Current Regime Research Articles

Uncertain, unstable and unequal: Can regime interaction help international fisheries law address anthropocene challenges?

The term “Anthropocene” has become ubiquitous within debates on the future of international environmental law. While contested, it can generally be understood to refer to the fundamental idea that the world has entered a new era in which human activities, more than any other factor, are the driving force for change within the Earth system. This concept has inspired a rethinking of traditional international environmental law in line with the challenges that are expected to result from human-induced environmental impacts. This article explores how the Anthropocene will challenge international fisheries law and how understanding the role of regime interaction as a central characteristic of international law will be a necessary part of addressing these challenges. In order to determine what might be said to constitute Anthropocene conditions the article explores the effects of human activities on two core planetary boundaries, climate change and biosphere integrity, in the context of the world’s oceans. Through examining the human-induced threats to these boundaries, common themes of uncertainty, instability and inequality within the Anthropocene ocean are identified, highlighting broadly the ways in which the current international fisheries legal regime alone is inadequate to achieve its goals in the Anthropocene context. This article proposes that enhanced regime interaction, between related regimes such as international fisheries law, international climate change law and international biodiversity law could allow international fisheries law to be more readily able to meet the uncertain, unstable and unequal Anthropocene context.

Navigating the Indian Tax Landscape: An Introduction to the Current Regime

India's charge framework comprises a complex exchange of coordinate and roundabout charges required by both the central government and state governments. This unique gives a brief diagram of the current assess administration in India, with a specific center on the later changes presented for person taxpayers. The presentation highlights the two essential charge structures accessible to people: the conventional administration and the recently presented administration. The conventional administration offers different derivations and exceptions, whereas the unused administration gloats lower assess rates but kills these benefits. The unique digs into the key highlights of the current administration, counting the later adjustments made in the 2023 budget. It emphasizes the significant choice person citizens confront: choosing between maximizing derivations beneath the conventional administration or selecting for the lower charge rates of the unused regime. The Indian assess scene presents a complex and energetic environment molded by advancing administrative systems and financial objectives. This unique gives an early on investigation into the winning assess administration in India, highlighting key highlights, later advancements, and challenges confronted by citizens and policymakers alike. Our examination dives into the foundational viewpoints of Indian tax assessment, including coordinate and circuitous assess frameworks, counting wage charge, corporate assess, products and administrations charge (GST), traditions obligations, and other demands. We illustrate the transaction between these components, emphasizing their affect on businesses, financial specialists, and people working inside the Indian market. India's energetic assess administration presents both openings and challenges for citizens. This paper investigates the current scene, diving into the complexities of coordinate charges pertinent to people. The investigation centers on the later presentation of a modern charge administration nearby the existing conventional administration, highlighting the key highlights and contemplations for exploring this double framework.

Exit strategy for solvent companies under Indian insolvency law

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) was enacted with the objective to create robust ecosystem for entrepreneurship. One of the key features under this regime is availing exit strategies for business entities or corporate persons which may not be financially distressed or solvent but with non-viable businesses. The doctrinal legal research methodology is adopted with the help of cases to check the efficacy and purpose of the law. The articles test the two major theories on corporate insolvency and bankruptcy to derive on the theory which influences the Indian voluntary liquidation regime. The article attempts to compare voluntary liquidation proceedings of corporate person are dealt with under erstwhile Companies Act 1956 and 2013 with IBC 2016. The Current voluntary liquidation regime provides legal remedy for small yet solvent businesses to exit the market without acquiring financial burden, hence supporting entrepreneurship in India.

