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Stealing Lives

The Globalization of Baseball and the Tragic Story of Alexis Quiroz

By: Arturo J. Marcano Guevara,David P. Fidler

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Stealing Lives

The Globalization of Baseball and the Tragic Story of Alexis Quiroz

By: Arturo J. Marcano Guevara,David P. Fidler

While some Latin American superstars have overcome discrimination to strike gold in baseball's big leagues, thousands more Latin American players never make it to "The Show." Stealing Lives focuses on the plight of one Venezuelan teenager and documents abuses that take place against Latin children and young men as baseball becomes a global business. The authors reveal that in their efforts to secure cheap labor, Major League teams often violate the basic human rights of children. As a young boy growing up in Venezuela, Alexis Quiroz dreamed of playing in the Major Leagues. Alexis's dreams were like those of thousands of other boys in the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, and Major League teams encouraged such dreams by recruiting Latin children as young as 10 and 11 years old. Determined to become a big league player, Alexis finished high school early and dedicated himself to landing a contract with a Major League team. Alexis signed with the Chicago Cubs in 1995 at age 17 and then began a harrowing ordeal of exploitation, mistreatment, and disrespect at the hands of the Chicago Cubs, including playing for the Cubs' Dominican Summer League team in appalling living conditions. Alexis's baseball career came to an abrupt end by an injury for which the Cubs provided no adequate medical treatment. The story continues, however, with Alexis's pursuit of justice in the United States to ensure that other Venezuelan and Dominican boys do not encounter similar experiences. What happened to Alexis is not an isolated case-Major League teams routinely deny Latin children and young men the basic protections that their U.S. counterparts take for granted. This exploitation violates international legal standards on labor standards and the human rights of children. Stealing Lives concludes by analyzing various reforms to redress the inequities big league baseball creates in its globalization.

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Indiana University Press

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0253109566

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9780253109569

Biosecurity in the Global Age

Biological Weapons, Public Health, and the Rule of Law

By: David Fidler,Lawrence Ogalthorpe Gostin

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Biosecurity in the Global Age

Biological Weapons, Public Health, and the Rule of Law

By: David Fidler,Lawrence Ogalthorpe Gostin

The renewed threat of biological weapons highlights the importance of crafting policy responses informed by the rule of law. This book explores patterns in recent governance initiatives and advocates building a "global biosecurity concert" as a way to address the threats presented by biological weapons and infectious diseases in the early 21st century."--BOOK JACKET.

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Stanford University Press

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0804750297

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9780804750295

Empire And Community

Edmund Burke's Writings And Speeches On International Relations

By: David P. Fidler

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Empire And Community

Edmund Burke's Writings And Speeches On International Relations

By: David P. Fidler

Empire and Community provides the first comprehensive presentation of Edmund Burke’s thinking on international relations. Although Burke’s writings and speeches have been the subject of much analysis and controversy, his perspective on international relations has not been fully addressed by the scholarly community. David P. Fidler and Jennifer M. Welsh establish Burke as a “classical thinker” on international relations and help to situate his thinking within current international relations theory. Their detailed introduction is followed by edited selections from Burke’s writings and speeches on Ireland, America, India, and the French Revolution.

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Routledge

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0429980450

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9780429980459

Urban Planning And The Development Process

By: David Adams

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Urban Planning And The Development Process

By: David Adams

This text is about the very essence of urban planning in a market economy. It is concerned with people - landowners, developers, investors, politicians and ordinary members of the public - who produce change in towns and cities as they relate to each other and react to development Pressure. Whether Such Change Occurs Slowly And Is Almost Unnoticed, Or happens rapidly and is highly disruptive, a production process is creating a finished product: the built environment. This form of production, known as the land and property development process, is regulated but not controlled by the state. Urban planning is therefore best considered as one form of state intervention in the development process.; Since urban planning would have no legitimate basis without state power, it is an inherently political activity, able to alter the distribution of scarce environmental resources. Through doing so, it seeks to resolve conflicts of interest over the use and development of land. However, urban plans that appear to favour particular interests such as house-builders above others such as community groups provoke intense controversy. Development planning can thus become highly politicized, with alliances and divisions between politicians not always explained by traditional party politics.; These issues are explored with particular reference to statutory plan-making at the local level. The author draws on his extensive research into urban planning and development, making use of recent case studies and examples to illustrate key points. There are four parts. The first explores the operation of land and property markets and development processes, and examines how the state intervenes in the form of urban planning. The second part looks at the people and organizations who play a critical role in shaping the built environment and considers their relationship with the planning system. Specific attention is paid to important actors in the development process, such as landowners, developers, financial institutions, professional advisers and to the variety of agencies in the public sector that aim to promote development. This concludes with discussion of public- private partnerships and growth coalitions. The third part of the book concentrates on local development planning.

