Angel Versetti

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) has been, since

1994, the only globally recognised codification of rights and responsibilities of nations in

the international waters, also known as the high seas. For the purpose of this essay we

shall only consider Part VII (High Seas) of UNCLOS, as the international cyberspace is in

many ways comparable to the international waters, and their security regulations, as we

will see throughout the essay, pose many similar challenges. Within Part VII of UNCLOS

the following two relevant themes arise (clustered by author): inclusive and safe usage and

navigation of the high seas (Art. 87-94, 97) and suppression of piracy and other criminal

acts in the high seas (Art. 100-109, 111)

purposes of relevant concepts (free navigation, illegal acts, aggression, etc.) as well as to

consider the rights and responsibilities of the nation states between those applicable in

international waters and in cyberspace.

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Book Review: Talking Prices by Olav Velthuis

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
I. Introduction
II. Juxtaposition of art and commerce: the trichotomy of the avant-garde galleries, conservative dealers and auction houses
III. Money as the building block of relationships between artists, dealers and collectors
IV. Pricing works of art: bending rationality and twisting the economic principles
V. Social fabric of the art market
VI. Conclusion

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Analysis of the historical development of the Liberal Thought. John Lock, John Stuart Mill, Alexis de Tocqueville and Adam Smith

The essay consists of 3 main parts:

I. Liberalism: Live and Let Live
II. Liberty and Private Property
III. The Will of the Majority: From the Advancement of the Public Good to Democratic Despotism

Comparative analysis of “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and "Perfume" by Patrick Süskind.

Subject: To what extent is magical realism successful in entertaining the readers, whilst maintaining the balance between historical accuracy and superstitious mysticism?

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Africa and India each have a big island off their south-eastern tips – Madagascar and
Sri Lanka respectively. These two islands share many commonalities: their populations
today are 22 and 24 million respectively 1 ; each has multi-ethnic population; each was a
colony of a Western power (from 1882/1897 and 1815); and each became independent
post-WWII (in 1960 and 1948); each has extremely high, unique bio-diversity, similarly
threatened by deforestation; each holds a strategic maritime location, yet prone to natural
hazards (albeit, arguably, Sri Lanka’s is more so, in both cases 2 ); each had adopted socialist
economic policies at some point of the 1970s and then radically liberalised their
economies; and each has experienced multiple serious political and constitutional crises
over the past 50 years.
Most importantly for this discussion, both islands had an equally miserable state of
economic affairs in the 1960s and the early 1970s, throughout which their GDP per capita
indicators, seen on the title page, make it seem as if their economies had been glued
together. They were each a poor, agrarian, commodity-exporting economy. But then,
from the late 1970s onwards, Sri Lanka entered and has remained on an amazing
economic growth path that has allowed it to increase its GDP per capita from 273$ in
1980 to 3’820$ in 2014 3 , while Madagascar’s GDP per capita between 1980 and 2014
decreased from 462$ to 449$ 4 . Sri Lanka has become a middle-income, industrialised,
service-based economy with the highest Human Development Index (HDI) in South
Asia 5 and even has its own space satellite 6 . Madagascar has around 90% of its population
living in poverty 7 and remains among the most backward economies in the world.

"""It has been established that Conservative Protestantism and Roman Catholicism – both through active individuals and interest groups – exert significant influence on legislation in the USA. Legalisation of same-sex marriages has been a contentious legislative issue for conservative Christians, who make up the majority of opposition to same-sex marriages in the US. Since the issue is ongoing on a national scale and is subject to fierce responses from both sides of the argument, it is interesting to analyse the effectiveness of conservative Christian interest groups in preventing legalisation of same-sex marriages in the USA since the 1990s and to attempt to predict the outcome of this controversy.

This paper aims to prove that through active lobbying, organisatorial skills and tactical management of social movements, Roman Catholic and Conservative Protestant interest groups have been more effective in preventing and forcing repeal of any legislation that aimed at legalisation of same-sex marriages in the USA, than liberal movements have been in promoting its enactment. Nonetheless, the latter will inevitably emerge victorious from this battle and the Christian institutions will have to adapt to the liberal tendency of Americans in order to preserve their political power."""

This Policy Brief proposes a framework of policies to create the regulatory environment and financing mechanisms necessary to increase capital flows into the Energy Savings Companies (ESCOs) in India, in order to foster wider adoption of energy-efficiency across all sectors, with particular focus on the industrial sector. The Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) is amongst the largest-scale economic development projects ever undertaken by the Government of India and it includes a comprehensive range of industrial objectives, including efficient use of energy. DMIC thus offers an opportunity to serve as catalyst to attract sufficient amounts of capital from the private sector, both domestic and foreign, required to finance business growth of

This essay consists of 3 main parts:

PART I encompasses the broad notion of global governance within the framework of International Relations, providing definitional and theoretical aspects of global governance. In simple words, it will try to answer what global governance is, what subsets it contains and how these are interconnected and implemented. We will see that global governance is a complex rapidly-evolving concept involving multilateral and multilevel political, military and economic co-operation. Due to the breadth of the area covered by global governance, the essay will mainly focus on security and defence strategies within global governance.

PART II builds a comparative overview of engagement of the US, Russia and the EU in global governance with a degree of critical evaluation of the governance policies. Firstly, we will see how the former Cold War era rivalry still heavily influences the foreign policy of all three actors (particularly for Russia), which acts as an obstacle to effective global governance. Then we will also see through a case study (the Iraq War) that the US, despite its legitimacy as the leader of global governance being constantly challenged, can engage in a major process of global governanceeven with clear opposition from Russia and the EU.

PART III forges conclusive remarks about the development of complex interaction between the three agents, assessing the extent of the effectiveness of their co-operation, and finally examines theshifting balance in global governance powers within the broader context of the emerging powers such as BRICS. It will argue that BRICS and many other existing alliances (such as the SCO for instance) are generally viewed as politically-motivated copycats of the US/EU-dominated political or monetary mechanisms. The rising powers are yet to develop any clear agenda beyond that challenging the US global leadership. Finally, Russia’s unclear position between the old powers andemerging powers will be assessed. The main finding is that Russia clearly wants to belong to the world’s Great powers, but due to lack of recognition as such by the US or the EU, prefers to side with the developing countries and engage in global governance by building alternative networks.