Description
Springer Reinsurance by R.L. Carter
There may be some readers of this book who are expecting a sort of Mrs Beeton of reinsurance, whose indications if carefully followed will ensure the satisfactory outcome of any reinsurance operation undertaken. They will, I fear, be disappointed for reinsurance is first and foremost a commercial enterprise, whose successful conduct depends upon so much that cannot be written in books or committed to paper. Above all else, it depends upon people and on the personalities of people as much as on their technical skills. Most reinsurers are born and only some are made, but none the less for either sort this book will be of inestimable benefit as a guide to the principles that lie behind the transaction of a business at once as complex and widespread as reinsurance is by its very nature. One of the main characteristics of this highly specialized business is the infinite variety of situations to which the reinsurer is called upon to adapt his business methods making any standardization of practice possible only on a broad, as opposed to a detailed, basis. This renders any attempt to encompass in one book all the practical alternatives and differences in approach to technical reinsurance problems a virtual impossibility._x000D_ Table of contents :- _x000D_
Jihad, its meaning, scope and purpose in the Islamic tradition.- Evolving Approaches to Jihad: From Self-Defense to Revolutionary and Regime-Change Political Violence.- Jihad and the Interpretation of the Quran: Contextualising Islamic Tradition.- Understanding the Discourses on Jihad in Islam Through Classical and Modern Narratives.- The Pitfalls of Jihad As an Individual Duty (Fard 'Ayn).- Resurrecting Siyar Through Fatwas? (Re)Constructing Islamic International Law in a Post (Iraq) Invasion World.- Jihad, jus ad bellum and jus in bello.- The Challenge of Fragmentation of International Humanitarian Law Regarding the Protection of Civilians: An Islamic Perspective.- Jus in Bello: Civilians' Fundamental Rights Under Islamic and Public International Law.- Does the Impact of Jihad Ideology and Action Require a Transformation in the Legal Rules on Targeting?.- Self-Defense Arguments in the Jihad Concept and Their Counterparts in Western International Law.- Jihad and domestic law.- Jihad and Counter-Jihad: Western European Legal Responses to Islamic Militancy.- Why Continue Counterterrorism Policies if they are hurting?._x000D_