Power and Policy in Quest of the Law
Author | : Myres S Mac Dougal |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1985-09-30 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9789024729111 |
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Author | : Myres S Mac Dougal |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1985-09-30 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9789024729111 |
Author | : Kristina Tamm Hallström |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781843764816 |
This book investigates the ways in which global standardization organizations establish, negotiate, and maintain their authority and legitimacy, thereby inducing companies, states, and other organizations to adopt and implement the voluntary standards they produce.The book examines the structure and workings of two major standard-setters: the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC). Within ISO, the author studies Technical Committee 176, which is responsible for standards for quality assurance and quality management - the much-discussed ISO 9000 standards implemented by thousands of companies around the world. The IASC sets global accounting standards that are increasingly important in an era of rising demands for transparent, full-disclosure financial reporting. On the basis of extensive interviews and the analysis of documents produced by the standardization bodies, the author reveals the mechanisms, internal struggles, and variable logics of their globalizing efforts, showing how nominally voluntary implementation programs effectively produce widespread adoption and compliance with complex, highly technical standards.Kristina Tamm Hallström brings together organizational theory, discourse analysis, a global perspective, and an alert sensitivity to power relations to make sense of ISO TC 176 and the IASC. Theoretically nuanced and empirically rich, Organizing International Standardization offers much of value to scholars and practitioners in sociology, international relations, business, accounting, technical disciplines, organizational consulting, and related areas
Author | : Rune Imberg |
Publisher | : Krieger Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
The "Tracts for the Times" are important documents in English church history. They acted as an instrument for the incipient Oxford Movement, which, hence, is often called "Tractarianism". In this study the differences between the original and the later editions of these Tracts are for the first time analysed in detail. The author has traced almost every edition of the Tracts in order to find the answer to the question: "What do the Tracts, and the alterations made in them, reveal about Newman's, Keble's and Pusey's developments?".
Author | : Muthiah Alagappa |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0804725608 |
Despite the end of the Cold War, security continues to be a critical concern of Asian states. Allocations of state revenues to the security sector continue to be substantial and have, in fact, increased in several countries. As Asian nations construct a new security architecture for the Asia-Pacific region, Asian security has received increased attention by the scholarly community. But most of that scholarship has focused on specific issues or selected countries. This book aims to lay the groundwork for a comprehensive, in-depth understanding of Asian security by investigating conceptions of security in sixteen Asian countries. The book undertakes an ethnographic, country-by-country study of how Asian states conceive of their security. For each country, it identifies and explains the security concerns and behavior of central decision makers, asking who or what is to be protected, against what potential threats, and how security policies have changed over time. This inside-out or bottom-up approach facilitates both identification of similarities and differences in the security thinking and practice of Asian countries and exploration of their consequences. The crucial insights into the dynamics of international security in the region provided by this approach can form the basis for further inquiry, including debates about the future of the region.
Author | : Constantin Ardeleanu |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2020-02-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004425969 |
The history of the world’s second international organisation, an innovative techno-political institution established by Europe’s Concert of Powers to remove insecurity from the Lower Danube.
Author | : Jeffrey Stout |
Publisher | : Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Jeffrey Stout argues that modern thought was born in a crisis of authority, took shape in flight from authority, and aspired to autonomy from all traditional influence. The quest for autonomy was an attempt to begin completely anew. As such it was bound to fail. Stout traces the secularization of public discourse and its effect on the relation between theism and culture as well as the severance of morality from traditional moorings in favor of autonomy. He is unabashedly historical in his approach, defending the thesis that all thought is historically conditioned and that historical insight is essential to self-understanding. Each section of the book takes up a major problem in contemporary philosophy - the nature of knowledge, the rationality of religious belief, the autonomy of morality- and sets that problem against the background of early modern disputes over authority. The result is simultaneously a critique of ahistorical biases, a survey of major developments in modern thought, and a normative treatment of the problems addressed. The book culminates in the final section with an account of post-Kantian concern with the autonomy of morals. Morality attained relative independence as a form of discourse only in the modern period, but the nature of this independence is distorted when construed in foundationalist or Kantian terms. After criticizing methodological assumptions in recent moral philosophy and religious ethics, Stout sketches his own account of the emergence of autonomy for morality, stressing the need for substantial rethinking of the relationship between religion and ethics. In a concluding chapter, he places his own position in relation to the philosophical tradition descendant from Hegel.
Author | : Paul Tucker |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 2019-09-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0691196303 |
Tucker presents guiding principles for ensuring that central bankers and other unelected policymakers remain stewards of the common good.
Author | : Ronald Austin Wells |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Daniel Yergin |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 928 |
Release | : 2012-09-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1471104753 |
The Prize recounts the panoramic history of oil -- and the struggle for wealth power that has always surrounded oil. This struggle has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and transformed the destiny of men and nations. The Prize is as much a history of the twentieth century as of the oil industry itself. The canvas of this history is enormous -- from the drilling of the first well in Pennsylvania through two great world wars to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and Operation Desert Storm. The cast extends from wildcatters and rogues to oil tycoons, and from Winston Churchill and Ibn Saud to George Bush and Saddam Hussein. The definitive work on the subject of oil and a major contribution to understanding our century, The Prize is a book of extraordinary breadth, riveting excitement -- and great importance.
Author | : Serge Gavronsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |