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Credit rating agencies have been criticized for their role in the financial crisis        by understating credit risk. The US subprime mortgage crisis highlighted the        systemic relevance of the rating agencies and the deficiencies in their activities;        this led to an international consensus to regulate the rating business. Written...

Non-international armed conflicts now far outnumber international ones, but the protection afforded by international law to combatants and civilian is not always clear. This book will set out the legal rules and state practice applicable to internal armed conflicts, drawing on armed conflicts from the US civil war to present day....

This Oxford Handbook will be the definitive study of governance for years to come.          'Governance' has become one of the most popular terms in contemporary political        science; this Handbook explores the full range of meaning and application of the        concept and its use in a number of research fields....