Combining theoretical and empirical approaches, this book examines the role that inter-national public administrations play in global environmental politics in the Anthropocene. With chapters written by leading experts in the field, the book offers fresh insight into how international bureaucracies shape global policies in the complex areas of climate change, biodiversity, and development polic…
This book explores the best mechanisms for helping bring about states’ compliance with international treaties. Many recent treaties include noncompliance mechanisms (NCMs) to facilitate implementation and promote parties’ compliance with their obligations. These NCMs exist alongside the formal dispute resolution processes of international courts and tribunals. The authors bring to…
Many developing countries still face difficulties in initiating and sustaining economic development. Such difficulties have been exacerbated by the COVID 19 pandemic, resulting in an increasing divergence between rich and poor countries. For developing countries, one crucial question is whether to follow the trajectories of present-day rich countries or seek out different, new trajectories. Alt…
Factors outside of healthcare services determine our health and this involves many different sectors. Health for All Policies changes the argument about intersectoral action, from one focusing on health and the health sector to one based on co-benefits a ‘Health for All Policies’ approach.
The most non-trivial of the established microscopic theories of physics is QCD the theory of the strong interaction. A critical link between theory and experiment is provided by the methods of perturbative QCD, notably the well-known factorization theorems. Giving an accurate account of the concepts, theorems, and their justification, this book is a systematic treatment of perturbative QCD. As …
Ethiopia stands out as a leading example of state-led development in Africa. Tom Lavers offers in this book a comprehensive, multi-sector analysis of Ethiopia’s development project, examining how regimes maintain power during the extended periods required to bring about economic transformation. Specifically, Lavers explores how the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Fron…
Heavy ion collision experiments recreating the quark–gluon plasma that filled the microseconds-old Universe have established that it is a nearly perfect liquid that flows with such minimal dissipation that it cannot be seen as made of particles.
The electroweak theory unifies two basic forces of nature the weak force and electromagnetism. This achievement is comparable to Maxwell’s unification of electricity and magnetism. The theory made numerous predictions that have been confirmed by experiments.
When international courts are given sweeping powers, why would they ever refuse to use them? The book explains how and when courts employ strategies for institutional survival and resilience forbearance and audacity, which help them adjust their sovereignty costs to pre-empt and mitigate backlash and political pushback.
The Standard Model of particle physics is the mathematical theory that describes the weak, electromagnetic and strong interactions between leptons and quarks, the basic particles of the Standard Model. The new edition of this introductory graduate textbook provides a concise but accessible introduction to the Standard Model.