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Reinsurance is a market that provides cover for the devastating consequences of unpredictable events such as Hurricane Katrina, or the Tohoku earthquake, underpinning society's capacity to rebuild after the unthinkable happens. This book fleshes out how this important and quirky financial market works.

This book examines the influence of international organizations since the First World War, and explores how they have acted on behalf of, and at times instead of, states in the international arena. The International Labour Organization, the United Nations, and the World Bank are examined in depth.

Although we are entirely unaware of it, computation is central to all aspects of our existences. Every day we solve, or try to solve, a myriad of problems, from the utterly trivial to the bafflingly complex. This book explains why it is possible to do computation and what the ultimate limits of it are, as understood by modern science.

Investigating cross-linguistic variation in the domains of all natural languages, this work views this domain as a cognitive space, the topography of which is the same for all languages. It brings together the research results in a universally applicable model, which can be read as a 'flow-chart' for the encoding of intransitive predications.

An examination of the extent to which humanitarian intervention has become a legitimate practice in international society, this text maps the changing legitimacy of humanitarian intervention by comparing the international response to cases of humanitarian intervention in the cold war and post-cold war periods.

This book synthesizes findings regarding the political drivers of institutional change in extractive industry governance. It analyses resource governance from the late nineteenth century to the present in Bolivia, Ghana, Peru, and Zambia, focusing on the ways in which resource governance and national political settlements interact.

Thorough coverage of the major legal issues affecting Australian business involved in international trade, enabling students to understand both the law itself and its applications. Leon Trakman, University of NSW; Bruno Zeller, Victoria University, Australia.