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The Norwegian Exception?

Norway's liberal democracy since 1814

How did Norway become a highly successful liberal democracy? Will its prosperity and stability last, or has modern history been an exception? Is the Norwegian experience based on luck, or has a part been played by clever politicians and sound institutions, including a well-functioning rule ...

Transforming the war on drugs

warriors, victims and vulnerable regions

The war on drugs has failed, but consensus in the international drug policy debate on the way forward is missing. Amidst this moment of uncertainty, militarised lenses on the global illicit drug problem continue to neglect the complexity of the causes and consequences that this ...

Criminal contagion

how mafias, gangsters and scammers profit from a pandemic

Covid-19 is reshaping and challenging governments, societies and economies in previously unimaginable ways--but gangsters and profiteers have adapted. They have found new routes for illegal commodities, from narcotics to people. Shortages, lockdowns and public attitudes have brought the underworld and upperworld closer together, as criminals ...

Lithium

the global race for battery dominance and the new energy revolution

A global energy revolution is unfolding before our eyes: ever-growing numbers of electric vehicles on our roads, laptops that last all day on a single charge and solar panels on our roofs, all reliant on lithium-ion batteries. This revolution is happening at breath-taking speed, with ...

Great power politics in the fourth Industrial Revolution

the geoeconomics of technological sovereignty

Why and how will the fourth industrial revolution impact great power politics? Here, Glenn Diesen utilizes a neoclassical, global approach to great power politics to assess how far the development of AI, national and localized technological ecosystems and cyber-warfare will affect great power politics in ...

A world history of war crimes

from antiquity to the present

The greatly expanded and enhanced 2nd edition of A World History of War Crimes provides an authoritative and accessible introduction to the global history of war crimes and the laws of war. Tracing human efforts to limit warfare, from codes of war in antiquity designed ...

Exhuming Franco

Spain's second Transition

What is left of Francisco Franco's legacy in Spain today? Franco ruled Spain as a military dictator from 1939 until his death in 1975. In October 2019, his remains were removed from the massive national monument in which they had been buried for forty-four ...

Crimedotcom

from viruses to vote rigging, how hacking went global

On May 4, 2000, an email that read "kindly check the attached LOVELETTER" was sent from a computer in the Philippines. Attached was a virus, the Love Bug, and within days it had been circulated across the globe, paralyzing banks, broadcasters, and businesses in its ...

Daniel Webster and the unfinished Constitution

Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution reveals Webster as the foremost constitutional lawyer of his day. Peter Charles Hoffer builds a persuasive case that Webster was more than a skilled practitioner who rose rapidly from his hardscrabble New Hampshire origins. Hoffer thoroughly documents the ways ...

Dangerous opportunities

the future of financial institutions, housing policy, and governance

The 2017 Home Capital saga represents the shortcomings of a financial system challenged by distinct, siloed regulatory frameworks that fail to communicate with each other. Home Capital is a publicly traded company that acts as a lender through the Home Trust Company, most often providing ...

Global China

assessing China's growing role in the world

In 2005, a senior official in the George W. Bush administration expressed the hope that China would emerge as a 'responsible stakeholder' on the world stage. A dozen years later, the Trump administration dramatically shifted course, instead calling China a 'strategic competitor' whose actions routinely ...

The future of digital surveillance

why digital monitoring will never lose its appeal in a world of algorithm-driven AI

Are humans hard-wired to make good decisions about managing their privacy in an increasingly public world? Or are we helpless victims of surveillance through our use of invasive digital media? Exploring the chasm between the tyranny of surveillance and the ideal of privacy, this book ...

The Arctic and world order

The Arctic, long described as the world’s last frontier, is quickly becoming our first frontier, the front line in a world of more diffuse power, sharper geopolitical competition, and deepening interdependencies between people and nature. A space of often-bitter cold, the Arctic is the ...

Breaking down diplomacy

an insider's guide to the art of negotiation

The current state of diplomacy, especially multilateral diplomacy, is marked by increasing inability to forge consensus on key global issues, including the existential matter of climate change. In addition, the changes wrought by technology and the impact of social media, the fraying of the social ...

Regulating freedom of religion

from the United Nations to the European Court of Human Rights

Freedom of Religion-declared in Art. 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)-concerned not only individuals, but included the moral right of religious communities to manifest religion in public. The International Covenant on Political and Civil Rights (1966/1976) made it a legal ...

China and her neighbours

Asian diplomacy from ancient history to the present

For centuries, China was confident in its role as the 'Middle Kingdom', the undisputed cultural, economic and political powerhouse of Asia. Today, with China once again a leading player on the world stage, countries across the continent are facing an uncertain future. Does China's ...

Markets and exchanges in pre-modern and traditional societies

interpreting ancient Egypt

Markets emerge in recent historical research as important spheres of economic interaction in ancient societies. In the case of ancient Egypt, traditional models imagined an all-encompassing centralized, bureaucratic economy that left practically no place for market transactions, as many surviving documents only described the activities ...

Art and copyright

First published in 2001, Art and Copyright has established itself as a leading text in the field. Revised and updated, this third edition includes additional coverage of the following topics: - The relationship between designs law and artistic works; - EU and Brexit developments; - AI-created works; - graffiti ...

Data protection beyond borders

transatlantic perspectives on extraterritoriality and sovereignty

This timely book examines crucial developments in the field of privacy law, efforts by legal systems to impose their data protection standards beyond their borders and claims by states to assert sovereignty over data. By bringing together renowned international privacy experts from the EU and ...

Juan de Valdés Leal

Dentro de la bibliografía dedicada a la pintura española del Siglo de Oro, ha destacado siempre la atención que ha suscitado la figura de Juan de Valdés Leal. Esta monografía, obra del reconocido historiador del arte español Enrique Valdivieso González, que ha dedicado buena parte ...