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Brazilian's employment regulation and outsourcing : a precarious option / Roberta Sivolella -- Labor protection in Mexico : recent reforms and future challenges / Jose Rangel Delgado, Antonina Ivanova Boncheva -- Employment protection legislation in emerging economies : a critical literature review / Samir Amine, Wilner Predelus -- Regulating occupational health and safety in EU and China : from a comparative law perspective / Kai Liu -- Employment protection in South Africa : an analysis of recent labour and social security legislative and policy developments / Avinash Govindjee -- An inventory of employment protection in France a preserved past essentially but an uncertain future / Hervé Charmettant -- Economic variations and their impact on labor legislation throughout history in Argentina / Andrea Isabel Franconi -- Employment protection legislation and unemployment in Botswana / Happy Siphambe, Mavis Kolobe and Itumeleng Oageng -- Public sector employees and employment protection : the case of Nigeria / Joseph Olutoyin Jiboku -- Well-being and perceived job security in Turkey / Z. Bilgen Susanli

The many faces of homelessness : a critical introduction / Carole Zufferey and Nilan Yu -- Homelessness and homeless policies in the context of the residual Japanese welfare state / Johannes Kiener and Toshio Mizuuchi -- Homelessness in China / Della Qiu and Carole Zufferey -- Living homeless in urban India : state and societal responses / Kalpana Goel and Richa Choudhary -- Children's homelessness in Sri Lanka / Eshantha Ariyadasa, Helen McLaren and Janet McIntyre-Mills -- Homelessness in Korea : lived experience and policy issues / Soyoung Kim and Yong-Chang Heo -- Homelessness in hong kong : the evolution of official homeless assistance and the context of housing / Geerhardt Kornatowski and Hung Wong -- A unique sustainable livelihoods strategy : how resilient homeless families survive on the streets of metro Manila, Philippines / Justin Nicolas and Mel Gray -- Homelessness in Australia / Chris Horsell and Carole Zufferey -- A portrait of homelessness in the Asia Pacific / Carole Zufferey and Nilan Yu

Since 1945, the liberal-democratic model of capitalism spread across the globe, ultimately prevailing over communism. Over the past two decades, a new statist-authoritarian model has begun diffusing across East Asia. Rather than rejecting capitalism, authoritarian leaders harness it to uphold their rule. Based on extensive research of East Asia's largest corporations and sovereign wealth funds, this book argues that the most aggressive version of this model does not belong to China. Rather, it can be found in Malaysia and Singapore. Although these countries are small, the implications are profound because one-third of all countries in the world possess the same type of regime. With an increasing number of these authoritarian regimes establishing sovereign wealth funds, their ability to intervene in the corporate sectors of other countries is rapidly expanding.

This book highlights the relationship between the water sector and various other sectors in order to establish an improved understanding of the importance of water resources as an essential cross-cutting vector of socio-economic development. The book is both policy and practice oriented and is not constrained by existing definitions on water security. It includes actual experiences of policy, management, development and governance decisions taken within the water sector, and examples on how these have affected the energy and agricultural sectors as well as impacted the environment, and vice versa, as appropriate. It also discusses trade-offs, short and long-term implications, lessons learnt, and the way forward. The book includes case studies on cities, countries and regions such as Australia, China, Singapore, Central Asia, Morocco, Southern Africa, France, Latin America, Brazil and California

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Fundamental concepts and historical context -- 1 Corporate accountability for socio-economic rights: introductory remarks -- 2 The historical development of corporate accountability for socio-economic rights -- 3 Globalization, investment and the socio-economic environment -- 4 Business, socio-economic rights and good practices -- Part II Corporate accountability for socio-economic rights -- 5 Corporate human rights obligations under socio-economic rights -- 6 Corporate human rights obligations under specific socio-economic rights -- 7 Access to justice for victims of socio-economic rights violations -- Part III Corporate accountability for socio-economic rights and case studies -- 8 Corporate accountability concerning socio-economic rights in Cambodia -- 9 Corporate accountability concerning socio-economic rights in China -- 10 Corporate accountability concerning socio-economic rights in Colombia -- Part IV Proposals for reform -- 11 Conclusions and recommendations -- Index

Cover -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction The Indispensable State, Sustaining Our Future -- 1 Debunking "Sustainability": Moving beyond "Feel- Good" Slogans -- 2 Sustainability by the State, Not Markets or Technology -- 3 The State of Growth -- 4 Working with the State: Building the Social Security Net -- 5 The State's Obligations -- 6 Authority, Not Authoritarianism -- 7 Checks and Balances -- 8 Redefining Freedom, Rights, and Prosperity -- 9 The Tropical Haze Crisis -- 10 The Tropical City Is No Paradise -- 11 China: The Strong State? -- 12 Transition: From Business as Usual to the Sustainable State -- Conclusion Either States Act, or Doom Looms -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- About the Author.

