Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738190081
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738190081
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The Welfare State's Other Crisis
Author: Claire Frances UllmanPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253335449
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
While most observers have equated privatization with a conservative assault on the welfare state, Claire F. Ullman demonstrates that such was not the case in France. There, delegation to nonprofits was motivated by the desire to increase the state's ability to achieve progressive social goals, including enabling welfare programs to reach more of the disadvantaged. Elites sought to recruit nonprofit organizations as partners not to roll back the state, but to bolster and extend its power. Ullman suggests that the western welfare state's new reliance on nonprofit organizations should be re-evaluated in light of the French case.
The Effects of Financial Crises on the Binding Force of Contracts - Renegotiation, Rescission or Revision
Author: Başak BaşoğluPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 331927256X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This book is about one of the most controversial dilemmas of contract law: whether or not the unexpected change of circumstances due to the effects of financial crises may under certain conditions be taken into account. Growing interconnectedness of global economies facilitates the spread of the effects of the financial crises. Financial crises cause severe difficulties for persons to fulfill their contractual obligations. During the financial crises, performance of contractual obligations may become excessively onerous or may cause an excessive loss for one of the contracting parties and consequently destroy the contractual equilibrium and legitimate the governmental interventions. Uncomfortable economic climate leads to one of the most controversial dilemmas of the contract law: whether the binding force of the contract is absolute or not. In other words, unstable economic circumstances impose the need to devote special attention to review and perhaps to narrow the binding nature of a contract. Principle of good faith and fair dealing motivate a variety of theoretical bases in order to overcome the legal consequences of financial crises. In this book, all these theoretical bases are analyzed with special focus on the available remedies, namely renegotiation, rescission or revision and the circumstances which enables the revocation of these remedies. The book collects the 19 national reports and the general report originally presented in the session regarding the Effects of Financial Crises on the Binding Force of Contracts: Renegotiation, Rescission or Revision during the XIXth congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, held in Vienna, July 2014.
France and Germany in an Age of Crisis, 1900-1960
Author: Haim ShamirPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004092280
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
This collection of essays, both in French and English, is dedicated to the life and work of Bloch, one of the founding fathers of Tel Aviv University and the first scholar to teach modern and contemporary European history at this institution. It examines the roots of Bloch's political conception in relation to 20th c. German and French history, contains a section on French and German foreign policy during this period, and examines the respective countries' participation in the two world wars. It also contains a historical overview of European Jewry during this period. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
United Nations Sanctions and International Law
Author: Vera Gowlland-DebbasPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004502874
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The reactivation of the Security Council at the beginning of the last decade has resulted, since the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq on August 2, l990, in increasing use of its powers under Chapter VII of the Charter and the adoption of measures against a number of state and non-state entities. The notion of a threat to the peace has now come to encompass violations of fundamental norms of international law such as human rights and humanitarian law, and the wide-ranging measures adopted have included such innovations as the establishment of the UN Compensation Commission or that of the two international criminal tribunals for Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. These measures have not only infringed on the legal rights of the targeted state (sometimes with irreversible effects where they have remained in force over a long period of time) and its population, but also on those of implementing states and of private rights within these states. The current debate over the legitimacy and long-term effects of economic sanctions on states and their populations makes it imperative to re-evaluate this instrument and the broader peace maintenance function of the Security Council in the light of current community concerns. Part One of this book addresses the theoretical issues by focussing on: 1) The place of sanctions in the international legal system; 2) the limits to the powers of the Security Council and the question of accountability; and 3) an assessment of the alternatives to collective economic sanctions. Part Two looks at the relationship between sanctions and humanitarian issues, examining the relationship between: 1) Sanctions and human rights law; 2) sanctions, humanitarian issues and mandates; and 3) sanctions and humanitarian law. Part Three focuses on implementation by states of Security Council sanctions resolutions by examining: 1) Sanctions and private rights; and 2) special problems for implementing states. Part Four addresses the future in reassessing the place and ethics of sanctions in an international legal system which is giving increased importance to the individual. This work is based on papers presented at a colloquium of the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.
French Feminisms
Author: Gill AllwoodPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135360235
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
In this text, Gill Allwood explores theories of masculinity emerging from French feminist theories of gender and from French feminist practice concerning violence towards women, highlighting both the commonalities and the specificities of the French case. She discusses the particular concern of French theorists with seduction, their rejection of the term "gender" and the centrality of the difference debate.; In the first part of the book, Allwood separately examines feminist theories of gender and sexual difference and the problem of male violence. She goes on to consider the developments which are taking place on the borderline between the two, examining the way in which these developments have contributed to an understanding of masculinity. Readdressing problems and debates that will be familiar to English-speaking readers, the text exposes cultural differences and similarities in the ways in which these problems are approached and it provides a detailed account of the changes in both feminist action and theory in France in recent years.; This analysis of feminism in France should be of interest to student and scholars in French studies, European studies, gender studies and cultural studies.
Marxism in a nutshell
Author: Robin GoodfellowPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 2371610127
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
This book tries hard to summarise to a more accessible language the fundamental concepts of Marxism without tone down the scientific and revolutionary characteristics.
Concentrationary Imaginaries
Author: Griselda PollockPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857725440
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase 'the concentrationary universe' to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the destruction of the human. This book shows how the unacknowledged legacy of a totalitarian mentality has seeped into the deepest recesses of everyday popular culture. It asks if the concentrationary now infests our cultural imaginary, normalizing what was once considered horrific and exceptional by transforming into entertainment violations of human life. Drawing on the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt and the analyses of violence by Agamben, Virilio, Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy, it also offers close readings of films by Cavani and Haneke that identify and critically expose such an imaginary and, hence, contest its lingering force.
The Crisis Among the French Clergy
Author: Albert HoutinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Conflictualités Contemporaines
Author: Pascal TouoyemPublisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956553611
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Comment penser la puissance africaine et les enjeux de la transition hgmonique globale au 21e sicle ? Telle est la question thmatique centrale de cet ouvrage qui se veut un cahier de recherche doctrinale en polmologie et en irnologie endognes, dans un contexte o la mondialisation des enjeux scuritaires signifie pour lAfrique, un reclassement gostratgique du continent o le maintien de la paix et la rsolution des conflits sont devenus un terrain daffirmation de puissance. Analytique et oprationnelle, cette publication est le fruit de nombreuses expriences de terrain, de missions denseignements, de travaux ditoriaux, de publications scientifiques et de confrences internationales.
