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Shadow Sovereigns

Author : Susan George
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745697836
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Shadow Sovereigns written by Susan George and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lobbying has long been part of the political landscape. But in recent years links between big business and government have become stronger and more far-reaching than ever. Global corporations now demand control over decisions affecting labour laws, finance, public health, food and agriculture, safety regulations, taxes and international trade and investment. They even claim the right to private tribunals where they can sue governments for passing laws that could harm their present or future profits. These business elites dont want to govern directly. They operate behind the scenes - directing planning, setting standards and fashioning government to maximise their own profits. Thanks to the UN Global Compact they have extended their influence to the highest levels of multilateral decision-making and now, via the Davos-inspired Global Redesign Initiative, they are setting their sights on managing world-wide public policy. Elected by and accountable to no one, secretive and highly organized, these shadow sovereigns are destroying the very notion of the common good and making a mockery of democracy. It is high time we challenged this assault on our rights and our institutions. In this incisive and clear-sighted book Susan George provides us with the practical knowledge to do just that.

Fires of Gold

Author : Lauren Coyle Rosen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520974735
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Fires of Gold written by Lauren Coyle Rosen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fires of Gold is a powerful ethnography of the often shrouded cultural, legal, political, and spiritual forces governing the gold mining industry in Ghana, one of Africa’s most celebrated democracies. Lauren Coyle Rosen argues that significant sources of power have arisen outside of the formal legal system to police, adjudicate, and navigate conflict in this theater of violence, destruction, and rebirth. These authorities, or shadow sovereigns, include the transnational mining company, collectivized artisanal miners, civil society advocacy groups, and significant religious figures and spiritual forces from African, Islamic, and Christian traditions. Often more salient than official bodies of government, the shadow sovereigns reveal a reconstitution of sovereign power—one that, in many ways, is generated by hidden dimensions of the legal system. Coyle Rosen also contends that spiritual forces are central in anchoring and animating shadow sovereigns as well as key forms of legal authority, economic value, and political contestation. This innovative book illuminates how the crucible of gold, itself governed by spirits, serves as a critical site for embodied struggles over the realignment of the classical philosophical triad: the city, the soul, and the sacred.

Shadow Sovereign Ratings for Unrated Developing Countries

Author : Dilip Ratha
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadow Sovereign Ratings for Unrated Developing Countries written by Dilip Ratha and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors attempt to predict sovereign ratings for developing countries that do not have risk ratings from agencies such as Fitch, Moody's, and Standard and Poor's. Ratings affect capital flows to developing countries through international bond, loan and equity markets. Sovereign rating also acts as a ceiling for the foreign currency rating of sub-sovereign borrowers. As of the end of 2006, however, only 86 developing countries have been rated by the rating agencies. Of these, 15 countries have not been rated since 2004. Nearly 70 developing countries have never been rated. The results indicate that the unrated countries are not always at the bottom of the rating spectrum. Several unrated poor countries appear to have a 'B' or higher rating, in a similar range as the emerging market economies with capital market access. Drawing on the literature, the analysis presents a stylized relationship between borrowing costs and the credit rating of sovereign bonds. The launch spread rises as the credit rating deteriorates, registering a sharp rise at the investment grade threshold. Based on these findings, a case can be made in favor of helping poor countries obtain credit ratings not only for sovereign borrowing, but for sub-sovereign entities' access to international debt and equity capital. The rating model along with the stylized relationship between spreads and ratings can be useful for securitization and other financial structures, and for leveraging official aid, for improving borrowing terms in poor countries.

Peerless Sword Sovereign

Author : Hun ShiXiaoMoWang
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 1636666655
Total Pages : 877 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Peerless Sword Sovereign written by Hun ShiXiaoMoWang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 877 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Su Yang was originally the Su Family's lowest-ranked outer disciple. But due to a stroke of luck, nine Primordial Devil Swords appeared within his body. With the help of these nine demon swords, Su Yang's strength had advanced by leaps and bounds. His way of the sword was clear, he had embarked on a legendary path of martial arts!

Democracy May Not Exist, But We'll Miss It When It's Gone

Author : Astra Taylor
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1250179858
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Democracy May Not Exist, But We'll Miss It When It's Gone written by Astra Taylor and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is democracy really? What do we mean when we use the term? And can it ever truly exist?Astra Taylor, hailed as a “New Civil Rights Leader” by the Los Angeles Times, provides surprising answers. There is no shortage of democracy, at least in name, and yet it is in crisis everywhere we look. From a cabal of plutocrats in the White House to gerrymandering and dark-money compaign contributions, it is clear that the principle of government by and for the people is not living up to its promise. The problems lie deeper than any one election cycle. As Astra Taylor demonstrates, real democracy—fully inclusive and completely egalitarian—has in fact never existed. In a tone that is both philosophical and anecdotal, weaving together history, theory, the stories of individuals, and interviews with such leading thinkers as Cornel West and Wendy Brown, Taylor invites us to reexamine the term. Is democracy a means or an end, a process or a set of desired outcomes? What if those outcomes, whatever they may be—peace, prosperity, equality, liberty, an engaged citizenry—can be achieved by non-democratic means? In what areas of life should democratic principles apply? If democracy means rule by the people, what does it mean to rule and who counts as the people? Democracy's inherent paradoxes often go unnamed and unrecognized. Exploring such questions, Democracy May Not Exist offers a better understanding of what is possible, what we want, why democracy is so hard to realize, and why it is worth striving for.

