Introduction: The Promise, Practice and Challenges of Non-Kinetic Instruments of Power -- The Resilient Mind-Set and Deterrence -- On the Instrumentality of Soft Power; or Putin against Democracy Promotion -- 'NATO needs more than planes and tanks and guns’ – Western strategic communication in the 1970s and 1980s and its implications for today -- The Snake Oil of Stabilisation? Explaining t…
This book deals with child soldiers’ involvement in crimes under international law. Child soldiers are often victims of grave human rights abuses, and yet, in some cases, they also participate actively in inflicting violence upon others. Nonetheless, the international discourse on child soldiers often tends to ignore the latter dimension of children’s involvement in armed conflict and inste…
Regulating free trade from the WTO perspective -- Subsidies in international trade from the WTO perspective -- Discussing agriculture subsidies from the WTO perspective -- Subsidies for dumping -- Unfolding the intricacies of trade subsidies through the WTO rules of origins -- The impact of trade subsidies on the environment: a problem for the WTO trading system -- Remedies: the procedural meas…
Introduction -- Setting the Theoretical Framework and Methodology -- Subjective Rational Compliance Calculation and Deterrence: Theory and Empirical Evidence -- Situational Compliance Legitimacy: Theory and Empirical Evidence -- Capacity and Pesticide Compliance: Theory and Empirical Evidence -- The Many Roads to Compliance: Explaining the Complexity of Patterns Contributing to Pesticide Compli…
1 Introduction: Perspectives of various stakeholders and challenges for international law -- 2 Jurisdiction and attribution of State responsibility in cyberspace -- 3 Regulation of the cyberspace and human rights -- 4 Cyber warfare -- 5 Application of the law of armed conflict, including international humanitarian law, in the cyberspace -- 6 Cyber espionage -- 7 Cyber crimes -- 8 Cyber terroris…
1 Introduction: Key Issues in the Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions in Africa -- 2 Traditional Cultural Expressions in Africa -- 3 The Negative Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions in Africa -- 4 Heritage Protection and Traditional Cultural Expressions in Africa -- 5 The Positive Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions by Intellectual Property Rights in Arica -- 6 …
1. Towards Global Gambling -- 2. Bringing Crime to the City? Casinos, Betting Shops and Criminality -- 3. Gambling, Problem Gambling, Crime and the Criminal Justice System -- 4. Organised Crime, Gambling and Illegal Gambling -- 5. Gambling, Sport and Corruption -- 6. Internet Gambling, Crime and the Regulation of Virtual Environments -- 7. Gambling and Crime: Myths and Realities.This book explo…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Reducing Risk and Encouraging Desistance -- Chapter 3. Supporting Agency and Facilitating Reintegration -- Chapter 4 Resilience and Belonging -- Chapter 5. Redirecting the Motivation to Offend -- Chapter 6. Reintegrating Extremists.This book presents an in-depth analysis of how statutory and third sector organisations have faced the challenge of dealing wit…
Part I Equality and States: Are Some States More ‘Equal’ than Others? -- Part II The Structural Aspects of the Principle of Equality in the EU -- Part III Equality in Specific Policy Domains of the EU.This book provides a comprehensive and updated legal analysis of the equality principle in EU law. To this end, it argues for a broad definition of the principle, which includes not only its i…
Foreword by Patricia Arias -- Introduction by Helena Torroja Mateu -- Afghanistan and Syria: Non-state Actors and their Negative Impact on Human Security by Mario Laborie -- Delimitation and Presence of PMSCs: Impact on Human Rights by Felipe Daza -- The Ineffectiveness of the Current Definition of a ‘Mercenary’ in International Humanitarian and Criminal Law by José L. Gómez del Prado -- …