1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910272350703321

Autore

Ikenberry G. John

Titolo

Reasons of State : Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government / / G. John Ikenberry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2018]

©1988

ISBN

0-8014-2155-1

1-5017-2633-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Cornell Studies in Political Economy

Disciplina

333.79/0973

Soggetti

Energy policy - United States

Petroleum industry and trade - Government policy - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Oil Shocks and State Responses -- 2. Explaining Energy Adjustment Policy -- 3. The American State and Energy Policies -- 4. The Limits of International Cooperation -- 5. The Limits of State Building -- 6. The Limits of Technology and Spending -- 7. The Market as State Strategy -- 8. Reasons of State -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this lucid and theoretically sophisticated book, G. John Ikenberry focuses on the oil price shocks of 1973-74 and 1979, which placed extraordinary new burdens on governments worldwide and particularly on that of the United States. Reasons of State examines the response of the United States to these and other challenges and identifies both the capacities of the American state to deal with rapid international political and economic change and the limitations that constrain national policy.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784278603321

Autore

Markesinis B. S.

Titolo

Comparative law in the courtroom and classroom : the story of the last thirty-five years / Basil Markesinis ; foreword by the Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; Portland, Oregon, : Hart Publishing, 2003

ISBN

1-4725-5937-1

1-280-80091-7

9786610800919

1-84731-202-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Disciplina

340/.2

Soggetti

Comparative law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index

Nota di contenuto

Abbreviations -- Table of Cases -- 1. Reflections on the State of Comparative Law I: The Twilight of the Heroes -- 1. Of Ghettoes and Smart Neighbourhoods -- 2. Decline -- 2. Reflections on the State of Comparative Law II: The Death of Heroes and the Era of Societal Needs -- 1. The Emergence of a Strategy -- 2. The Rabel Method Over Time -- 3. Functional Specificity: More of the Same Medicine -- 4. Old (Bad) Habits and New (Silly) Threats -- 5. From Heroes to Movements of Contemporary Globalisation -- 3. Spreading the Gospel (and the Name of the Evangelist) -- 1. Aims to be Pursued -- 2. Warnings and Caveats -- 3. Some Raw Data -- 4. Drawing the First Lessons -- 5. The Situation in Germany -- 6. The Case of South Africa -- 7. A Postscript -- 4. Foreign Law Inspiring National Law: Lessons from Greatorex v Greatorex -- 1. The Theory Put into Practice -- 2. The German Model -- 3. The Application of the German Idea to Greatorex -- 4. Unresolved Questions -- 5. The American Dimension -- 6. Some Tentative Conclusions -- 5. The Focused Approach in Public Law -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Study in Parallel -- 3. The Reasoning of the Courts -- 4. In Search of a Rapprochement -- 5. Wider Conclusions -- 6. Reflecting on the Future: An Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Correspondence Between Lord Atkin and Professor H C Gutteridge -- Appendix 2: The



German Approach -- Appendix 3: Databases Searched -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents an original, deliberately controversial and, at times, disturbing appraisal of the state of comparative law at the beginning of the 21st century: its weaknesses, its strengths, and its protagonists (most of whom were personally known to the author) during the preceding thirty-five years. It is also a reminder of the unique opportunities the subject has in our shrinking world. The author brings to bear his experience of thirty-five years as a teacher of the subject to criticise the impact the long association with Roman law has had on the orientation and well being of his subject. With equal force, he also warns against some modern trends linking it with variations of the critical legal studies movement, and urges the study of foreign law in a way that can make it more attractive to practitioners and more usable by judges. At the end of the day, this monograph represents a passionate call for greater intellectual co-operation and offers one way of achieving it. A co-operation between practitioners and academics on the one hand and between Common and (modern) Civilian lawyers on the other, in an attempt to save the subject from the marginalisation it suffered in the 1980s and from which the globalisation movement of the 21st century may be about to deliver it