Climate justice and global development: outlining a new framework from the work of Achille Mbembe and Charles Mills

ABSTRACT As currently understood and practiced, global development and climate justice appear irreconcilable. In fact, global development has been and remains a key driver of climate inequalities. We hold that this is not an accident, but instead is a result of global development being established within worldwide systems of oppression. We define global development as setting the goals for, and the processes for achieving, what constitutes a good life for all communities, and taking the steps needed to reach those goals. This article provides an outline of how the theories of two moral and political philosophers – Achille Mbembe and Charles Mills – point us in the direction of an ethical framework for the relationship of humans to each other and to the natural world. We examine two contexts that should motivate development practitioners to move from the current development regime toward the direction of a transformational ethical framework built off the work of these philosophers: (i) the perpetual failure of global development practice to foster a humane approach to migration; and (ii) the inability of global development solutions, like SDGs and leapfrogging, to stray from the very problems they are intended to address.

ASEAN Centered Regional Architecture in Managing Sustainable Investment Under the RCEP

Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) that consist of 15 Asian member countries established in 2021 which to achieve a trade liberalization in the region. The Asian countries have been recognized as the motor of global regionalism and have heightened the Asian region become the center of global economy. This article aims to examine the provisions of RCEP on trade in investment whether it supports sustainability of investment in the region. The region will become a seamlessly market as the region is a market with free flow of goods, services, and investment. While the result of the Pact has not identified yet, this agreement constitutes as a significant effort of ASEAN as one entity, taking the lead of the implementation RCEP, in this current legal regime to gain leverage over its dialogue trade partners. In light of this, the current article’s objective is to observe and evaluate the overall role of ten ASEAN Member States (AMS) which work together to collectively in advancing their part in RCEP by comparing RCEP with International Partnership Economic Framework (IPEF). This study is multidisciplinary research using collected research materials include data and information that have been analyzed from legal and economic perspectives using qualitative descriptive method and found that RCEP investment provisions are utilized to support, realize and attain the ASEAN’ grand strategy to achieve and maintains sustainability of investment in this new Asian regionalism.

A transdisciplinary approach to address the exclusion processes of the food regime for Mexico’s small-scale fishers and farmers

Mexico is one of the few countries that combine fishing and agricultural legacies. Despite the social importance and central role of food production, Mexican public policies have largely abandoned small-scale producers over the last four decades. Moreover, they have been relegated to the status of weakest link in the economic logic of the global food regime. Since Mexico signed the first North American Free Trade Agreement, small-scale fishers and farmers have faced five main problems: dismantling of means of production, erosion of organizational capabilities, disadvantageous commercial logic that limits access to favorable markets, westernization of diets, and frequent periods of food insecurity. This study addresses the following research question, how, in the face of the exclusion processes of the current food regime, the abandonment of public policies and erosion of most of the sectoral organizational capacities in Mexico, can small-scale fishers and farmers, as well as urban and rural consumers improve their productive, commercial and food problems within their living contexts? We introduced a novel transdisciplinary context-specific approach, based on our research experience in fishing and farming communities of the Yucatan Peninsula. Finally, we outline innovation niches that could lead to relocate regional food systems through complementarities between coastal and inland areas.

Experimental Investigation of PEM Water Electrolyser Stack Performance Under Dynamic Operation Conditions

Water electrolysis has been used to produce green hydrogen, for which identifying optimum operation parameters is crucial to improve its energy efficiency and energy consumption. This paper used a commercial proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolyser stack (180 W) to demonstrate the correlation between operating current change, temperature, and water flow rate and their impact on the thermal and electrical performance of the stack. It was found that the current control regime and temperature control can offset the voltage ageing in a long-term operating electrolyser with no negative impact on the H2 production rate. For a controlled decreasing current path, in the medium range of operating current, the stack’s energy efficiency was improved by 5%, and 3.7% specific energy consumption can be saved comparing to the standard operation (57.8 kWh·kg−1H2). The results provide insights into the potential optimisation in operation conditions to further increase cell energy efficiency and reduce energy consumption. This new finding sheds light on developing an energy- and cost-saving operating method for long-term green hydrogen production via water electrolysis.

