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EU digital law

article-by-article commentary

This new edition explains how contract and consumer law have been changed by EU legal acts with regard to legal practice in core areas of private law. It includes the most recent, already directly applicable, EU law that will significantly influence the platform economy, such ...

Russia's Arctic

climate change, domestic policy, and geopolitics

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Russia's Arctic policies since the 2022 war with Ukraine began. Covering geopolitical transformations, domestic evolutions and the role of climate change, it traces how, for around two decades, Russia has renewed its strategic interest in the Arctic ...

Policing people

background characteristics and occupational attitudes in law enforcement

This book explores why police background characteristics and occupational attitudes matter, and how they affect officers, policing, and citizen engagement. Bridging sociology, criminology, and organizational psychology, this book offers a timely, research-driven analysis of how police officers' background characteristics and occupational attitudes shape recruitment, behavior ...

Tech-gemony

understanding the new national security economy

Argues for a reconceptualisation of global--particularly East Asian--security, to recognise its new forms and dimensions as global power is itself being redefined. The world is at an inflection point. In an era marked by intense geopolitical competition and rapid technological advancements, understanding and navigating the ...

Illicit money

financing terrorism in the twenty-first century

"Will benefit both newcomers and those already entrenched in the world of counterterrorism financing." -Elizabeth Weakley, Parameters "I cannot recommend Davis' book highly enough for those students, academics, or practitioners wishing to learn more about how terrorist groups acquire, use, and attempt to hold onto ...

Tech cold war

the geopolitics of technology

"A compelling account of how technology, businesses, and geopolitics have become increasingly interwoven in the 'Tech Cold War.... This is a meticulous and insightful study."-Choice "A must read for anyone interested in the future of innovation and world politics." -Abraham Newman, Georgetown University "Illustrates ...

North Korea, nuclear risk-taking, and the United States

Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, and Kim Jong Un

Jihwan Hwang analyzes Pyongyang's nuclear policy changes over the last three decades under Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un. Why did a weaker North Korea take the risk of standing up against the much stronger U.S. with its nuclear ...

Heads & tales

the rise and demise of coins

For some 2700 years we have used coins to pay our debts and claim our dues. We have minted trillions of the little metal discs. Even the invention of paper money hardly slowed their proliferation. Indeed, coins made of gold continued to underpin the finances ...

Defeated

losing presidential candidates in American history

A unique examination of U.S. politics and history told through the lives and campaigns of the losing presidential candidates. As time marches on, more political history seems to get lost in American schools and homes. But the policies and beliefs of presidential candidates provide ...

The rulers

corporate power in the age of AI and the cloud

Capitalism's rulers are not abstract entities or shadowy operators. Amazon, Microsoft and Google are the cloud hegemons that subsume the world through the exercise of their intellectual monopolies. Giants like Disney, McDonalds, Nike or Walmart depend on them to use AI for knowledge and ...

Strategies of survival

North Korean foreign policy under Kim Jong-un

The North Korean nuclear issue has been one of the most significant challenges to international peace and security in the 21st century. The failure to peacefully resolve the issue could trigger regional instability or even nuclear warfare in the worst scenario. Since its first successful ...

The moral and market economies of bread

regulation and reform in Vienna, 1775-1885

From the 1770s the Vienna bread market was rocked by a series of politico-economic and technological changes that questioned the way this everyday foodstuff was sold and produced. In this book, Jonas Albrecht explores how this reconfiguration of the bread market had wide-reaching and significant ...

Fraud and risk in commercial law

This book focuses on contemporary problems related to fraud and risk in commercial law. It has been said by some that we are in a 'golden age of fraud'. In part this has been caused by globalisation, technological changes and the financialisation of business. This ...

EU neighbourhood law

wider Europe and the extended EU's legal space

The rekindling of the European Union enlargement talks and Brexit require a reappraisal of the law of the EU's proximity policies. In that light, this book turns Wider Europe into an analytical concept to capture the legal and political facets of the extension of ...

AI fairness and beyond

law, regulation, and technology

This book proposes a regulatory system for ensuring that AI makes fair decisions. No one wants to be the subject of an unfair decision made by an AI, and fairness is so important to society that we are likely to want to regulate to demand ...

Proportionality in EU digital law

balancing conflicting rights and interests

This book addresses the interplay between the proportionality principle and EU digital law. Does EU digital law provide a fair balance of rights and interests? How does proportionality limit legislation in the digital economy? How can it be used to balance competing rights and interests ...

Del Derecho Penal al Bioderecho

Libro homenaje a Carlos María Romeo Casabona

Esta obra colectiva constituye un homenaje a la trayectoria científica y académica de Carlos María Romeo Casabona, una de las figuras más influyentes del pensamiento jurídico contemporáneo en el ámbito hispanohablante. A través de las contribuciones de numerosos especialistas, los tres volúmenes reflejan las principales ...

La verdad a juicio: mas allá de la convicción

De la intuición a la valoración racional del testimonio

El mundo en policrisis

Retos geopolíticos y respuestas del Derecho Internacional

En un escenario internacional caracterizado por la convergencia de múltiples crisis, el concepto de policrisis se consolida como una herramienta analítica fundamental para comprender la complejidad del mundo contemporáneo. Las crisis energéticas, alimentarias, climáticas, sanitarias y geopolíticas no operan de manera aislada, sino que interactúan ...

Las razones del Derecho

Apuntes sobre el Derecho Racional y el Derecho Razonable

El Derecho, como instrumento regulador de conductas, no aspira únicamente a la justicia; debe también ser razonable. Precisamente este rasgo es el que se analiza en esta obra colectiva, en la que más de cuarenta juristas, acadé­micos y profesionales del Derecho reflexionan desde distintas ...