Robert C. Fuller
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195369175
- eISBN:
- 9780199871186
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195369175.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Emotional programs are a prime example of how natural selection designed our brains to respond to environmental challenges. Biological and psychological studies of an emotion such as fear thus tell ...
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Emotional programs are a prime example of how natural selection designed our brains to respond to environmental challenges. Biological and psychological studies of an emotion such as fear thus tell us a great deal about how our bodies predispose us to specific kinds of religious experience. In the recent Left Behind series, apocalyptic religion elicits fear‐driven emotional responses that imbue this distinctive style of religion with characteristic moods and motivations.Less
Emotional programs are a prime example of how natural selection designed our brains to respond to environmental challenges. Biological and psychological studies of an emotion such as fear thus tell us a great deal about how our bodies predispose us to specific kinds of religious experience. In the recent Left Behind series, apocalyptic religion elicits fear‐driven emotional responses that imbue this distinctive style of religion with characteristic moods and motivations.
Irit Mevorach
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199544721
- eISBN:
- 9780191705564
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199544721.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Company and Commercial Law
Insolvency within multinational enterprise groups (MEGs) raises complex issues due to the foreign elements of the case and the multiplicity of debtors. The key problem is deciding to what extent and ...
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Insolvency within multinational enterprise groups (MEGs) raises complex issues due to the foreign elements of the case and the multiplicity of debtors. The key problem is deciding to what extent and in which ways should there be ‘linkage’ between the entities in the course of their insolvency in order to promote insolvency goals. Historically the issue has been neglected both in national and international regimes. However, new initiatives are currently developing. In order to deal with this issue this book provides a theoretical framework, suggesting a balance between Entity-Enterprise issues (drawn from company law theory and the problem of enterprise groups) and Universality-Territoriality issues (drawn from cross-border insolvency and conflict of laws theory). This is further assisted by a taxonomy describing prototypical scenarios of MEGs and their insolvency. The theoretical framework and prototypical scenarios are the basis for critical analyses of various tools for ‘linking’ between different components of MEGs in the course of their insolvency and the degree to which they fit with a series of insolvency goals. Thus, the book suggests a comprehensive approach for dealing with insolvency within MEGs which can be used not only within the current cross-border insolvency frameworks (e.g., UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency, EC Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings) but also as a definitive guideline for future reform. It argues that a global group-wide perspective for MEG insolvencies can be desirable if its application is limited to appropriate types of cases where unduly defeat of entity law and territoriality concerns can be minimized.Less
Insolvency within multinational enterprise groups (MEGs) raises complex issues due to the foreign elements of the case and the multiplicity of debtors. The key problem is deciding to what extent and in which ways should there be ‘linkage’ between the entities in the course of their insolvency in order to promote insolvency goals. Historically the issue has been neglected both in national and international regimes. However, new initiatives are currently developing. In order to deal with this issue this book provides a theoretical framework, suggesting a balance between Entity-Enterprise issues (drawn from company law theory and the problem of enterprise groups) and Universality-Territoriality issues (drawn from cross-border insolvency and conflict of laws theory). This is further assisted by a taxonomy describing prototypical scenarios of MEGs and their insolvency. The theoretical framework and prototypical scenarios are the basis for critical analyses of various tools for ‘linking’ between different components of MEGs in the course of their insolvency and the degree to which they fit with a series of insolvency goals. Thus, the book suggests a comprehensive approach for dealing with insolvency within MEGs which can be used not only within the current cross-border insolvency frameworks (e.g., UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency, EC Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings) but also as a definitive guideline for future reform. It argues that a global group-wide perspective for MEG insolvencies can be desirable if its application is limited to appropriate types of cases where unduly defeat of entity law and territoriality concerns can be minimized.
Irit Mevorach
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199544721
- eISBN:
- 9780191705564
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199544721.003.0004
- Subject:
- Law, Company and Commercial Law
Whereas the previous chapter considered the extent to which we should link between group members when resolving legal problems associated with groups, this chapter asks how to deal with the ...