Rwanda's Peacebuilding Fragility: Voices from the Rwandan Diaspora in Kenya

This article examines the motivations that drive Rwandan diasporans in Kenya to oppose their country's peacebuilding efforts. As findings indicate, many Rwandan Hutu and Tutsi diasporans in Kenya oppose Rwanda's post-genocide peacebuilding process mainly due to the authoritarian governance of the current regime. This type of governance is characterized by silencing critics with violence, militarizing the peacebuilding process, and unequal socio-economic development, among others. Subsequently, there is little space for Rwandan diasporans in Kenya, and Rwandans in general, to participate in rebuilding their country towards a sustainable future.

Urban food governance without local food: missing links between Czech post-socialist cities and urban food alternatives

AbstractFood is becoming an increasingly important issue in the urban context. Urban food policies are a new phenomenon in Czechia, where urban food alternatives to the current food regime are promoted by food movements or take the form of traditional self-provisioning. This paper examines how urban food governance in Prague and Brno is constituted based on the municipalities’ relations with actors engaged in urban food alternatives. We argue that prioritizing aspects of local food system transformation compliant with the status quo is non-systemic and implies a fragmentation of urban food alternatives based on different levels of social capital and radicality. We conceptualize urban food alternatives as values-based modes of production and consumption and focus on values that guide urban food governance in its participatory and territorial interplay with the actors of urban food alternatives. Our analysis reveals that the values underpinning the two cities’ progressive food policies do not match reality on the ground. We propose four types of relations between the two examined cities and aspects of the local food system transformation. Aspects compliant with the status quo, such as food waste reduction and community gardening are embraced, whereas those requiring more public intervention, such as public procurement, short supply chains, or the protection of cultivable land are disregarded, degraded, or, at most, subject to experimentation as part of biodiversity protection. Chances for a successful transformation of the local food system under such governance are low but can be increased by strengthening social capital and coalition work among urban food alternatives.

The Interface between Human Rights and Terrorism: Towards Achieving an Effective Counter-Terrorism Regime

Terrorism has become an emerging challenge to human rights protections today. Although terrorism has been present throughout modern history, international concern against it has become more visible since September 11, 2001. The international community has adopted various instruments on counterterrorism, provisions of which have been incorporated into the domestic laws of different countries. These instruments representing the current counterterrorism regime prioritise national security over other issues including human rights. Therefore, while employing counterterrorism measures states often tend to promote their security at the expense of the lives, liberties, and properties of civilians. To protect the human rights of innocent people against such actions it is crucial to adopt an effective counterterrorism regime. This article explores how states could establish such a regime. It suggests that the proposed regime should be based on the human rights framework. The principles of necessity and proportionality will provide a useful guideline in this respect. Dhaka University Law Journal, Vol. 34(2), 2024 P. 1-23

Exploring tradeoffs in southeast United States marine fisheries management using management strategy evaluation

Recreational fishing is the fastest growing sector in industrialized nations and can have substantial impacts on marine fish populations and ecosystems. Commercial objectives are typically characterized by maximizing yield and fishery stability whereas recreational anglers generally prefer sustained access to fishing and the availability of larger fish. Achieving these objectives while balancing tradeoffs between recreational and commercial fishing is essential to effective recreational and mixed-use fisheries management. Balancing multiple sector objectives is of particular concern in the southeast United States (US), where recreational fishing is the dominant source of mortality for marine fish stocks. We developed and applied a size-structured management strategy evaluation (MSE) tool, individually, to two stocks in southeast US Atlantic waters, black sea bass (Centropristis striata), a sedentary reef fish in overfished condition, and cobia (Rachycentron canadum), a migratory coastal pelagic fish, to evaluate the performance and tradeoffs of mixed management procedures against a variety of objectives. Several recreational and commercial objectives were aligned: fishers sought to conserve the stock and maximize catch, which simplified the evaluation of tradeoffs. We tested management procedures over alternate states of recruitment for black sea bass, and natural mortality for cobia. Management procedures that allowed harvest for black sea bass resulted in or risked an overfished status if the current weak recruitment regime continues, but could rebuild with no fishing regardless of recruitment state. Although results were sensitive to uncertainty in recruitment, no management procedures could achieve historic landings for either sector, and only management procedures that reduced effort consistently resulted in a reduced number of dead discards. No management procedures resulted in an overfished status for cobia. Management procedures for cobia generally achieved objectives and were robust to uncertainty in natural mortality. In both case studies, tradeoffs occurred between maximizing catch and season length and maintaining a stronger size structure in the population. This study resulted in a flexible MSE tool with strong potential utility for scoping management procedures that explicitly consider recreational fishing objectives.

