As successful survivors of the destruction that fell upon most indigenous communities after the arrival of European conquerors to America, the Wayuu have been part of Colombia's identity for hundreds of years. Combining contemporary journalism and recent photographs, this book evokes the arid conditions of their home in the Colombian desert and their wisdom and traditions that continue into the present day. Exitosos sobrevivientes del trágico destino que sobre la mayoría de las culturas indígenas se cernió luego de la llegada del hombre europeo a América, la etnia Wayuú constituye desde hace cientos de años uno de los principales paradigmas de la identidad cultural colombiana. Combinando el periodismo actual y la fotografía reciente, este libro es más que una mirada puramente histórica—logra develar este universo sobrenatural y sin par de los Wayuú, logrando concretar así un libro en donde la sabiduría del indio, heredero del desierto colombiano, se combina con la del nativo como individuo de una sociedad alienada.
The Wayuu, descendants of the Arawak Indians of the Guyanas, are one of the few ethnic groups throughout the American continent to have successfully resisted European domination. This book is a fantastic, dreamlike journey through the dynamic culture and landscapes of the Wayuu today -- a semi-nomadic community of shepherds who inhabit the Colombian peninsula of La Guajira, the most desolate and barren territory in the entire Caribbean.
Today there are more than 2,500 bilateral investment treaties (BITs) around the world. Most of these investment protection treaties offer foreign investors a direct cause of action to claim damages against host-states before international arbitral tribunals. This procedure, together with the requirement of compensation in indirect expropriations and the fair and equitable treatment standard, have transformed the way we think about state liability in international law. We live in the BIT generation, a world where BITs define the scope and conditions according to which states are economically accountable for the consequences of regulatory change and administrative action. Investment arbitration in the BIT generation carries new functions which pose unprecedented normative challenges, such as the arbitral bodies established to resolve investor/state disputes defining the relationship between property rights and the public interest. They also review state action for arbitrariness, and define the proper tests under which that review should proceed. State Liability in Investment Treaty Arbitration is an interdisciplinary work, aimed at academics and practitioners, which focuses on five key dimensions of BIT arbitration. First, it analyses the past practice of state responsibility for injuries to aliens, placing the BIT generation in historical perspective. Second, it develops a descriptive law-and-economics model that explains the proliferation of BITs, and why they are all worded so similarly. Third, it addresses the legitimacy deficits of this new form of dispute settlement, weighing its potential advantages and democratic shortfalls. Fourth, it gives a comparative overview of the universal tension between property rights and the public interest, and the problems and challenges associated with liability grounded in illegal and arbitrary state action. Finally, it presents a detailed legal study of the current state of BIT jurisprudence regarding indirect expropriations and the fair and equitable treatment clause. This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's International Arbitration online service.
How do you create world-class educational institutions that are academically rigorous and vocationally relevant? Are business schools the blueprint for institutions of the future, oran educational experiment gone wrong? This is thefirst title in a new series from IE Business School, IE Business Publishing .
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