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The Environmental Movement in Ireland

Collective responses to Ireland’s dramatic transformation from a primarily agrarian and rural society to an industrialised ...

The Future of the Law of the Sea

It explores the diverse phenomena which are challenging the international law of the sea today, using the unique perspective ...

The Long View of Crime: A Synthesis of Longitudinal Research

The volume focuses on adolescence. Several adolescent experiences are considered directly, including employment, gang involvement, ...

The Organized Crime Community : Essays in Honor of Alan A. Block

In his social investigative writings on "the serious crime community" which describes the loose merger of corporate interests, ...

The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies

This handbook, the first of its kind, provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary genre-spanning view ...

The Private Sphere : An Emotional Territory And Its Agent

The non-interference perspective is common when theorizing about the protection of the private life of individuals and their ...

The Rule of Law History, Theory and Criticism

Costa and Zolo share the conviction that a proper understanding of the rule of law today requires referring to a global problematic ...

The State of Peacebuilding in Africa Lessons Learned for Policymakers and Practitioners

This book on the state of peacebuilding in Africa brings together the work of distinguished scholars, practitioners, and ...

Theory of Legal Principles

This book intends to help understand and apply principles and rules better. Its target is to keep the distinction between ...

Towards a Global Community

This book is the outcome of a global study undertaken on behalf of the World Education Fellowship (WEF) in collaboration ...

Towards a Natural Social Contract Transformative Social-Ecological Innovation for a Sustainable, Healthy and Just Society

This book states that the endemic societal faultlines of our times are deeply intertwined and that they confront us with ...

Transformation and Development Studies in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Member States

This book features various studies on democratization, transformation, political and economic development, and security ...

Transforming Unjust Structures

The "capability approach" of development economist Amartya Sen, who received the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998, poses ...

Transnational Legal Activism in Global Value Chains The Ali Enterprises Factory Fire and the Struggle for Justice

This book documents and analyses the various interventions – legal, political, and even artistic – that followed the ...

Unique Environmentalism

This book explains and demonstrates how the Norwegian case of environmentalism is unique. The two connected anomalies of ...

Use of Force Training in Law Enforcement

This Brief describes a reality based approach to use-of-force training in law enforcement, an area of growing importance. ...

Vergleichsweise menschlich? : Ambulante Sanktionen als Alternative zur Freiheitsentziehung aus europäischer Perspektive = Comparatively human? : Outpatient sanctions as an alternative to imprisonment from a European perspective

Ambulatory sanctions are often seen as a humane alternative to deprivation of liberty. The nature of intervention, the perspective ...

Violence Against Women : An International Perspective

The International Violence against Women Survey (IVAWS) has interviewed over 23,000 women in eleven countries (including ...

Visa Policy within the European Union Structure

The book focuses on the common visa policy as a case study on the constitutional structure of the European Union. After introducing ...

Volcanic Unrest : From Science to Society

Volcanic unrest is a complex multi-hazard phenomenon. The fact that unrest may, or may not lead to an imminent eruption contributes ...

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