State regulation in the law enforcement system sphere as a tool for resolution of a conflict of interest in society

Motivation: The law enforcement system of the state is a special component of ensuring the performance of state functions related to the security of society. The study of the law enforcement system is impossible without studying the interests intertwined in its tasks, principles and functions. Aim: The purpose of the research was to study the key areas of the state policy implementation in law enforcement, ensuring public order and combating crime. Results: Based on the results of the study, the development of the doctrine of state policy in the field of transformation of the law enforcement system in the context of the theory of interest is substantiated. The origins of interest in the public administration system are established and the order of their formalization in law is justified. The substantive characteristics of private, public and community interests are determined, which serve as the basis for forming a law enforcement system to ensure their satisfaction. A hypothesis has been put forward and proved that the satisfaction of interests through their formalization in law and protection in the law enforcement system depends on the current political regime in a particular country. The conducted analysis of dictatorial regimes testifies to the replacement of the concepts of public interest with the private interest of the dictator, which as a result leads to threats to society in a particular country. The manifestation of the law enforcement system in the context of the theory of interests is determined, including: 1) an instrument for the protection and settlement of all interests; 2) a system of intersection of agents' interests; 3) an instrument for narrowing private interests.

Faith, politics, and power: The evolution of secularism and authoritarianism in Bangladesh

AbstractThis third article in the 2024 World Affairs special issue examines the intricate interplay between secularism, religious sentiment, and authoritarian politics in postindependence Bangladesh. Despite being founded on secular principles in 1971, the notion of Bangladesh as a strictly secular state is challenged. This article contends that while secularism was enshrined as a foundational state principle, its imposition occurred top‐down, diverging from prevailing societal ethos. The immediacy of the public backlash following its inclusion compelled ruling elites to adopt religion‐sensitive policies. I assert that the widespread religiosity among the populace steered subsequent political decisions. Notably, the shift from secularism to state‐sponsored Islam, the elevation of Islamic figures to cabinet roles, the recognition of Qawmi madrassa credentials, and the proliferation of Islamic rhetoric ensued. Analyzing a blend of archival data and field interviews, the article argues that the current authoritarian regime, emerging from an unconsolidated democratic framework, strategically exploits Islam as a political tool for legitimacy. By tapping into the prevailing Islamic sentiment, the regime aims to solidify its hold on power and navigate the complex political landscape of contemporary Bangladesh.

Catch my drift? Between-farm dispersal of biofouling waste from salmon pen net cleaning: Potential risks for fish health

