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In the Cause of Humanity is a major new history of the emergence of the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention during the nineteenth century when the question of whether, when and how the international community should react to violations of humanitarian norms and humanitarian crises first emerged as a key topic of controversy and debate. Fabian Klose investigates the emergence of legal debates on the protection of humanitarian norms by violent means, revealing how military intervention under the banner of humanitarianism became closely intertwined with imperial and colonial...

1. Finanzpolitik und offentliche Meinung Im Laufe der letzten Jahre hat sich in den Kreisen der politischen Publizisten, der Soziologen und Staatsrechtler, der Politiker und Mei nungsforscher eine recht lebhafte Diskussion daruber entwickelt, wie weit die Politik der offentlichen Meinung folgen durfe, oder, anders ausgedruckt, welche Art von "offentlicher Meinung" die politischen In stanzen zu beachten und zu horen hatten, um einerseits ihrer verantwor tungsvollen Aufgabe gerecht zu werden und ohne andererseits ihre Wurde 1 und Eigenstandigkeit zu verlieren ). Definiert man die "offentliche...

The Travaux Preparatoires of the Crime of Aggression contains a complete documentation of the fifteen years of negotiations which led up to the historic adoption of the amendments to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court at the 2010 Review Conference in Kampala. Arranged chronologically, it includes all relevant official Chairman's drafts, non-papers, country proposals, meeting reports and summary records, as well as selected unpublished materials and transcripts from the dramatic negotiations at the Review Conference. Three introductory articles, each written from the...

The phenomenon of language contact, and how it affects the structure of languages, has been of great interest to linguists in recent years. This pioneering new study looks at how grammatical forms and structures evolve when speakers of two languages come into contact, and offers insight into the mechanism that induces people to transfer grammatical structures from one language to another. The book will be of great interest to all working in grammaticalization, language contact, and language change.

The intent of this collection of original essays is to revitalize the study of kinship and exchange in a social network perspective. The collection combines studies of empirical systems of marriage and descent with investigations of the flow of material resources. This book marks the emergence of a new era in the study of kinship and exchange using a productive combination of ethnographic substance with formal methods, one which leaves behind older structural-functionalist and culturalist assumptions.