Author : Michael N. Barnett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 24,73 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107176905
This book asks how we understand the relationship between ethics and power in humanitarian action.
Author : George Gmelch
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 17,4 MB
Release : 2017-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1496201051
Baseball Beyond Our Borders celebrates the globalization of the game while highlighting the different histories and cultures of the nations in which the sport is played. This collection of essays tells the story of America’s national pastime as it has spread across the world and undergone instructive, entertaining, and sometimes quirky changes in the process. Covering nineteen countries and a U.S. territory, the contributors show how each country imported baseball, how baseball took hold and developed, how it is organized, played, and followed, and what local and regional traits tell us about the sport’s place in each culture. But what lies in store as baseball’s passport fills up with far-flung stamps? Will the international migration of players homogenize baseball? What role will the World Baseball Classic play? These are just a few of the questions the authors pose.
Author : Peter de Marneffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 11,53 MB
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199726108
Civil libertarians characterize prostitution as a "victimless crime," and argue that it ought to be legalized. Feminist critics counter that prostitution is not victimless, since it harms the people who do it. Civil libertarians respond that most women freely choose to do this work, and that it is paternalistic for the government to limit a person's liberty for her own good. In this book Peter de Marneffe argues that although most prostitution is voluntary, paternalistic prostitution laws in some form are nonetheless morally justifiable. If prostitution is commonly harmful in the way that feminist critics maintain, then this argument for prostitution laws is not objectionably moralistic and some prostitution laws violate no one's rights. Paternalistic prostitution laws in some form are therefore consistent with the fundamental principles of contemporary liberalism.
Author : Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 13,50 MB
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300197861
The best-selling author of Simpler offers an argument for protecting people from their own mistakes.
Author : Christian Coons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 110702546X
Should the government influence or coerce us for our 'own good'? This volume discusses specific applications in policy and law.
Author : Michael Barnett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 10,6 MB
Release : 2004-12-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139444220
This edited volume examines power in its different dimensions in global governance. Scholars tend to underestimate the importance of power in international relations because of a failure to see its multiple forms. To expand the conceptual aperture, this book presents and employs a taxonomy that alerts scholars to the different kinds of power that are present in world politics. A team of international scholars demonstrate how these different forms connect and intersect in global governance in a range of different issue areas. Bringing together a variety of theoretical perspectives, this volume invites scholars to reconsider their conceptualization of power in world politics and how such a move can enliven and enrich their understanding of global governance.
Author : Allison Schnable
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0520300955
Amateurs without Borders examines the rise of new actors in the international development world: volunteer-driven grassroots international nongovernmental organizations. These small aid organizations, now ten thousand strong, sidestep the world of professionalized development aid by launching projects built around personal relationships and the skills of volunteers. This book draws on fieldwork in the United States and Africa, web data, and IRS records to offer the first large-scale systematic study of these groups. Amateurs without Borders investigates the aspirations and limits of personal compassion on a global scale.
Author : Séverine Autesserre
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,49 MB
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107052106
This book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential. Based on several years of ethnographic research in conflict zones around the world, it demonstrates that everyday elements - such as the expatriates' social habits and usual approaches to understanding their areas of operation - strongly influence peacebuilding effectiveness. Individuals from all over the world and all walks of life share numerous practices, habits, and narratives when they serve as interveners in conflict zones. These common attitudes and actions enable foreign peacebuilders to function in the field, but they also result in unintended consequences that thwart international efforts. Certain expatriates follow alternative modes of thinking and acting, often with notable results, but they remain in the minority. Through an in-depth analysis of the interveners' everyday life and work, this book proposes innovative ways to better help host populations build a sustainable peace.
Author : James Orbinski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 35,2 MB
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802717624
Describes the author's experiences as a doctor for Doctors Without Borders in countries such as Somalia, Afghanistan, and Rwanda; the conditions he witnessed; and the political roadblocks that prevented aid from reaching patients.
Author : Leda Papastefanaki
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 47,79 MB
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1789206979
As was the case in many other countries, it was only in the early years of this century that Greek and Turkish labour historians began to systematically look beyond national borders to investigate their intricately interrelated histories. The studies in Working in Greece and Turkey provide an overdue exploration of labour history on both sides of the Aegean, before as well as after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Deploying the approaches of global labour history as a framework, this volume presents transnational, transcontinental, and diachronic comparisons that illuminate the shared history of Greece and Turkey.