Biofouling is a serious challenge for global salmon aquaculture and farmers have to regularly clean pen nets to avoid impacts on stock health and farms' structural integrity. The removed material is released into the surrounding environment. This includes cnidarian species such as hydroids, whose nematocyst-bearing fragments can impact gill health and fish welfare. There is also increasing evidence of the association of parasites and pathogens with biofouling organisms and cleaning fragments. It is unknown whether and how far local current regimes disperse biofouling material and whether this material reaches and interacts with adjacent pens or even neighbouring farms downstream, or wild fish populations in surrounding environments.We focussed on the cnidarian hydroid Ectopleura larynx, one of the most abundant biofouling species on Norwegian aquaculture installations. Using a 3D hydrodynamic model parameterised with physical and biological properties of hydroid particles (derived via field and laboratory studies), we simulated the dispersal of net cleaning waste from two Norwegian salmon farms.Our results demonstrate that net cleaning waste is extensively dispersed throughout neighbouring pens, and even to adjacent aquaculture facilities. Salmon were exposed to concentrations of biofouling particles up to 41-fold elevated compared to background concentrations, and for up to 30.5 h. Maximum dispersal distance of hydroid particles was 5.5 km from the point of release, achieved largely within 48 h. Least-cost distance calculations show that this distance exceeds the nearest-neighbour distance of 70 % of Norway's salmon farms (654 farms).Our study provides some evidence that actions taken to manage biofouling at salmon farms may affect neighbouring farms and surrounding natural environments. The results highlight the potential risks associated with net cleaning: the dispersal of harmful cnidarian particles, associated pathogens, and non-indigenous species, thus underlining the need for novel farming or net cleaning technologies that prevent the release of potentially harmful cleaning waste.

The Quest for Peace: Examining the Impact of Ethnic Federalism on Conflict Management in Ethiopia

The main objective of the study is to critically examine the impact of conflict management on conflict management in Ethiopia. The diverse policies that Ethiopia's previous administrations implemented have left both positive and negative legacies. In an attempt to promote national peace by addressing ethnic diversity and reducing conflict, the current regime has experimented with ethnic Federalism in a way never seen before since 1995. However, in Ethiopia, ethnic Federalism has not been able to resolve interethnic disputes. Ethnic group conflicts are become extremely widespread. People have died as a result of these wars, and other people have also been displaced and property destroyed. In addition, ethnic minorities are being driven out of different regions as a result of ethnic strife. Despite this, differing opinions persist regarding the purpose of Ethiopia's ethnic Federalism. Ethnic Federalism is seen favorably by some and is seen as a valuable instrument for resolving interethnic conflicts. However, several elites argue against ethnic Federalism as a policy and practice because they fear violence and the dissolution of the country. The study uses a qualitative content analysis design to address the paper's objective. Sociological and instrumentalist theories are also employed to address the issue. Consequently, this study has clarified how ethnic Federalism affects conflict resolution. The study implies that even if ethnic Federalism was implemented more than thirty years ago, it has not been able to resolve ethnic tensions throughout the nation.

Targeting BRD4: Potential therapeutic strategy for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (Review).

As a member of BET (bromodomain and extra-terminal) protein family, BRD4 (bromodomain‑containing protein 4) is a chromatin‑associated protein that interacts with acetylated histones and actively recruits regulatory proteins, leading to the modulation of gene expression and chromatin remodeling. The cellular and epigenetic functions of BRD4 implicate normal development, fibrosis and inflammation. BRD4 has been suggested as a potential therapeutic target as it is often overexpressed and plays a critical role in regulating gene expression programs that drive tumor cell proliferation, survival, migration and drug resistance. To address the roles of BRD4 in cancer, several drugs that specifically target BRD4 have been developed. Inhibition of BRD4 has shown promising results in preclinical models, with several BRD4 inhibitors undergoing clinical trials for the treatment of various cancers. Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), a heterogeneous group of cancers, remains a health challenge with a high incidence rate and poor prognosis. Conventional therapies for HNSCC often cause adverse effects to the patients. Targeting BRD4, therefore, represents a promising strategy to sensitize HNSCC to chemo‑ and radiotherapy allowing de‑intensification of the current therapeutic regime and subsequent reduced side effects. However, further studies are required to fully understand the underlying mechanisms of action of BRD4 in HNSCC in order to determine the optimal dosing and administration of BRD4‑targeted drugs for the treatment of patients with HNSCC.

