The banning of anti-personnel landmines : the legal contribution of the International Committee of the Red Cross / / editors, Louis Maresca, Stuart Maslen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780069103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000
• ISBN: 1-107-12087-X; 0-511-01381-7; 1-280-43267-5; 0-511-17553-1; 0-511-15593-X; 0-511-32535-5; 0-511-49424-6; 0-511-04640-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxvii, 670 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 327.174
• Soggetti: Land mines (International law); Mines (Military explosives) (International law); Arms control; Land mines
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; FOREWORD BY CORNELIO SOMMARUGA; FOREWORD BY AMBASSADOR JACOB S. SELEBI; FOREWORD BY AMBASSADOR JOHAN MOLANDER; INTRODUCTION; PART 1 From principles to rules: regulating mines up to the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons; PART 2 The Review Conference of the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons; PART 3 The Ottawa Process; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: The International Committee of the Red Cross has played a key role in the effort to ban anti-personnel landmines and in offering aid to victims of war and internal armed violence. This book provides an overview of the work of the ICRC in this area from 1955 through 1999, ; and gives additional commentary on general issues of the methods and means of warfare. It contains International Committee of the Red Cross position papers, working papers, and speeches made by its representatives to the international meetings convened to address the mines issue, including the 1995-96 Review Conference of the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and the diplomatic meeting which adopted the Ottawa treaty banning anti-personnel mines. These documents provide critical insights into the development of international humanitarian law on this issue, and will form a basis for discussions on landmines and other conventional weapons.

Inflation, Inequality, and Social Conflict / / Christopher Crowe

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788406703321
• Autore: Crowe Christopher
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006
• ISBN: 1-4623-8713-6; 1-4527-7637-7; 1-283-51576-8; 1-4519-8393-X; 9786613828217
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (39 p.)
• Collana: IMF Working Papers
• Soggetti: Income distribution - Econometric models; Inflation (Finance) - Social aspects; Inflation; Macroeconomics; Political Economy; Aggregate Factor Income Distribution; Price Level; Deflation; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions; Political economy; Income inequality; Income distribution; Personal income; Prices; Income; Economics; United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "June 2006."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""I. Introduction""; ""II. Household Optimization""; ""III. Political Optimization""; ""IV. Empirical Analysis""; ""V. Concluding Remarks""
• Sommario/riassunto: This paper presents and then tests a political economy model to analyze the observed positive relationship between income inequality and inflation. The model's key features are unequal access to both inflation-hedging opportunities and the political process. The model predicts that inequality and 'elite bias' in the political system interact to create incentives for inflation. The paper's empirical section focuses on this predicted interaction effect. The identification strategy involves using the end of the Cold War as a source of exogenous variation in the political environment. It finds robust evidence in support of the model.