Oxford University Press

What causes a state to unify voluntarily with another state? If realists are        right, voluntary union should never happen. In their view, states value their        sovereignty above all else and would never give it up without a fight. Yet the        United States and Switzerland are glaring exceptions to this paradigm. If liberals        and...

Phil Almond, Anthony Ferner, and their contributors explore some of the key questions in employment relations, comparative business, and globalization: the extent to which businesses embody a national business system, and what happens when these employment models are exported to other national settings....

This magisterial work is the first comprehensive study of the ethics of killing, where the moral status of the individual is uncertain or controversial. Drawing on philosophical notions of personal identity and the wrongness of killing, McMahan looks carefully at a host of practical issues including abortion, infanticide, the killing of animals,...

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