When political liberalism meets a communalist worldview: John Rawls and African view of human rights

Since the publication of his A Theory of Justice (TJ), John Rawls has revolutionized political philosophy in many ways, including the understanding of human rights. His theory of rights in TJ is drawn from a comprehensive liberal doctrine and is limited to the domestic society. However, his account of human rights developed in his last major work, The Law of Peoples, claims to be politically free standing, following the model of his Political Liberalism. For Rawls, human rights are necessary conditions for social cooperation. They are meant to serve as one of the principles of foreign policy of the reasonable liberal peoples, in their relations with non-liberal societies. Rawls believes that his category of human rights cannot be rejected by non-liberal peoples as parochial or particular to the Western tradition, because they are not based on any comprehensive doctrine. On the other hand, however, many African scholars have dismissed the current international human rights regime on the account of being too liberal, and not corresponding to the African communalist worldview. It is in that regard that The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and subsequent African human rights instruments were adopted to dress a list of human rights that take into account African history, civilization, and values. Thus, in three main sections, this article examines whether the Rawlsian account and the African view of human rights can enrich each other, or whether they are completely opposed.

Reshaping Power Relations Within the International Aid Regime: The Role of the People’s Republic of China and Africa

ABSTRACT International aid is one of the main issues within the Liberal International Order (LIO) in Africa, where traditional donors have held significant influence since the Second World War (WWII). The power dynamics within the aid regime, which have been characterised by asymmetry in both guiding standards and administering organisations, have started to undergo disruption in recent decades. The relationship between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the potential to reshape the institutional arrangements of the international aid regime in the current global system. Beijing's increased financial presence in SSA, particularly its involvement in debt and financial dependency, challenges the hegemony of traditional donors who have historically employed Africa's debt and aid dependency as tools of asymmetric power. Both African governments and the PRC advocate for deep reforms of the current regime by defending favoured institutional arrangements, rejecting those deemed unfavourable and establishing new ones to substantially shift power dynamics within the international aid regime.

From Compliance to Care: Qualitative Findings from a Survey of Essential Caregivers in Ontario Long-Term Care Homes.

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of the care provided by family members and close friends to older people living in long-term care (LTC) homes. Our implementation science team helped three Ontario LTC homes to implement an intervention to allow family members to enter the homes during pandemic lockdowns. We used a variety of methods to support the implementation, and this paper reports results from an Ontario-wide survey intended to help us understand the nature of the care provided by family caregivers. We administered a survey of essential caregivers in Ontario, and a single open-ended question yielded a substantial qualitative data set that we analysed with a coding and theming procedure that yielded 13 themes. The 13 themes reveal deficiencies in Ontario's LTC sector, attempts to cope with the deficiencies, and efforts to influence change and improvement. Our findings indicate that essential caregivers find it necessary to take on vital roles in order to shore up two significant gaps in the current system: they provide psychosocial and emotional (and sometimes even basic) care to residents, and they play a monitoring and advocacy role to compensate for the failings of the current regulatory compliance regime.

Walking as “Grounding”: An Ethnography of Robot-Assisted Rehabilitation and Patients’ Aspirations in South Korea

Based upon the view that walking is a highly social act, i.e. “grounding” oneself in the realities, not just the medium of “moving,” this paper explores robot-assisted rehabilitation and patients’ aspirations concerning it. Fieldwork conducted in rehabilitation hospitals and disability centers in South Korea, reveals that rehabilitative medicine settles uneasily on the notion of neuroplasticity as a theoretical tool to legitimize robot-assisted therapy sessions, in the absence both of upstream treatment options such as stem cell therapy and their discernible benefits over human-based intervention. The patient’s clear preference to walk rather than to move, and hence to regain the whole package of sociality associated with the bodily technique underlies their high expectations toward robots. Under these insights, the paper argues that, for the field to enhance its clinical impact, the current regime focused on mechanical, or neurophysiological, aspects of walking should incorporate elements vitalizing the sociality constitutive of it.