“…Editor Todd Henry asserts that Western forms of queerness, and the reading practices used to identify queerness in the American academy, are insufficient to describe the range of queer life on the Korean peninsula. …”

“…Both puritan Islamists and Western alarmists tend to oversimplify and misrepresent the role and position of sharia. …”

“…The vulgate version for Western christendom was St Jerome's Latin translation, but a stimulus and demand gradually grew for vernacular translations. …”

“…In this time when the traditional role of reason in the Western thought is being undermined, Popper’s non-foundationist model of reason brings the Enlightenment message into a new perspective. …”

“…Western philosophy has long nurtured the hope to resolve moral controversies through reason; thereby to secure moral direction and human meaning without the need for a defining encounter with God or the transcendent. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Modernisation, Westernisation, and Globalisation: Legal Transplant in China -- Comments -- Comments -- Scotland: The Constitutional Protection of a Mixed Legal System -- The South-Tyrol Autonomy in Italy -- The Europeanization of Law -- The Notion of Reparations as a Restorative Justice Measure -- Comments -- Comments -- Evolution of the Judicial Systems — Role of Public Prosecution, Role of the Lawyers, Specialised Courts, Judicial Guarantees of Fundamental Rights -- Lawyers, the Protection of Human Rights and Harmonious Society -- The Judicial Guarantees of Fundamental Rights in the Macau Legal System: A Parcours Under the Focus of Continuity and of Autonomy -- Public Prosecution vis à vis the Protection of the Legal System and the Protection of Fundamental Human Rights -- International Criminal Procedure and the Protection of the Fundamental Rights of the Person -- Comments -- Trend of Evolution of Chinese Mainland Prosecutorial System in the Context of Judicial Reform -- The Role of the Ombudsman in Defending Human Rights -- Domestic and International Judicial Protection of Fundamental Rights: A Latin American Comparative Perspective -- Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Limits and Constraints to the Police Action in the Criminal Procedure: Several Aspects in Some Juslusophony Systems -- Comments -- Comments -- Autonomy — A Comparative Approach: Purpose, Origins, International Foundations, Structures, Financial Aspects, Evolution -- Evolution of Autonomy and Federalism -- Autonomy Experiences in Europe — A Comparative Approach: Portugal, Spain and Italy -- French Overseas: New Caledonia and French Polynesia in the Framework of Asymmetrical Federalism and Shared Sovereignty -- The Development of Asymmetric Regionalism and the Principle of Autonomy in the New Constitutional Systems: A Comparative Approach -- Comments -- Decentralization and Structural Policies: The European Experience -- Legal Foundations, Structures and Institutions of Autonomy in Comparative Law -- Comments -- Autonomy Within the P.R. of China — S.A.R.s et alii; Purpose, Origins, Structures and Evolution -- The Relationship Between Central and Local Governments Under the Unitary State System of China -- Autonomous Legislative Power in Regional Ethnic Autonomy of the People's Republic of China: The Law and the Reality -- Macao SAR Inter-Regional Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters1 -- Comments -- Fundamental Rights and Interaction of the Legal Systems -- The Ranking of the International Law in the Framework of “The Basic Law of the Macao SAR of the People's Republic of China” and the Introspection on the Perplexities of Fundamental Rights -- The Validity of the International Agreements of the Human Rights in the Juridical Order of the Special Administrative Region of Macau -- Interpretation of the Basic Law by the Courts of the Macao SAR -- The General Regime of Fundamental Rights in the Basic Law and in the International Instruments -- Comments -- Fundamental Rights and the Basic Laws of the Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions -- The Fundamental Rights in Macao -- Constitutionalism and Western Legal Traditions in Human Rights in Asian Legal Systems: With a Special Focus on Chinese Legal Systems -- Comments -- Comments -- The Autonomy of the Macau Special Administrative Region -- The Theory, Constitution and Practice of Autonomy: The Case of Hong Kong -- Interaction and Integration Between the Legal Systems of Hong Kong, Macao and Mainland China 50 Years After Their Return to China -- The Special Administrative Regions of the PRC in Comparison with Autonomous Regions Models -- Comments -- Comments -- Conference Final Comments…”