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Whereas the previous chapter considered the extent to which we should link between group members when resolving legal problems associated with groups, this chapter asks how to deal with the international element of the MEG insolvency, i.e., whether we should aim to unify insolvency process across borders. It considers the main schools of thought in cross-border insolvency, mainly the universality-territoriality dilemma, as well as the application of these theories in practice — examining different frameworks for cross-border insolvency including international initiatives at harmonization of insolvency laws. The chapter concludes with suggesting that both universalism and territorialism have a role to play in resolving the group insolvency problem. In deciding whether to apply universalism or territorialism based solutions consideration should be given to the degree to which the solution will achieve the goals of insolvency, but also to the type of MEG in default and the level of interference with state separateness which is invoked.Less
Whereas the previous chapter considered the extent to which we should link between group members when resolving legal problems associated with groups, this chapter asks how to deal with the international element of the MEG insolvency, i.e., whether we should aim to unify insolvency process across borders. It considers the main schools of thought in cross-border insolvency, mainly the universality-territoriality dilemma, as well as the application of these theories in practice — examining different frameworks for cross-border insolvency including international initiatives at harmonization of insolvency laws. The chapter concludes with suggesting that both universalism and territorialism have a role to play in resolving the group insolvency problem. In deciding whether to apply universalism or territorialism based solutions consideration should be given to the degree to which the solution will achieve the goals of insolvency, but also to the type of MEG in default and the level of interference with state separateness which is invoked.
Laura Robson
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- October 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198825036
- eISBN:
- 9780191863684
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198825036.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History, Military History
The Mashriq today is characterized by an astonishingly bloody civil war in Syria; an ever more highly racialized and militarized approach to the concept of a Jewish state in Israel and the ...
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The Mashriq today is characterized by an astonishingly bloody civil war in Syria; an ever more highly racialized and militarized approach to the concept of a Jewish state in Israel and the Palestinian territories; an Iraqi state paralyzed by the emergence of class- and region-inflected sectarian identifications; a Lebanon teetering on the edge of collapse from the pressures of its huge numbers of refugees and its sect-bound political system; and the rise of a wide variety of Islamist paramilitary organizations seeking to operate outside all these states. The region’s emergence as a “zone of violence” characterized by a viciously dystopian politics of identity is a relatively recent phenomenon, developing only over the past century or so; but despite these shallow historical roots, the mass violence and dispossession now characterizing Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, and Iraq have emerged as some of the twenty-first century’s most intractable problems. This book uses a framework of mass violence—encompassing the concepts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced migration, appropriation of resources, mass deportation, and forcible denationalization—to explain the emergence of a dystopian politics of identity across the Eastern Mediterranean in the modern era and illuminate the contemporary breakdown of the state from Syria to Iraq to Israel.Less
The Mashriq today is characterized by an astonishingly bloody civil war in Syria; an ever more highly racialized and militarized approach to the concept of a Jewish state in Israel and the Palestinian territories; an Iraqi state paralyzed by the emergence of class- and region-inflected sectarian identifications; a Lebanon teetering on the edge of collapse from the pressures of its huge numbers of refugees and its sect-bound political system; and the rise of a wide variety of Islamist paramilitary organizations seeking to operate outside all these states. The region’s emergence as a “zone of violence” characterized by a viciously dystopian politics of identity is a relatively recent phenomenon, developing only over the past century or so; but despite these shallow historical roots, the mass violence and dispossession now characterizing Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, and Iraq have emerged as some of the twenty-first century’s most intractable problems. This book uses a framework of mass violence—encompassing the concepts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced migration, appropriation of resources, mass deportation, and forcible denationalization—to explain the emergence of a dystopian politics of identity across the Eastern Mediterranean in the modern era and illuminate the contemporary breakdown of the state from Syria to Iraq to Israel.
Anita Shapira
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780804785273
- eISBN:
- 9780804793131
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804785273.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Jewish Studies
Brenner chose to emigrate to London’s East End, a teeming East European Jewish microcosm. He edited Yiddish journals, mostly published by the Bund, the anarchists, and the Social Revolutionaries. His ...
