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SEXED PISTOLS THE GENDERED IMPACT

Sexed Pistols

The Gendered Impacts of Small Arms & Light Weapons

12 Nov 2009
Due to widespread availability, mobility and ease of use prolific small arms and light weapons (SALW) have become central to maintaining social dislocation, destabilization, insecurity and crime in the build-up to war, in wartime and in the aftermath of violent conflict. The book draws on experie...
ENVISIONING REFORM ENHANCING ACC

Envisioning Reform

Enhancing UN Accountability in the Twenty-first Century

27 Oct 2009
The term accountability is increasingly heard at the United Nations. More than six decades after the Organization’s founding, people continue to ask exactly how the UN is accountable for what it does, and many agree that enhanced UN accountability is a prerequisite for its effectiveness in global...
WHICH WAY LATIN AMERICA?

Which Way Latin America? Hemispheric Politics Meets Globalization

31 Oct 2009
In this book, some of the world’s leading Latin Americanists explore the ways in which the region has re-engaged globalization. At the time when a new administration in the United States is shifting gears in foreign policy, and the global crisis is leading many to question the very survival of ca...
VULNERABILITY DEV CTRIES 2009

Vulnerability in Developing Countries

19 Oct 2009
Vulnerability has become the defining challenge of our times. More than one billion people worldwide live in extreme poverty. The need to better understand vulnerability is pressing, particularly in the case of developing countries where bulwarks against risks can be in short supply. This volume ...
HEADS UP EARLY WARNING SYSTEM

HEADS UP!

Early Warning Systems For Climate-, Water- and Weather-related Hazards

13 Jun 2009
Heads Up! provides a useful review of early warning systems in operation today, while exploring a range of hazards including hurricanes, heat waves, floods, droughts, tsunami and volcanoes. With contributions from an international team of scientists, this practical handbook serves as a valuable c...
HUMAN INSECURITY IN EAST ASIA

Human Insecurity in East Asia

27 Jun 2009
Threats to human security do not necessarily take cataclysmic forms such as war or natural disaster. Nor does human insecurity exist solely within a suspended living environment like refugee camps. Often threats to human security are as subtle as a slow-rising tide, whose calamitous nature remain...
UN & NUCLEAR ORDERS

The United Nations and Nuclear Orders

27 Jun 2009
This book brings a world-class team of authors to examine United Nations actors, tools, and issues associated with the changing nature of the environment in which it operates; the ways in which it has responded and might respond to technological and political problems; and the questions and diffi...
RISE OF BILATERALISM

Rise of Bilateralism, The

Comparing American, European and Asian Approaches to Preferential Trade Agreements

13 Jun 2009
As multilateral negotiations become increasingly complex and protracted, preferential trade agreements have become the centrepiece of trade diplomacy, pushing beyond tariffs into deep integration and beyond regionalism into a web of bilateral deals, raising concerns about coercion by bigger playe...
WORLD RELIGIONS & NORMS OF WAR

World Religions and Norms of War

3 Mar 2009
Over more than two millennia, the world’s leading religious traditions have provided the guidance in questions of when war can be justified, and of what methods and targets are permissible in war. Linking deep historical analysis to contemporary issues, this volume provides valuable insight, and ...
SAVING THE AYUQUILA RIVER (DVD)

Saving the Ayuquila River

7 Jan 2009
This is the story of the Ayuquila River and the people who depend on it for their survival and prosperity. Since ancient times, communities along the river have survived on fishing and subsistence farming. With the construction of large dams and irrigation systems, the Ayuquila River valley becam...
VOICES OF THE CHICHINAUTZIN (DVD)

Voices of the Chichinautzin

15 Dec 2008
This award winning film is part of a series of documentaries that tackle complex social and environmental issues in Latin America. The documentary follows events related to the infamous 1995 Golf War, when the inhabitants of Mexico’s Chichinautzin Biological Corridor joined forces to prevent the ...
WISDOM YEARS AGEING INTO (DVD)

Wisdom Years, The

Ageing into the 21st Century

15 Dec 2008
In Japan, one of the richest, most technological and urbanized countries in the world, more than 20% of the population is now over 65. It is at the forefront of a global ageing trend that has serious consequences for our economy and society. The Wisdom Years documentary offers a glimpse into the ...
FULL PARTICIPATION A COMPAR

Full Participation

A Comparative Study of Compulsory Voting

26 Feb 2009
Full Participation is the first book-length study of compulsory voting to be published in the English language. About a quarter of all democracies in the contemporary world legally oblige their citizens to vote, making this an important aspect of electoral systems in many settings. The study syst...
POLITICAL INTERESTS GENDER REVISIT

The Political Interests of Gender Revisited

Redoing Theory and Research with a Feminist Face

4 Feb 2009
This unique collection of theoretical and empirical research on gender and politics assembles contributions from an impressive group of international scholars providing varied accounts of the political interests of gender. It illustrates concretely how to bridge the gap between discursive and soc...
PROTRACTED REFUGEE SITUATIONS

