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Public Safety, Law, and Security (Top Careers in Two Years)
By Lisa Cornelio, Gail Eisenberg
* Publisher:Ferguson Publishing Company
* Number Of Pages:112
* Publication Date:2007-12-30
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0816069042
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780816069040
* Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
Students with an interest in the fields of public safety, law, and security have many career options available to them with an associate's degree, comparable certification, and work/life experience. "Top Careers in Two Years: Public Safety, Law, and Security" is an accessible guide that takes readers on a tour of a variety of careers in this industry and gives them an insider's glance at a day on the job.Job profiles include: Corrections officer, Firefighter, Forensic specialist, Homeland security worker, Legal secretary, Paralegal, Paramedic/emergency medical technician, Park ranger, Patrol officer, and, Private security specialist.
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Women's Suffrage in America (Eyewitness History Series)
By Elizabeth Frost-Knappman, Kathryn Cullen-Dupont
* Publisher:Facts on File
* Number Of Pages:496
* Publication Date:2004-12
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0816056935
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780816056934
* Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
At the start of the 19th century, women had severely limited rights. They had no control of their earnings, could not divorce a husband, had no claim of property, could not speak at public meetings, and could not vote. The women's suffrage movement, a political campaign that sought to address these problems, began around 1800 and culminated in 1920 with the passage of the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote. Led by women such as Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the members of this movement petitioned Congress, marched, and gave speeches in the face of public disapproval in an effort to achieve their goals. Women's Suffrage in America, Updated Edition provides hundreds of firsthand accounts of the women's movement - diary entries, letters, speeches, and newspaper accounts - that illustrate how historical events appeared to those who lived through them. Among the eyewitness testimonies included are those of Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott, Frederick Douglass, Helen Keller, and John Quincy Adams. In addition to firsthand accounts, each chapter provides an introductory essay and a chronology of events. Critical documents such as the Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls, the Emancipation Address of the Women's National League, the Constitution of the National American Women's Suffrage Association, and the 19th Amendment are paired with capsule biographies of more than 100 key figures, making this reference extremely engaging and easy to use. This updated edition contains a great deal of new material, including additions to each chronology section, new primary source quotations, and an expanded appendix. Women's Suffrage in America, Updated Edition provides new information about individual topics, including court cases and legislation, and more than 20 additional black-and-white photographs.
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An Inclusive Environment: An A-Z Guide to Legislation
, Policies and Products
By Maritz Vandenberg
* Publisher:Butterworth-Heinemann
* Number Of Pages:672
* Publication Date:2008-09-15
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0750684569
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780750684569
* Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
People can be excluded from freedom and the good things in life by age, disability, poverty, unfair discrimination, crime or the fear of crime, and arrogant and unresponsive governments.
This practical reference deals with all of these factors, and shows the links between them. In addition to several hundred shorter notes it includes over a thousand major entries, each of which comprises: a summary of relevant facts, incisive commentary to help readers cut through the fog of jargon and propaganda that confuses many of these issues and websites where the latest information may be found. It concludes with a detailed bibliography of around 500 useful references.
The work will be found useful by professionals and managers in all walks of life; by central and local government officials and representatives, and by students in the social sciences. It devotes particular attention to the all-important Disability Discrimination Act, and numerous detailed entries, accompanied in many cases by elegant diagrams, suggest to architects and other designers, facilities managers, and personnel managers how the requirements of the Act may be met.
* Complete comprehensive coverage of all requirements for access to buildings and services
* Clearly illustrated with hand-drawn images
* Extensive references to all relevant legal and regulatory materials
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Law and Practice of EU External Relations: Salient Features of a Changing Landscape
By Alan Dashwood, Marc Maresceau
* Publisher:Cambridge
University Press
* Number Of Pages:512
* Publication Date:2008-10-27
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0521899230
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780521899239
* Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
Expanding European Union activity on the international scene has led to development of the legal concepts, principles and rules that govern it. External relations law and practice have also been affected by events within the EU. This volume takes stock of the recent developments in the external relations law and practice of the EC/EU and investigates the increasing interaction between these different fields of Union competence. The first part of this book addresses issues that are broadly constitutional or institutional in character. The second part deals with various aspects of substantive external relations considered in a geographical or geo-political perspective. The third part selects two specific substantive law areas - intellectual property law and environment law - as examples which illustrate the specific relationship between domestic policy and external relations.