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Brenner chose to emigrate to London’s East End, a teeming East European Jewish microcosm. He edited Yiddish journals, mostly published by the Bund, the anarchists, and the Social Revolutionaries. His new novel, Misaviv lanekuda (Around the point) described the life and ideas of circles of Jewish youth in various stages of acculturation. The book revolves around the conflict between being true to the Jewish people, symbolized by adherence to the Hebrew language, as opposed to the prevalent socialist ideas of devoting one's life to the redemption of the Russian people. The book was acclaimed by writers and readers alike. Following the news of the Russian Revolution, Brenner suffered deep depression. That did not prevent him from starting a Hebrew journal, Hameorer, which became the organ of the young modernist Hebrew writers and gained Brenner a unique position as a leader of the young generation of writers.Less
Brenner chose to emigrate to London’s East End, a teeming East European Jewish microcosm. He edited Yiddish journals, mostly published by the Bund, the anarchists, and the Social Revolutionaries. His new novel, Misaviv lanekuda (Around the point) described the life and ideas of circles of Jewish youth in various stages of acculturation. The book revolves around the conflict between being true to the Jewish people, symbolized by adherence to the Hebrew language, as opposed to the prevalent socialist ideas of devoting one's life to the redemption of the Russian people. The book was acclaimed by writers and readers alike. Following the news of the Russian Revolution, Brenner suffered deep depression. That did not prevent him from starting a Hebrew journal, Hameorer, which became the organ of the young modernist Hebrew writers and gained Brenner a unique position as a leader of the young generation of writers.
Laura Robson
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780520292154
- eISBN:
- 9780520965669
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520292154.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Middle East History
This chapter traces how the British and French mandates and League drew on Ottoman, Greek/Turkish, and Zionist and “territorialist” models of mass ethnic resettlement to construct plans of removal ...
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This chapter traces how the British and French mandates and League drew on Ottoman, Greek/Turkish, and Zionist and “territorialist” models of mass ethnic resettlement to construct plans of removal and resettlement for Assyrian and Armenian communities in Iraq and Syria. These plans, which ranged from regional resettlement in difficult-to-control border areas to mass removal to faraway locations like Brazil or British Guiana, fundamentally relied on imperial frameworks for their implementation. As challenges to empire mounted in the 1930s, such transfer plans were gradually scaled down or abandoned.Less
This chapter traces how the British and French mandates and League drew on Ottoman, Greek/Turkish, and Zionist and “territorialist” models of mass ethnic resettlement to construct plans of removal and resettlement for Assyrian and Armenian communities in Iraq and Syria. These plans, which ranged from regional resettlement in difficult-to-control border areas to mass removal to faraway locations like Brazil or British Guiana, fundamentally relied on imperial frameworks for their implementation. As challenges to empire mounted in the 1930s, such transfer plans were gradually scaled down or abandoned.
Henry Srebrnik
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814720202
- eISBN:
- 9781479878253
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814720202.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter examines how the Birobidzhan project and its doctrine of Territorialism helped the Association for Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union (ICOR), an American Communist “front” group ...
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This chapter examines how the Birobidzhan project and its doctrine of Territorialism helped the Association for Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union (ICOR), an American Communist “front” group founded in 1924 to support Jewish agricultural colonization in the new Soviet Union, thrive during the 1930s. The Birobidzhan project can be understood in the context of Territorialism, a form of Jewish nationalism that called for the establishment of a sovereign Jewish collective in a suitable territory anywhere in the world, and not necessarily in Israel. The Jewish Communists envisioned the creation of a “new” Jew in the Soviet Far East, rather than in Palestine. This chapter begins with an overview of the origins of the ICOR before turning to a discussion of the American Commission of Scientists and Experts' assessment of Birobidzhan and how it had convinced many Jews in the United States that Birobidzhan was a viable enterprise.Less
This chapter examines how the Birobidzhan project and its doctrine of Territorialism helped the Association for Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union (ICOR), an American Communist “front” group founded in 1924 to support Jewish agricultural colonization in the new Soviet Union, thrive during the 1930s. The Birobidzhan project can be understood in the context of Territorialism, a form of Jewish nationalism that called for the establishment of a sovereign Jewish collective in a suitable territory anywhere in the world, and not necessarily in Israel. The Jewish Communists envisioned the creation of a “new” Jew in the Soviet Far East, rather than in Palestine. This chapter begins with an overview of the origins of the ICOR before turning to a discussion of the American Commission of Scientists and Experts' assessment of Birobidzhan and how it had convinced many Jews in the United States that Birobidzhan was a viable enterprise.
