Global Covenant

Author : Robert Jackson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000-08-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198296256

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The Global Covenant is a ground-breaking work by one of the leading scholars in international relations that rejuvenates the classical international society approach, and brings it into contact with the new era of world politics. It is a major study of international society that presents a comprehensive analysis of international peace and security, war and intervention, human rights, failed states, territories and boundaries, and democracy. It contemplates the future of international society in the 21st century. It is also a major attempt to justify the world-wide state system as a foundation of political freedom. - ;The Global Covernant is a ground-breaking work by one of the leading scholars in international relations that rejuvenates the classical international society approach, and brings it into contact with the new era of world politics. It investigates the most important international issues of our time, including peace and security, war and intervention, human rights, failed states, territories and boundaries, and democracy. It draws on a family of closely related disciplines: diplomatic and military history, international legal studies, and international political theory. It addresses basic methodological questions and presents the elements of a human sciences approach to the study of world politics. It contemplates the future of international society in the 21st century. The Global Covenant concludes by justifying the pluralist society of sovereign states as one that respects human diversity and upholds human freedom. - ;Robert Jackson's The Global Covenant ought to rank among the most distinctive and important books of international relations theory written by a Canadian scholar ... it has much to teach those who think and teach within the discipline - Canadian Journal of Political Science;Comprehensive and well researched ... The Global Covenant defends the pluralist view of international society very well - The Ethnic Conflict Research Digest

Author : David Held
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745637112

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In this pathbreaking book, one of the world’s leading analysts of globalization and global governance confronts the failures of international politics in the aftermath of 9/11 and the war against Iraq. He argues that there were and are alternatives to the way the western coalitions responded to the profound challenges of mass terrorism and political violence - alternatives which can better address the roots of these challenges and deliver political and social justice. In order to grasp this alternative, the changing structure of the global order has to be understood. To this end, the book is divided into three sections: economics, politics and law. In each section contemporary trends are analyzed, problems confronted, and a series of detailed policies set out. The aim of the book is to focus on feasible and effective policy choices which could lead to a progressive transformation of global affairs. Against the ideologues who are wholly in favour or hostile to globalization, this book shows how globalization can be better regulated to deliver human development, equitable economic change, democracy and justice. This is an original book that will appeal to all those - students, policy makers, and the general reader - who confront questions about globalization and global governance. It is an optimistic text that holds that progressive political change is still within our grasp. To read the transcript of an interview with the author on the Global Covenant in democratiya, please click here .

Author : Maude Barlow
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781595586377

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Blue Covenant by Maude Barlow Pdf

A cautionary account of climate change and the global water supply. “You will not turn on the tap in the same way after reading this book.” —Robert Redford In a book hailed by Publishers Weekly as a “passionate plea for access-to-water activism,” Blue Covenant addresses an environmental crisis that—together with global warming—poses one of the gravest threats to our survival. How did the world’s most vital resource become imperiled? And what must we do to pull back from the brink? In “stark and nearly devastating prose”, world-renowned activist and bestselling author Maude Barlow—who is featured in the acclaimed documentary Flow—discusses the state of the world’s water. Barlow examines how water companies are reaping vast profits from declining supplies, and how ordinary people from around the world have banded together to reclaim the public’s right to clean water, creating a grassroots global water justice movement. While tracing the history of international battles for the right to water, she documents the life-and-death stakes involved in the fight and lays out the actions that we as global citizens must take to secure a water-just world for all (Booklist). “Sounds the water alarm with conviction and authority.” —Kirkus Reviews “This book proves that water deserves another destiny.” —Eduardo Galeano “Blue Covenant will inspire civil society movements around the world.” —Vandana Shiva

Author : Robert Jackson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191037412

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The Global Covenant by Robert Jackson Pdf

The Global Covernant is a ground-breaking work by one of the leading scholars in international relations that rejuvenates the classical international society approach, and brings it into contact with the new era of world politics. It investigates the most important international issues of our time, including peace and security, war and intervention, human rights, failed states, territories and boundaries, and democracy. It draws on a family of closely related disciplines: diplomatic and military history, international legal studies, and international political theory. It addresses basic methodological questions and presents the elements of a human sciences approach to the study of world politics. It contemplates the future of international society in the 21st century. The Global Covenant concludes by justifying the pluralist society of sovereign states as one that respects human diversity and upholds human freedom.

Author : Elizabeth Evans
Publisher : Elizabeth Evans
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Global Covenant to Protect the Sacred Lives of Children by Elizabeth Evans Pdf

The “Global Covenant to Protect the Sacred Lives of Children”, represents my soul’s mission to advocate for children and my life’s work, to be a voice for children. I want the content of this book to be a global “light” to bring humanity to an understanding of how of the welfare of our children must be our priority. I believe that we can change the world’s perspective of “who children are to us”, and “what we must do to love and protect them”! I have a dream and I hold a vision that we will “stand up”, “speak up”, and “show up “, for our children! They deserve the best of who we are. They deserve the fullness of a life filled with loving, attentive, and righteous adults at the helm of their ship on this life’s voyage. This conversation is not a document that is governmental in texture like a “Bill of Rights”. This goes deeper reaching out to the soul essence of mankind. This is a “covenant”, something that is a spiritual agreement that cannot be broken, repealed, or amended. It reaches beyond anyone’s lifetime and for that matter is beyond linear timelines. It just “is”.

