This handbook illustrates the utility of global sport as a lens through which to disentangle the interconnected political, economic, cultural, and social patterns that shape our lives. Drawing on multidisciplinary perspectives, it is organized into three parts. The first part ou…
Handbook on theories of governance
Handbook on theories of governance
The contributors to this text consider the growing importance of private military companies and efforts to regulate their activities.
Imagining Politics is an interrogation of two interpretations of government. The first, coming from popular culture fictions about politics, the second coming from academic theories about government, particularly the assumptions of mainstream U.S. political science. Stephen Bene…
International energy governance
by Leal-Arcas, Rafael, Filis, Andrew, Abu Gosh, Ehab S.
"'International Energy Governance: Selected Legal Issues covers some of the most interesting and pressing areas of international energy law and policy. Eastern-Mediterranean, WTO and energy, external EU energy policy and the promotion of renewable energy and its various effects …
Professeur au MIT en économie du développement, l'auteure évalue ici les programmes de lutte contre la pauvreté à partir des expérimentations locales. De l'Inde au Malawi, du Kenya au Mexique, elle examine les campagnes de vaccination, l'instruction des enfants et la lutte contr…
La 4e de couverture indique : "The increasing transnationalisation of regulation - and social life more generally - challenges the basic concepts of legal and political theory today. One of the key concepts being so challenged is authority. This discerning book offers a plenitud…
"This book offers a major new theory of global governance, explaining both its rise and what many see as its current crisis. The author suggests that world politics is now embedded in a normative and institutional structure dominated by hierarchies and power inequalities and the…
This volume explores what the Treaty of Lisbon means for social law and social policy at the European level.
"The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China and the other 'emerging markets' have transformed their economies, Africa's resource states remained tethered to the bottom of the industrial supply ch…
An investigative journey into the ways the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, 'The Looting Machine' sheds light on the shadowy networks that connect Goldman Sachs, BP, the Hong Kong underworld and the murderous cabals that rule some oil states. Africa: the world's poorest co…