Protracted Refugee Situations

Political, Human Rights and Security Implications

19 Jan 2009
Over two-thirds of the world’s refugees are trapped in protracted refugee situations, struggling to survive in remote and insecure parts of the world. This volume, bringing together a collection of eminent scholars and practitioners, presents a range of analyses and cases of protracted refugee si...
WTO & GLOBAL GOVERNANCE FUTURE

WTO and Global Governance, The

Future Directions

12 Jan 2009
This book contains a variety of views of prominent people – all influential in their respective areas of international affairs – as to the proper role of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in global governance. It explores the policy implications of WTO trade related issues that overlap with othe...
CURRENCY TRANSACTION TAX RATE

The Currency Transaction Tax

Rate and Revenue Estimates

16 Jan 2009
The Currency Transaction Tax (CTT) is emerging as a leading new financial instrument for government seeking to raise large amounts of global, independent, and stable monies for international development and projects addressing global issues such as public health and climate change. The publicatio...
POLITICAL PARTIES CONFLICT PRONE

Political Parties in Conflict-prone Societies

Regulation, Engineering and Democratic Development

15 Oct 2008
Today many developing democracies seek to shape the development of political parties and party systems by regulating the way parties can form, organize and behave. Most of these ambitious initiatives and innovations emanate from new democracies rather than established Western examples. This volum...
MAKING CHOICES ABOUT HYDROGEN

Making Choices about Hydrogen

Transport Issues for Developing Countries

23 Sep 2008
Since the mid-1990s, the emergence of hydrogen economy and the speed with which it will arrive have been vigorously debated. As a disruptive technology, dominant designs for the production, storage and distribution of hydrogen have not yet been established. Not have performance characteristics be...
INSTITUTIONALIZING NORTHEAST ASIA

Institutionalizing Northeast Asia

Regional Steps towards Global Governance

12 Nov 2008
Globalization and China’s galloping economy have caused radically different economic growth rates, resulting in constant fluctuations in the balance of power among the nations of Northeast Asia. This publication advances the notion of regional institutionalism as a counterweight to the principle ...
NO ENTRY WITHOUT STRATEGY

No Entry Without Strategy

Building the Rule of Law under UN Transitional Administration

9 May 2008
For international actors seeking to consolidate peace and democracy in disrupted states, the importance of establishing the rule of law is now well-recognized. UN peace operations have struggled to ensure lasting security against violence and to build legitimate structures to redress disputes pea...
NATL INTEREST & INTL SOLIDARITY

National Interest and International Solidarity

Particular and Universal Ethics in International Life

12 Feb 2008
Taking as its point of departure the perennial tension between particular and universal ethics in international society, this book seeks to explore and understand the motivations of actors in different international contexts where national interests and solidarity concerns intersect. Focusing on...
INTL WATER SECURITY DOMESTIC

International Water Security

Domestic Threats and Opportunities

13 May 2008
Water is essential for all aspects of life. Managing water is a challenging task, particularly in shared water basins that host more than half of the world’s population. This book explores threats and opportunities through the presentation of case studies that analyze the multi-faceted and dynami...
CLIMATE CHANGE IN ASIA PERSP

Climate Change in Asia

Perspectives on the Future Climate Regime

11 Aug 2008
This publication addresses climate change issues, national circumstances that impede countries from fully participating in the international debate and elements of a plausible climate regime from an As! ian pers pective. It identifies the institutional dimensions of climate change and, importantl...
INSTITUTIONAL INTERPLAY BIOSAFETY

Institutional Interplay

Biosafety and Trade

7 Apr 2008
International institutions and the consequences of their interplay are emerging as a major agenda item for research and policy. As governments enter into an ever-increasing number of international agreements, questions arise about the overlap of issues, jurisdiction and membership. Of particular ...
INTERLINKAGE & EFFECTIVE MULTI

Interlinkages and the Effectiveness of Multilateral Environmental Agreements

8 Apr 2008
In recent years there has been growing awareness that a major reason for the worsening global environment is the failure to create adequate institutional responses to fully address the scope, magnitude and complexity of environmental problems. Much of the criticism directed at the global institut...
INSTITUTION CHANGE & ECON DEV

Institutional Change and Economic Development

11 Jan 2008
The issue of institutional development has come to prominence during the last decade or so. During this period, even the IMF and the World Bank, which used to treat institutions as mere 'details', have come to emphasize their role in economic development. However, there are still some important k...
TRAFFICKING IN HUMANS

Trafficking in Humans

Social, Cultural and Political Dimensions

12 Feb 2008
This volume aims to deepen understanding of the social, economic and political contexts of human trafficking. Upon this basis, the volume considers whether an understanding of these underlying factors can inform policy discussion as well as strategic interventions regarding the fight against traf...
RECONSTITUTING KOREAN SECURITY

Reconstituting Korean Security

A Policy Primer

19 Oct 2007
The classic national security concerns of nuclear proliferation and the production, sale and use of weapons of mass destruction cannot be addressed in the Korean peninsula without at the same time considering the implications and interrelationship of what are these days known as the human securit...