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This chapter discusses key concerns in the literature on nuclear weapons produced outside India and analyses the history of India’s nuclear policy. It suggests that while Indian scholarship has made significant contributions, it has been focused mainly in South Asia and remains limited to contemporary policy analysis without much effort at generating or testing international relations theory. It also highlights the need for Indian literature to focus on issues such as India’s approach to global nuclear issues and the relationship between nuclear weapons and military strategy.

This chapter uses Woodrow Wilson’s fourteenth point as a basis for proposing multistakeholder alliances to solve global issues that require multiple perspectives and collaboration between the private and public sectors. The author explains the meaning of the term multistakeholder alliance and then offers recent examples of alliances formed to tackle difficult international issues such as vaccination, AIDS, and energy efficiency. The chapter concludes with the assertion that contemporary global issues cannot be resolved without the collaboration of companies, foundations, organizations, and influential individuals.

The rise of public evangelicalism can be explained in part by new attention to global concerns. This chapter, in a close analysis of evangelical rhetoric and activism regarding human rights, tracks the transformation of a narrowly focused anticommunism at midcentury into a new and broader internationalism at the end of the twentieth century. This new global sensibility stresses social justice in addition to personal evangelism. It emphasizes economic development in addition to disaster relief. It values ecumenism over sectarianism. These trajectories were sparked in part by the global experience and from international evangelicals themselves, whose presence in key institutions—such as the Latin American Theological Fraternity, the World Evangelical Fellowship, the Lausanne Congress, and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship—helped to broaden and intensify American evangelical political commitments. By the 2000s, evangelicals on the left and the right had spearheaded the passage of the International Religious Freedom Act, a clear indication of evangelicalism’s heightened level of social engagement.

This chapter reviews the main features of India’s integration with the global economy and examines India’s stance on global economic issues. Since 1991, India’s trade and foreign investment flows have more than trebled as a proportion of GDP, consequent upon the liberalization of various restrictions. The effects on productivity and growth have been highly favourable. Instability has been avoided by retaining some capital controls on ‘hot money’. On international monetary issues, India has no axe to grind. It should use this neutral status to demand better mechanisms to adjust deficits and surpluses of key countries, and better arrangements for provision of international liquidity. In the trade arena, India needs urgently to fashion a coherent response to the global trend towards mega-regional trade agreements. Non-engagement runs the risk of leaving India vulnerable to discrimination, and exclusion from rule-making on ‘behind the border’ issues.

With a growing presence on the world stage, the BRICS nations—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—are expanding their influence and impact worldwide. These countries can address global health issues as they build their own health systems. They are growing in significance, separately as nations and collectively as a center of gravity. They are assuming multiplying roles in global health, including funding, knowledge generation and dissemination, technical assistance and policy advice, empowerment and agency enhancement, advocacy, surveillance and outbreak response, and health system development. Their emerging economies and health systems link them closely to the developing world’s concerns, while their growing economic and political influence draws them into the company of industrialized countries and gives them a more powerful voice in global affairs. Their emergence as global health actors may call more attention to developing countries’ perspectives and needs.

This introductory chapter begins by discussing the shifting and contested meanings of terrorism over time. It explains how the meaning of terrorism is affected by one state issue to global issues. It argues that the term terrorism has been erratically deployed to describe all form of evils and things that are not evil at all. It also discusses how international attempts of defining terrorism in legal terms have been exceedingly difficult not only for ideological and political reasons, but also because of the many technical difficulties of definition. It then reveals the main focus of the book which is defining terrorism in international criminal law.

This book has reviewed new challenges faced in the governance of global public goods (GPGs) in terms of environmental concern and emerging global issues, and has compressed the generated knowledge and developed perspectives for understanding and designing the governance of GPGs. It has also demonstrated, through an analysis, that the state/government continually engages in finding solutions to improve the provision of GPGs. This goal is achieved through its participation in transnational cooperation to overcome global disasters or by designing markets or incentives for influencing behaviors and cooperation through economic measures. The findings of analyses in the book have also revealed that effective governance of GPGs needs to be democratic, reflexive, and knowledge oriented.

This concluding chapter emphasizes that modernity will continue to progress as more nations begin to adopt it, and that adjustments to modernity are still ongoing regardless of its many failures. There are likewise attempts made on quantifying happiness to some extent, though there are difficulties with such ventures. Furthermore, the issues involved are global, as more and more societies reach a measurable level of modernity. Yet while many difficulties are associated with modernity and with finding a viable solution for closing the modernity–happiness gap, modernity itself has brought many real gains. Abolishing it would not be the answer, though we would certainly benefit from a more thoughtful acceptance of modernity and an evaluation of the adjustment process therein.

The overarching objective of a new set of Sustainable Development Goals will be to eliminate absolute poverty by 2030. Aid will continue to be important, but will focus on a diminishing number of countries and increasingly on global public goods. The chapter looks at the need to revisit global institutional economic and political structures, better to reflect shifts in the balance of power since the end of the Second World War, without which the international system is at risk of fracturing. Development is ultimately about the well-being of everyone, and must be addressed as a global issue.

Statistics show that depression is a major global health issue today. According to a description by William Styron, a writer who experienced depression first hand, “depression takes on the quality of physical pain. But it is not an immediately identifiable pain, like that of a broken limb.” This explains why a significant number of people, when faced with depression, seek relief via the health care system. Between 2004 and 2005, primary care physicians in Australia prescribed antidepressant medication (ADM) to more than 11 million patients, compared to only approximately 7.5 million between 1999 and 2000. This book introduces cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) as an equally effective treatment for depression. It has been subject to extensive trials with outcomes shown to be as good as those achieved with ADM.

For many entrepreneurs, selling your business is an unique, once-in-a-lifetime event. Selling or transferring one’s business to a third party is in many ways radical. First, in a rather irrational way: selling your business means goodbye to what has been built or continued for several years or for decades. Second, more rationally, entering into a selling process brings its own dynamics: informally attracting candidate buyers or find candidates via public marketing, exchanging business information, negotiation phase, a letter of intent, including clauses on confidentiality, due diligence, valuation and price-setting and the role of certain conditions precedent and guarantees in the entire proces, and finally closing the deal and transfer the business. In addition to its specific contractual clauses relevant for each individual sales process, other legal issues surround such a sale and transfer. On the buyer’s side for instance the way to finance the acquisition, antitrust pitfalls, stock listing requirements or requirements for transferring public law permits, certifications and licences or the uncertainly relating to the possible loss of carry forwards against taxation that may require the consent of third parties to be transferred, if they can be transferred at all).