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Routledge

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113515404X

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Death by Moderation

The U.S. Military's Quest for Useable Weapons

By: David A. Koplow

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Death by Moderation

The U.S. Military's Quest for Useable Weapons

By: David A. Koplow

Addresses the military's pursuit of 'usable' weaponry that is deliberately crafted to be less powerful, less deadly, and less destructive than the systems it is designed to supplement or replace.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521119510

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9780521119511

Rethinking Europe's Future

By: David P. Calleo

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Rethinking Europe's Future

By: David P. Calleo

Rethinking Europe's Future is a major reevaluation of Europe's prospects as it enters the twenty-first century. David Calleo has written a book worthy of the complexity and grandeur of the challenges Europe now faces. Summoning the insights of history, political economy, and philosophy, he explains why Europe was for a long time the world's greatest problem and how the Cold War's bipolar partition brought stability of a sort. Without the Cold War, Europe risks revisiting its more traditional history. With so many contingent factors--in particular Russia and Europe's Muslim neighbors--no one, Calleo believes, can pretend to predict the future with assurance. Calleo's book ponders how to think about this future. The book begins by considering the rival ''lessons'' and trends that emerge from Europe's deeper past. It goes on to discuss the theories for managing the traditional state system, the transition from autocratic states to communitarian nation states, the enduring strength of nation states, and their uneasy relationship with capitalism. Calleo next focuses on the Cold War's dynamic legacies for Europe--an Atlantic Alliance, a European Union, and a global economy. These three systems now compete to define the future. The book's third and major section examines how Europe has tried to meet the present challenges of Russian weakness and German reunification. Succeeding chapters focus on Maastricht and the Euro, on the impact of globalization on Europeanization, and on the EU's unfinished business--expanding into ''Pan Europe,'' adapting a hybrid constitution, and creating a new security system. Calleo presents three models of a new Europe--each proposing a different relationship with the U.S. and Russia. A final chapter probes how a strong European Union might affect the world and the prospects for American hegemony. This is a beautifully written book that offers rich insight into a critical moment in our history, whose outcome will shape the world long after our time.

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Princeton University Press

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1400824303

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9781400824304

Personal Insolvency Law, Regulation and Policy

By: David Milman

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Personal Insolvency Law, Regulation and Policy

By: David Milman

As the radical reforms contained in the Enterprise Act 2002 have come fully on-stream, Personal Insolvency Law has become a major focus of attention. At the same time, all evidence points to increasing levels of personal debt with the consequential rise in bankruptcies. Personal Insolvency Law, Regulation and Policy therefore provides a timely evaluation of the current state of English law in this important area. The volume presents a critical analysis of the regimes of bankruptcy and individual voluntary arrangement in the context of current policy goals. It examines the impact of the Insolvency Act 2000 and the Enterprise Act 2002, and discusses the treatment of bankruptcy within the global economy. The book will be a valuable guide for students and academics engaged in the study of this increasingly important branch of private law. The study will also be of value to practitioners and policy makers.

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Routledge

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1351911864

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9781351911863

Advanced Introduction to Cybersecurity Law

By: Fidler, David P.

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Advanced Introduction to Cybersecurity Law

By: Fidler, David P.

This succinct Advanced Introduction delivers insights into the pressing technological, political, and legal challenges of cybersecurity. Exploring cybersecurity threats on both a national and global scale, it provides guidance on how countries use domestic and international law to counter crime, terrorism, espionage, and armed conflict in cyberspace.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1800883358

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9781800883352

Non-Lethal Weapons

The Law and Policy of Revolutionary Technologies for the Military and Law Enforcement

By: David A. Koplow

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Non-Lethal Weapons

The Law and Policy of Revolutionary Technologies for the Military and Law Enforcement

By: David A. Koplow

Too often, military and law enforcement authorities have found themselves constrained by inadequate weaponry. An emerging category of 'non-lethal weapons' carries promise for resolving this dilemma, proffering new capabilities for disabling opponents without inflicting death or permanent injury. This array of much more sophisticated technologies is being developed, and could emerge for use by soldiers and police in the near future. These augmented capabilities carry both immense promise and grave risks: they expand the power of law enforcement and military units, enabling them to accomplish assigned missions with greater finesse and reduced casualties. But they may also be misused - increasing maligned applications and inspiring leaders to over-rely upon a myth of 'bloodless combat'. This book explores the emerging world of non-lethal weapons by examining a series of case studies - recent real-world scenarios from five confrontations around the world where the availability of a modern arsenal might have made a difference.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139456962

