Author: International Commission of Inquiry into the Existence of Slavery and Forced Labor in the Republic of LiberiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forced labor
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Report of the International Commission of Inquiry Into the Existence of Slavery and Forced Labor in the Republic of Liberia. Monrovia, Liberia, September 8, 1930
Author: International Commission of Inquiry into the Existence of Slavery and Forced Labor in the Republic of LiberiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forced labor
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Report of the International Commission of Inquiry Into the Existance of Slavery and Forced Labor in the Republic of Liberia, Monrovia, Liberia, September 8, 1930. ... 1931
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Foreign Relations of the United States
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
Internationalism, Imperialism and the Formation of the Contemporary World
Author: Miguel Bandeira JerónimoPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 331960693X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This volume offers innovative insights into and approaches to the multiple historical intersections between distinct modalities of internationalism and imperialism during the twentieth century, across a range of contexts. Bringing together scholars from diverse theoretical, methodological and geographical backgrounds, the book explores an array of fundamental actors, institutions and processes that have decisively shaped contemporary history and the present. Among other crucial topics, it considers the expansion in the number and scope of activities of international organizations and its impact on formal and informal imperial polities, as well as the propagation of developmentalist ethos and discourses, relating them to major historical processes such as the growing institutionalization of international scrutiny in the interwar years or, later, the emerging global Cold War.
Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia
Author: Christine ChengPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192555030
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
In the aftermath of the Liberian civil war, groups of ex-combatants seized control of natural resource enclaves in the rubber, diamond, and timber sectors. With some of them threatening a return to war, these groups were widely viewed as the most significant threats to Liberia's hard-won peace. Building on fieldwork and socio-historical analysis, this book shows how extralegal groups are driven to provide basic governance goods in their bid to create a stable commercial environment. This is a story about how their livelihood strategies merged with the opportunities of Liberia's post-war political economy. But it is also a context-specific story that is rooted in the country's geography, its history of state-making, and its social and political practices. This volume demonstrates that extralegal groups do not emerge in a vacuum. In areas of limited statehood, where the state is weak and political authority is contested, where rule of law is corrupted and government distrust runs deep, extralegal groups can provide order and dispute resolution, forming the basic kernel of the state. This logic counters the prevailing 'spoiler' narrative, forcing us to reimagine non-state actors and recast their roles as incidental statebuilders in the evolutionary process of state-making. This leads to a broader argument: it is trade, rather than war, that drives contemporary statebuilding. Along the way, this book poses some uncomfortable questions about what it means to be legitimately governed, whether our trust in states is ultimately misplaced, whether entrenched corruption is the most likely post-conflict outcome, and whether our expectations of international peacebuilding and statebuilding are ultimately self-defeating.
Digest of International Law
Author: Marjorie Millace WhitemanPublisher:
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Category : International law
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
Book Description
Touts
Author: Enrique MartinoPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110755920
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Touts is a historical account of the troubled formation of a colonial labor market in the Gulf of Guinea and a major contribution to the historiography of indentured labor, which has relatively few reference points in Africa. The setting is West Africa’s largest island, Fernando Po or Bioko in today’s Equatorial Guinea, 100 kilometers off the coast of Nigeria. The Spanish ruled this often-ignored island from the mid-nineteenth century until 1968. A booming plantation economy led to the arrival of several hundred thousand West African, principally Nigerian, contract workers on steamships and canoes. In Touts, Enrique Martino traces the confusing transition from slavery to other labor regimes, paying particular attention to the labor brokers and their financial, logistical, and clandestine techniques for bringing workers to the island. Martino combines multi-sited archival research with the concept of touts as "lumpen-brokers" to offer a detailed study of how commercial labor relations could develop, shift and collapse through the recruiters’ own techniques, such as large wage advances and elaborate deceptions. The result is a pathbreaking reconnection of labor mobility, contract law, informal credit structures and exchange practices in African history.
Report of the Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference, and Draft Convention
Author: League of NationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congresses and conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
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