Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1400
Book Description
Government Reports Annual Index
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1400
Book Description
Government Reports Announcements & Index
Author: East European Accessions Index
Author: East European Accessions List
Author: Library of Congress. Processing DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 1134
Book Description
East European Accessions Index
Author: East European Accessions List
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Balkan Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
European Prison Rules
Author: Council of Europe. Committee of MinistersPublisher: Council of Europe
ISBN: 9287159823
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
This publication examines the rules in force in Europe governing prisons and the treatment of prisoners, including the use of force, the selection of prison staff and the protection of prisoners' human rights, based on Recommendation Rec (2006) 2 on the European Prison Rules (which was adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in January 2006). It contains the text of the recommendation with a detailed commentary on it, together with a report which considers recent developments and analyses the effectiveness of these rules and of imprisonment as a form of punishment.
The Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century
Author: Włodzimierz BorodziejPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000049426
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Statehood examines the extending lines of development of nation-state systems in Eastern Europe, in particular considering why certain tendencies in state development found a different expression in this region compared to other parts of the continent. This volume discusses the differences between the social developments, political decisions, and historical experience that have influenced processes of state-building, with a focus on the structural problems of the region and the different paths taken to overcome them. The book addresses processes of building social orders and examines the contribution of state institutions to social and cultural integration and disintegration. It analyses institutional and personnel continuities that have outlasted the great political changes of the twentieth century and addresses the expansion of state activity in shaping property relations in agriculture and industry as well as in social security and family politics. Taking a comparative approach based on experiential history, allowing individual experience to be detached from specific national references, the volume delineates a transnational comparison of problems shared within the region as they have been passed down through history, providing definition to the specificity of Eastern Europe and situating the historical experience of the region within a pan-European context. The second in a four-volume set on Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century, it is the go-to resource for those interested in statehood and state-building in this complex region.
Land Administration Guidelines
Author: United Nations. Economic Commission for EuropePublisher: New York : United Nations
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Second Thoughts
Author: Armand de MestralPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 1928096395
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Criticism. Doubts. Second thoughts. Although investor-state arbitration (ISA) has been included in investment agreements between developed and developing countries since the 1960s, and provided foreign investors with a kind of private justice against developing world host states, it became increasingly controversial in developed countries when it was included in NAFTA in 1993, creating the possibility of ISA claims between and against two developed countries (the United States or Canada), as well as claims against and by a developing state (Mexico). A few years later, the OECD’s attempt to finalize the Multilateral Agreement on Investment was stymied by concerted civil society protest and opposition to ISA, and in recent years each new proposed agreement has sparked fresh rounds of protest. What engenders the controversy about ISA? While ISA’s advantage is that it prevents escalation of international conflict by relieving states from feeling obliged to espouse claims of injured investors against foreign governments, it is criticized for creating regulatory chill whereby states are reluctant to make necessary public policy reforms for fear that changes to the investment environment will lead to expensive investor claims. Are fears of litigation and expensive payouts well founded? Can key modifications to the ISA system, such as those added to the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement satisfy critics and redeem this system of private justice? Is ISA really necessary between developed democracies where an independent and professional judiciary can generally be trusted to decide without fear or favour? In Second Thoughts: Investor-State Arbitration between Developed Democracies, 16 international investment legal experts have undertaken in-depth analyses of ISA’s economic, political, and social impacts when included in agreements between developed democracies. This timely volume appears at a critical moment, seeking answers to the crucial questions that will determine the next generation of international investment agreements.