“…Innovation is nowadays a question of life and death for many of the economies of the western world. Yet, due to our generally reductionist scientific paradigm, invention and innovation are rarely studied scientifically. …”

“…In the era of globalization, multilevel and new modes of governance are changing the traditional governance models of nation states, accelerated by technological innovation, rising citizen expectation, policy intervention from international and multilateral donor communities, and the hegemony of western ideology imposed on many developing nations. …”

“…The volumes expound the contribution of the German tradition to the rise of social policy in the Western world in the 19th and 20th centuries. Germany pioneered modern social policy in the 19th century when Bismarck introduced social insurance. …”

“…After seizing power in 1976, the Argentine military described its own program of forced disappearances, torture, and murder as a "process of national reorganization" aimed at remodeling society on "Western and Christian" lines. For Feierstein, genocide can be considered a technology of power-a form of social engineering-that creates, destroys, or reorganizes relationships within a given society. …”

“…With essays by eleven leading experts in such fields as international relations and international law, it seeks to show and explain how America's approach to human rights differs from that of most other Western nations. In his introduction, Michael Ignatieff identifies three main types of exceptionalism: exemptionalism (supporting treaties as long as Americans are exempt from them); double standards (criticizing "others for not heeding the findings of international human rights bodies, but ignoring what these bodies say of the United States); and legal isolationism (the tendency of American judges to ignore other jurisdictions). …”

“…The book's origins are partly in Italy, partly in other cultures, combining recipes from Tuscan cuisine with those taken directly from the older Latin Liber de coquina, a cookery book from Naples which can be seen as a link between Oriental and Western European culinary literature. The Libro de la cocina reveals the complete range of the art of XIVth century Italian cooking: basic and elaborate vegetable, meat and fish dishes, desserts, and dietary preparations. …”

“…Taken together, the Russian census of 1897 and the Soviet censuses of 1926, 1959, 1970, and 1979 constitute the largest collection of empirical data available on that country, but until the publication of this book in 1986, the daunting complexity of that material prevented Western scholars from exploiting the censuses fully. …”

“…The Eastern Fertile Crescent region of western Iran and eastern Iraq hosted major developments in the transition from hunter-forager to farmer-herder lifestyles through the Early Neolithic period, 10,000-7000 BC. …”

“…Cooper revient, donc, avec ce roman qui, comme les autres contes de Bas-de-Cuir, a la saveur nostalgique des lectures d’enfance : il fut l’un de nos premiers westerns, même si c’est un western sans cowboys qui se passe dans l’Est. …”

“…While ethnographic fieldwork for this research was conducted in Australia, this movement is to be found across the Western world. The research is framed by the question posed by Jürgen Habermas, who asks whether the democratic constitutional state is able to renew itself, and recognises a benefit in learning from religion. …”

“…While most of this focus has been on the US and Western Europe, this collection provides a unique global perspective on the emergence and development of conspiracy theories through a series of case studies. …”

“…—Nico Steytler, University of the Western Cape This open access book connects two strands of federal studies, fiscal federalism and diversity accommodation, by answering two closely interrelated questions. …”

“…It brings together fourteen socio-legal scholars, representing Nordic and Western European countries, who analyse different aspects pertaining to European social rights, namely the regulation of social rights, encounters between welfare professionals and citizens, and citizens’ mobilisation of social rights. …”

“…In this way, this book participates in the rich debate in the shadow of the commemorations for the bicentennial, raised with the intention of overcoming local or traditional approaches that, we are sure, will lead to a resignification of the Ibero-American independencies within the interpretation of the creation of Contemporaneity, not only in the Western Hemisphere but in the whole of humanity…”