Sea level rises pose a greater long term threat to Australia's coastline and major capital cities than a military attack by a foreign power. Citizens are more likely to experience a pandemic virus than a nuclear threat. Food shortages have already occurred as a result of flood or drought, and the tentacles of international trade in drugs, money laundering and human trafficking already reach far into Australian communities. Why Human Security Matters argues that Australian external relations nee...
Financial Risk Management and Derivative Instruments offers an introduction to the riskiness of stock markets and the application of derivative instruments in managing exposure to such risk. Structured in two parts, the first part offers an introduction to stock market and bond market risk as encountered by investors seeking investment growth. The second part of the text introduces the financial derivative instruments that provide for either a reduced exposure (hedging) or an increased exposure...
Systemic Violence of the Law (Global Critical Caribbean Thought)
by Enrique Prieto-Rios
This book argues that International Investment Law system - IIL - was the result of a colonial project within a capitalist system that has been influenced by the developmentalism discourse and the neoliberal ideology, becoming an instrument that facilitated forms of systemic violence against Third World countries. In order to develop this argument, Enrique Prieto-Rios uses post-war critical thought, chiefly Fanon as interpreted by Lewis R Gordon, the works pursued by academics, part of the Carib...
Border Frictions (Routledge Studies in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship)
How did Canadian border officers come to think of themselves as a "police of the border"? This book tells the story of the shift to law enforcement in Canadian border control. From the 1990s onward, it traces the transformation of a customs organization into a border-policing agency. Border Frictions investigates how considerable political efforts and state resources have made bordering a matter of security and trade facilitation best managed with surveillance technologies. Based on interviews...
Over the last decade China has engaged in one of the most comprehensive management reforms ever undertaken. These reforms are expected to determine China's ability to modernize and become a major world economic power. At the same time, the reforms touch on major political and social issues within the PRC, thereby affecting the structure and control of Chinese society. The contributors to this volume analyze Chinese management and organizations in seven chapters that assess the impact of the refo...
'Gulliver's Travels' describes the shipwrecked Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms.
Bankrechtstag 2021 (Schriftenreihe Der Bankrechtlichen Vereinigung, #43)
Federal Securities Laws (Selected Statutes)
by John C. Coffee, Jr., Hillary A. Sale, and Charles K. Whitehead
Emanuel Law Outlines for Secured Transactions (Emanuel Law Outlines)
by Nathalie Martin
In the midst of globalization, technological change and economic anxiety, we have deep doubts about how well that task of investor protection is being performed. In the U.S., the focus is on the Securities & Exchange Commission. Part of the explanation is economic and political: the failure to know the right balance between investor protection and capital formation, and the resulting battle among interest groups over their preferred solutions. This book's main claim, however, is that regulation...
Rechtsgrundsätze Der Neuesten Entscheidungen Des Königlichen Ober-Tribunals. Band 7
Rechtsgrundsätze Der Neuesten Entscheidungen Des Königlichen Ober-Tribunals. Band 5
This package aims to inform readers of what offshore tax havens are, how they can be put to work to the advantage of individuals and corporations, and how to set them up. It also explains what tax consequences are, how to maintain the tax haven, and how to maximize their benefits.
The go-to guide to acing the Series 63 Exam! Passing the Uniform Securities Agent State Law Examination (Series 63) qualifies an individual to act as a securities agent. The exam covers the principles of state securities regulation as reflected in the Uniform Securities Act and its amendments and related rules, as well as ethical practices and fiduciary obligations. Many states require an agent to pass the Series 63 exam in addition to the Series 6, 7 or 62 exams to conduct securities business w...
Best Practices for Securing an Enterprise (Inside the Minds)
Gesetz, Betreffend Die Pflichten Der Kaufleute Bei Aufbewahrung Fremder Wertpapiere
by F Lusensky
Investor-State Dispute Settlement (CSIS Reports)
by Scott Miller and Gregory N. Hicks
Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) is a provision in Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) and other international investment agreements that allows investors to enter arbitration with states over treaty breaches. ISDS has become controversial in the United States and our negotiating partners; critics, including some governments, have argued that ISDS is unnecessary, while others insist it is illegitimate as public policy. Treaty-based investment protection represents a major advance in the...
Revival: The Conduct of War (1908) (Routledge Revivals)
by Colmar Freiherr von de Goltz
This book contains, in a brief form, author’s views a to the conduct of the principal strategical and tactical operations of war, and will be found to be a short and convenient introduction to a deeper study of the rules which should underlie the direction of the ever-varying incidents of modern fighting.