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In Investors, States, and Arbitrators in the Crosshairs of International Investment Law and Environmental Protection, Dr Crina Baltag and Ylli Dautaj look at the investor-State dispute settlement system and inquire whether this is the most suitable transnational venue for resolving investment disputes that have an environmental component.

In The Geneva List of Principles on the Protection of Water Infrastructure, Tignino and Irmakkesen illustrate the law and practice on the protection of infrastructure during and after armed conflicts through a holistic international law perspective.

In Divination in Exile, Alexander K. Smith offers the first comprehensive scholarly introduction to the performance of divination in Tibetan speaking communities, both past and present.

While each chapter seizes the dialectic of enlightenment and counter-enlightenment at work in the global world, the volume insists on the moral, intellectual, structural, and historical resources that still make cosmopolitanism a real possibility even in these hard times.

The contributions in this volume, written by historians, political scientists and linguists, shed new light on the political development of the nationality question in Europe during the First World War and its aftermath, covering theoretical developments and debates, social mobilization and cultural perspectives.

Le présent volume offre une série d'études de cas sur le phénomène de l'annotation en littérature. Parmi les auteurs étudiés: Balzac, Chateaubriand, Eliot, Mallarmé, Proust. The purpose of Des notes et des textes is to consider the annotation process, by authors, by readers, in a total new way, and with a strong focus on French and francophone literature

New Knowledge and Changing Circumstances in the Law of the Sea focuses on the challenges posed to the existing legal framework, in particular the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and the various ways in which States are addressing these challenges.

This volume provides a set of in-depth case studies about the role of questions and answers (Q&A) in ancient Greek medical writing from its Hippocratic beginnings up to, and including, Late Antiquity.

A historically-informed account of the lasting importance of embodied thought in the intellectual trajectory of René Descartes, still remembered today as the founding father of dualism.

In Education in China, ca. 1840-present the authors offer a description of the Chinese education system. In doing so, they touch upon various debates such as on educational modernization and the role of female education. Relevant statistical data is provided as well.

This volume elucidates various interaction strategies for the Nilotic language Acholi. Based on detailed examples, Maren Rüsch links the structural organization of Acholi conversations to cultural features such as politeness, language socialization and narrations.

In Women and Crime in Post-Transitional South African Crime Fiction, Sabine Binder offers a feminist analysis of female victims, perpetrators and detectives in 21 post-transitional South African crime novels and of the ways in which they resonate with widespread and persistent real crimes against women.

Hidden Lands in Himalayan Myth and History showcases recent scholarship, photo essays, maps, and translations about hidden lands (sbas yul) across the Himalaya, from historical and contemporary perspectives.

Jerusalem and Other Holy Places as Foci of Multireligious and Ideological Confrontation demonstrates the variety in the study of holy places, as well as the flexibility of geographic and historical aspects of holiness.

The present volume, Smart Technologies and Fundamental Rights, contains fourteen outstanding and challenging articles concerning fundamental rights and Artificial Intelligence at the intersection of law, ethics and smart technologies.

In African Basin Management Organizations - Contribution to Pollution Prevention of Transboundary Water Resources, Komlan Sangbana highlights how the protection of water resources and their ecosystems has become a key focus of basin organizations in Africa.

This volume examines the image-based methods of interpretation that pictorial and literary landscapists employed between 1500 and 1700.

Plato's 'Timaeus' brings together a number of studies from both leading Plato specialists and up-and-coming researchers from across Europe, opening new perspectives on familiar problems, while shedding light on less well-known passages.

In Medicine in Ancient Assur Troels Pank Arbøll offers a microhistorical study of the training and career of a single exorcist named Kiṣir-Assur, who practiced magico-medical healing in the ancient city of Assur (northern Iraq) in the 7th century BCE.

The French poets Ronsard and Du Bartas enjoyed a wide but varied reception throughout early modern Europe. This volume is the first book length monograph to study the transnational reception histories of both poets in conjunction with each other.

This book reflects on how the concept of human dignity, a central and classical concept in public international law, is used to protect the rights of particularly vulnerable sectors of contemporary society.

In this book Eric T. Lander comprehensively treats the morphological development of the pronoun 'this' in early Nordic. The book features an exhaustive study of the runic forms, comparison with West Germanic, and paradigm reconstructions.

In Uneven Landscapes of Violence, Muñoz Martínez argues that the nexus of criminality, illegality and violence are an integral and defining features of neo-liberal state formation in Mexico after 2000.

In Turkey: The Pendulum between Military Rule and Civilian Authoritarianism, Fatih Çağatay Cengiz explains Turkey's trajectory of military and civilian authoritarianism while offering an alternative framework for understanding the Kemalist state and state-society relations.

Places and Forms of Encounter in Jewish Literatures. Transfer, Mediality and Situativity brings together contributions on Jewish literatures with methodologies and theories discussed in Comparative and World Literature Studies. The contributions highlight dynamic literary processes in various historical and cultural contexts.

Dans Lire l'Histoire générale des Antilles de J.-B. Du Tertre, Christina Kullberg propose une étude de l'établissement français aux Antilles et une analyse théorique de l'exotisme à travers une lecture critique de l'histoire naturelle et morale du missionnaire dominicain Du Tertre. In Lire l'Histoire générale des Antilles de J.-B. Du Tertre, Christina Kullberg offers a study of the French early colonization in the Caribbean and a theoretical analysis of exoticism through a critical reading of Dominican missionary Du Tertre's natural and moral history of the region.

The monograph by Michal Galędek presents the process of rebuilding administrative structures on the eve of establishment of the Kingdom of Poland in 1815, in connection with the plans of tsar Alexander I to grant a liberal constitutional political system to the Kingdom.

Marx's oeuvre is vast yet with key elements to an evolving social theory, even including state conspiracies. Deep confrontation with Ricardian economics is an expression, including with accumulation of capital. Luxemburg was the most significant contributor to Marxism, post-Marx.