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The Legacies of Law: Long-Run Consequences of Legal Development in South Africa, 1652-2000
By Jens Meierhenrich
* Publisher:Cambridge University Press
* Number Of Pages:408
* Publication Date:2008-10-13
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0521898730
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780521898737
* Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
This highly original book examines the function of legal norms and institutions in the transition to - and from - apartheid. It sheds light on the neglected relationship between path dependence and the law. The Legacies of Law demonstrates that legal norms and institutions, even illiberal ones, can have an important - and hitherto undertheorized - structuring effect on democratic transitions.
Focusing on South Africa during the period 1650-2000, Jens Meierhenrich finds that under certain conditions, law reduces uncertainty in democratization by invoking common cultural backgrounds and experiences. Synthesizing insights from law, political science, economics, sociology, history, and philosophy, he offers an innovative "redescription" of both apartheid and apartheid's endgame.
The Legacies of Law demonstrates that in instances in which interacting adversaries share qua law reasonably convergent mental models, transitions from authoritarian rule are less intractable. Meierhenrich's careful longitudinal analysis of the evolution of law -and its effects -in South Africa, compared with a short study of Chile from 1830 to 1990, shows how, and when, legal norms and institutions serve as historical parameters to both democratic and undemocratic rule.
By so doing, The Legacies of Law contributes new and unexpected insights -both theoretical and applied -to contemporary debates about democracy and the rule of law. Among other things, Meierhenrich significantly advances our understanding of "hybrid regimes" in the international system and generates important policy-relevant insights into the politics of law and courts in authoritarian regimes.
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Mothers without Citizenship: Asian Immigrant Families and the Consequences of Welfare Reform
By Lynn Fujiwara
* Publisher:Univ Of Minnesota Press
* Number Of Pages:272
* Publication Date:2008-03-26
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0816650756
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780816650750
* Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
In August 1996 President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act that fulfilled his campaign promise to end welfare as we know it,and one month later the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act passed, deepening restrictions on immigrant and welfare provisions. These acts harshly and disproportionately affected Asian immigrants who continue to experience the legacy of this legislation today.
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Causation and Delay in Construction Disputes
By Nicholas J. Carnell
* Publisher:Wiley-Blackwell
* Number Of Pages:320
* Publication Date:2005-07-21
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1405118164
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781405118163
* Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
Construction claims frequently involve a dispute about delay. Whether or not the contractor or client has a claim which can be proved successfully depends on establishing causation and understanding legal rights and obligations. This book shows how to identify and avoid problems during the project, and analyses claims for delay.
The new edition takes account of case law since 1999 and has new sections on adjudication, risk allocation and the Delay and Disruption Protocol.
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Make Your Own Living Trust (Book & CD-ROM)
By Denis Clifford
* Publisher:NOLO
* Number Of Pages:349
* Publication Date:2007-03-30
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1413305695
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781413305692
* Binding:Paperback
Product Description:
No other book covers living trusts better -- or more simply -- than this bestselling book.
Death may be inevitable, but probate
doesn't have to be. By creating a living trust, your property will bypass lengthy and expensive probate proceedings and go directly to the people you've designated, quickly and easily.