Eric Sheppard
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199681167
- eISBN:
- 9780191761249
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199681167.003.0004
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Political Economy
Non-geographical economic theorists of globalizing capitalism offer two contrasting visions of its evolution. Proponents emphasize harmony and equilibrium, examining ‘golden’ growth paths of ...
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Non-geographical economic theorists of globalizing capitalism offer two contrasting visions of its evolution. Proponents emphasize harmony and equilibrium, examining ‘golden’ growth paths of untrammelled exogenous or endogenous dynamic equilibrium, or economies cycling smoothly around equilibrium states. Economic actors are accorded superhuman abilities: Turing-machine calculative powers, and rational expectations enabling them to anticipate and realize equilibrium. The diagnosis: globalizing capitalism is characteristically close to and convergent on equilibrium, enabling economic development for all who act rationally. Critics stress globalizing capitalism’s inherently crisis-laden nature, seen variously as due to over-accumulation, under-consumption, disproportionality problems (economic sectors growing at different rates), and a falling rate of profit. Both groups of theorists neglect how the spatialities of globalizing capitalism shape these dynamics, taking the methodologically territorial view that the dynamics of each (national or regional) economy can be examined in isolation.Less
Non-geographical economic theorists of globalizing capitalism offer two contrasting visions of its evolution. Proponents emphasize harmony and equilibrium, examining ‘golden’ growth paths of untrammelled exogenous or endogenous dynamic equilibrium, or economies cycling smoothly around equilibrium states. Economic actors are accorded superhuman abilities: Turing-machine calculative powers, and rational expectations enabling them to anticipate and realize equilibrium. The diagnosis: globalizing capitalism is characteristically close to and convergent on equilibrium, enabling economic development for all who act rationally. Critics stress globalizing capitalism’s inherently crisis-laden nature, seen variously as due to over-accumulation, under-consumption, disproportionality problems (economic sectors growing at different rates), and a falling rate of profit. Both groups of theorists neglect how the spatialities of globalizing capitalism shape these dynamics, taking the methodologically territorial view that the dynamics of each (national or regional) economy can be examined in isolation.
Alistair Fraser
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- June 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198728610
- eISBN:
- 9780191795435
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198728610.003.0004
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
Chapter 3 elaborates this theoretical approach through detailed analysis of the particular historical trajectory of gangs in Glasgow. The chapter identifies five key meso-level variables that have ...
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Chapter 3 elaborates this theoretical approach through detailed analysis of the particular historical trajectory of gangs in Glasgow. The chapter identifies five key meso-level variables that have contributed to the continuities of gang identities in Glasgow—persistent inequality, territorial identity, violent masculinities, neighbourhood nationalism, and economies of crime and justice—in an effort to delineate the particularities to Glasgow’s gang phenomenon. Focusing on three particular historical periods in which gangs came to public attention, the chapter situates gang identities from these periods within the broader currents of social change occurring in the city at the time, whilst seeking out continuities between these epochal moments.Less
Chapter 3 elaborates this theoretical approach through detailed analysis of the particular historical trajectory of gangs in Glasgow. The chapter identifies five key meso-level variables that have contributed to the continuities of gang identities in Glasgow—persistent inequality, territorial identity, violent masculinities, neighbourhood nationalism, and economies of crime and justice—in an effort to delineate the particularities to Glasgow’s gang phenomenon. Focusing on three particular historical periods in which gangs came to public attention, the chapter situates gang identities from these periods within the broader currents of social change occurring in the city at the time, whilst seeking out continuities between these epochal moments.
Richard I. Cohen (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- August 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190912628
- eISBN:
- 9780190912659
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190912628.003.0053
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism, Religion and Society
This chapter reviews the book Zionism without Zion: The Jewish Territorial Organization and Its Conflict with the Zionist Organization (2016), by Gur Alroey. In Zionism without Zion, Alroey examines ...
