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Glocal Governance : How to Govern in the Anthropocene?
This open access book develops a conceptual framework for glocal governance as a multi-stakeholder local governance approach based on global human rights norms and democratic principles. It discusses glocal governance as part of an ongoing global transformation process that began in the 1990s, when democracy and individualizing responsibilities for governance became the dominant political syste…
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- 978-3-031-02108-4
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- X, 135
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- SpringerBriefs in Political Science (BRIEFSPOLITICAL)
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- 350 GLO
Political Islam and Religiously Motivated Political Extremism : An Internatio…
This open access book presents an international comparison of religiously motivated extremism in the Arab world and around the globe. Based on data from the Arab Barometer and the World Values Survey, it applies advanced statistical techniques to analyze how religiously motivated political extremism affects political and social outcomes as well as political violence. The study clearly shows tha…
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- 978-3-031-24854-2
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- XXIV, 88
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- SpringerBriefs in Political Science (BRIEFSPOLITICAL)
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- 320 TAU p
Social Determinants of Health in Non-communicable Diseases : Case Studies fro…
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. This open access book is the first compilation that reviews a wide range of social determinants of health (SDHs) for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and healthy ageing in Japan. With the highest life expectancy and the largest elderly population in the world, Japan has witnessed health inequality by region and social class becoming…
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- 978-981-15-1831-7
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- XI, 328
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- Springer Series on Epidemiology and Public Health (SSEH)
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- 362 SOC
Integrating the UN SDGs into WTO Law
This is an open access book. Sustainable development is so important that humanity must do its utmost to achieve these goals for the well-being of the present and future generations. WTO members have started to reform WTO rules since the WTO’s Buenos Aires Ministerial Conference in 2017. The book describes a possible bright future for readers: WTO members can integrate the UN SDGs into WTO la…
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- 978-3-031-73876-0
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- XVIII, 293
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- European Yearbook of International Economic Law (EUROYEAR, volume 41)
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- 340 ZHA i
Data Protection without Data Protectionism : The Right to Protection of Perso…
This open access book offers a new account on the legal conflict between privacy and trade in the digital sphere. It develops a fundamental rights theory with a new right to continuous protection of personal data and explores the room for the application of this new right in trade law. Replicable legal analysis and practical solutions show the way to deal with cross-border data flows without vi…
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- 978-3-031-19893-9
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- XVI, 431
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- European Yearbook of International Economic Law (EUROYEAR, volume 28)
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- 340 NAE d
Sustainable Commodity Use : Its Governance, Legal Framework, and Future Regul…
This open access book examines the governance and legal landscape of the global commodity sector. For that purpose, the author conceptualises both Global Commodity Governance (GCG) as well as Transnational Commodity Law (TCL). He defines the key terms of Global Commodity Governance, delineates the underlying legal framework of Transnational Commodity Law, and assesses the effectiveness of Trans…
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- 978-3-030-89496-2
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- XVII, 307
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- European Yearbook of International Economic Law (EUROYEAR, volume 21)
- Call Number
- 340 OEH s
Public Actors in International Investment Law
This open access book focuses on public actors with a role in the settlement of investment disputes. Traditional studies on actors in international investment law have tended to concentrate on arbitrators, claimant investors and respondent states. Yet this focus on the “principal” players in investment dispute settlement has allowed a number of other seminal actors to be neglected. This boo…
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- 978-3-030-58916-5
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- X, 199
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- European Yearbook of International Economic Law (EUROYEAR)
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- 340 PUB
Investor-State Dispute Settlement and National Courts : Current Framework and…
This open access book examines the multiple intersections between national and international courts in the field of investment protection, and suggests possible modes for regulating future jurisdictional interactions between domestic courts and international tribunals. The current system of foreign investment protection consists of more than 3,000 international investment agreements (IIAs), m…
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- 978-3-030-44164-7
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- X, 117
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- European Yearbook of International Economic Law (EUROYEAR)
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- 340 KAU i
From Bilateral Arbitral Tribunals and Investment Courts to a Multilateral Inv…
This open access book considers the potential setup for a future Multilateral Investment Court (MIC). The option of an MIC was first discussed by the EU Commission in 2016 and has since been made an official element of the EU Common Commercial Policy. In 2017, UNCITRAL also decided to discuss the possibility of an MIC, and on 20 March 2018, the Council of the EU gave the EU Commission the manda…
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- 978-3-662-59732-3
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- XIV, 222
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- European Yearbook of International Economic Law (EUROYEAR)
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- 340 BUN b
Monitoring State Compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child…
This open access book presents a discussion on human rights-based attributes for each article pertinent to the substantive rights of children, as defined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). It provides the reader with a unique and clear overview of the scope and core content of the articles, together with an analysis of the latest jurisprudence of the UN Committ…
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- 978-3-030-84647-3
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- XII, 435
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- Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research (CHIR, volume 25)
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- 370 MON
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