Download or read book Asymmetric Equality written by Karen Jacobson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Asymmetric Autonomy and the Settlement of Ethnic Conflicts written by Marc Weller and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the world many sovereign states grant one or more of their territories greater autonomy than other areas. This arrangement, known as asymmetric autonomy, has been adopted with greater regularity as a solution to ethnic strife and secessionist struggles in recent decades. As asymmetric autonomy becomes one of the most frequently used conflict resolution methods, examination of the positive and negative consequences of its implementation, as well as its efficacy, is vital. Asymmetric Autonomy and the Settlement of Ethnic Conflicts assesses the ability of such power distribution arrangements to resolve violent struggles between central governments and separatist groups. This collection of new case studies from around the world covers a host of important developments, from recentralization in Russia, to "one country, two systems" in China, to constitutional innovation in Iraq. As a whole, these essays examine how well asymmetric autonomy agreements can bring protracted and bloody conflicts to an end, satisfy the demands of both sides, guarantee the physical integrity of a state, and ensure peace and stability. Contributors to this book also analyze the many problems and dilemmas that can arise when autonomous regions are formed. For example, powers may be loosely defined or unrealistically assigned to the state within a state. Redrawn boundaries can create new minorities and make other groups vulnerable to human rights violations. Given the number of limited self-determination systems in place, the essays in this volume present varied evaluations of these political structures. Asymmetric state agreements have the potential to remedy some of humanity's most intractable disputes. In Asymmetric Autonomy and the Settlement of Ethnic Conflicts, leading political scientists and diplomatic experts shed new light on the practical consequences of these settlements and offer sophisticated frameworks for understanding this path toward lasting peace.
Download or read book Asymmetric Killing written by Neil C. Renic and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an engaging and historically informed account of the moral challenge of radically asymmetric violence -- warfare conducted by one party in the near-complete absence of physical risk, across the full scope of a conflict zone. What role does physical risk and material threat play in the justifications for killing in war? And crucially, is there a point at which battlefield violence becomes so one-directional as to undermine the moral basis for its use? In order to answers these questions, Asymmetric Killing delves into the morally contested terrain of the warrior ethos and Just War Tradition, locating the historical and contemporary role of reciprocal risk within both. This book also engages two historical episodes of battlefield asymmetry, military sniping and manned aerial bombing. Both modes of violence generated an imbalance of risk between opponents so profound as to call into question their permissibility. These now-resolved controversies will then be contrasted with the UAV-exclusive violence of the United States, robotic killing conducted in the absence of a significant military ground presence in conflict theatres such as Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. As will be revealed, the radical asymmetry of this latter case is distinct, undermining reciprocal risk at the structural level of war. Beyond its more resolvable tension with the warrior ethos, UAV-exclusive violence represents a fundamental challenge to the very coherence of the moral justifications for killing in war.
Download or read book Desigualdad Sim trica Haegue Yang written by Haegue Yang and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La instalación, realizada ex profeso para la sala, consiste en tres zonas diferenciadas que conforman una compleja configuración espacial. La obra pertenece a un conjunto de instalaciones que la artista fue desarrollando a lo largo de ese año, centrando su interés en investigar las nuevas posibilidades del encuentro cruzado entre la abstracción y la narración, tomando el medio del retrato como punto de partida para su propio desarrollo.
Download or read book Non Discrimination Law Comparative Perspectives written by Rodrigues and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, which stems from the International Conference on Comparative Non-Discrimination Law held at Utrecht, The Netherlands, in June 1998, covers both the general aspects of equality and non-discrimination law (Part I), as well as the specific grounds for discrimination, adverse impact or indirect discrimination, and affirmative action (Part II). Part III discusses diverse aspects of the enforcement of non-discrimination law; Part IV contains conclusions and an agenda for change. This book is unique in that it both provides a comparative view of anti-discrimination law in theory and practice, and looks at a wide range of grounds for discrimination, such as gender, race, religion and health. Its comparative and international approach renders this publication not only of interest to civil rights lawyers, but to all those engaged in human rights and comparative law.
Download or read book The Un Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and Its Optional Protocol written by Patricia Schulz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 1041 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the fully revised and updated version of the first comprehensive commentary on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol. It reflects the developments during the decade following the publication of the first edition in 2012, which has also seen a notable rise in individual complaints (more than 85), ten new General Recommendations, and six new inquiry procedures as well as numerous statements, partly in conjunction with other UN human rights bodies. The Convention is a key international human rights instrument and the only one exclusively addressed to women. It has been described as the United Nations' 'landmark treaty in the struggle for women's rights'. At a time when the backlash against women's human rights and the concept of gender-based discrimination is increasingly challenged by governments and powerful societal actors, the Commentary is an important instrument to hold all state powers to account on their international obligations under the Convention. The Commentary analyses the interpretation of the Convention through the work of its monitoring body, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. It comprises detailed analyses of the Preamble and each article of the Convention and of the Optional Protocol, including a separate chapter on the cross-cutting substantive issue of violence against women. The sources relied on are the treaty language and the general recommendations, concluding observations, and case law under the Optional Protocol (individual complaints and inquiries), through which the Committee has interpreted and applied the Convention. Each chapter is self-contained, but the Commentary is conceived of as an integral whole. The book also includes an introduction which provides an overview of the Convention and its embedding in the international law of human rights as well as the most recent challenges to women's human rights worldwide.
