Exploring the remarkable journey of Timor-Leste, the book presents freedom as a product of networked governance, highlighting how weak networks can effectively challenge powerful tyrannies. It also critiques realism in international relations, offering a fresh perspective on governance and resistance in the context of Timor-Leste's history.
Examining the intersection of business regulation and globalization, this book explores how policy-making adapts to the challenges and opportunities presented by an interconnected world. It delves into the implications of regulatory frameworks on international trade and economic growth, highlighting the need for effective governance in a rapidly changing landscape. Through case studies and analysis, it provides insights into the evolving nature of regulation in the global marketplace.
The definitive account of how multinational corporations have seized control of intellectual property rights.In a few short years, the battle over intellectual property rights has emerged from obscurity to become front-page news. The continent-hopping, three-year court battle fought by activists to bring cheap versions of desperately needed AIDS drugs to South Africa is but one example of how this seemingly arcane area of international regulation has become a crucial battleground in the twenty-first century and is animating activists the world over.This powerful book is the definitive history of how the new global intellectual property regim--the rulebook for the knowledge economy--came to be. Drawing on more than five years of research and more than five hundred interviews with key figuresincluding negotiators for First and Third World countries, leaders of multinational corporations, and public-interest experts, Information Feudalism uncovers the story of how a small coterie of multi-national corporations wrote the charter for the global information order.Information Feudalism is an authoritative history of the demise of the world's intellectual commons, and a potent call for democratic property rights.
War and crime are cascade phenomena. War cascades across space and time to more war; crime to more crime; crime cascades to war; and war to crime. As a result, war and crime become complex phenomena. That does not mean we cannot understand how to prevent crime and war simultaneously. This book shows, for example, how a cascade analysis leads to an understanding of how refugee camps are nodes of both targeted attack and targeted recruitment into violence. Hence, humanitarian prevention also must target such nodes of risk. This book shows how nonviolence and non domination can also be made to cascade, shunting cascades of violence into reverse. Complexity theory implies a conclusion that the pursuit of strategies for preventing crime and war is less important than understanding meta strategies. These are meta strategies for how to sequence and escalate many redundant prevention strategies. These themes were explored across seven South Asian societies during eight years of fieldwork.
'Macrocriminology and Freedom is a criminological epic, an expansive and erudite story that sweeps across history and contexts. The book is frightening in showing how cascading events can produce catastrophes from crime to environmental destruction. But in the end, its message is hopeful, identifying pathways--or 'normative rivers'--for guiding freedom from domination and crime. Drawing on his lengthy and distinguished career, John Braithwaite has bestowed an extraordinary gift--a book, like other masterpieces, that will yield special insights each time we take an excursion through its pages.' -- Francis T. Cullen, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, University of Cincinnati
Following a bloody civil war, peace consolidated slowly and sequentially in Bougainville. That sequence was of both a top-down architecture of credible commitment in a formal peace process and layer upon layer of bottom-up reconciliation. Reconciliation was based on indigenous traditions of peacemaking. It also drew on Christian traditions of reconciliation, on training in restorative justice principles and on innovation in womens' peacebuilding. Peacekeepers opened safe spaces for reconciliation, but it was locals who shaped and owned the peace. There is much to learn from this distinctively indigenous peace architecture. It is a far cry from the norms of a 'liberal peace' or a 'realist peace'. The authors describe it as a hybrid 'restorative peace' in which 'mothers of the land' and then male combatants linked arms in creative ways. A danger to Bougainville's peace is weakness of international commitment to honour the result of a forthcoming independence referendum that is one central plank of the peace deal.
This volume of the Peacebuilding Compared Project examines the sources of the armed conflict and coup in the Solomon Islands before and after the turn of the millennium. The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) has been an intensive peacekeeping operation, concentrating on building 'core pillars' of the modern state. It did not take adequate notice of a variety of shadow sources of power in the Solomon Islands, for example logging and business interests, that continue to undermine the state's democratic foundations. At first RAMSI's statebuilding was neither very responsive to local voices nor to root causes of the conflict, but it slowly changed tack to a more responsive form of peacebuilding. The craft of peace as learned in the Solomon Islands is about enabling spaces for dialogue that define where the mission should pull back to allow local actors to expand the horizons of their peacebuilding ambition.
This book provides an accurate account of the events that unfolded in Morocco after the death of Emperor Muley Ishmael. Alongside providing political observations, the author also delves into the natural and moral aspects of these events.
Focusing on the technical and personal aspects of Sir John Ross's expedition, this supplement reveals critical, previously omitted details regarding the failure of the Victory's steam machinery. It aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the challenges faced during the voyage and to offer a fair assessment of Ross's character, highlighting his contributions as both an officer and a scientist. This work serves to clarify misconceptions and enrich the narrative of the North-west Passage exploration.