Intro -- Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Varieties of Capital, Fracture of Labor -- Chapter 2. Miners and Their Children -- Chapter 3. Work, Precarity, and Resistance -- Chapter 4. Regular Work in Decline, Precarious Households, and Changing Solidarities in Bulgaria -- Chapter 5. Precarious Labor and Precarious Livelihoods in an Indian Company Town -- Chapter 6. Regimes of Precarity -- Chapter 7. Between God and the State -- Chapter 8. The (Un-)Making of Labor -- Chapter 9. Relative Precarity -- Chapter 10. From Avtoritet and Autonomy to Self-Exploitation in the Russian Automotive Industry -- Chapter 11. Precarity, Guanxi, and the Informal Economy of Peasant Workers in Contemporary China -- Chapter 12. From Dispossessed Factory Workers to "Micro-entrepreneurs" -- Chapter 13. Towards a Political Economy of Skill and Garment Work -- Chapter 14. From Casual to Permanent Work -- Afterword -- Index

This book is centered on the history of the girl from the medieval period through to the early twenty-first century. Authored by an international team of scholars, the volume explores the transition from adolescent girlhood to young womanhood, the formation and education of girls in the home and in school, and paid work undertaken by girls in different parts of the world and at different times. It highlights the value of a comparative approach to the history of the girl, as the contributors point to shared attitudes to girlhood and the similarity of the experiences of girls in workplaces across the world. Contributions to the volume also emphasise the central role of girls in the global economy, from their participation in the textile industry in the eighteenth century, through to the migration of girls to urban centres in twentieth-century Africa and China.

Ein fesselnder Tatsachenroman über die entscheidende Schlacht des ersten Indochinakriegs. Indochina Mitte 1953: General Henri Navarre, neuer Oberkommandierender der französischen Truppen, weiß, dass er die vietnamesische Befreiungsarmee im Partisanenkampf nicht bezwingen kann. Er will der Viet Minh endlich in einer offenen Feldschlacht begegnen. Dien Bien Phu nahe der laotischen Grenze scheint ihm dafür geeignet. Fünfundfünfzig Tage und Nächte tobt der Kampf, dann fällt die Dschungelfestung der Franzosen - eine verheerende Niederlage für die Kolonialmacht. - In seinem packenden Tatsachenroman um die entscheidende Schlacht während des ersten Indochinakrieges folgt der routinierte Erzähler Harry Thürk den historischen Ereignissen mit der Präzision des Berichterstatters und fesselt den Leser von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite mit den Wahrheiten und Schrecken des Krieges. Harry Thürk (1927-2005), geb. in Zülz (heute Biala/Polen), Besuch der Real- und Handelsschule in Neustadt/Schlesien, 1944/45 Wehrdienst, nach dem Krieg Rückkehr nach Neustadt, Internierung in einem Durchgangsghetto für Deutsche, von dort Flucht nach Ostdeutschland. In der DDR Arbeit als Reporter (u.a. Auslandskorrespondent in Korea, China, Vietnam, Laos, Kambodscha), was sich in seiner literarischen Arbeit niederschlug, seit 1958 freier Autor in Weimar. Seine Bücher wurden in polnische, tschechische, slowakische, ungarische, rumänische, russische, finnische, litauische, vietnamesische und spanische Sprache übersetzt.

