Civic participation is an ideal concept in most democratic societies. In this review, Cnaan and Park document how key writings are limited in scope and are either nonprofit, political science or envir
This study by Valsamis Mitsilegas and Fabio Giuffrida addresses the role of the EU criminal justice agencies -Europol and Eurojust- in tackling transnational environmental crime and it shows that thei
The author discusses the sociolinguistic development of the Jewish diasporas and how Jewish multilingualism was created and transformed by 2,000 years of exile and diaspora and how it was modified
This study of African philanthropy considers the distinctive nature of African philanthropy as contrasted with the usual meaning of philanthropy in Western and more developed countries, noting that
In this work, Maziar Peihani investigates the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s governance to determine the extent to which it is legitimate. He argues that the BCBS has gradually become a more
Comparing the 1999-2000 Australia/New Zealand case against Japan's experimental tuna fishing dismissed for lack of jurisdiction with the ICJ’s 2014 judgment against Japan's scientific whaling, Andrew
Trading and securitizing debts should be permitted in Islamic law, with one condition, that the debt should be considered low risk. This new rule, the permissibility of trading debts, is supported by
Diplomacy is no longer restricted to a single vocation nor implemented exclusively through interaction amongst official representatives. The pluralization of diplomatic actors, the expanded diplomatic
In this book, author David Horton Smith presents readers with a survey of the growth of research on Nonprofit Sector and Voluntary Action Research, also known contemporarily as voluntaristics. The aut
This review focuses on the governance of paid-staff nonprofit organizations. It discusses previous literature, identifies governance challenges for nonprofit organizations, presents a number of theori
This review essay provides an analytical review of the most important works on the evolving nature of the state-society relationship in China post-1949. The goal is to question the most important anal
Davies’ review explores the history of transnational voluntary associations in multiple sectors, including humanitarianism, science, education, environment, feminism, race, health, human rights, labou
Korean divorce law still adheres to fault-based divorce. According to a majority of the Supreme Court, the main reason for not admitting a no-fault policy is that the preconditions for systems for fin
In Paradiplomacy as a Diplomatic Broker, Manuel Duran presents paradiplomacy, the diplomatic practices of sub-state entities, as a specific site of diplomatic mediation, striking a middle ground betwe
In Governance Regime of Transboundary Offshore Aquifers, Renee Martin-Nagle explains the geologic origins of offshore freshwater aquifers and proposes a governance regime for offshore aquifers that ar
This two-part project by Maziar Peihani investigates the Basel Committee’s governance, operation and policies to determine the extent to which it has been legitimate. The first part studies the Commit
There has been substantial progress for the NPS and NPOs in China since Mao. The broader scope definition of civil society focuses on the general autonomy of the NPS in relation to the government, wit
A range of scholars have concluded that genocide itself is disturbingly rational and is grounded in more than atavistic, ancient prejudice. This significant conclusion challenges biblical scholars to
This essay offers an intellectual history of affect theory within biblical studies. Rendered as an ecology of thought, it describes the landscape of biblical studies through some frictions and discont
A brief introduction to the scholarly methodology known as "poststructuralism," with focus on the importance of the materiality of the signifier and how that materiality both plays a part in and disru
