This chapter (together with the next one) introduces probably the highlight of the book, i.e. it attempts to answer the important question: what can we now do with the quantum-physics like stance? An immediate, almost obvious, discussion centres around the analogies with the famed double-slit experiment. We set ourselves the task of answering how we can begin to enumerate, quite precisely, analogies between electrons and agents. As the reader will find out, we will need to move over several (important) hurdles, one of them being the perennially difficult analogy we need to make with the Planck constant. We then proceed in shaping the idea of two-preference interference, a concept of paramount importance in our quest to properly define the quantum physics–like research direction.

This chapter introduces an unexpected analogy between marriage and anthropology, both being encounters with difference that have transformative capacities – themes that are returned to throughout the book. Research on marriage in Penang recalls the author’s earlier fieldwork on kinship and domestic relations on the island of Langkawi in Malaysia in the 1980s. The chapter reflects on the author’s decades-long anthropological engagement with Malaysia and traces some of the major changes that have occurred there. It considers the very different contexts of research – rural and urban – over these years and the concomitants of a long-term anthropological commitment.

The larynx is positioned at the intersection of the airway, swallowing, and voicing. Critically ill patients often require intubation, putting the larynx at inherent risk. Increased knowledge and awareness of the critical roles of the larynx and risks associated with intubation will help clinicians mitigate and address issues that arise related to laryngeal dysfunction or injury. This chapter will detail laryngeal anatomy and function, vocal cord dysfunction, laryngeal and subglottic injury, and tracheotomy, including decannulation. Consideration of interdisciplinary care for these complex patients helps to adequately address and manage these laryngeal disorders. Management of larynx-related dyspnea and dysphonia is discussed.

This chapter discusses corpus applications to language teaching and learning, focusing specifically on the use of corpora and corpus linguistics research for informing coursebook and assessment development. A number of studies undertaken by the authors are discussed with a view to highlighting both the affordances of corpus linguistics for supporting such indirect applications to language education, as well as the barriers of using corpus linguistics research to inform stakeholder practices. Focusing on the use of corpora by materials writers, the use of learner corpus research and spoken corpus research for assessment refinement and design, and the use of corpus research for materials design, this chapter reflects on engagement with stakeholders in this domain over the last fifteen years. Drawing together the lessons learned from these studies, this chapter offers a critical reflection on the relative impact achieved in each study, while also proposing guidelines for those interested in working with stakeholders to co-design research and produce relevant and appliable research.

The incorporation of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria into corporate strategies has become a prominent feature of the modern business landscape. As part of this movement, there is an increasing trend toward the monetary valuation of sustainability impacts. While the intention behind assigning monetary values to ESG-related impacts may be to provide a quantifiable basis for decision-making, it raises profound ethical concerns. This chapter explores the ethical dilemmas surrounding the monetary valuation of sustainability impacts, especially within the broader context of ESG performance measurement, in three problem dimensions: (1) the commodification of life and nature, (2) unequal power dynamics and neocolonial features of ESG and valuation, and (3) the marginalization of unquantifiable impacts and intrinsic values. The chapter ends by exploring the moral hazards that come with ignoring these ethical problems, and how corporate responsibility and accountability mechanisms can take these into account.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, external freedom is ambiguous in Kant’s Rechtslehre. On the one hand, external freedom can refer to freedom in the external use of choice. On the other, external freedom can refer to the kind of independence encoded in our one innate right. Recognizing the ambiguity allows us not only to see the truth in the various and incompatible ways in which commentators have understood external freedom, but also to see more clearly external freedom’s relationship to autonomy (or internal freedom). In turn, better understanding the relationship between internal and external freedom sheds light on the relationship between Kant’s political philosophy and his moral philosophy, which are often (and wrongly) assumed to be discontinuous.

As unprecedented as the Declaration was, it was not without intellectual antecedents. The Declaration interacted with and built upon recent expressions of European Enlightenment political philosophy in its focus on “Nature and Nature’s God,” and in its reliance upon the normative principles of “laws of Nature” as well as natural or “unalienable” rights. European Enlightenment political philosophers themselves stood in complex and varied relationships with their ancient and medieval predecessors; sometimes adding to, sometimes transforming, and sometimes rejecting these preceding ideas. The Declaration brilliantly navigates this complex web of intellectual antecedents by treating the ideas of laws of nature, natural rights, the social contract, and republicanism in such a way that the points of tension between their different interpretations are minimized and subsumed within a shared understanding of the importance of nature for political life. In so doing, the Declaration provides an intriguing hint of how the deep fault lines between these political philosophical traditions might ultimately be bridged. The Declaration’s succinct statement of political principles may be viewed as a transformative distillation of a few of its most important European antecedents.

A framing case study discusses European Union trade rules that ban the sale of all products made from seals. Then the chapter provides an overview of international trade law. The chapter discusses: (1) how states have historically promoted international law, including major concepts and the evolution of trade institutions; (2) major obligations under contemporary trade law, including rules for market access and treatment standards; and (3) major exceptions under trade law that allow states to restrict trade to prevent unfair trade, safeguard economies from unexpected shocks, protect competing values (like human health and the environment), and preserve national security.

As teachers go about their work of teaching in classrooms, doing research, and performing leadership duties, their psychological and emotional wellbeing is constantly under pressure in the workplace. This final chapter presents cases where wellbeing dilemmas are exposed. It includes a teacher educator who is under pressure from management to retire, a teacher coping with a heavy post-study abroad workload, and a teacher having to deal with students’ complaints.

In a series of articles and essays, the literary critic Baruch Kurzweil (1907–1972) portrayed the history of modern Hebrew literature as a history of crisis: of the breakdown of the old traditional world of religion and faith and the emergence of a new secular world. Kurzweil saw this history as a tragedy. Though the figure of crisis became associated with Kurzweil, he was by no means the first critic to employ it. In fact, it has played a central role in modern Hebrew literary criticism since its inception. Indeed, crisis emerged as a privileged figure for portraying the relationship between evolving literary forms, themes, figurations, and vocabulary to rapidly changing demographic, social, cultural, economic, and political contexts. In this chapter, I attempt to contextualize Kurzweil’s ideas within the framework of crisis and tragedy in Hebrew literary criticism, and then briefly suggest their potential implications for the present moment.

Chapter 1 starts by illustrating the puzzle of American antagonism to the ICC. It then introduces the book’s three main questions: Why does the US fear the ICC? When, exactly, does the US oppose the ICC? And does the ICC’s track record justify American hostility? The rest of the chapter previews the book’s arguments, explains why the US–ICC relationship is of crucial importance for policymakers, and discusses how the book provides new insights into some of the big questions in international relations.