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Captured at Sea : Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean
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ISBN: 0520973291 Year: 2019 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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How is it possible for six men to take a Liberian-flagged oil tanker hostage and negotiate a huge pay out for the return of its crew and 2.2 million barrels of crude oil? In his gripping new book, Jatin Dua answers this question by exploring the unprecedented upsurge in maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia in the twenty-first century. Taking the reader inside pirate communities in Somalia, onboard multinational container ships, and within insurance offices in London, Dua connects modern day pirates to longer histories of trade and disputes over protection. In our increasingly technological world, maritime piracy represents not only an interruption, but an attempt to insert oneself within the world of oceanic trade. Captured at Sea moves beyond the binaries of legal and illegal to illustrate how the seas continue to be key sites of global regulation, connectivity, and commerce today.


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The World of the Seafarer : Qualitative Accounts of Working in the Global Shipping Industry
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ISBN: 3030498255 3030498247 Year: 2021 Publisher: Springer Nature

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This open access book constitutes an ethnographic mosaic which depicts the contextual complexities of the life and work of seafarers who are employed in the international merchant cargo fleet. The collection is based upon the observations and interviews of researchers in multiple disciplines. It is woven together to offer a richly detailed insight into the ways in which a complex global industry operates internationally. The book covers issues to do with career decisions and recruitment, gender, life and work on board multinational vessels, health and safety issues, the regulation of the industry, shipboard roles and role conflict, and the representation of workers. It will be of considerable interest to all students globally who are studying for professional seafaring qualifications, to graduate students studying for masters courses in ship and port management, and to welfare professionals and policy makers. It is of special interest to those connected to the shipping industry who specialize in issues relating to 'the human element' and will serve as a paradigm defining text in this area.


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The New Global Rulers : The Privatization of Regulation in the World Economy
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ISBN: 0691157979 0691144796 9786613013378 1400838797 1283013371 9781400838790 6613013374 9780691144795 9781283013376 Year: 2011 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Over the past two decades, governments have delegated extensive regulatory authority to international private-sector organizations. This internationalization and privatization of rule making has been motivated not only by the economic benefits of common rules for global markets, but also by the realization that government regulators often lack the expertise and resources to deal with increasingly complex and urgent regulatory tasks. The New Global Rulers examines who writes the rules in international private organizations, as well as who wins, who loses--and why. Tim Büthe and Walter Mattli examine three powerful global private regulators: the International Accounting Standards Board, which develops financial reporting rules used by corporations in more than a hundred countries; and the International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission, which account for 85 percent of all international product standards. Büthe and Mattli offer both a new framework for understanding global private regulation and detailed empirical analyses of such regulation based on multi-country, multi-industry business surveys. They find that global rule making by technical experts is highly political, and that even though rule making has shifted to the international level, domestic institutions remain crucial. Influence in this form of global private governance is not a function of the economic power of states, but of the ability of domestic standard-setters to provide timely information and speak with a single voice. Büthe and Mattli show how domestic institutions' abilities differ, particularly between the two main standardization players, the United States and Europe.

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Commercial policy --International cooperation. --- Complementarity (International law). --- Foreign trade regulation. --- International finance. --- Standardization --International cooperation. --- Commercial policy --- Foreign trade regulation --- International finance --- Standardization --- Complementarity (International law) --- Commerce --- Business & Economics --- International Commerce --- International cooperation --- -Foreign trade regulation --- -382.3 --- Industrial engineering --- Grading --- Mass production --- Specifications --- Testing --- International monetary system --- International money --- Finance --- International economic relations --- Export and import controls --- Foreign trade control --- Import and export controls --- International trade --- International trade control --- International trade regulation --- Prohibited exports and imports --- Trade regulation --- Foreign trade policy --- International trade policy --- Trade policy --- Economic policy --- Law and legislation --- Government policy --- E-books --- International cooperation. --- Complementarity principle (International law) --- Principle of complementarity (International law) --- Criminal procedure (International law) --- Jurisdiction (International law) --- International criminal courts --- International Accounting Standards Board. --- International Organization for Standardization. --- International Electrotechnical Commission. --- Commission Electrotechnique Internationale --- International organization for standardization --- Organisation internationale de normalisation --- IASB --- Law and globalization --- Privatization --- Denationalization --- Privatisation --- Contracting out --- Corporatization --- Government ownership --- Globalization and law --- Globalization --- Kuo chi piao chun hua tsu chih --- 国际标准化组织 --- Międzynarodowa Organizacja Normalizacyjna --- Organizația Internațională de Standardizare --- Mezinárodní organizace pro normalizaci --- ISO --- ИСО --- I.S.O. --- Mezhdunarodnai︠a︡ organizat︠s︡ii︠a︡ po standartizat︠s︡ii --- Международная организация по стандартизации --- International Standards Association --- International Standards Organization --- Kokusai Hyōjunka Kikō --- 国際標凖化機構 --- Europe. --- Financial Accounting Standards Board. --- Germany. --- United Kingdom. --- United States. --- accounting governance. --- accounting regulation. --- business administration. --- domestic interests. --- domestic standardization. --- economics. --- financial markets. --- financial reporting standards. --- focal rule-making institutions. --- global financial markets. --- global financial reporting. --- global private governance. --- global private regulation. --- global product markets. --- global regulation. --- global regulatory governance. --- global rule-making. --- institutional complementarity theory. --- institutional complementarity. --- institutional fragmentation. --- institutional reform. --- institutional structure. --- intergovernmental organizations. --- international competition. --- international private organizations. --- international product standards. --- international standard-setting. --- international standardization. --- law. --- legitimacy. --- market-based private regulation. --- nonmarket private governance. --- nontariff trade barriers. --- political science. --- power. --- private regulators. --- privatization. --- product markets. --- product regulation. --- product standards. --- public policy. --- public regulatory agencies. --- regulatory authority. --- rule-making institutions. --- rule-making. --- sociology. --- standardization. --- transgovernmental cooperation.

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