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This book challenges current views of what it means to be a citizen by focusing on displacement and experiences of space as a political concept. Developing the concept of `political space¿, the author analyses how historical processes shape spatial arrangements, informing the identities and political subjectivity available to people. Using Bangladesh as a case study for camp and non-camp based displacement, the book argues that concepts of cit...

The book sets out how a coastal state under international law could regulate international shipping where vessels pose a significant risk to their coastal and marine environment. The book argues that the use of of the precautionary principle would allow states to intervene where they consider vessels to be an unacceptable risk to the environment, in order to prevent or minimise the risk of occurrence of an accident or incident leading to envir...

History reveals how civilisations can be decimated by changes in climate. More recently modern methods of warfare have exposed the vulnerability of the artefacts of civilisation. Bringing together a range of subjects - from science, energy and sustainability to aesthetics theory and civilization theory - this book uniquely deals with climate change and the ensuing catastrophes in relation to cultural factors, urbanism and architecture. It link...

This book reappraises the existing framework for the economic analysis of corporate law, based on three categories of private benefits of control. Analyzed in the US, UK, Italy, Sweden, and the Netherlands, these benefits of control include the distribution of corporate powers, self-dealing, and takeover regulation. Not only does this approach to corporate law explain separation of ownership and control better than investor protection alone, i...

Though development researchers have proven that the participation of women is necessary for effective sustainable development, development practitioners still largely lack culturally appropriate, gender-sensitive tools for including women, especially women living in poverty. Current tools used in the development approach often favour the skill set of the development practitioner and are a mismatch with the traditional, gendered knowledge and s...

In this collection, international contributors come together to discuss how qualitative and quantitative methods can be used in psychotherapy research. The book considers advantages and disadvantages of each approach as well as a recognition of how each method can enhance our understanding of psychotherapy.

This book considers the issue of self-determination in the present day where some minority groups have asserted their rights to external self-determination, only to find themselves rebuffed by the world community, while other minority groups have found strong support in the eyes of external actors and have garnered sufficient international recognition to be allowed to separate. The book asks what is so unique about some minority groups and abo...

This book gives a theoretical and practical demonstration of how ethics and technical considerations can aid the development of sustainability indexes to overcome the division in the literature and in aid sustainability initiatives. Guidelines for index development are combined with a pragmatic theory of ethics that enables ethical collaboration among people of diverse ethical systems. Using the resulting method of index development, the book ...

This book explores the ways in which political parties in contemporary parliamentary democracies, choose their leaders and hold them accountable in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Norway and the United Kingdom.

In this book, Peter Shoenberg, Jessica Yakeley, and their contributors discuss two different teaching approaches developed at University College London to help medical students understand the role of emotions in illness, communicate more effectively, and gain a deeper understanding of the doctor patient relationship. The benefits of Wolf and Treadgold¿s Student Psychotherapy Scheme are considered alongside Schoenberg and Suckling¿s Balint Sche...

Drawing out the complex relationship between domestic, Arctic, international and transnational Inuit politics, this book is the first in-depth account of the political history of the ICC. It recognises the politics of Inuit and the Arctic as longstanding and intricate elements of international relations. Beginning with European exploration of the region and concluding with recent debates over ownership of the Arctic, the book unfolds the histo...

This book analyses the status and prospects of the global governance of Access Benefit Sharing (ABS) in the aftermath of 2010¿s Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The collection offers a central resource regarding ABS governance for those working on and interested in global environmental governance.

This book analyses the present European Union (EU) approach to state-building, both in policy and operation. It offers a review of the literature on peace-building, EU state-building and conflict resolution, before examining in detail the EU¿s role as a state-builder in the case of the Occupied Palestinian Territories following the 1993 Oslo Accords.

By presenting a new interpretation of Rabindranath Tagore¿s English language writings, this book places the work of Indiäs greatest Nobel Prize winner and cultural icon in the context of imperial history and thereby bridges the gap between Tagore studies and imperial/postcolonial historiography.

This volume examines the impact of membership of the EU on Portugal over the last 25 years, it explores the adjustments and transformations that have taken place in the Portuguese society, politics and economics as well as its international relations.

In recent years, the failure of the constitutional process, the difficult ratification and implementation of the Lisbon Treaty, as well as the several crises affecting Europe have revitalized the debate on the nature of the European polity and the balance of powers in Brussels. This book explains the redistribution of power in the post-Lisbon EU with a focus on the European Council.

This book charts the framework and political evolution of the Kyoto Protocol negotiations and examines the ensuing failure of the international community to adequately address climate change. The focus is not on the science or consequences of climate change but on the political gamesmanship of the major players throughout the UNFCCC negotiation process.

After decades of turmoil and trauma, the Brezhnev era brought stability and an unprecedented rise in living standards to the Soviet Union, enabling ordinary people to enjoy modern consumer goods on an entirely new scale. This book analyses the politics and economics of the state¿s efforts to improve living standards, and shows how mass consumption was often used as an instrument of legitimacy, ideology and modernization. However, the resulting...

The principal processes involved in language production and communication are explored in depth, and their effects on all main social psychological phenomena revealed.

J. L. Moreno, M.D., is recognized as the originator of sociometry and psychodrama, and was a prodigious creator of methods and theories of creativity, society, and human behavior. The methods and techniques he authored have been widely adopted, the theories and philosophy upon which the methods are founded have not. This book outlines Morenös early years (his religious phase), the philosophy on which the foundation of his methods are based, an...