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Transnational Adoption And European Immigration Politics: Producing The National Body In Sweden, Barbara Yngvesson
Transnational Adoption And European Immigration Politics: Producing The National Body In Sweden, Barbara Yngvesson
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This article explores the role of transnational adoption in the production of a multicultural but Swedish national body during the second half of the twentieth and the first decade of the twenty-first century, when Sweden became a multiethnic, multicultural, and racially divided country. I examine the development of international adoption policies in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, emphasizing the erasure of the child's connection to a preadoptive past, even as the child's cultural difference was celebrated in adopting nations. In Sweden, which in the late 1970s and early 1980s had the world's highest adoption ratio (number of transnational adoptions per …
Nato At Sixty: American Between Law And War, Mary Ellen O'Connell
Nato At Sixty: American Between Law And War, Mary Ellen O'Connell
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
NATO was founded to counter the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Treaty Organization. Both have been gone for over twenty years. So why is NATO still here? Part of the explanation may lie in Americans' strong belief in the efficacy of military force. NATO remains associated in Americans' minds with the greatest time of U.S. military power. Yet, the United States also has a strong commitment to the rule of law. The country appears overdue for a return to this other commitment. We should not be surprised to soon see the United States promoting international law again-and that could mean …
A Noble Sacrifice? Jus Ad Bellum And The International Community's Gamble In Chechnya, Peter Daniel Dipaola
A Noble Sacrifice? Jus Ad Bellum And The International Community's Gamble In Chechnya, Peter Daniel Dipaola
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
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