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UN Security Council Referrals to the International Criminal Court : Legal Nat…
This book offers a unique critical analysis of the legal nature, effects and limits of UN Security Council referrals to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Alexandre Skander Galand provides, for the first time, a full picture of two competing understandings of the nature of the Security Council referrals to the ICC, and their respective normative interplay with legal barriers to the exercis…
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Un piccolo esempio. La psicagogia matematica di Platone
‘Let me give you a simple example of what I mean, and you will see the rest for yourself.’ This is how Plato usually introduces mathematical examples to illustrate important philosophical puzzles. The research presented in this book offers a systematic analysis of these examples and demonstrates their crucial psychagogical function. Providing a toolkit of paradoxical objects that challenge …
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- '9789004701472
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- 224 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Brill's Plato Studies Series, Volume: 18
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Uma Politics : An Ethnography of Democratization in West Sumba, Indonesia, 19…
Democracy cannot be implemented overnight. Democratization is an often unpredictable process. This book concentrates on that political transformation in one of Indonesia’s most ‘traditional’ islands, Sumba. Why does democratization create such great opportunities for local politicians with their private agenda’s? Why does regional autonomy, as part of the national democratization progra…
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- '9789004253926
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- 296 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Volume: 260
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Up in Arms: Gun Imaginaries in Texas
Up in Arms provides an illustrative and timely window onto the ways in which guns shape people’s lives and social relations in Texas. With a long history of myth, lore, and imaginaries attached to gun carrying, the Lone Star State exemplifies how various groups of people at different historical moments make sense of gun culture in light of legislation, political agendas, and community buildin…
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- 9789004514676
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- 276 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- European Perspectives on the United States, Volume: 1
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Unraveling the Nagoya Protocol : A Commentary on the Nagoya Protocol on Acces…
The Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit-sharing is an international environmental agreement that concerns environmental sustainability, other sustainable development issues and equity. It addresses a complex subject matter that affects a range of research, development and commercial activities and is relevant to different areas of international law such as human rights, intellectual property …
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- 9789004514676
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- 444 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Legal Studies on Access and Benefit-sharing, Volume: 2
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Unlocking markets to smallholders : Lessons from South Africa
This book assesses the institutional, technical and market constraints as well as opportunities for smallholders, notably, emerging farmers in disadvantaged areas such as the former homelands of South Africa. Emerging farmers are previously disadvantaged black people who started or will start their business with the support of special government programs. Public support programs have been devel…
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- 9789086861682
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- 268 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Mansholt Publication series, Volume: 10
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Universal Śaivism : The Appeasement of All Gods and Powers in the Śāntyadh…
In Universal Śaivism Peter Bisschop provides a critical edition and annotated translation of the sixth chapter of the Śivadharmaśāstra `Treatise on the Religion of Śiva’, the so-called Śāntyadhyāya 'Chapter on Appeasement’. The Sanskrit text is preceded by an extensive introduction on its composition, transmission and edition. The Śivadharmaśāstra has arguably played a crucial r…
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- 9789004384361
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- 230 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Gonda Indological Studies, Volume: 18
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Unilateral Sanctions in International Law and the Enforcement of Human Rights…
The Open Access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Are unilateral economic sanctions legal under public international law? How do they relate to the existing international legal principles and norms? Can unilateral economic sanctions imposed to redress grave human rights violations be subjected to the same legal contestations …
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- 9789004507890
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- 380 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- World Trade Institute Advanced Studies, Volume: 9
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Vedic Cosmology and Ethics : Selected Studies
How did ‘Vedic man’ think about the destiny of man after death and related ethical issues? That heaven was the abode of the gods was undisputed, but was it also accessible to man in his pursuit of immortality? Was there a realm of the deceased or a hell? What terms were used to indicate these ‘yonder worlds’? What is their location in the cosmos and which cosmographic classifications ar…
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- 9789004400139
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- 184 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Gonda Indological Studies, Volume: 19
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Cooperatives in an Uncertain World : Perspectives from Switzerland and Its Ne…
The respective chapters cover topics such as cooperatives in Switzerland (historical roots, current landscape, embeddedness in profit/nonprofit organizations, participatory governance and legal aspects), grand societal challenges and cooperatives, and the future with and of cooperatives.
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