GSIS Monograph Series in World Affairs. Science, Politics, and International Conferences

GSIS Monograph Series in World Affairs. Science, Politics, and International Conferences
Author: Richard L. Merritt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre: POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN: 9781685851408

While there are many widely held assumptions about the impact of international scientific congresses (ISCs) on individual scientists, collective bodies, a particular branch of science, or even the establishment of world order, these assumptions have not previously been fully examined or tested empirically. Merritt and Hanson present here the results of their systematic investigation of the uses and consequences of ISCs. Deriving their data from a survey of political scientists from the nonsocialist countries who attended the XIth World Congress of IPSA in Moscow, as well as a control group of North American political scientists who did not attend the Moscow meetings, they provide a solid basis for evaluating the costs vs. the benefits of future scientific congresses.

Asylum as Reparation

Asylum as Reparation
Author: James Souter
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2021-12-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 303062448X

This book argues that states have a special obligation to offer asylum as a form of reparation to refugees for whose flight they are responsible. It shows the great relevance of reparative justice, and the importance of the causes of contemporary forced migration, for our understanding of states’ responsibilities to refugees. Part I explains how this view presents an alternative to the dominant humanitarian approach to asylum in political theory and some practice. Part II outlines the conditions under which asylum should act as a form of reparation, arguing that a state owes this form of asylum to refugees where it bears responsibility for the unjustified harms that they experience, and where asylum is the most fitting form of reparation available. Part III explores some of the ethical implications of this reparative approach to asylum for the workings of states’ asylum systems and the international politics of refugee protection.

Science and Politics in International Environmental Regimes

Science and Politics in International Environmental Regimes
Author: Steinar Andresen
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2000
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780719058066

French society in revolution aims to retrieve the social history of the French Revolution from unjustified neglect.This study examines both the structural and cultural elements behind the breakdown of the eighteenth-century monarchic state and its aris. . . .