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by Heidi Schwarzwald, Susan Gillespie, Elizabeth Montgomery Collins
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
No matter how positive the intent of prospective parents, international adoption is fraught with emotional, medical, administrative, linguistic, and geopolitical issues. And while a wide range of professionals supports adopted children and their families in adjusting to the inherent changes and disruptions,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
This book examines the role played by domestic and international judges in the “flexibilization” of legal systems through general principles. It features revised papers that were presented at the Annual Conference of the European-American Consortium for Legal Education, held at the University...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This Commentary provides the first comprehensive legal article-by-article analysis of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The Convention is the key international human rights instrument exclusively devoted to persons with disabilities and the centerpiece...
Understanding International Students from Asia in American Universities
Learning and Living Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
This book is about international students from Asia studying at American universities in the age of globalization. It explores significant questions, such as: Why do they want to study in America? How do they make their college choices? To what extent do they integrate with domestic students, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
This book is the inaugural edition of the Nigerian Yearbook of International Law. The Yearbook is a necessary and timely publication that provides a forum for critical discourse on developments in international law, particularly where this has relevance for Nigeria, Africa and its people including...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
This first volume of EtYIL focuses on issues concerning the developing world in general and (the Horn of) Africa – and Ethiopia – specifically. It argues that rebalancing the international law narrative to reflect Africa’s legitimate interests is an urgent priority, and can only succeed through...
Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides
Volume 5 Landslides in Different Environments
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL), University of Ljubljana (UL) and Geological Survey of Slovenia in Ljubljana,...
Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides
Volume 2 Advances in Landslide Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL), University of Ljubljana (UL) and Geological Survey of Slovenia in Ljubljana,...
The International Criminal Court
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
This book is about the International Criminal Court (ICC), a new and highly distinctive criminal justice institution with the ability to prosecute the highest-level government officials, including heads of state, even in countries that have not accepted its jurisdiction. The book explores the historical...
Networking the International System
Global Histories of International Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
The book critically investigates the local impact of international organizations beyond a Western rationale and aims to overcome Eurocentric patterns of analysis. Considering Asian and Western examples, the contributions originate from different disciplines and study areas and discuss a global approach,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2016
Volume 7 of the EYIEL focusses on critical perspectives of international economic law. Recent protests against free trade agreements such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) remind us that international economic law has always been a politically and legally contested field....
by Kalevi Holsti
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
In honour of Prof. Kalevi Holsti’s 80th birthday, this book includes key texts by the renowned Canadian International Relations scholar on war, the state, peace, and the international order. The first part includes texts on the Study of War, Use of Force in International Politics: Four Revolutions,...
Stability in International Finance
Applications of Price Disequilibrium Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
This book aims to explore stability in an international financial system using disequilibrium theory. It examines historical cases of both instability and stability and reviews price-disequilibrium theory to construct a theoretical model for a stable international financial system.
In the...
Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing
ICA3PP International Workshops and Symposiums, Zhangjiajie, China, November 18-20, 2015, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Workshops and Symposiums of the 15th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP 2015, held in Zhangjiajie, China, in November 2015.
The program of this year consists of 6 symposiums/workshops...