Preface: "I don't have any enemies" / by Franz Alt -- An appeal by the Dalai Lama for secular ethics and peace -- Educating the heart: a conversation with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. On President Trump ; On overcoming division ; On nationalism ; On the refugee crisis ; On the education of the heart ; On spirituality ; On religion ; On global responsibility ; On secular ethics ; On neuroscience ; On compassion ; On the science of meditation ; On happiness ; On mortality ; On world peace ; On gender equality ; On inner values ; On mindfulness ; On the essence of religion ; On war ; On the next generation ; On the future of Tibet ; On China ; On human rights in Tibet ; On political resistance ; On freedom for Tibet ; On the preservation of Tibetan culture ; On the return of the Dalai Lama -- The Dalai Lama story: an inspiring life ; The Dalai Lama: a life in dates.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The unexamined constructions of educational leadership -- 2 Beyond culture as ethnicity: Interrogating the empirical sites for leading scholarship -- 3 The role of ethical practices in pursuing socially just leadership -- 4 "We're going to call our kids 'African Aussies'": Leading for diversity in regional Australia -- 5 Is she in the wrong place? Exploring the intersections of gender, religion, culture and leadership -- 6 Exploring the successful school leadership literature in China -- 7 Indigenist holistic educational leadership -- 8 Communicating research: A challenge of context -- 9 Practice traditions of researching educational leadership across national contexts -- 10 Conduct un/becoming: Discipline in the context of educational leadership research -- 11 Left out: Gender and feminism in the educational leadership curriculum -- 12 Commentary: Leadership as a relational practice in contexts of cultural hybridity -- Index

This title was first published in 2002. This innovative work analyses how the United States has laid down the foundations for global power. It reassesses and re-evaluates the declinist-renewal argument and challenges conventional balance of power theories, demonstrating how the United States is attempting to 'hegemonically globalise' the entire international system. To evaluate the success of hegemonic globalisation, the book analyses four major powers and regions - Russia, the People's Republic of China (PRC), the European Union (EU), and Japan - and their historical, political, economic, cultural and geopolitical relations with the United States. Each study examines the tangible and intangible sources of their relationship, and the possible tensions and resistance towards United States hegemony therein. Providing much-needed insight and a fresh perspective, this book makes a worthwhile contribution to our understanding of contemporary international power.

1. One Korea unification vision through neutralization / Tae-Hwan Kwak -- 2. North Korean unification strategy : strategic culture and future prospects / Sachio Nakato -- 3. U.S. policy toward Korean unification and the policies of the ROK and the DPRK / Edward A. Olsen -- 4. Future vision for a unified Korean peninsula : a U.S. perspective / Tong Kim -- 5. Obama's policy toward the Korean peninsula : a Korean perspective / Taehyung Ahn -- 6. Maintaining the status quo or promoting the reunification of the Korean peninsula? A Chinese perspective / Cai Jian -- 7. China and Korean unification strategies : a Korean perspective / TaeWan Kim -- 8. Future vision of a unified Korean peninsula : a Russian perspective / Alexander Zhebin -- 9. Russia and a unified Korea : a Korean perspective / Seung-ho Joo -- 10. Japan's policy regarding Korean rapprochement and unification / Yoshinori Kaseda.

Foreword -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction and Background -- Abstract -- Situating the Issue -- A Critique of the Mainstream -- The Comparative Should Be of Classes and not of States! -- References -- Chapter 2 The Higher Rates of Surplus Value Through Commercial Exploitation -- Abstract -- Eurocentrism and Value -- Review and Closing Comment -- References -- Chapter 3 Development in the Shadow of Imperialism -- Abstract -- New Forms of Commercial Exploitation -- Divergent Paths -- Postscript: The Peculiarity of Conflicts in the Arab World -- References -- Chapter 4 Security and Economic Development -- Abstract -- Introduction -- An Economic Comparative at a Glance -- The Fascism in Neoliberalism -- The Concrete Shape of Security in Development -- Concluding comment: States Under Security Constraints -- References -- Chapter 5 The Rise of China and the Potential for East Asian Collapse -- Abstract -- The Status Quo -- Unpacking the Contradiction -- A Deja-Vu Moment in History -- Closing Remarks -- References -- Bibliography -- Index

Preliminary Material /Jure Vidmar and Ruth Kok -- The Sovereignty Dispute between Argentina and the UK over the Falklands (Malvinas): A Preliminary Assessment of the Competing Claims /Fabián O. Raimondo -- Exploration and Exploitation of Oil and Gas Resources in Maritime Areas of Overlap under International Law: The Falklands (Malvinas) /Youri van Logchem -- Applying International Investment Law to Disputed Maritime Zones: A Case Study of the Falklands (Malvinas) /Marco Benatar -- The Falklands/Malvinas and China in 1982 and Today: Some Legal and Diplomatic Observations /Wim Muller -- Risky Business: Witnesses and Africa's ICC Withdrawal /Sarah McGibbon -- The (In)Admissibility of Unlawfully Obtained Evidence at the International Criminal Court /Ann Marie Thake -- The Legal Consequences of Brexit from an International Economic Law Perspective /Ines Willemyns and Marieke Koekkoek -- About the Editorial Board /Jure Vidmar and Ruth Kok -- Back Matter --.