This season finds the twelve colonies of man caught in a brewing civil war between the followers of President Roslin and those of Commander Adama. They must face the Cylons from outside, and within, the fleet.

Over twenty years after the 1989 UN General Assembly vote to open the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) for signature and ratification by UN member states, the United States remains one of only two UN members not to have ratified it. The other is Somalia. Child Rights: The Movement, International Law, and Opposition explores the reasons for this resistance. It details the objections that have arisen to accepting this legally binding international...

A new edition of the seminal text by the father of modern economics. First published in 1919, John Maynard Keynes's The Economic Consequences of the Peace created immediate controversy. Keynes was a firsthand witness to the negotiations of the Paris Peace Conference, as an official representative of the British Treasury, and he simultaneously sat as deputy for the chancellor of the Exchequer on the Supreme Economic Council. In these roles, he was...

Assurer le respect de l'une des valeurs fondamentales de l'humanité dans notre société par le biais de la Convention européenne des droits de l'homme et de la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme. L'objectif de ce recueil est d'aider les juges, les procureurs et les avocats des 46 États membres du Conseil de l'Europe à traiter les affaires d'extradition ou d'expulsion lorsqu'il existe un risque d'application de la peine de mort dans des pays...

This is a careful examination of the historical formation of Britain and of key moments in its relations with the European powers. The author looks at the governing discourses of politicians, the mass media, and the British people. The rhetoric of sovereignty among political elites and the population at large is found to conceive of Britain's engagement with Europe as a zero-sum game. A second theme is the power of geographical images – island Britain...

À l'approche des cent ans de l'armistice entre les Alliés et l'Allemagne, un historien, un philosophe et des témoins de massacres de masse abordent les questions de la violence, de la vengeance et de la réconciliation. Dans sa préface, l'historien Maurice Vaïsse dresse un panorama des différentes tentatives des nations, au cours du XXe siècle, pour établir un monde un peu plus pacifique. Et constate que la plus aboutie, malgré ses imperfections...

In the 1980s and 1990s, Nicolas Jabko suggests, the character of European integration altered radically, from slow growth to what he terms a "quiet revolution." In this book he traces the political strategy that underlay the move from the Single Market of 1986 through the official creation of the European Union in 1992 to the coming of the euro in 1999. The official, shared language of the political forces behind this revolution was that of market...

The Council of Europe Convention on the Manipulation of Sports Competitions is the first legally binding international tool to fight match-fixing. Its purpose is to prevent, detect and punish the manipulation of sports competitions, as well as to enhance the exchange of information and national and international co-operation between the public authorities concerned and with sports organisations and sports betting operators.

La Convention du Conseil de l'Europe sur la manipulation de compétitions sportives est le premier instrument international juridiquement contraignant de lutte contre le trucage de matchs. Elle a pour but de prévenir, détecter et sanctionner la manipulation de compétitions sportives, ainsi que de renforcer l'échange d'informations et la coopération nationale et internationale entre les autorités publiques concernées, et avec les organisations...