Make Your Own Living Trust explains how to create a living trust, transfer property to the trust and amend or revoke the trust at any time. Specifically, it covers how to:
create various living trusts, including an AB trust (also known as a "marital trust" or "bypass trust") transfer assets to your trust, including real estate, stocks and bonds, jewelry, art or a small business name beneficiaries for all trust property sign your document and make it legalappoint someone to manage property left to minors or young adultsprovide for trust property management if you become incapacitated retain absolute control over trust property while you live Make Your Own Living Trust includes all the forms you need -- as tear-outs and on CD-ROM -- to create your own trust, plus step-by-step instructions for filling them out. Completely updated and revised, the 8th edition covers the latest laws and information about federal and state estate taxes. Good in all states except Louisiana.Amazon.com Review: Most of us know that upon our demise, a succession of fees and taxes will eat into our estates--no matter their size--if we don't plan now to protect them. Unfortunately, many of us still postpone this process because we hesitate to summon the outside legal assistance that's traditionally been required. The folks at Nolo Press have made it their mission to provide us with the means to complete a relatively uncomplicated official arrangement like this without lawyers, however, and their third edition of Make Your Own Living Trust offers hope even to the most hesitant among us. With easy-to-follow instructions, helpful worksheets, and all of the forms necessary, attorney Denis Clifford shows both individuals and couples how to avoid otherwise inevitable delays and costs by preparing on their own to transfer their property directly to their designated heirs. Clifford's method involves the creation of a "living trust," which is a basic legal entity that allows property to be simply passed along in this way immediately upon the death of the person who created it. He outlines advantages and drawbacks, and then clearly lays out the entire process. The excuses stop here. --Howard RothmanSummary: Make your own living trustRating: 5Excellent hands on, easy to understand workbook; will choose to use the completed forms as a framework to discuss with a trust lawyer. Summary: Excellent Book!Rating: 5I found the information easy to understand, and useful. I have yet tried the CD, but if the program is a good as the book, preparing the trust document is likely to be a very simple process.Summary: Only for simple TrustsRating: 1If you have and estate of more than $2 million or if you are in a second marriage and want to create a family trust as well as a marital trust, you are wasting your money on this book. I learned more in a 2 hour meeting with a trust officer than I did in this whole book.Summary: Best resource on the subjectRating: 5In order to help my parents with their trust, I had checked out about a dozen books on the subject from the library. I found Denis Clifford's to be the easiest to follow and easiest to read on a fairly complex subject. I found the book (and his "Plan Your Estate" book) so informative I bought a set for myself. This book offers lots of "real life" examples of different types of financial scenarios and the best options for setting up a trust that will protect the assets from excessive legal fees and/or estate taxes. It covers almost everything you need to know to either write your own trust or carefully check the details of your trust if prepared by a lawyer. The CD included provides you with the language you need to write your own by filling in the blanks, as well as the step-by-step procedure to cover all the bases to be certain the trust meets all the legal & tax requirements for trusts. This book is also apparently updated each year, as the tax and estate laws are frequently being revised. I highly recommend this book, and also highly recommend as a companion book that covers other aspects of financial planning, wills, etc., Dennis Clifford's Plan Your Estate. I was so impressed I also bought copies of both books for my parents and my sister so we could all get our finances in order.Summary: Another Great Book From NOLO Rating: 5Nolo Press continues the tradition of providing step by step guidance through complex legal processes. Step by step demystification of the process. Even if you are going to use an attorney this is a good read and you will save many times the cost of the book in having answered your own questions and by receiving a good introduction to the subject. Highly recommended
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Judicial Review in Northern Ireland
By Gordon Anthony
* Publisher:Hart Publishing
* Number Of Pages:284
* Publication Date:2008-01-14
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1841136174
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781841136172
* Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
This is the first book to be written on the principle and practice of judicial review in Northern Ireland. It collates and discusses the ever-burgeoning body of Northern Ireland case law and divides into eight chapters that consider the purposes of judicial review; the nature of the public-private divide in Northern Ireland law; the judicial review procedure; the grounds for review; and remedies. Much of the case law here is unique to Northern Ireland, and the book identifies actual and potential differences between Northern Ireland case law and that of England and Wales. The book also integrates Human Rights Act 1998 jurisprudence as has been developed by the Northern Ireland courts and by the House of Lords; and it situates much of that case law within wider debates about judicial review as play out in related practitioner and/or academic journals. The book has been written primarily for practitioners of judicial review and uses numbered paragraphs for ease of reference. The book is, however, of a wider interest and it will be a valuable resource for academics and students too. Much of the Northern Ireland case law has been concerned with contentious political issues, and the courts have had to consider difficult questions of the constitutional limits to the judicial role in review proceedings. The book should therefore be of use not just to practitioners but also to those involved in the study of judicial reasoning in different jurisdictions (both within the UK and elsewhere).
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Regulating Labour in the Wake of Globalisation: New Challenges, New Institutions (Columbia-London Law)
By Brian Bercusson, Cynthia Estlund
* Publisher
:Hart Publishing (UK)
* Number Of Pages:281
* Publication Date:2008-01-10
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1841137669
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781841137667
* Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
In recent decades, the prevailing response to the problem of unacceptable labour market outcomes in both Europe and North America - national regulation of labour standards and labour relations, coupled with collective bargaining - has come under increasing pressure from the economic and technological forces associated with globalisation. As those forces have shifted power away from national governments and labour unions and toward capital, the appropriate institutional locus of labour regulation has become hotly contested. There have been efforts to move the locus of regulation downward to smaller units of governance, including firms themselves, upward to larger units such as regional federations and international organizations, and outward to non-governmental organizations and civil society.In this volume, labour relations scholars from North America and Europe examine the efficacy of these emerging forms of labour regulation, their democratic legitimacy, the goals and values underlying them, and the appropriate direction of reform.This book analyses the developments within the labour market in relation to globalisation.Labour regulation is a hot topic at the moment.It will be of interest to labour regulation scholars and academics and practitioners involved in employment and european law.
