Over twenty years after the 1989 UN General Assembly vote to open the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) for signature and ratification by UN member states, the United States remains one of only two UN members not to have ratified it. The other is Somalia. Child Rights: The Movement, International Law, and Opposition explores the reasons for this resistance. It details the objections that have arisen to accepting this legally binding international...

Ningún fenómeno político internacional nace de la nada. Los principales eventos son resultado de un juego de fuerzas que determinan un clima de época. La caída del Muro de Berlín en 1989 no solo marcó la debacle de la Unión Soviética, sino que fue el punto de inflexión para el ascenso de China promovido desde Estados Unidos que suponía que, estimulando la esfera de los negocios, se achicaría el ámbito de influencia del régimen político...

A new edition of the seminal text by the father of modern economics. First published in 1919, John Maynard Keynes's The Economic Consequences of the Peace created immediate controversy. Keynes was a firsthand witness to the negotiations of the Paris Peace Conference, as an official representative of the British Treasury, and he simultaneously sat as deputy for the chancellor of the Exchequer on the Supreme Economic Council. In these roles, he was...

Assurer le respect de l'une des valeurs fondamentales de l'humanité dans notre société par le biais de la Convention européenne des droits de l'homme et de la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme. L'objectif de ce recueil est d'aider les juges, les procureurs et les avocats des 46 États membres du Conseil de l'Europe à traiter les affaires d'extradition ou d'expulsion lorsqu'il existe un risque d'application de la peine de mort dans des pays...

It has been said many times that the human future is clouded by multiple and mutually interacting problems. While in the 19th century we had the luxury of believing in almost automatic progress - an "onward and upward" assumption - that belief has been shattered by two world wars, more than 150 smaller ones, the invention of weapons of mass destruction, increasing degradation of the environment, both by pollution and resource exhaustion (i.e. adding...

The United States has a unique leadership role because it is made up of people from different ethnic, racial and religious backgrounds. Elected leaders have very close ties to their old countries that international relations to those countries are very personal. In this book, you will study some of the reasons for the United States' influence. You will also read about the leadership roles the US have internationally.

"Winner of the 2014 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize, Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Foundation" "Winner of the 2013 International Law Best Book Award, International Law Section of the International Studies Association" "Co-Winner of the 2013 Chadwick F. Alger Prize, International Studies Association" Christina L. Davis is associate professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. She is the author of Food Fights over Free Trade: How...

La Convention du Conseil de l'Europe sur la manipulation de compétitions sportives est le premier instrument international juridiquement contraignant de lutte contre le trucage de matchs. Elle a pour but de prévenir, détecter et sanctionner la manipulation de compétitions sportives, ainsi que de renforcer l'échange d'informations et la coopération nationale et internationale entre les autorités publiques concernées, et avec les organisations...