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This chapter reviews the book Zionism without Zion: The Jewish Territorial Organization and Its Conflict with the Zionist Organization (2016), by Gur Alroey. In Zionism without Zion, Alroey examines the movement that became Zionism’s fiercest rival—Territorialism—and how it ultimately lost the ideological contest concerning the location of the future Jewish state. Zionism and Territorialism shared the same precursors, and their proponents held a similar worldview with regard to the urgency of providing a refuge for Jews. In contrast, there were those who called for integration of the Jews into the various countries in which they already lived. This group was divided into two, one of which included Communists and Bundists. There was also a “cultural” stream in the Zionist Organization, which was led by Ahad Ha’am. According to Alroey, Ahad Ha’am sought to resolve the problem of Jewish religion in Palestine.Less
This chapter reviews the book Zionism without Zion: The Jewish Territorial Organization and Its Conflict with the Zionist Organization (2016), by Gur Alroey. In Zionism without Zion, Alroey examines the movement that became Zionism’s fiercest rival—Territorialism—and how it ultimately lost the ideological contest concerning the location of the future Jewish state. Zionism and Territorialism shared the same precursors, and their proponents held a similar worldview with regard to the urgency of providing a refuge for Jews. In contrast, there were those who called for integration of the Jews into the various countries in which they already lived. This group was divided into two, one of which included Communists and Bundists. There was also a “cultural” stream in the Zionist Organization, which was led by Ahad Ha’am. According to Alroey, Ahad Ha’am sought to resolve the problem of Jewish religion in Palestine.
Symeon C. Symeonides
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- June 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190496722
- eISBN:
- 9780190496753
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190496722.003.0003
- Subject:
- Law, Comparative Law, Private International Law
This chapter provides a brief account of the history (beginning in Ancient Greece and moving through Europe) of international choice-of-law doctrine including the move from unilateralism to ...
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This chapter provides a brief account of the history (beginning in Ancient Greece and moving through Europe) of international choice-of-law doctrine including the move from unilateralism to multilateralism and its importation to the United States by Joseph Story. It then discusses the traditional American choice-of-law approach, as exemplified in the first conflicts Restatement drafted by Joseph Beale. After discussing Beale’s excessive reliance on territoriality and his vested rights theory, the chapter reviews some of the Restatement’s black-letter rules and its contemporary judicial following. It concludes by assessing the Restatement’s flaws, as well as its contributions to the development of American conflicts law.Less
This chapter provides a brief account of the history (beginning in Ancient Greece and moving through Europe) of international choice-of-law doctrine including the move from unilateralism to multilateralism and its importation to the United States by Joseph Story. It then discusses the traditional American choice-of-law approach, as exemplified in the first conflicts Restatement drafted by Joseph Beale. After discussing Beale’s excessive reliance on territoriality and his vested rights theory, the chapter reviews some of the Restatement’s black-letter rules and its contemporary judicial following. It concludes by assessing the Restatement’s flaws, as well as its contributions to the development of American conflicts law.
Irit Mevorach
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- April 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198782896
- eISBN:
- 9780191826115
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198782896.003.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Company and Commercial Law, Private International Law
This chapter depicts the current position of what is called ‘modified universalism’. It also synthesizes the different aspects of modified universalism into the set of emerging norms concerning ...
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This chapter depicts the current position of what is called ‘modified universalism’. It also synthesizes the different aspects of modified universalism into the set of emerging norms concerning jurisdiction, choice of law, recognition, assistance, and cooperation, accompanied by global duties and safeguards. Modified universalism has translated the theoretical model of universalism, where one law governs and one forum presides in cross-border insolvency cases, to concrete and more nuanced emerging norms that are fit for the real world and real business structures. It is, however, still held back where it is regarded as a trend and an interim solution in the context of an aspiration for pure universalism. Consequently, one of the challenges laid before the universalist approach, in its various forms, is that even though it is generally beneficial, it is not universally adopted.Less
This chapter depicts the current position of what is called ‘modified universalism’. It also synthesizes the different aspects of modified universalism into the set of emerging norms concerning jurisdiction, choice of law, recognition, assistance, and cooperation, accompanied by global duties and safeguards. Modified universalism has translated the theoretical model of universalism, where one law governs and one forum presides in cross-border insolvency cases, to concrete and more nuanced emerging norms that are fit for the real world and real business structures. It is, however, still held back where it is regarded as a trend and an interim solution in the context of an aspiration for pure universalism. Consequently, one of the challenges laid before the universalist approach, in its various forms, is that even though it is generally beneficial, it is not universally adopted.
