Drawing on extensive empirical studies of firms and industries around the world, this book presents a rich menu of development pathways, including a new role by a Schumpeterian state to initiate detours and leapfrogging in not only manufacturing but also resource or IT- service sectors
The effective implementation of treaties is essential. This book examines the advantages of non-compliance mechanisms (NCMs) versus that of international courts and tribunals to support treaty fulfilment. It brings together globally-recognised names in international law, human rights law, environmental and climate change law, and trade law.
This volume is a call to embrace the power of positionality, telling a new history of law and society through the experiences of successful scholars from populations that academia has historically marginalized. Experts record their positionalities across their research and document what they learned about the law in the process.
This interdisciplinary collection studies the Internet's effects on traditional media. Part 1 deals with the breakdown of trust in the media; Part 2 outlines the changing law of defamation and privacy; Part 3 analyzes the challenge of online content moderation; and Part 4 considers the financial challenges facing journalistic enterprises
Challenging common portrayals of Japan as a centuries-old whaling nation, Fynn Holm shows that many coastal communities in early modern Northeast Japan believed whales to be the incarnation of the god of the sea that brought fish to the shore, leading to violent anti-whaling protests that shocked the country
Kilian Schindler examines how playwrights such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe represented religious dissimulation on stage and argues that debates about the legitimacy of dissembling one's faith were closely bound up with early modern conceptions of theatricality. Considering both Catholic and Protestant perspectives on religious dissimulation in the absence of full…
With a range of interdisciplinary contributions and national and regional case studies, this collection offers a systematic, up-to-date evaluation of the debate relating to international trade law, policy, and gender equality. It analyses recent trade negotiations and agreements through a gender lens. Available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
An international team of leading scholars illustrate the necessity and advantages of reforming the English Literary Curriculum from specific decolonial perspectives in this book, using evidence-based arguments from classroom contexts, as well as establishing new critical agendas
This is a unique and accessible introduction to an underutilised source, Roman tokens, with a focus on those found in Imperial Italy. It explains how tokens can illuminate all kinds of issues such as identity, entertainment, euergetism, imperial ideology, festivals, material culture and everyday life
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