy in Meerut: a global history of colonial India, 1929-1933 / Michele Louro -- Nonviolence and nonalignment: Indian foreign policy and the American Civil Rights movement, 1936-1964 / Nico Slate -- Mohandas the man, Mahatma the legend: Gandhian legacies outside the Subcontinent / Trishula Patel -- To the students: education for nonviolence in the world / David Busch -- A Bombay periodical, Indian non-alignment & Afro-Asian internationalism / Swapna Kona Nayudu.

This interdisciplinary textbook serves as a solid introduction to the future of legal education against the background of the widespread use of AI written by colleagues from different disciplines, e.g. law, philosophy/ethics, economy, and computer science, whose common interest concerns AI and its impact on legal and ethical issues.

"What is the status of indigenous religious rights in the world today? Despite important legal advances in the protection of indigenous religious beliefs and practices at the international and national levels, there are still many obstacles to the full implementation of these provisions. Using a unique large-scale comparative approach, this book aims to identify the fundamental issues that characterize the law of indigenous religions in several countries, as well as certain avenues that may prove useful in state-implementation of the the provisions of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples regarding the practice, promotion, transmission, protection, and access to spiritual heritage"--

"This book introduces readers to Sony, the technology company behind the PlayStation consoles and hit franchises such as Uncharted, God of War, and Gran Turismo. Readers will explore the company's history, its focus on games with immersive and thrilling narratives, and how the company continues to innovate today. Features include infographics, a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO"--Amazon

Im Völkerstrafrecht herrscht ein individualistisches Narrativ vor. Systemunrecht wird allein auf das Verhalten von Individuen zurückgeführt. Es handelt sich hierbei um eine nützliche Fiktion, durch die eine normative Konfliktverarbeitung ermöglicht werden soll. Sie setzt auf die Isolierung des einzelnen Täters und damit - wie beim "normalen" Strafrecht - auf die individuelle Zurechnung der Taten. Unberücksichtigt bleibt bei dieser Vereinzelungstechnik, dass der Völkerstraftäter innerhalb eines kollektiven Aktionszusammenhangs konform handelt. Es drängt sich die Frage auf, welche Auswirkungen diese kollektive Dimension auf die Schuld des Einzelnen hat. Die individuelle Zurechnung erscheint zu reduktionistisch, um kollektives Unrecht aufzuarbeiten. Wie aber lässt sich vermeiden, dass der Einzelne zum Sündenbock für Taten wird, die ohne den kollektiven Hintergrund überhaupt nicht denkbar sind? Dies ist auch eine Frage der Verteilungsgerechtigkeit.In international criminal law, an individualistic narrative prevails. System injustice is attributed solely to the behavior of individuals. This is a useful fiction through which normative conflict management is to be made possible. It relies on the isolation of the individual perpetrator and thus - as in "normal" criminal law - on the individual attribution of the acts. What remains unconsidered in this technique of isolation is that the international offender acts in conformity within a collective context of action. The question arises as to what effect this collective dimension has on the guilt of the individual. Individual imputation seems too reductionist to address collective injustice. But how can we avoid the individual becoming a scapegoat for deeds that would be inconceivable without the collective background in the first place? This is also a question of distributive justice

"This book provides a ground-breaking assessment of the Israeli national security experience from the establishment of the country through to the present day. Seventy-five years after its establishment, the State of Israel continues to face an acute national security predicament as a result of the still unresolved Arab-Israeli conflict. This monograph offers a new framework for analyzing this experience, first exploring the crucial events of the past and present that define it, including interstate wars, asymmetrical wars, low-intensity conflicts, and developments in weapons of mass destruction. The book then probes how Israel's evolving national security doctrine has addressed these various challenges over the years, highlighting the roles of a number of variables: deterrence, warning, and decision; strategic depth and defensible borders; the quality and quantity of fighting men and machines; intelligence; self-reliance in military matters; foreign policy; and the influence of ethnic demography, societal resilience, economic prosperity, and water security. Written in accessible, non-technical language, the book will appeal to general readers seeking an introduction to Israeli security, as well as to specialists and researchers in various fields, including Israeli history, Middle Eastern politics, and security studies"--

Chapter 1. Migration and Cities: An Introduction -- Part I: Emerging and Established Global Cities: Managing Diversity from Above and from Below -- Chapter 2. Governing Diversity Beyond City and State: Epistemic and Ethical Challenges of African Urbanisation -- Chapter 3. Urban Policy Modelling and Diversity Governance in Doha and Singapore -- Chapter 4. Urban Diversity and Spatial Justice: A Critical Overview -- Part II: Migration and Diversity Outside the Urban Core: Small and Mid-sized Cities -- Chapter 5 -- Multi-level Migration and Multiculturalism Governance Meets Migrant and Refugee Agency in Regional Australian Towns -- Chapter 6. Immigration Policy and Less-Favoured Regions and Cities: Comparing Urban Atlantic Canada and the US Rust Belt -- Chapter 7. New Zealand's Small-Town Disruptions and the Role of Immigrant Mobilities -- Chapter 8 -- Reflections on 'Welcoming' Second- and Third-tier Cities in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States -- Part III: Migration and Diversity Dynamics in the Suburbs -- Chapter 9. Suburbanisation and Migrant Entrepreneurship in the United States -- Chapter 10. Stuck in the Suburbs? Socio-Spatial Exclusion of Migrants in Shanghai -- Chapter 11. Settlement and Rental Housing Experiences Among Recent Immigrants in the Suburbs of Vancouver: Burnaby, Richmond, and Surrey -- Chapter 12. Suburban Migration: Interrogating the Intersections of Global Migration and Suburban Transformation -- Part IV: Bordering Migration in Cities -- Chapter 13. The Urbanisation of Asylum -- Chapter 14. 'Urban-itarian' Ecologies in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan After Displacement from Syria -- Chapter 15. Sheltering Extraction: the Politics of Knowledges Transitions in the Context of Shelter Organisations in Mexico and the Netherlands -- Chapter 16. Temporality and Permanency in the Study of Border Cities and Migration.

Turns the familiar story of trafficking across the US-Mexico border on its head, looking at firearms smuggled south from the United States to Mexico and their ricochet effects. American guns have entangled the lives of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border in a vicious circle of violence. After treating wounded migrants and refugees seeking safety in the United States, anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte boldly embarked on a journey in the opposite direction--following the guns from dealers in Arizona and Texas to crime scenes in Mexico. An expert work of narrative nonfiction, Exit Wounds provides a rare, intimate look into the world of firearms trafficking and urges us to understand the effects of lax US gun laws abroad. Jusionyte masterfully weaves together the gripping stories of people who live and work with guns north and south of the border: a Mexican businessman who smuggles guns for protection, a teenage girl turned trained assassin, two US federal agents trying to stop gun traffickers, and a journalist who risks his life to report on organized crime. Based on years of fieldwork, Exit Wounds expands current debates about guns in America, grappling with US complicity in violence on both sides of the border.