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Courtroom Talk and Neocolonial Control (Language, Power and Social Process)
By Diana Eades
* Publisher:Walter de Gruyter
* Number Of Pages:448
* Publication Date:2008-07-15
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:3110204827
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9783110204827
* Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
The book uses critical sociolinguistic analysis to examine the social consequences of courtroom talk. The focus of the study is the cross-examination of three Australian Aboriginal boys who were prosecution witnesses in the case of six police officers charged with their abduction. The analysis reveals how the language mechanisms allowed by courtroom rules of evidence serve to legitimize neocolonial control over Indigenous people. In the propositions and assertions made in cross-examination, and their adoption by judicial decision-makers, the three boys were constructed not as victims of police abuse, but rather in terms of difference, deviance and delinquency
. This identity work addresses fundamental issues concerning what it means to be an Aboriginal young person, as well as constraints about how to perform or live this identity, and the rights to which Aboriginal people can lay claim, while legitimizing police control over their freedom of movement. Understanding this courtroom talk requires analysis of the sociopolitical and historical actions and structures within which the courtroom hearing was embedded. Through this analysis, the interrelatedness of structure, agency, constraint and change, which is central to critical sociolinguistics, becomes apparent. In its investigation of language ideologies that underpin courtroom talk, as well as the details of how language is used, and the social consequences of this talk, the book highlights the need for far-reaching changes to courtroom rules of evidence.
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Individual Criminal Responsibility for Core International Crimes: Selected Pertinent Issues
By Ciara Damgaard
* Publisher:Springer
* Number Of Pages:456
* Publication Date:2008-10-10
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:3540787801
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9783540787808
* Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
The concept of individual criminal responsibility for core international crimes is, by now, a well-established principle in international criminal law. However, while the general principle behind the concept is by and large unproblematic, its practical application
underscores its complexity. The aim of this book is to examine three pertinent issues relating to the concept of individual criminal responsibility for core international crimes: (i) The joint criminal enterprise
doctrine; (ii) The defining criteria of international criminal courts, for the purposes of an evaluation of the lifting of state official immunity for core international crimes, in the light of the findings of the ICJ in the Arrest Warrant case; and (iii) The imposition of individual criminal responsibility for terrorism as a crime against humanity, both in international law and in relation to the ICC Statute.
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Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital: Condensed Version - July 2008 (Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital)
By Bernan
* Publisher:Organization for Economic Cooperation & Devel
* Number Of Pages:412
* Publication Date:2008-09-30
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9264048189
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789264048188
* Binding:Paperback
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ndian Depredation Claims, 1796-1920 (Legal History of North America)
By Larry C. Skogen
* Publisher:University of Oklahoma Press
* Number Of Pages:290
* Publication Date:1996-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0806127899
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780806127897
* Binding:Hardcover
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Beyond the Reservation: Indians, Settlers, and the Law in Washington Territory, 1853-1889
By Brad Asher
* Publisher:University of Oklahoma Press
* Number Of Pages:175
* Publication Date:1999-03
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0806131071
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780806131078
* Binding:Hardcover
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Necessary Fraud: Progressive Reform and Utah Coal (Legal History of North America)
By Nancy J. Taniguchi
* Publisher
:University of Oklahoma Press
* Number Of Pages:319
* Publication Date:1996-09
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0806128186
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780806128184
* Binding:Hardcover
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The Public Librarian's Human Resources Handbook: Employer Rights and Responsibilities
By David A. Baldwin
* Publisher:Libraries Unlimited
* Number Of Pages:185
* Publication Date:1998-06-15
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1563086182
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781563086182
* Binding:Paperback
Product Description:
Whether you are a library supervisor with a few employees or an adminstrator with an entire human resources system, there are specific rights, responsibilities, and regulations that you must conform to. In plain language and with a practical, straightforward approach, Baldwin tells you about employment law relating to personnel recruitment and selection; the employment relationship; collective bargaining; wage and hour laws; employment benefits; discrimination laws; health, safety, and privacy; discipline and discharge; and income replacement. By informing themselves of these basic rights and regulations, librarians and library managers will be better equipped to deal with or avoid altogether some of the potential problems that arise between employers and employees in the public library arena. The book also reviews effective management techniques as a way to avoid potentially serious personnel problems. A glossary of employment terms is included.
