""The book is an account of economic liberalization in Aleppo in the 2000s as a social and cultural process as much as a political and economic one. It charts the understandings of commerce and of merchants that came to the fore in Syria as Baathism declined as an official ideology."

‘Terrorism' offers salient means to justify a level of social repression that would be intolerable in normal times. A criticism is that repression has gone too far. Although pertinent, focus on the proper extent of repression tends to overlook a less noticed yet critical feature of...

This article discusses the contractual relationship between the student-athlete and the universities that they attend among the more than 1,200 members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), in this case specifically those universities at the Division I level. In fact, when high...

An enduring challenge to international environmental law is to facilitate the resolution of environmental problems faster than they are being caused. Prominent among potential foundations for substantive international environmental law to this end are (a) neoclassical economic theory (NET) and...

Montréal at the Crossroads, edited by Pierre Gauthier, Jochen Jaeger, and Jason Princer, Black Rose Books, 2009. ISBN : 9781551643434 <p> Montréal is at a potential turning point in its transportation policy, one that most North American cities will reach in the next decade or so. The Turcot...</p>