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Targeted sanctions

the impacts and effectiveness of United Nations Action

International sanctions have become the instrument of choice for policymakers dealing with a variety of different challenges to international peace and security. This is the first comprehensive and systematic analysis of all the targeted sanctions regimes imposed by the United Nations since the end of ...

Enacting european citizenship

What does it mean to be a European citizen? The rapidly changing politics of citizenship in the face of migration, diversity, heightened concerns about security and financial and economic crises, has left European citizenship as one of the major political and social challenges to European ...

Currencies, commodities and consumption

Currency values, prices, consumption and incomes are at the heart of the economic performance of all countries. In order to make a meaningful comparison between one economy and another, economists routinely make use of purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates, but while PPP rates are ...

Learning, policy making, and market reforms

In the 1980s and 1990s, market reforms swept the world. It is widely believed that the reformist wave can be partly explained in terms of the lessons learned from policy failures of the past. Whereas this interpretation of events is well established, it has never ...

Third way reforms

social democracy after the golden age

This book examines the transformation of contemporary social democracy through the concept of 'third way' reforms. It proposes a set of theories about the possibility for continuing social democratic ideological adaptation, for ideologies to overcome institutional constraints in triggering path-breaking innovations, and for social democracy ...

Bankers, bureaucrats, and Central Bank politics

th myth of neutrality

Most studies of the political economy of money focus on the laws protecting central banks from government interference; this book turns to the overlooked people who actually make monetary policy decisions. Using formal theory and statistical evidence from dozens of central banks across the developed ...

CUP

viaje a las raíces y razones de las Candidaturas de Unidad Popular

Una primera aproximación sobre las CUP, las Candidaturas de Unidad Popular, como concepto político operativo. Proyecto y propuesta de unidad popular como expresión de la voluntad de arraigo en la vida municipal. El primer libro donde hablan y se interpelan la historia, el presente y ...

Behavioral economics

a history

This book presents a history of behavioral economics. The recurring theme is that behavioral economics reflects and contributes to a fundamental reorientation of the epistemological foundations upon which economics had been based since the days of Smith, Ricardo, and Mill. With behavioral economics, the discipline ...

Behavioral rationality and heterogeneous expectations in complex economic systems

Recognising that the economy is a complex system with boundedly rational interacting agents, the book presents a theory of behavioral rationality and heterogeneous expectations in complex economic systems and confronts the nonlinear dynamic models with empirical stylized facts and laboratory experiments. The complexity modeling paradigm ...

Economic and social rights after the global financial crisis

The global financial and economic crises have had a devastating impact on economic and social rights. These rights were ignored by economic policy makers prior to the crises and continue to be disregarded in the current 'age of austerity'. This is the first book to ...

Fomento artístico y sociedad liberal

exposiciones nacionales de Bellas Artes (1917-1936)

Institución fundamental de la cultura artística española, las exposiciones nacionales de Bellas Artes se crearon en 1853 bajo la protección de los poderes públicos con el objetivo de proteger y promover el desarrollo del arte español. En un anterior libro de la misma autora, Historia ...

Balancing Constitutional Rights

the origins and meanings of postwar legal discourse

The language of balancing is pervasive in constitutional rights jurisprudence around the world. In this book, Jacco Bomhoff offers a comparative and historical account of the origins and meanings of this talismanic form of language, and of the legal discourse to which it is central ...

Proportionality and the rule of Law

rights, justification, reasoning

To speak of human rights in the twenty-first century is to speak of proportionality. Proportionality has been received into the constitutional doctrine of courts in continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Israel, South Africa, and the United States, as well as the jurisprudence ...

Bambalinas

«La realidad es infinitamente más preocupante que la ficción y nos atemoriza [...] La ocultación, lo no visible, lo invisible, forman parte de mi pan de cada día. Vivo con la obsesión invasiva de enmascarar a todo bicho viviente, a rostros conocidos y desconocidos. El disfraz ...

La industria en el paisaje: patrimonio en isocronía y memoria

(Ábaco. Revista de Cultura y Ciencias Sociales, Nº 86, año 2015)

SUMARIO: LA INDUSTRIA EN EL PAISAJE: PATRIMONIO EN ISOCRONÍA Y MEMORIA. 1. Un siglo de actividades industriales configurando paisaje. Linarejos Cruz. 2. Energía y territorio, inmersiones en un paisaje dinámico. Rodrigo de la O Cabrera y David Escudero Boyero. 3. Fábricas y memorias del desarrollo ...

Questions of jurisdiction and admissibility before international Courts

This examination of the jurisdiction of international courts and the admissibility of cases before them analyses jurisdictional and admissibility rules in light of the roles assumed by international courts in international life and in light of the roles that jurisdictional and admissibility rules play in ...

Música de Al-Andalus

Aquí se ofrece una aproximación a la música y la cultura de Al-Ándalus, rastreando sus fuentes escritas y orales. Las primeras abarcan fuentes medievales y posteriores, y demuestran la vinculación con la música árabe oriental. Las fuentes orales se basan en la tradición del Magreb ...

Sustainable public procurement under EU Law

new perspectives on the State as stakeholder

This book examines the effectiveness of the modernisation of EU public procurement law in light of the overarching treaty goals on sustainability. Contributors expertly cover core issues of public procurement, including life cycle costing (LCC), eco- and fairtrade labels, the link to the subject matter ...

International sales Law

a global challenge

This book brings together the top international sales law scholars from twenty-three countries to review the Convention on Contracts for International Sale of Goods (CISG) and its role in the unification of global sales law. It reviews the substance of CISG rules and analyzes alternative ...

Investment

a history

Investing-the commitment of resources to achieve a return-affects individuals, families, companies, and nations, and has done so throughout history. Yet until the sixteenth century, investing was a privilege of only the elite classes. The story behind the democratization of investing is bound up with some ...