Ethnic minority communities make claims for cultural rights from states in different ways depending on how governments include them in policies and practices of accommodation or assimilation. However, institutional explanations don t tell the whole story, as individuals and communities also protest, using emotionally compelling narratives about past wrongs to justify their claims for new rights protections. "
Democratization and Memories of Violence: Ethnic minority rights movements in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador "examines how ethnic minority communities use memories of state and...
Ethnic minority communities make claims for cultural rights from states in different ways depending on how governments include them in policies and...
Humanitarianism as a moral concept and an organized practice has become a major factor in world society. It channels an enormous amount of resources and serves as an argument for different kinds of interference into the "internal affairs" of countries and regions. At the same time, and for these very reasons, it is an ideal testing ground for successful and unsuccessful cooperation across borders.
Humanitarianism and the Challenges of Cooperation examines the multiple humanitarianisms of today as a testing ground for new ways of global cooperation. General trends in the...
Humanitarianism as a moral concept and an organized practice has become a major factor in world society. It channels an enormous amount of resource...
This book focuses on the contribution of Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) to social theory and a theory of cooperation. It shows that Mauss s essay "The Gift" (1925) can be seen as a classic of a pragmatist, interactionist and anti-utilitarian sociology. It critiques the dichotomy of self-interest and normatively orientated action that forms the basis of sociology. This conceptual dichotomization has caused forms of social interaction (that cannot be localized either on the side of self-interest or on that of morality) to be overlooked or taken little notice of. The book argues that it is the...
This book focuses on the contribution of Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) to social theory and a theory of cooperation. It shows that Mauss s essay "The Gi...
Whereas Area Studies and cross-border cooperation research conventionally demarcates groups of people by geographical boundaries, individuals might in fact feel more connected by shared values and principles than by conventional spatial dimensions. Knowledge Production, Area Studies and Global Cooperation asks what norms and principles lead to the creation of knowledge about cross-border cooperation and connection. It studies why theories, methods, and concepts originate in one place rather than another, how they travel, and what position the scholar adopts while doing research,...
Whereas Area Studies and cross-border cooperation research conventionally demarcates groups of people by geographical boundaries, individuals might...
Fundamental to international relations is the study of cooperation and communication between states, but as yet there has been little attention paid to the role which translation plays in political interactions. Translation in World Politics brings together analysis from across the fields of politics, international relations, policy, area studies and development studies to explore how our the concept of translation can be reconfigured to enhance our understanding of cooperation in global politics.
Beginning with how different disciplines theorise notions of translation, the...
Fundamental to international relations is the study of cooperation and communication between states, but as yet there has been little attention pai...
The current international investment law (IIL) system is insufficiently compatible with sustainable development (SD). To better address SD concerns associated with transnational investment activities, international investment agreements (IIAs) should be made more compatible with SD.
Integrating Sustainable Development in International Investment Law presents an exclusive and systematic study of the issue of SD in IIL, exploring the challenges and possible ways to make IIL more SD compatible from conceptual, normative and governance perspectives. Chi further suggests that to...
The current international investment law (IIL) system is insufficiently compatible with sustainable development (SD). To better address SD concerns...
