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This compendium synthesizes innovations of the UN High Commissioners for Refugees (UNHCR) since 1951. The book bridges the gap between academic and field work and uses Joseph Nye's concept of «soft power» as a methodological approach for understanding and solving political and ethical refugee protection dilemmas. Extending the refugee legal framework (1951 Refugee Convention and 1967 Protocol), UNHCR has increasingly used international human rights law, innovative technologies and new partners. Refugee protection is a responsibility primarily of states. Challenges are: considering increasing power diffusion (Nye) from states to non-state actors and balancing IT potentials with security risks

"A panoramic account of the ever-evolving opportunities and challenges for girls, the new ways they have [been] able to present and speak up for themselves, and the popular hysteria that has frequently accompanied their progress"--P. [4] of cover

The changing constitution in context /David Butler --Constitutional reform since 1997 : the historians' perspective /Mike Finn and Anthony Selden --The constitution and the public : how the voters forgot the constitution /Peter Riddell --'Let me take you to a foreign land' : the political and legal constitution /Matt Qvortrup --The politics-free dimension to the UK constitution /Dawn Oliver --Constitutional conventions /David Feldman --Continuity and change in constitutional conventions /Joseph Jaconelli --'The three hundred and seven year itch' : Scotland and the 2014 independence referendum /Stephen Tierney --Constitutional change and parliamentary sovereignty : the impossible dialectic /Richard Gordon QC --Queen Elizabeth II and the evolution of the monarchy /Robert Blackburn --Constitutional justice and constitutional politics in France /Denis Baranger