Politics, social theory, history of ideas
Globalizing Patient Capital The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas Stephen B. Kaplan
This book is for scholars and practitioners examining the costs and benefits of China’s economic expansion into the Western Hemisphere. It assesses how China’s state-led capitalism, a form of ‘patient capital’ characterized by long-term risk tolerance and a lack of policy conditionality, affects national-level governance across the Americas. • Compares Chinese and Western approaches to finance and development • Examines US–China economic relations through their Western hemispheric ties • Includes interviews with high-ranking government officials and bankers
300pp 7. 2021 9781107182318 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 7. 2021 9781316632048 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781316856369
Integrating Logics in the Governance of Emerging Technologies The Case of Nanotechnology Derrick Mason Anderson | Arizona State University
This Element will integrate competing views of governance through the lens of the emerging technology of nanotechnology. The governance of these technologies represents one of the most promising and exciting areas for future research on policy governance processes generally. Elements in Public Policy 75pp 6. 2021 9781108461474 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108592024
International Economic Dispute Settlement Demise or Transformation? Manfred Elsig | Universität Bern, Switzerland
The book brings together leading junior and senior researchers from law and political science to explore the current challenges of international economic dispute settlement. Focusing on trade and investment disputes, the book showcases state-ofthe-art empirical work to help understand the current crises and to inform reform discussions. • Provides an assessment of how trade and investment dispute systems work • Examines both short- and long-term challenges and opportunities for international economic dispute settlement • Brings together leading scholars, both junior and senior, in international law and international relations
366pp 7. 2021 9781108832830 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781108966122
Land Acquisition and Resource Development in Contemporary India Shashi Ratnaker Singh | University of Cambridge
It highlights the reasons for large scale land conflicts in India, scale of stalled investments, social movements, evolution of land acquisition and mining laws, and what led to the amendments of Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition Resettlement and Rehabilitation Act 2013 and Mining and Mineral Act 2015. • Selectively merges theoretical perspectives on land and natural resource governance • Explains the compensation arguments at two levels: between the project developers and the local project affected community and between the central and provincial governments over the issue of ‘fair’ resource revenue sharing • Advances the argument that the land acquisition drive in India is mired in the politics of two contradictory developmental claims
188pp 4. 2021 9781108486927 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108764872
Land, the State, and War Property Institutions and Political Order in Afghanistan Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili | University of Pittsburgh
This book explains how people define and enforce property rights when they cannot rely on the government to do so, why governments are unable or unwilling to recognize property rights, and why legal titling is unable to improve economic livelihoods in fragile states. • Introduces a common theoretical framework for studying property rights in developing and developed countries • Applies insights from new institutional economics to the Islamic world • Explores whether legal titling is a realistic way to bring political order to a fragile state Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society 380pp 9. 2021 9781108493413 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108642217
Medical Innovation and Disease Burden Conflicting Priorities and the Social Divide in India Sobin George
Drawing from recent concepts and data, the book carefully examines responsiveness of drug, vaccine and medical device innovations to public health priorities in India. It also emphasises the need for a responsible and responsive health innovation framework in which interests of all stakeholders are taken care of. • Critically appraises the new structure and organization of Indian pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry • Offers a discussion on the priority areas of future R&D in drug discovery based on public health concerns • Offers a framework for responsive and responsible medical innovation 226pp 6. 2021 9781108832304 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108935838
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