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…
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…
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.
Speeding up land reform through a constitutional amendment that would explicitly permit the expropriation of land without compensation has dominated legal and political-policy debates in South Africa in recent years.
As a former senior air safety investigator and current assistant professor, I have dedicated my career to understanding and improving air safety. In this book, "Air Safety Investigation: The Journey", I draw on my years of experience investigating airplane accidents and incidents in order to provide a comprehensive guide to the principles and practices of air safety investigation.
Democracy and Empire theorizes the material bases of popular sovereignty via the Black radical tradition. Popular sovereignty contains an affective attachment to wealth, secured through collective agreements to dominate others, that is, self-and-other-determination. Inés Valdez expands on racial capitalism by theorizing its Anglo-European-based popular politics, which authorize capital accum…
The Twin Transition concept is born of the belief that we need to bring digitization and sustainability agendas together, unlocking the potential of IT and data products to achieve our sustainability goals (Greening by IT) and for sustainable thinking to green our technology and data assets and infrastructures (Greening of IT)
Recent public debate on common ownership by institutional investors has brought awareness to one of the many intersections between the corporate and antitrust worlds. But the interplay between these two fields dates back to the dawn of US antitrust. This volume shines a light on the often underplayed and misunderstood connections between antitrust and corporate law and finance. It offers a mu…
Very few airport CEOs would dispute the need to incorporate more digitization into the businesses they lead. As highlighted by ACI World’s recent traffic forecasts, many regions are now exceeding their pre-pandemic passenger traffic levels, with forecast numbers continuing to grow significantly over the next 20 years. Global passenger traffic is expected to reach nearly 20 billion in 204…