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New and Published Books

1. Conservation and Sustainable Development

   Linking Practice and Policy in Eastern Africa

   Edited by Jonathan Davies

   Series: Earthscan Conservation and Development

   The links between policy and practice in natural resource management are often depicted as a cyclical and rational process. In reality, policymaking and implementation are often irrational, unpredictable and highly political. Many science and knowledge-based institutions undertake rigorous research...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. Trade Remedies

   A Development Perspective

   By Asif Qureshi

   Series: Routledge Research in International Economic Law

   Under the framework of the WTO Member States are allowed to respond to three types of imports which harm or have the potential of harming a domestic industry. The imports in question are those which either involve a State subsidy, for example an export subsidy from the State where the goods are...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. International Law, Regulation and Resistance

   Critical Spaces

   By Zoe Pearson

   Series: Routledge Research in International Law

   International Law, Regulation and Resistance presents a critique of international law through an interdisciplinary analysis and engagement with the emerging literature from critical legal geography. The book draws upon existing critiques of international law to examine how different spaces affect...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Reforming the UN Security Council Membership

   The illusion of representativeness

   By Sabine Hassler

   Series: Routledge Research in International Law

   There have been many calls for changes to the membership of the United Nations Security Council over the past fifty years, and the Council is now, more than ever, seen as out of step with current realities. The continuing failure to reflect changing realities directly affects the perception of...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Russia's Battle with Crime, Corruption and Terrorism

   Edited by Robert Orttung, Anthony Latta

   Series: Routledge Transnational Crime and Corruption

   This book examines Russia's attempts to tackle the challenges of the new and increasing security threats of rising crime, corruption and terrorism that it has experienced since the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991. It demonstrates the close links between the rising drug trade, border problems,...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. The International Legal Governance of the Human Genome

   By Chamundeeswari Kuppuswamy

   Series: Genetics and Society

   The human genome is a well known symbol of scientific and technological progress in the 21st century. However, concerns about the exacerbation of inequalities between the rich and the poor, the developing and the developed states, the healthy and the unhealthy are causing problems for the progress...

   Published May 10th 2012 by Routledge
7. Oil and Gas in the Disputed Kurdish Territories

   Jurisprudence, Regional Minorities and Natural Resources in a Federal System

   By Rex J. Zedalis

   This book examines the historical and contextual background to the oil and gas resources in the Kurdish territories, placing particular emphasis on the reserves situated in the disputed provinces. The volume is singularly unique in focusing on an examination of the rules reflected in both the...

   Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Politics of Climate Change

   Environmental Dynamics in International Affairs

   Edited by Paul G. Harris

   Climate change is now a mainstream part of the international political agenda. It has become clear that it is not solely a technical issue, to be resolved by scientists, but a political issue with political implications at all levels of global governance. Indeed, some may argue that few long-term...

   Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
9. Gender and Transitional Justice

   The Women of East Timor

   By Susan Harris Rimmer

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

   Gender and Transitional Justice provides the first comprehensive feminist analysis of the role of international law in formal transitional justice mechanisms. Using East Timor as a case study, it offers reflections on transitional justice administered by a UN transitional administration. Often...

   Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
10. Transnational Crime and Human Rights

    Responses to Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Subregion

    By Susan Kneebone, Julie Debeljak

    Transnational Crime and Human Rights offers an evaluation of the responses to the transnational crime of human trafficking and governance of the issue through a case study of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), which comprises Cambodia, the People's Republic of China, Lao People's Democratic...

    Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge