Law, Ethics and Governance: Law, Ethics and Governance
About the Book Series
Recent history has emphasised the potentially devastating effects of governance failures in governments, government agencies, corporations and the institutions of civil society. 'Good governance' is seen as necessary, if not crucial, for economic success and human development. Although the disciplines of law, ethics, politics, economics and management theory can provide insights into the governance of organisations, governance issues can only be dealt with by interdisciplinary studies, combining several (and sometimes all) of those disciplines. This series aims to provide such interdisciplinary studies for students, researchers and relevant practitioners.
Reimagining the International Legal Order
1st Edition
Edited
By Vesselin Popovski, Ankit Malhotra
May 27, 2025
International law is usually conservative, with lawyers and judges emphasizing consistency, stability and predictability as the major advantages of the law. Legal scholars often prefer not to challenge the status quo, to suggest amendments, or to reform institutions, advocating simply to focus on ...
Fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals: On a Quest for a Sustainable World
1st Edition
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By Narinder Kakar, Vesselin Popovski, Nicholas A. Robinson
May 31, 2023
This book contains assessment of the progress, or the lack of it, in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through review of the assessments and of case studies, readers can draw lessons from the actions that could work to positively address the goals. The 2030 Agenda for ...
Humanitarian Intervention, Colonialism, Islam and Democracy: An Analysis through the Human-Nonhuman Distinction
1st Edition
By Gustavo Gozzi
January 09, 2023
This book offers a critical analysis of the European colonial heritage in the Arab countries and highlights the way this legacy is still with us today, informing the current state of relations between Europe and the formerly colonized states. The work analyses the fraught relationship between the ...
Ethical Values and the Integrity of the Climate Change Regime
1st Edition
By Hugh Breakey, Vesselin Popovski
June 30, 2020
This book investigates the ethical values that inform the global carbon integrity system, and reflects on alternative norms that could or should do so. The global carbon integrity system comprises the emerging international architecture being built to respond to the climate change. This ...
Idealism and the Abuse of Power: Lessons from China's Cultural Revolution
1st Edition
By Zhuang Hui-yun
June 30, 2020
This book analyses the abuse of idealism with particular reference to China's Cultural Revolution. The work examines abuse at two levels: the state leaders' metaphysical vision as the interpretation of idealism at the top with state power; and the psychological state of the masses at the bottom of ...
Order and Disorder in the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Danielle Ireland-Piper, Leon Wolff
June 30, 2020
With a diverse group of contributors from law, business and the social sciences, this book explores the line not only between order and disorder in global affairs, but also chaos and control, continuity and change, the core and the margins. The key themes include: global crises and the role of ...
Positive Social Identity: The Quantitative Analysis of Ethics
1st Edition
By Nick Duncan
June 30, 2020
Despite considerable work the answer to basic questions such as ‘what are our ethics and our moral norms now?’ ‘Have they changed since last year?’, ‘If so why?’ remain surprisingly illusive. This book argues that progress towards answering these questions is possible through a grounded analytical ...
The Implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change
1st Edition
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By Vesselin Popovski
January 14, 2020
In December 2015, 196 parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the Paris Agreement, seen as a decisive landmark for global action to stop human- induced climate change. The Paris Agreement will replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol which expires in 2020, and ...
Governing the Climate Change Regime: Institutional Integrity and Integrity Systems
1st Edition
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By Tim Cadman, Rowena Maguire, Charles Sampford
August 23, 2018
This volume, the second in a series of three, examines the institutional architecture underpinning the global climate integrity system. This system comprises an inter-related set of institutions, governance arrangements, regulations, norms and practices that aim to implement the United Nations ...
Improving Health Care Safety and Quality: Reluctant Regulators
1st Edition
By Judith Healy
February 27, 2017
Responding to the public concern caused by recent hospital scandals and accounts of unintended harm to patients, this author draws on her experience of analysing the health care systems of over a dozen countries and examines whether greater regulation has increased patient safety and health care ...
Islam Beyond Conflict: Indonesian Islam and Western Political Theory
1st Edition
By Wayne Hudson, Azyumardi Azra
February 27, 2017
Politically, Islam in Indonesia is part of a rich multi-cultural mix. Religious tolerance is seen as the cornerstone of relations between different faiths - and moderation is built into the country's constitutional framework. However, the advent of democracy coupled with the impact of the ...
Promoting Integrity: Evaluating and Improving Public Institutions
1st Edition
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By Brian W. Head, A.J. Brown, Carmel Connors
November 15, 2016
What are the right institutional settings and strategies for ensuring honesty and accountability in public life? How do these settings and strategies relate to one another, and how do we know what is working and what is missing from the whole complex tapestry? Taking Australia as a case study that ...