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9781139456968

Defending Democracies

Combating Foreign Election Interference in a Digital Age

By: Jens David Ohlin,Duncan B. Hollis

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Defending Democracies

Combating Foreign Election Interference in a Digital Age

By: Jens David Ohlin,Duncan B. Hollis

Election interference is one of the most widely discussed international phenomena of the last five years. Russian covert interference in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election elevated the topic into a national priority, but that experience was far from an isolated one. Evidence of election interference by foreign states or their proxies has become a regular feature of national elections and is likely to get worse in the near future. Information and communication technologies afford those who would interfere with new tools that can operate in ways previously unimaginable: Twitter bots, Facebook advertisements, closed social media platforms, algorithms that prioritize extreme views, disinformation, misinformation, and malware that steals secret campaign communications. Defending Democracies examines the problem through an interdisciplinary lens and focuses on: (i) defining the problem of foreign election interference, (ii) exploring the solutions that international law might bring to bear, and (iii) considering alternative regulatory frameworks for understanding and addressing the problem. The result is a deeply urgent examination of an old problem on social media steroids, one that implicates the most central institution of liberal democracy: elections. The volume seeks to bring domestic and international perspectives on elections and election law into conversation with other disciplinary frameworks, escaping the typical biases of lawyers who prefer international legal solutions for issues of international relations. Taken together, the chapters in this volume represent a more faithful representation of the broad array of solutions that might be deployed, including international and domestic, legal and extra-legal, ambitious and cautious.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0197556973

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9780197556979

Human Security

Theory and Action

By: David Andersen-Rodgers,Kerry F. Crawford

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Human Security

Theory and Action

By: David Andersen-Rodgers,Kerry F. Crawford

This book examines the roots of human security, connecting its origins to its applications and challenges in war and peacetime.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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144227378X

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9781442273788

Smallpox

The Fight to Eradicate a Global Scourge

By: David A. Koplow

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Smallpox

The Fight to Eradicate a Global Scourge

By: David A. Koplow

Looks at the history of the smallpox virus, providing an overview of the political, biological, environmental, medical, and legal issues surrounding the question of whether or not the virus should be exterminated.

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Univ of California Press

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0520237323

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9780520237322

International Law and Infectious Diseases

By: David P. Fidler

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International Law and Infectious Diseases

By: David P. Fidler

The intersection between international law and infectious diseases is the subject of this book. The globalization of public health and related international law, the International Health Regulations, and international law on trade, human rights, and armed conflict are among

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Oxford University Press on Demand

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0198268513

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9780198268512

SARS, Governance and the Globalization of Disease

By: David P. Fidler

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SARS, Governance and the Globalization of Disease

By: David P. Fidler

SARS, Governance and the Globalization of Disease provides a comprehensive and original analysis of the historic global SARS outbreak of 2003. David P. Fidler constructs a political pathology of the SARS outbreak, analyzes the government responses to it, places these responses in historical context and assesses the implications of the successful management of the outbreak for handling future pathogenic threats that will arise. The book includes a detailed description of the outbreak and governance responses to it, as well as a focused analysis of China's role in the outbreak.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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140393326X

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9781403933263

Advanced Introduction to Cybersecurity Law

By: Fidler, David P.

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Advanced Introduction to Cybersecurity Law

By: Fidler, David P.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1800883358

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Book's by David P. Fidler

Stealing Lives

Stealing Lives

Biosecurity in the Global Age

Biosecurity in the Global Age

Empire And Community

Empire And Community

Urban Planning And The Development Process

Urban Planning And The Development Process

Death by Moderation

Death by Moderation

Rethinking Europe's Future

Rethinking Europe's Future

Personal Insolvency Law, Regulation and Policy

Personal Insolvency Law, Regulation and Policy

Advanced Introduction to Cybersecurity Law

Advanced Introduction to Cybersecurity Law

Non-Lethal Weapons

Non-Lethal Weapons

Defending Democracies

Defending Democracies

Human Security

Human Security

Smallpox

Smallpox

International Law and Infectious Diseases

International Law and Infectious Diseases

SARS, Governance and the Globalization of Disease

SARS, Governance and the Globalization of Disease

Advanced Introduction to Cybersecurity Law

Advanced Introduction to Cybersecurity Law

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