Corporate Social Responsibility?

Author : Charlotte Walker-Said
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022624430X
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Corporate Social Responsibility? written by Charlotte Walker-Said and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a series of economic and political strategies that are currently shifting the focus of international human rights activism and signalling the rise of new forms of global governance. In as much as the work demonstrates the limitations of CSR and offers a critical perspective on corporate techniques of market domination, it also posits a future for CSR within the human rights movement.

Cultural Sovereignty beyond the Modern State

Author : Gregor Feindt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110679256
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Sovereignty beyond the Modern State written by Gregor Feindt and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past 25 years or more, political observers have diagnosed a crisis of the sovereign nation state and the erosion of state sovereignty through supranational institutions and the global mobility of capital, goods, information and labour. This edition of the European History Yearbook seeks to use "cultural sovereignty" as a heuristic concept to provide new views on these developments since the beginning of the 20th century.

Sovereigns

Author : C. E. Page
Publisher : Enchanted Castle Press
ISBN 13 : 0992554896
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Sovereigns written by C. E. Page and published by Enchanted Castle Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The barrier has been torn asunder. Now they must find the seat of the Sovereigns’ power before the mortal realm and the Between collide, altering the fabric of the know realms forever. Under the Usurper’s influence, Leon has left nothing but destruction and undead in his wake. A chilling reminder of the future the world will face if Nea and Garret cannot find the Thrones of Eternity before the Usurper does. Hunting for clues to the thrones’ whereabouts, Nea races to the enchanted isle of Quel’sapar. But with the death ward now linking her keen to Garret’s, the itchy stirrings of his corruption could prove a fatal distraction. The hunt leads them deep into the mountains of the Spine where they will finally face down the Usurper and learn that to liberate the Sovereigns, one of them will have to sacrifice everything.

Shadow Libraries

Author : Joe Karaganis
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262535017
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Shadow Libraries written by Joe Karaganis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How students get the materials they need as opportunities for higher education expand but funding shrinks. From the top down, Shadow Libraries explores the institutions that shape the provision of educational materials, from the formal sector of universities and publishers to the broadly informal ones organized by faculty, copy shops, student unions, and students themselves. It looks at the history of policy battles over access to education in the post–World War II era and at the narrower versions that have played out in relation to research and textbooks, from library policies to book subsidies to, more recently, the several “open” publication models that have emerged in the higher education sector. From the bottom up, Shadow Libraries explores how, simply, students get the materials they need. It maps the ubiquitous practice of photocopying and what are—in many cases—the more marginal ones of buying books, visiting libraries, and downloading from unauthorized sources. It looks at the informal networks that emerge in many contexts to share materials, from face-to-face student networks to Facebook groups, and at the processes that lead to the consolidation of some of those efforts into more organized archives that circulate offline and sometimes online— the shadow libraries of the title. If Alexandra Elbakyan's Sci-Hub is the largest of these efforts to date, the more characteristic part of her story is the prologue: the personal struggle to participate in global scientific and educational communities, and the recourse to a wide array of ad hoc strategies and networks when formal, authorized means are lacking. If Elbakyan's story has struck a chord, it is in part because it brings this contradiction in the academic project into sharp relief—universalist in principle and unequal in practice. Shadow Libraries is a study of that tension in the digital era. Contributors Balázs Bodó, Laura Czerniewicz, Miroslaw Filiciak, Mariana Fossatti, Jorge Gemetto, Eve Gray, Evelin Heidel, Joe Karaganis, Lawrence Liang, Pedro Mizukami, Jhessica Reia, Alek Tarkowski

Geopolitical Transformations in Higher Education

Author : Marcelo Parreira do Amaral
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030944158
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Geopolitical Transformations in Higher Education written by Marcelo Parreira do Amaral and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the central role education and research play in generating both value and comparative advantages in the (imageries of) global competition, competitiveness and transnational value chains. They are seen as assets placed at the forefront of developments that are arguably reshaping individuals, society and economy. This edited volume explores these developments in terms of changing relations between society, economy, science and individuals. The idea that we live in global knowledge societies and knowledge-based economies or that present-day productive systems constitute an industry 4.0 have gained currency as descriptions of contemporary society that are said to bear direct and indirect consequences for political, economic, and social orders. In this context, innovation, science and education are central themes in contemporary discussions about the future of modern societies. Innovation is enthusiastically embraced as the panacea for all sorts of societal issues of our times; science is equally deemed to play a decisive role in solving current problems and in heralding a bright future with more wealth and more welfare for all citizens; education is conferred the task to producing individuals equipped with both skills and competences considered key to innovation but also displaying the attitudes and dispositions that will secure continuous innovation and economic growth.

