Suchergebnisse

Chapter 1: Setting the Scene -- Chapter 2: The Way Things Used to Be -- Chapter 3: Reorganisation, Reorganisation, Reorganisation: The Changing Map of Local Government -- Chapter 4: Explaining the Persistence of the Unitary Principle in the Department's Mindset -- Chapter 5: A Strange Affair: Local Government Reorganisation in Northamptonshire 2018-21—A Case Study -- Chapter 6: Doomsday Approaches and then Recedes -- Chapter 7: What is the Problem About Two-Tier Local Government? -- Chapter 8: Why Bigger is Not Better -- Chapter 9: Where Do We Go from Here?.

1 Introduction -- 2 Public sector criminological research -- 3 The genesis of the AIC -- 4 Between a rock and a hard place -- 5 Financial resourcing models over time -- 6 The Criminology Research Fund -- 7 Homes and accommodation -- 8 Education and training -- 9 Getting the research out there -- 10 Punching above its weight -- 11 International relations -- 12 Merging priorities -- 13 Evaluating the AICs contribution to criminology -- 14 A future for the AIC? -- 15 Appendices Listing Directors, Council members, staff members, assets and income, publications, conferences, media contacts and website usage. .

Part I. Politics and culture -- Chapter 1. Culture in External Relations: The EU and Its International Economic Agreements -- Chapter 2. Beyond Trade – The Politics of Trade Agreements and Interstate Competition: Geoeconomics as a Basis for EU and US Preferential Trade Agreements -- Chapter 3. Geopolitics, Geo-Economics and the EU Trade Policy: The Relationship with ASEAN as a Test Case -- Part II. Investment and trade -- Chapter 4. From Investment Protection to Sustainability (via a Multilateral Investment Court): The EU and a New Universal Model for IIAs? -- Chapter 5. New Wine in Old Wineskins? Climate Cases and the Energy Charter Treaty -- Chapter 6. Unsustainable Investment: Scoping Expropriation without Compensation -- Chapter 7. Screening Foreign Direct Investment in Europe: Having a Tiger by the Tail? -- Chapter 8. Trade in Services and Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications in the EU and International Systems: Multilateralism à la Carte? -- Chapter 9. The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: Customary International Law? -- Chapter 10. The EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Technology Council: Shifting Multilateralism through Bilateralism and Institutions? -- Part III. Foundational rights and procedures -- Chapter 11. TRIPS+: IP Privileges for Pharmaceuticals and Agricultural Chemicals: EU and US treaties -- Chapter 12. Compulsory Licences during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A European and International Perspective -- Chapter 13. The 'Crowd-out Effect' of GI provisions in EU FTAs: Cheeses Exported to South Korea -- Chapter 14. The Evolutionary Process of Tax Treaties and its Interplay with EU Law: A Critical Analysis -- Chapter 15. Data Flow v Data Protection: Achieving Cross-Broder Harmonisation via EU Horizontal Clauses? -- Chapter 16. Non-Economic Conditionality for Comprehensive EU International Economic Agreements? -- Chapter 17. The Singapore Convention on Mediation: National Implementation Practices and EU Prospects -- Conclusion -- Index.

This book investigates how smart technologies can play a crucial role in the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Focusing on FinTech as well as artificial intelligence, the author demonstrates how one of the most effective strategies for accelerating progress toward global development goals is to make use of emerging technologies to broaden and deepen the scope of action. The first part of the book offers a historical perspective on sustainable development, financial technology and the emergence of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, while the second part looks in-depth at new technologies that can contribute to the realization of the SDGs. The power of AI to reduce poverty and increase food security, the implications of digital innovations for education, the impact of AI on clean transport, the role of FinTech in mitigating climate change, and ways in which AI can aid financial inclusion are all discussed

Intro -- Editorial Board -- Preface -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Exploring the Concept of a Constitutional Identity for the European Union -- 1.1 Constitutional Identity Beyond the Member States -- 1.2 A Constitutional Identity for the EU? -- 1.3 The Content and Scope of a Constitutional Identity for the EU -- 1.4 The Function and Operation of a Constitutional Identity for the EU -- 1.5 Constitutional Identity in the EU and Beyond -- References -- 2 Three Meanings of Constitutional Identity and Their Prospects in the European Union -- 2.1 Forms and Functions of Constitutional Identity -- 2.2 The EU Treaties as a "Functional" Constitution -- 2.3 Weakness of European Constitutional Identity -- 2.4 Different Sources of Identity -- 2.5 Auspices for a European Constitutional Identity -- References -- 3 A Plaidoyer Against the Sisyphean Endeavour to Imagine the Constitutional Identity of the EU -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Oracle of Delphi -- 3.2.1 Know Thyself -- 3.2.2 European (Constitutional) Identity-Two Contrastive Methodological Narratives -- 3.2.3 (Constitutional) Identity as an Evasive Concept -- 3.2.4 An Endeavour of Numerous Projections-Following the Intuition and Creating the Meaning -- 3.2.5 Shared Constitutional Traditions-Comparison and Differentiation -- 3.3 Identity as Conceptual Substitute for Sovereignty-Nihil Novum Sub Sole -- 3.3.1 Conceptual History -- 3.3.2 Sovereignty and Identity Together -- 3.3.3 European Sovereignty and Neo-Colonial Delusions -- 3.4 Identity as a Relation -- 3.4.1 Identity as Relational, not Descriptive -- 3.4.2 Identified Subject Matter as Idea or Narrative -- 3.4.3 Singleness and Multitude of Identities -- 3.5 Tensions Between Identity and Democracy -- 3.5.1 Identity as Perpetuum Mobile -- 3.5.2 (Dis)Ability of Change and the Hierarchy of Norms.

