This book traces the emergence of the 2000 Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety – and the discourse of precaution toward GEOs that the protocol institutionalized internationally.

A close look at the laws, policies, and practices of detention and deportation in Canada since the Second World War.

The two faces of biotechnology are revealed throughout to show the promises and perils associated with a range of innovations.

Catherine Dauvergne examines the relationship between migration laws and national identities and highlights the role of humanitarianism in this linkage.

Mike Carr supports bioregional values and community-building tools for a diverse, democratic, socially-just civil society.

Throughout this concise and elegant book, John Helliwell emphasizes well-being as an explicit focus for research and for public policies.

A compelling exploration of the complex relationship between Thai national identity and prostitution and gender.

Increasingly, Indigenous people are being drawn into global networks. In the long term, cultural isolation is unlikely to be a viable – even if sometimes desired – option, so how can Indigenous people protect and advance their cultural values in the face of pressure from an interconnected world?

This volume explores the changing relationship between regionalism and multilateralism and examine the implications for national policy in a global trading system.

Interdisciplinary in approach, this volume explores federalism in the 1990s, bringing together leading scholars from law, economics, sociology, and political science to comment on federalism's strengths, weaknesses, and potential in a variety of contexts.