State sovereignty

"Table of Contents by Parts/Themes & Chapters 1-25

PART 1 POLICY AND REGULATIONS

1 The Rise and Fall of Intercountry Adoption in the 21st Century: Global Trends from 2001 to 2010 by Peter Selman
2 Social Policy Approaches and Social Work Dilemmas in Intercountry Adoption by Jonathan Dickens
3 Implications of the Hague Convention on the Humanitarian Evacuation and ‘Rescue’ of Children by Kathleen Ja Sook Bergquist
4 Human Rights Considerations in Intercountry Adoption: The Children and Families of Cambodia and Marshall Islands
by Jini Roby and Trish Maskew
5 Fraud in Intercountry Adoption: Child Sales and Abduction in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Guatemala by Karen Smith Rotabi
6 Perspectives on Child Welfare: Ways of Understanding Roles and Actions of Current USA Adoption Agencies Involved in Intercountry Adoptions by Mary Katherine O’Connor and Karen Smith Rotabi

PART 2 SENDING COUNTRY PERSPECTIVES
7 Child Welfare in Romania: Contexts and Processes
by Cristina Nedelcu and Victor Groza
8 Challenging the Discourse of Intercountry Adoption: Perspectives from Rural China by Kay Johnson
9 Intercountry Adoption and Child Welfare in Guatemala: Lessons Learned Pre and Post Ratification of the 1993 Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption by Kelley McCreery Bunkers, and Victor Groza
10 Ethiopia at a Critical Juncture in Intercountry Adoption and Traditional Care Practices by Kelley McCreery Bunkers, Karen Smith Rotabi, and Benyam Dawit Mezmur
11 Maternal Thinking in the Context of Stratified Reproduction – Perspectives of Birth Mothers from South Africa by Riitti Hógbacka
12 Exiting or Going Forth? An Overview of U.S. Outgoing Adoptions by Dana Naughton

PART 3 OUTCOMES FOR INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTEES
13 Review of Meta-analytic Studies on the Physical, Emotional, and Cognitive Outcomes of Intercountry Adoptees by Femmie Juffer and Marinus H. van IJzendoorn
14 Medical Status of Internationally Adopted Children
by Laurie C. Miller
15 Cognitive Competence, Academic Achievement, and Educational Attainment Among Intercountry Adoptees - Research Outcomes From the Nordic Countries by Monica Dalen
16 Families with Intercountry Adopted Children: Talking About Adoption and Birth Culture by Femmie Juffer and Wendy Tieman
17 Post-Racial Utopianism, White Color-Blindness and “the Elephant in the Room”: Racial Issues for Transnational Adoptees of Color by Tobias Hübinette

PART 4 THE DEBATE
18 The Debate by Elizabeth Bartholet and David Smolin

PART 5 PRAGMATISTS: IMPROVING THE PROCESS
19 Best Practices in Implementing the Hague Convention
by Judith L. Gibbons and Karen Smith Rotabi
20 Intercountry Adoptions and Home Study Assessments: The Need for Uniform Practices by Thomas M. Crea
21 Understanding and Preventing Intercountry Adoption Breakdown by Jesús Palacios
22 Openness and Intercountry Adoption in New Zealand
by Rhoda Scherman
23 All Grown Up: Rise of the Korean Adult Adoptee Movement and Implications for Practice by Hollee McGinnis
24 Truth, Reconciliation, and Searching for the Disappeared Children of Civil War: El Salvador’s Search and Reunion Model Defined by Carmen Mónico and Karen Smith Rotabi
25 Looking to the Future by Judith L. Gibbons and Karen Smith Rotabi"

Essential for the conservation and sustainable use of a resource is having adequate and extensively recognized property regimes. Despite the widely accepted importance of genetic resources for future plant breeding and thus food security, there is still pervasive disagreement at the individual level on who should own genetic resources. Aim of the article is to provide conceptual clarification on the following concepts and their relation to agrobiodiversity: public good, open access, commons, private property, state property and common heritage of humankind. After presenting which rights each property regime recognizes, we will examine which moral responsibilities go a long with such privileges, particularly in regard to conserving and sharing genetic resources.

Back cover text: Real Social Science presents a new, hands-on approach to social inquiry. The theoretical and methodological ideas behind the book, inspired by Aristotelian phronesis, represent an original perspective within the social sciences, and this volume gives readers for the first time a set of studies exemplifying what applied phronesis looks like in practice. The reflexive analysis of values and power gives new meaning to the impact of research on policy and practice. Real Social Science is a major step forward in a novel and thriving field of research. This book will benefit scholars, researchers, and students who want to make a difference in practice, not just in the academy. Its message will make it essential reading for students and academics across the social sciences.

A prominent early modern Italian legal theorist and practicing lawyer, Alberico Gentili is regarded, along with Francisco de Vitoria and Hugo Grotius, as one of the founders of the science of the modern law of nations (ius gentium) and a major figure in the development of international relations. He designed a solid and autonomous framework for the law of nations based on three pillars: the Greco-Roman idea of natural law, the Justinian compilation of Roman law, and the-then novel Bodinian notion of sovereignty as supreme, perpetual, and indivisible power. 
Gentili freed the law of nations from excessive scholastic influences and theological importations, avoiding metaphysical developments and overly subtle dialectics. He tried to build a system based on practice and experience. His legal construction is more inductive from events, episodes, customs, and facts, than deductive from unchanged premises. Providing some new arguments, he removed religion as a valid reason for conflict and war,  he advocated for the legitimacy of non-Christian regimes, especially the Ottomans, and he tried to fix the tenuous lines of separation between jurisprudence and theology and between the internal forum and external forum of canon law. Neither the pope nor the Roman Catholic Church has a place in Gentili’s systematic account. His world-famous saying—silete theologi in munere alieno! —commands the theologian not to be involved in other people’s business and was claimed centuries later by the jurisprudence of European public law to argue in favor of the secularization of the law, beyond the limits Gentili himself intended.

En étudiant les controverses relatives aux mécanismes légitimes de régulation des faillites souveraines, cette enquête montre la capacité de résilience des instruments et des acteurs assurant la continuité d’un ordre marchand dans les domaines juridiques et financiers à l’échelle globale. À deux reprises, en 2002 à travers une initiative du Fonds monétaire international, puis en 2015 à l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies, les alternatives à la régulation par les marchés de capitaux, visant à installer un mécanisme juridique supranational, ont été disqualifiées. En s’appuyant sur une enquête auprès des acteurs et des institutions constitutives de la gouvernance économique internationale, l’article donne à voir le travail de consolidation de l’ordre marchand, et ce à quoi tient cet ordre global. Contrairement à une vision spontanée, les États ne sont pas exclusivement des « victimes » des marchés globalisés de la dette et des fonds « vautours » qui refusent les renégociations de dette et entament des procédures pour se faire rembourser intégralement. Au nom de leur attractivité financière et de leur accès aux ressources des marchés de capitaux globalisés, les départements du Trésor de différents États émergents se soumettent aux formats contractuels des places financières étrangères et concèdent une version restreinte de leurs pouvoirs souverains.