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Trade Imbalance: The Struggle to Weigh Human Rights
Concerns in Trade Policymaking
By Susan Ariel Aaronson, Jamie M. Zimmerman
* Publisher:Cambridge University Press
* Number Of Pages:348
* Publication Date:2007-12-06
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0521872561
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780521872560
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Harry A. Blackmun: The Outsider Justice
By Tinsley Yarbrough
* Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
* Number Of Pages:424
* Publication Date:2008-01-15
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0195141237
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780195141238
Product Description:
When appointed to the Supreme Court in 1970 by President Nixon, Harry A. Blackmun was seen as a quiet, safe choice to complement the increasingly conservative Court of his boyhood friend, Warren Burger. No one anticipated his seminal opinion championing abortion rights in Roe v. Wade, the most controversial ruling of his generation, which became the battle cry of both supporters and critics of judicial power and made Blackmun a liberal icon.
Harry A. Blackmun: The Outsider Justice is Tinsley E. Yarbrough's penetrating account of one of the most outspoken and complicated figures on the Supreme Court. As a justice, Blackmun stood at the pinnacle of the American judiciary. Yet when he took his seat on the Court, Justice Blackmun felt "almost desperate," overwhelmed with feelings of self-doubt and inadequacy over the immense responsibilities before him. Blackmun had overcome humble roots to achieve a Harvard education, success as a Minneapolis lawyer and resident counsel to the prestigious Mayo Clinic, as well as a distinguished record on the Eighth Circuit federal appeals court. But growing up in a financially unstable home with a frequently unemployed father and an emotionally fragile mother left a permanent mark on the future justice. All his life, Harry Blackmun considered himself one of society's outsiders, someone who did not "belong."
Remarkably, though, that very self-image instilled in the justice, throughout his career, a deep empathy for society's most vulnerable outsiders--women faced with unwanted pregnancies, homosexuals subjected to archaic laws, and ultimately, death-row inmates. To those who saw his career as the constitutional odyssey of a conservative jurist gradually transformed into a champion of the underdog, Blackmun had a ready answer: he had not changed; the Court and the issues before them changed. The justice's identification with the marginalized members of society arguably provides the overarching key to that consistency.
Thoroughly researched, engagingly written, Harry A. Blackmun: The Outsider Justice offers an in-depth, revelatory portrait of one of the most intriguing jurists ever to sit on the Supreme Court. Relying on in-depth archival material, in addition to numerous interviews with Blackmun's former clerks, Yarbrough here presents the definitive biography of the great justice, ultimately providing an illuminating window into the inner-workings of the modern Supreme Court.
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How International Law Works: A Rational Choice Theory
By Andrew T. Guzman
* Publisher
:Oxford University Press, USA
* Number Of Pages:272
* Publication Date:2008-01-08
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0195305566
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780195305562
Product Description:
How International Law Works presents a theory of international law, how it operates, and why it works. Though appeals to international law have grown ever more central to international disputes and international relations, there is no well-developed, comprehensive theory of how international law shapes policy outcomes.
Filling a conspicuous gap in the literature on international law, Andrew T. Guzman builds a coherent theory from the ground up and applies it to the foundations of the international legal system. Using tools from across the social sciences Guzman deploys a rational choice methodology to explain how a legal system can succeed in the absence of coercive enforcement. He demonstrates how even rational and selfish states are motivated by concerns about reciprocal non-compliance, retaliation, and reputation to comply with their international legal commitments.
Contradicting the conventional view of the subject among international legal scholars, Guzman argues that the primary sources of international commitment--formal treaties, customary international law, soft law, and even international norms--must be understood as various points on a spectrum of commitment rather than wholly distinct legal structures.
Taking a rigorous and theoretically sound look at international law, How International Law Works provides an in-depth, thoroughgoing guide to the complexities of international law, offers guidance to those managing relations among nations, and helps us to understand when we can look to international law to resolve problems, and when we must accept that we live in an anarchic world in which some issues can be resolved only through politics.