Sovereignty at the Edge

Author : Cathryn H. Clayton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674035454
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Sovereignty at the Edge written by Cathryn H. Clayton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Sort-of Sovereignties -- Outlaw Tales -- The Nonexistent Macanese -- Educating Locals -- Culture in Ruins -- The Rubbish Heap of History -- Outlawed Tales -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary of Cantonese Characters -- Works Cited -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.

Green Dragon in Another World

Author : Liu DongDeXue
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 164897144X
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book Green Dragon in Another World written by Liu DongDeXue and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third young master of the Divine Sword Villa had reincarnated into the useless third son of the Long family. Furthermore, he wanted to see how the Soaring Dragon had managed to survive in this foreign world. Thanks for everyone's support. We're cheering for you today. The group number is 81332675. 

The New Pirates

Author : Andrew Palmer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857734938
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book The New Pirates written by Andrew Palmer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piracy is a significant global threat to international sea-borne trade - the life-blood of modern industrial economies and vital for world economic survival. The pirates of today are constantly in the world's news media, preying on private and merchant shipping from small, high-speed vessels. Andrew Palmer here provides the historical background to the new piracy, its impact on the shipping and insurance industries and also considers the role of international bodies like the UN and the International Maritime Bureau, international law and the development of advanced naval and military measures. He shows how this 'new' piracy is rooted in the geopolitics and socio-economic conditions of the late-20th century where populations live on the margins and where weak or 'failed states' can encourage criminal activity and even international terrorism. Somalia is considered to be the nest of piracy, but hotspots include not only the Red Sea region, but also the whole Indian Ocean, West Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia and the South China Seas.

Opium’s Long Shadow

Author : Steffen Rimner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674916212
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Opium’s Long Shadow written by Steffen Rimner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1920 the League of Nations Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs captured eight decades of political turmoil over opium trafficking. Steffen Rimner shows how local protests crossed imperial, national, and colonial boundaries to harness naming and shaming in international politics—a deterrent that continues today.

Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict

Author : Janie Leatherman
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745641873
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict written by Janie Leatherman and published by Polity. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the causes and consequences of, as well as responses to, sexual violence in contemporary armed conflict. It explores the functions and effects of wartime sexual violence as part of a global political economy of violence. To understand the motivations of the men (and occasionally women) who perpetrate this violence, the book analyzes the role played by systemic and situational factors such as patriarchy and militarized masculinity in a tangled web of plunder and profit. Difficult questions of accountability are tacked; in particular, the caes of child soldiers, who often suffer a double victimization when forced to commit sexual atrocities and other crimes.

The International Law of Sovereign Debt Dispute Settlement

Author : Kei Nakajima
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009250035
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The International Law of Sovereign Debt Dispute Settlement written by Kei Nakajima and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first two decades of the twenty-first century witnessed a series of large-scale sovereign defaults and debt restructurings, in which sovereigns struggled to negotiate with recalcitrant bondholders, particularly hedge funds. Also, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 heralded a bleak financial outlook for many developing and emerging market countries, requiring sovereign debt restructuring in times of great macroeconomic uncertainty. Given the absence of a multilateral mechanism for sovereign debt restructuring equivalent to domestic corporate bankruptcy system, however, defaulted sovereigns often suffer from holdout litigation wrought by bondholders. This book proposes ways in which such legal actions could be regulated without the undue expense of bondholders' remedies by exploring the mechanism of balancing bondholder protection and respect for sovereign debt restructuring at various stages of litigation and arbitration proceedings.

European Union Foreign Policy in a Changing World

Author : Karen E. Smith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745658172
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book European Union Foreign Policy in a Changing World written by Karen E. Smith and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of European Union Foreign Policy in a Changing World provides a clear introduction to the complexities of contemporary European foreign policy and offers a fresh and distinctive perspective on the nature of the EU’s international identity. Thoroughly revised and expanded, the book explores how and why the EU tries to achieve five core foreign policy objectives: the encouragement of regional cooperation; the advancement of human rights; the promotion of democracy and good governance; the prevention of violent conflicts; and the fight against international crime, including terrorism. In pursuing these goals, the book illustrates how the EU is faced with acute policy dilemmas because the five objectives not only clash with each other, but also with additional policy priorities – such as securing energy supplies or establishing strategic partnerships with key powers. The uniqueness of the EU as a global actor is carefully assessed, and its key policies and the related dilemmas it faces compared with those of other international actors. This well-written and thoroughly researched book will be a valuable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of European politics, foreign policy analysis, international relations and related disciplines.