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  • Death Penalty

    WHEN BRITISH LAWYER CHRISTOPHER EADES arrived at Louisiana's oldest prison, the State Penitentiary at Angola, he found abominable food, sweltering heat, and inmates who feared for their lives. Literacy and education were minimal. One prisoner could name his birth date but not his age. Others […]

  • Death Penalty

    WHEN BRITISH LAWYER CHRISTOPHER EADES arrived at Louisiana's oldest prison, the State Penitentiary at Angola, he found abominable food, sweltering heat, and inmates who feared for their lives. Literacy and education were minimal. One prisoner could name his birth date but not his age. Others […]

  • Countertrade

    A commercial arrangement in which the buyer pays for his purchases, wholly or partly, with something other than money. Very often countertrade deals include some cash, but a significant portion of the transaction is settled with commodities or services. Countertrade has been employed heavily […]

  • Developing Countries

    Developing Countries in International Trade Meaning of Developing Countries, according to the Dictionary of International Trade (Global Negotiator): The developing countries generally lack a high degree of industrialization, infrastructure and other capital investment, sophisticated […]

  • Developing Countries

    Developing Countries in International Trade Meaning of Developing Countries, according to the Dictionary of International Trade (Global Negotiator): The developing countries generally lack a high degree of industrialization, infrastructure and other capital investment, sophisticated […]

  • Industrial Sociology

    Resources See Also Working Condition Working Time Occupational Health Work Environment Labor Law Legal Working Age

  • Exchange Rate

    Exchange Rate in International Trade Meaning of Exchange Rate, according to the Dictionary of International Trade (Global Negotiator): The price of one currency expressed in terms of another, i.e., the number of units of one currency that may be exchanged for one unit of another currency. […]

  • Evolution of International Organizations

    Evolution of International Organizations Evolution of International Organizations Resources See Also Foregin Policy Foreign Affairs International Relations Further Reading Abbott, K. W., Genschel, P., Snidal, D., & Zangl, B. (Eds.). (2015). International organizations as orchestrators. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. Adams, M., de Waele, H., Meeusen, J., & Straetmans, G. (2013). Judging Europe’s judges: The…

  • Biopolitics

    Biopolitics Resources See Also Foregin Policy Foreign Affairs International Relations Further Reading Adler, E., & Bernstein, S. (2005). Knowledge in power: The epistemic construction of global governance. In M. Barnett & R. Duvall (Eds.), Power in global governance (pp. 294–318). New York: Cambridge University Press. Agamben, G. (1998). Homo sacer: Sovereign power and bare life.…

  • Compliance with International Law

    Compliance With International Law Resources See Also Foregin Policy Foreign Affairs International Relations Further Reading Abbott, K., & Snidal, D. (2000). Hard and soft law in international governance. International Organization, 54(3), 421–456. Agon, S. (2016). Is compliance the name of the effectiveness game? Goal-shifting and the dynamics of judicial effectiveness at the WTO. World Trade…

  • Cultural Political Economy

    Cultural Political Economy W.H. Sewell argued, in “The Concept(s) of Culture” (in V. Bonnell, and L. Hunt (eds.) Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture), “the system has no existence apart from the succession of practices that instantiate, reproduce, or – most interestingly – transform it. Hence system implies…

  • Sovereign Debt Litigation

    Sovereign Debt Litigation Further Reading Adams P (1991) Odious debts. Corruption and the third world environmental legacy. Earthscan, London/TorontoGoogle Scholar Ago R (1991) “Binding” advisory opinions of the International Court of Justice. AJIL 85:439–451Google Scholar Akehurst M (1972–1973) Jurisdiction in international law. BYIL 46:145–257Google Scholar Alagherii Dantis (MCMXX) De Monarchia (first published 1559). In aedibus…

  • Non-state Actors

    Embracing mainstream international law, this section on non-state actors explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here. Resources Further Reading The entry "non-state actors" in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law […]

  • Postcolonialism

    Postcolonialism Resources See Also Further Reading Acharya, A. (2011). Dialogue and discovery: In search of international relations theories beyond the West. Millennium—Journal of International Studies, 39(3), 619–637. Acharya, A., & Buzan, B. (2010). Non-Western international relations theory: Perspectives on and beyond Asia. London: Routledge. Aching, G. (2011). On colonial modernity: Civilization versus sovereignty in Cuba,…

  • Interdependence

    Interdependence Interdependence in International Organization and Global Governance International Integration Interdependence thinking is part of international integration theories, including: mutual dependence, patterned relationships, interlocking relationships and division of labor. Transnational Relations To break with state-centric explanations of world politics, Keohane and Nye (1972) stressed the importance of “new kinds of bargaining coalitions and alliances being…