Paternalism Beyond Borders

Paternalism Beyond Borders
Author: Michael N. Barnett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2017
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107176905

This book asks how we understand the relationship between ethics and power in humanitarian action.

Baseball Beyond Our Borders

Baseball Beyond Our Borders
Author: George Gmelch
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2017-03
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1496201051

Baseball Beyond Our Borders celebrates the globalization of the game while highlighting the different histories and cultures of the nations in which the sport is played. This collection of essays tells the story of America’s national pastime as it has spread across the world and undergone instructive, entertaining, and sometimes quirky changes in the process. Covering nineteen countries and a U.S. territory, the contributors show how each country imported baseball, how baseball took hold and developed, how it is organized, played, and followed, and what local and regional traits tell us about the sport’s place in each culture. But what lies in store as baseball’s passport fills up with far-flung stamps? Will the international migration of players homogenize baseball? What role will the World Baseball Classic play? These are just a few of the questions the authors pose.

Liberalism and Prostitution

Liberalism and Prostitution
Author: Peter de Marneffe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2012-04-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199726108

Civil libertarians characterize prostitution as a "victimless crime," and argue that it ought to be legalized. Feminist critics counter that prostitution is not victimless, since it harms the people who do it. Civil libertarians respond that most women freely choose to do this work, and that it is paternalistic for the government to limit a person's liberty for her own good. In this book Peter de Marneffe argues that although most prostitution is voluntary, paternalistic prostitution laws in some form are nonetheless morally justifiable. If prostitution is commonly harmful in the way that feminist critics maintain, then this argument for prostitution laws is not objectionably moralistic and some prostitution laws violate no one's rights. Paternalistic prostitution laws in some form are therefore consistent with the fundamental principles of contemporary liberalism.

Paternalism

Paternalism
Author: Christian Coons
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2013-02-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 110702546X

Should the government influence or coerce us for our 'own good'? This volume discusses specific applications in policy and law.

Amateurs without Borders

Amateurs without Borders
Author: Allison Schnable
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2021-02-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0520300955

Amateurs without Borders examines the rise of new actors in the international development world: volunteer-driven grassroots international nongovernmental organizations. These small aid organizations, now ten thousand strong, sidestep the world of professionalized development aid by launching projects built around personal relationships and the skills of volunteers. This book draws on fieldwork in the United States and Africa, web data, and IRS records to offer the first large-scale systematic study of these groups. Amateurs without Borders investigates the aspirations and limits of personal compassion on a global scale.

Peaceland

Peaceland
Author: Séverine Autesserre
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2014-05-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1107052106

This book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential. Based on several years of ethnographic research in conflict zones around the world, it demonstrates that everyday elements - such as the expatriates' social habits and usual approaches to understanding their areas of operation - strongly influence peacebuilding effectiveness. Individuals from all over the world and all walks of life share numerous practices, habits, and narratives when they serve as interveners in conflict zones. These common attitudes and actions enable foreign peacebuilders to function in the field, but they also result in unintended consequences that thwart international efforts. Certain expatriates follow alternative modes of thinking and acting, often with notable results, but they remain in the minority. Through an in-depth analysis of the interveners' everyday life and work, this book proposes innovative ways to better help host populations build a sustainable peace.

Why Nudge?

Why Nudge?
Author: Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2014-03-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0300197861

The best-selling author of Simpler offers an argument for protecting people from their own mistakes.

Power in Global Governance

Power in Global Governance
Author: Michael Barnett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2004-12-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1139444220

This edited volume examines power in its different dimensions in global governance. Scholars tend to underestimate the importance of power in international relations because of a failure to see its multiple forms. To expand the conceptual aperture, this book presents and employs a taxonomy that alerts scholars to the different kinds of power that are present in world politics. A team of international scholars demonstrate how these different forms connect and intersect in global governance in a range of different issue areas. Bringing together a variety of theoretical perspectives, this volume invites scholars to reconsider their conceptualization of power in world politics and how such a move can enliven and enrich their understanding of global governance.

An Imperfect Offering

An Imperfect Offering
Author: James Orbinski
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2009-09-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0802717624

Describes the author's experiences as a doctor for Doctors Without Borders in countries such as Somalia, Afghanistan, and Rwanda; the conditions he witnessed; and the political roadblocks that prevented aid from reaching patients.