MWP Audio-Visual Material: Recent submissions
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Title:The global tax evasion report 2024 Author(s):ZUCMAN, GabrielDate:2024Type:VideoSeries/Number:MWP; Video Lecture; 2024/05Abstract:Over the last 10 years, governments have launched major initiatives to reduce international tax evasion. Yet despite the importance of these developments, little is known about the effects of these new policies. Is global ...
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Title:International law is already otherwise : digital interfaces of relation and the politics of 'innovation' in humanitarian practice Author(s):JOHNS, FleurDate:2024Type:VideoSeries/Number:MWP; Video Lecture; 2024/04Abstract:This lecture will examine the growing recourse by governments, international organizations, NGOs, and multinational corporations to digital technology in the humanitarian field – and its potential ramifications for ...
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Title:Granting rights to protect nature : possibilities and limitations Author(s):ALVIAR GARCIA, HelenaDate:2024Type:VideoSeries/Number:MWP; Video Lecture; 2024/03Abstract:For the last ten years and in the most diverse jurisdictions, there has been a movement to grant rights nature (either through constitutional and legal arrangements or judicial intervention). The adjudication of rights has ...
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Title:Who wants wealth taxes? Author(s):ANSELL, BenDate:2024Type:VideoSeries/Number:MWP; Video Lecture; 2024/02Abstract:Despite persistently high levels of wealth inequality across advanced democracies, inheritance tax rates have declined in recent decades and net wealth taxes largely remain theoretical. We argue that taxing inherited wealth ...
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Title:Poles, blocs, worlds, and civilisations : geopolitics beyond the State Author(s):BURBANK, Jane; COOPER, FrederickDate:2024Type:VideoSeries/Number:MWP; Video Lecture; 2024/01Abstract:The efforts of Russian propagandists to portray the invasion of Ukraine as a conflict between "Eurasian" and "Atlantic" blocs signals the vitality of trans-state and super-state affiliations in the political imagination ...