Author : Robert Harry Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:149902988

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Author : Robert H. Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:881177501

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The Global Covenant by Robert H. Jackson Pdf

Author : Ben Saul,David Kinley,Jaqueline Mowbray
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1358 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199640300

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The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by Ben Saul,David Kinley,Jaqueline Mowbray Pdf

"One purpose of this book is to respond to this shift: to look beyond the more abstract and ideological discussions of the nature of socio-economic rights in order to engage empirically with how such rights have manifested in international practice". -- INTRODUCTION.

Author : Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781802079234

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Covenant and World Religions by Alon Goshen-Gottstein Pdf

A new paradigm for relations between religions, one of acceptance and collaboration, requires not only a willingness to move beyond a tradition of hostility and competition but also significant theological rethinking. Within Jewish Orthodoxy there have been very few voices that have advanced and justified a vision of other faiths in this light: to this day, the reigning paradigm is one of practical collaboration while avoiding theologically based engagement or reflection. Two of the most important Orthodox Jewish voices advocating change have been those of Irving Yitz Greenberg and Jonathan Sacks. This book presents the theological, moral, and social views of these two leading rabbis. It focuses on the significance of covenant for both, and how they adapt this concept to enable the development of a Jewish view of other religions. In considering how they may have influenced each other, it also studies the limitations and internal contradictions that characterize their work as they attempt to point the way forward, in a spirit of dialogue, to continuing theological reflection on Judaism’s approach to world religions.

Author : Ben Saul,David Kinley,Jaqueline Mowbray
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1360 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191663338

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The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by Ben Saul,David Kinley,Jaqueline Mowbray Pdf

Economic, social and cultural rights are finally coming of age. This book brings together all essential documents, materials, and case law relating to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) - one of the most important human rights instruments in international law - and its Optional Protocol. This book presents extracts from primary materials alongside critical commentary and analysis, placing the documents in their wider context and situating economic, social, and cultural rights within the broader human rights framework. There is increasing interest internationally, regionally, and in domestic legal systems in the protection of economic, social, and cultural rights. The Optional Protocol of 2008 allows for individual communications to be made to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights after its entry into force in 2013. At the regional level, socio-economic rights are well embedded in human rights systems in Europe, Africa and the Americas. At the national level, constitutions and courts have increasingly regarded socio-economic rights as justiciable, narrowing the traditional divide with civil and political rights. This book contextualises these developments in the context of the ICESCR. It provides detailed analysis of the ICESCR structured around its articles, drawing on national as well as international case law and materials, and containing all of the key primary materials in its extensive appendices. This book is indispensible for the judiciary, human rights practitioners, government legal advisers and agencies, national human rights institutions, international organisations, regional human rights bodies, NGOs and human rights activists, academics, and students alike.

Author : María Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona
Publisher : Intersentia nv
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 9789050952606

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The Nature of the Obligations Under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by María Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona Pdf

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Author : Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0104005440

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International Covenant on Economic,Social and Cultural Rights,Twenty-First Report of Session 2003-04,Report,Together with Formal Minutes,Minutes of Evidence and Appendices by Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights Pdf

The Joint Committee on Human Rights examined the implementation of the UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the UK. Domestic legislation protects many of the economic, social and cultural rights, with the Covenant itself having little impact in UK domestic law. The Committee believes that there is scope for incorporating further protection of rights in the UK, by enshrining some of the guarantees contained in the Covenant. Further, that for the Covenant rights to be effective, they should be part of a framework for government policy development, and that Government along with the Commission for Equality and Human Rights should develop ways of measuring the progress of these rights. The Committee also recommends, that explanatory notes to Bills, should include discussion of the Bills compatibility with Covenant rights, which is a way of enhancing the scrutiny of proposed Government legislation. Furthermore, the Committee recommends the introduction of an Equality Bill, to address the concerns of discrimination faced by ethnic minorities and persons with disabilities in employment, housing and education.

Author : Peter Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415617246

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Corporations, Global Governance, and Post-conflict Reconstruction by Peter Davis Pdf

This book looks at the impact multinational companies have in post-conflict environments, the role they have and how they are governed, drawing on detailed fieldwork in Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Rwanda.

Author : Ben Saul
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 2054 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191074974

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The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by Ben Saul Pdf

This book is the first collection of the drafting records of the one of the world's two foremost human rights treaties, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) of 1966. It makes an important contribution to understanding the origins and meaning of economic and social rights, which were drafted over almost two decades years between 1947 and 1966. There is increasing global interest in the stronger protection of economic, social, and cultural rights, which are vital to the survival, dignity, and prosperity of everyone. Since 2013, individuals have been able to complain to the United Nations about violations of their rights, and action can also often be taken through regional and national human rights procedures. In this context, many of the current debates surrounding economic and social rights can be best understood in the light of their drafting history. This book judiciously selects, and chronologically presents, the most important drafting documents or extracts thereof between 1947 and 1966. The book contains an extensive annotated table of documents, allowing researchers to track the progress of the key rights and issues in the drafting. It also includes an original analytical introductory essay, which summarises and analyses the main procedural and substantive developments during the drafting. The essay charts the many influences on the recognition of economic and social rights at a key moment in history: the aftermath of the Second World War, which demonstrated the need to eliminate the economic and social causes of threats to global peace and security. This book is essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and students of international human rights law.

Author : van der Berg, Angela,Verschuuren, Jonathan
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781803922508

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Urban Climate Resilience by van der Berg, Angela,Verschuuren, Jonathan Pdf

This significant book addresses the most important legal issues that cities face when attempting to adapt to the changing climate. This includes how to become more resilient against the impacts of climate change such as sea level rise, increases in the intensity and frequency of storms, floods, droughts, and extreme temperatures.