Applying sociological and ethnographic research to adult safeguarding for the first time, this book considers how frontline practice is developing, exploring safeguarding adults assessments and multi-agency work. The book is essential reading for those wishing to understand risk management and how current practice can be improved.

During the second half of the 20th century, Colombia suffered extreme levels of political violence. This book explores the involvement of the international community in peacebuilding efforts in Colombia since 2016. In particular, it examines how interventions were framed in order to promote and sustain their involvement and questions whether these frames reflected reality within Colombia. The book focuses on key donors, including the US, the EU, Canada, Sweden and the UK, as well as multinational actors, such as the UN and the World Bank, to demonstrate how their framing of local issues for national and international consumption can have real world implications for peacebuilding efforts on the ground.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Context -- 3. An Immoral Economy -- 4. Alternative Perspectives on Mining -- 5. Responses to Mining at a Nasa Indigenous Sub-Regional Organisation -- 6. Responses to Mining in the Nasa Indigenous Resguardo of Canoas -- 7. Violence, Peace and Mining -- 8. Perspectives from Outside the Nasa Organisations -- 9. Conclusion -- Index.

1. Introduction: Mosaics of the post-Soviet economic transition in Russia -- 2. Early concepts of economic growth and implications for Russia -- 3. Endogenous economic growth and human capital -- 4. Sustainable economic growth and development -- 5. Economic crises and sustainable growth in Russia -- 6. Economic growth in Russia in the 1990s and 2000s -- 7. Economic growth in Russia in the 2010s and 2020s -- 8. Consumption, Investment, Debt, Inflation, and Unemployment in Russia -- 9. Structure of foreign trade in Russia -- 10. Conclusion: Transition to sustainable economic growth.

Over the early 21st century, democracy worldwide has deteriorated significantly. At the same time, new populist forces have appeared that challenge democracies through legal reforms. The stark contrast between Eastern and Western Europe in this respect is the focus of this collection of essays. The authors consider the 2008-2012 economic crisis to be at the root of the success of the populist parties and the rise of cultural backlash against liberal values. In turn, European governments' responses to the crisis – mainly austerity measures demanded by IMF and the EU – help explain the disenchantment with the European Union. These policies made the wider public feel that they were being left out of politics, and populist parties promised to return power to them. The contributors argue that polarization of the electorate can set in motion a radicalization that strengthens authoritarians at the expense of democrats. They also demonstrate that Eastern and Western Europe differ in their attitudes to the decline in quality of democracy. The studies consider how satisfied people are with the political changes they witness, and argue that seemingly more authoritarian attitudes in the East explain why people feel more satisfied with a defective democracy that empowers the populist-authoritarian political actors that they support.

"Around the world and across time, singers and their songs stand at the crossroads of differing politics and perspectives. Levi S. Gibbs edits a collection built around the idea of listening as a political act that produces meaning. Contributors explore a wide range of issues by examining artists like Romani icon Esma Redžepova, Indian legend Lata Mangeshkar, and pop superstar Teresa Teng. Topics include gendered performances and the negotiation of race and class identities; the class-related contradictions exposed by the divide between highbrow and pop culture; links between narratives of overcoming struggle and the distinction between privileged and marginalized identities; singers' ability to adapt to shifting notions of history, borders, gender, and memory in order to connect with listeners; how the meanings we read into a singer's life and art build on one another; and technology's ability to challenge our ideas about what constitutes music. Cutting-edge and original, Social Voices reveals how singers and their songs equip us to process social change and divergent opinions"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Rational Actor Assumption -- Chapter 2: Strategic Rationality and Uncertainty -- Chapter 3: Defining Strategic Rationality -- Chapter 4: Contending Definitions -- Chapter 5: Rationality and Grand Strategy -- Chapter 6: Rationality and Crisis Management -- Chapter 7: Nonrational State Behavior -- Chapter 8: Goal Rationality -- Chapter 9: Rationality in International Politics -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

By the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity had brought about, with its devastating wars, rising totalitarianism, and permanent nuclear terror. They concluded that, far from offering a solution to these problems, the ideals of the Enlightenment, including emancipation and equality, had instead created them. The historian of political thought Samuel Moyn argues that the liberal intellectuals of the Cold War era – among them Isaiah Berlin, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Karl Popper, Judith Shklar, and Lionel Trilling – transformed liberalism but left a disastrous legacy for our time. In his iconoclastic style, Moyn outlines how Cold War liberals redefined the ideals of their movement and renounced the moral core of the Enlightenment for a more dangerous philosophy: preserving individual liberty at all costs. In denouncing this stance, as well as the recent nostalgia for Cold War liberalism as a means to counter illiberal values, Moyn presents a timely call for a new emancipatory and egalitarian liberal philosophy – a path to undoing the damage of the Cold War and to ensuring the survival of liberalism.