TITLE: Key Terms and Concept in IIAs: A Glossary
SERIES: Issues in International Investment Agreements
LANGUAGE: E.
SALES #: 04.II.D.31
ISBN: 9211126363
SYMBOL: UNCTAD/ITE/ITT/2003/4
PAGES: 232
PRICE: 20
DESCRIPTION: This glossary of key terms and concepts in international investment agreements (IIAs) is designed to help individuals understand the principle issues in IIAs.

TITLE: Knowledge Societies: Information Technology for Sustainable Development
LANGUAGE: E.
SALES #: GV.98.0.11
ISBN: 9211007712
PAGES: 336PP.
PRICE: $19.00
DESCRIPTION: Knowledge Societies contains a wealth of information and commentary on the social and economic benefits and risks of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for developing countries. It offers unique policy-oriented perspectives on three major sets of issues - constructing and accessing the ICT infrastructure, building capabilities and skills for producing or using ICTs and services, and preparing the framework of strategies, policies, and regulations that will help to ensure that developing countries can move towards innovative "knowledge societies" that support their development goals. It brings together the views of government policy-makers, industrialists, researchers, and other stakeholders in developing and industrialized countries and draws substantially on the results of research in the field of science and technology policy studies. The publication is an excellent resource for government officials, private sector firms, academic researchers, and ICT producers and users.

TITLE: Kosovo and the Challenge of Humanitarian Intervention: Selective Indignation, Collective Action, and International Citizenship
LANGUAGE: E.
SALES #: 00.III.A.8
ISBN: 9280810502
SYMBOL: UNUP-1050
PAGES: 552pp.
PRICE: $39.95
DESCRIPTION: The Kosovo conflict has the potential to redraw the landscape of international politics, with significant ramifications for the UN, major powers, regional organizations, and the way in which we understand and interpret world politics. Can the veto now effectively be circumvented to launch selective enforcement operations? Can the humanitarian imperative be reconciled with the principle of state sovereignty? This publication offers interpretations of the Kosovo crisis from numerous perspectives: the conflict-parties, NATO allies, the immediate region surrounding the conflict, and further afield. Country perspectives are followed by scholarly analyses of the longer-term normative, operational and structural consequences of the Kosovo crisis for world politics.

TITLE: Kosovo Conflict, The: Consequences for the Environment and Human Settlements
LANGUAGE: E.
SALES #: 00.III.D.98
ISBN: 9280718011
PAGES: 104pp.
PRICE: $30.00
DESCRIPTION: This publication presents an assessment on yet another man-made environmental problem - the consequences for the environment and human settlements resulting from the NATO air strikes against Kosovo between 24 March 1999 and 10 June 1999. It focuses on five main areas: the environmental consequences - of air strikes on industrial sites; - of the conflict on the Danube river; - on biodiversity in protected areas; - for human settlements and the environment in Kosovo; and the possible use of depleted uranium weapons in Kosovo. In addition to the principal findings and recommendations, this assessment also presents information on the state of the environment and human settlements in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia prior to the Kosovo conflict.

TITLE: Kyrgyzstan: A Case Study of Social Stratification
SERIES: UNU/WIDER Working Papers
No.: 164
LANGUAGE: E.
SALES #: 00.III.A.12
ISBN: 9529520999
PAGES: 48pp.
PRICE: $5.00
DESCRIPTION: This publication analyzes the process of social stratification and the social structure emerging in Kyrgyzstan in the course of transition. Macroeconomic policies, privatization, agrarian reforms and changes in social security regime are considered as determinants of social stratification together with other factors, such as social networks, ethnicity, the strength and role of institutions. The volume further focuses on income inequality and examines transformation of the old and characteristics of the new social classes and groups: the new elite, the middle class and the poor. One of the major conclusions of the study is that the country needs a strong income redistribution policy addressing the inequality and massive poverty that present a major challenge to successful transition and sustainable development.