Download or read book Provable Security written by Tsuyoshi Takagi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Provable Security, ProvSec 2012, held in Chengdu, China, in September 2012. The 16 full papers and 4 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on signature schemes, foundations, leakage resilence and key escrow, encryption schemes, and information theoretical security.
Download or read book The Economics of Asymmetric Information written by B. Hillier and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1997-04-07 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents recent developments in the economics of asymmetric information. The problems of selection and moral hazard, with hidden actions or hidden information, are introduced by examining how they affect the market for investment finance. The ideas are then used to analyse the market for insurance, signalling and screening models of education, efficiency wages, industrial regulation, public procurement and auctions. Coverage is thorough while avoiding excessive mathematical detail. Diagrams and verbal reasoning make the ideas accessible to intermediate level undergraduate students and beyond.
Download or read book Asymmetric Volatility and Risk in Equity Markets written by Geert Bekaert and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It appears that volatility in equity markets is asymmetric: returns and conditional volatility are negatively correlated. We provide a unified framework to simultaneously investigate asymmetric volatility at the firm and the market level and to examine two potential explanations of the asymmetry: leverage effects and time-varying risk premiums. Our empirical application uses the market portfolio and portfolios with different leverage constructed from Nikkei 225 stocks, extending the empirical evidence on asymmetry to Japanese stocks. Although volatility asymmetry is present and significant at the market and the portfolio levels, its source differs across portfolios. We find that it is important to include leverage ratios in the volatility dynamics but that their economic effects are mostly dwarfed by the volatility feedback mechanism. Volatility feedback is enhanced by a phenomenon that we term covariance asymmetry: conditional covariances with the market increase only significantly following negative market news. We do not find significant asymmetries in conditional betas.
Download or read book Intelligent Computing Optimization written by Pandian Vasant and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 1215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of Springer Nature is another proof of Springer’s outstanding and greatness on the lively interface of Smart Computational Optimization, Green ICT, Smart Intelligence and Machine Learning! It is a Master Piece of what our community of academics and experts can provide when an Interconnected Approach of Joint, Mutual and Meta Learning is supported by Modern Operational Research and Experience of the World-Leader Springer Nature! The 5th edition of International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Optimization took place at October 27–28, 2022, via Zoom. Objective was to celebrate “Creativity with Compassion and Wisdom” with researchers, scholars, experts and investigators in Intelligent Computing and Optimization across the planet, to share knowledge, experience, innovation—a marvelous opportunity for discourse and mutuality by novel research, invention and creativity. This proceedings book of ICO’2022 is published by Springer Nature—Quality Label of wonderful.
Download or read book Gendering European Integration Theory written by Gabriele Abels and published by Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors engage a dialogue between European integration theories and gender studies. The contributions illustrate where and how gender scholarship has made creative use of integration theories and thus contributes to a vivid theoretical debate. The chapters are designed to make gender scholarship more visible to integration theory and, in this way stimulates the broader theoretical debates. Investigating the whole range of integration theory with a gender lens, the authors illustrate if and how gender scholarship has made or can make creative use of integration theories.
Download or read book Power and Negotiation written by I. William Zartman and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines perceived power on the basis of which symmetries and asymmetries in the relations between parties can be identified
Download or read book Predictive Ability of Asymmetric Volatility Models At Medium Term Horizons written by Turgut Kisinbay and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using realized volatility to estimate conditional variance of financial returns, we compare forecasts of volatility from linear GARCH models with asymmetric ones. We consider horizons extending to 30 days. Forecasts are compared using three different evaluation tests. With data from an equity index and two foreign exchange returns, we show that asymmetric models provide statistically significant forecast improvements upon the GARCH model for two of the datasets and improve forecasts for all datasets by means of forecasts combinations. These results extend to about 10 days in the future, beyond which the forecasts are statistically inseparable from each other.
Download or read book Social Psychology and Economics written by David De Cremer and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an attempt to integrate the fields of social psychology and economics. It promotes a move to a more intensive and efficient relationship between the two fields and demonstrates how they can focus on their relationship.
Download or read book Military Robots written by Jai Galliott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers have wrestled over the morality and ethics of war for nearly as long as human beings have been waging it. The death and destruction that unmanned warfare entails magnifies the moral and ethical challenges we face in conventional warfare and everyday society. Intrinsically linked are questions and perennial problems concerning what justifies the initial resort to war, who may be legitimately targeted in warfare, who should be permitted to serve the military, the collateral effects of military weaponry and the methods of determining and dealing with violations of the laws of war. This book provides a comprehensive and unifying analysis of the moral, political and social questions concerning the rise of drone warfare.
Download or read book Theory and Practice of Finance written by Baafi Antwi Joseph (Ph.D), Gladwel Wughanga Mwangasu, Mehrnoush Shahhosseini, Rosa Mukami, Angkawipa Kangsanarak, David K. Ding, Ibrahim Salifu and published by Cari Journals USA LLC. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