Laura Robson
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- October 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198825036
- eISBN:
- 9780191863684
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198825036.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History, Military History
This chapter introduces the main question of the book: how did mass violence come to be a primary—perhaps the primary—mode of making political claims in the twentieth and twenty-first century Middle ...
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This chapter introduces the main question of the book: how did mass violence come to be a primary—perhaps the primary—mode of making political claims in the twentieth and twenty-first century Middle East? It asks when mass violence became a constitutive aspect of the political landscape of the region, why it took precedence over other strategies of state building and establishing political authority, and how governments, armies, and civilians alike came to think of mass violence as a viable and legitimate mode of claiming political space and national rights. Drawing on several different and largely separate historiographies, this introduction argues, makes it possible to produce a synthetic account of violence in the twentieth century Eastern Mediterranean that takes account of regional developments as much as individual national histories.Less
This chapter introduces the main question of the book: how did mass violence come to be a primary—perhaps the primary—mode of making political claims in the twentieth and twenty-first century Middle East? It asks when mass violence became a constitutive aspect of the political landscape of the region, why it took precedence over other strategies of state building and establishing political authority, and how governments, armies, and civilians alike came to think of mass violence as a viable and legitimate mode of claiming political space and national rights. Drawing on several different and largely separate historiographies, this introduction argues, makes it possible to produce a synthetic account of violence in the twentieth century Eastern Mediterranean that takes account of regional developments as much as individual national histories.
Eva H.G. Hüpkes
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- April 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199660902
- eISBN:
- 9780191806902
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199660902.003.0014
- Subject:
- Law, Company and Commercial Law
This chapter explores how critical cross-border functions performed by financial institutions with complex legal structures and operations in multiple jurisdictions could be preserved in a world ...
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This chapter explores how critical cross-border functions performed by financial institutions with complex legal structures and operations in multiple jurisdictions could be preserved in a world where resolution regimes are essentially territorial in nature. It describes special resolution regimes to resolve failing financial institutions operating within their borders, and enumerates major hurdles to their application. It looks into the process of achieving an efficient and equitable cross-border solution by analysing the transnational bankruptcy law. It distinguishes three conceptual approaches to resolve conflicts: territorialism, universalism, and contractualism; and proposes the combination of these three to establish a framework for cross-border resolution.Less
This chapter explores how critical cross-border functions performed by financial institutions with complex legal structures and operations in multiple jurisdictions could be preserved in a world where resolution regimes are essentially territorial in nature. It describes special resolution regimes to resolve failing financial institutions operating within their borders, and enumerates major hurdles to their application. It looks into the process of achieving an efficient and equitable cross-border solution by analysing the transnational bankruptcy law. It distinguishes three conceptual approaches to resolve conflicts: territorialism, universalism, and contractualism; and proposes the combination of these three to establish a framework for cross-border resolution.
Jeffrey Shandler
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- November 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190651961
- eISBN:
- 9780190651992
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190651961.003.0004
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter examines how Yiddish, as the language of a diasporic minority, has been associated with a sense of place. Within its European “heartland,” the isoglosses of Yiddish dialects articulate ...
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This chapter examines how Yiddish, as the language of a diasporic minority, has been associated with a sense of place. Within its European “heartland,” the isoglosses of Yiddish dialects articulate geographic boundaries distinct to Ashkenazi Jews and reflect their long history across the continent. Though early twentieth-century efforts to create a Yiddish-speaking polity were short-lived, their aspirations constitute a significant shift in conceptualizing a geographic place for Yiddish. Conversely, the diaspora nationalist ideology of doikeyt (“here-ness”) and the notion of Yiddishland as a locus defined by the use of the language offer provocative alternatives to ideologies of nationhood tied to sovereignty and turf.Less
This chapter examines how Yiddish, as the language of a diasporic minority, has been associated with a sense of place. Within its European “heartland,” the isoglosses of Yiddish dialects articulate geographic boundaries distinct to Ashkenazi Jews and reflect their long history across the continent. Though early twentieth-century efforts to create a Yiddish-speaking polity were short-lived, their aspirations constitute a significant shift in conceptualizing a geographic place for Yiddish. Conversely, the diaspora nationalist ideology of doikeyt (“here-ness”) and the notion of Yiddishland as a locus defined by the use of the language offer provocative alternatives to ideologies of nationhood tied to sovereignty and turf.