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Unrealistic Expectations
Authors: Schelbe Lisa 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
Chapter 7 argues youth aging out should not be blamed for their poor outcomes; rather, the challenges they have faced have created a scenario wherein a smooth transition to adulthood is not likely. The chapter presents information about how youth aging out are disadvantaged as compared to their peers without foster care experience, who receive considerable financial and emotional support from their families. In the United States, the norm is parents support their children into their 30s. The chapter looks at trauma that youth aging out experienced prior to and during foster care, and how trauma influences their development. The chapter discusses brain development and the developmental period of emerging adulthood. The chapter offers a macro lens and describes structural barriers and prejudices and discrimination that contribute to the hardships of youth aging out.
Speaking of Elves, Dragons, and Werewolves
Authors: Baldwin Clive , Ripley Lauren , Arsenault Shania 
Published: May 2023

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Much has been written on how individuals construct and maintain their identities through the stories they tell about themselves and the stories others tell about them. Often, but not always, there is enough convergence between these inner and outer stories not to cause significant conflict. However, it is also the case that certain identities are deemed more acceptable than others, and, while such acceptability may wax and wane for some identities, others remain very much marginalized and excluded. Such is the case of Other-than-human (OtH) identities—Otherkin, therians, vampires, and the like: How is it possible, and what does it mean, for an individual who is human in appearance and acting in the human world to self-identify as Otherkin—that is as an other-worldly, mythical, or fantastical creature such as an elf, dragon, or werewolf—or as therian (i.e., a this-worldly animal such as a dog, wolf, bear)? The visible disjunction between individuals’ experienced identities and the perceived reality of others raises hermeneutical issues. Following general reflections on narrative hermeneutics this chapter explores the process of “awakening”—the realization or coming to understand oneself as Otherkin or therian—and origin stories. The authors discuss OtH identities as “believed-in imaginings,” the limits of narrative acceptability, and how features of unnatural narratives might help in interpreting OtH identity narratives.
Found in Translation
Authors: Ritivoi Andreea Deciu 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
The role of storytelling in shaping but also manipulating emotions in individuals and groups is widely acknowledged. Focusing on the positive affective use of storytelling and often extending this aspect to the domain of ethics, stories were seen as fostering emotions that can make readers better people. However, critics have pointed out that narrative practice offers no ethical guarantees and that the circulation of emotion through storytelling can be manipulative or abusive as much as liberating. Narrative empathy is a case in point: believed to increase social cohesion and promote a peaceful politics, it has also been attacked for its moral indiscriminateness (e.g., the potential to make us adopt the perspective of a villain rather than a hero), its sociopolitical anomie (feeling sorry for another might not result in action that alleviates their suffering), and even its self-destructive potential (feeling too much empathy can end up eroding our sense of self). In defense of an empathy that takes into account the possibility of misuse (even abuse) and prepares us to avoid it, the author employs solicitude, as articulated by Paul Ricoeur, as a way of positioning the self in an empathic relation to another but under conditions of respect and autonomy for all individuals. The author draws on Ricoeur’s notion of linguistic hospitality as the task of translation to show how narratives of the other—especially narratives of migration—can be a key resource in creating what Ricoeur calls “just institutions.”
Politics of Uncertainty
Authors: Bergmane Una 
Published: May 2023

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Thirty years after the Soviet collapse, this book aims to tackle the interplay between international and domestic dynamics in the Soviet disintegration process. Based on extensive archival research, it investigates the triangular relations between the US government, Baltic independence movements, and Moscow during the Perestroika years. Occupied and illegally annexed by the USSR in 1940, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were the first Soviet republics to push the limits of Perestroika and demand independence from the Soviet Union. The Baltic problem, minor at first glance, started to gain more and more international visibility and by 1990 risked derailing issues that mattered in the eyes of both Soviet and American leaders—the transformation of the Soviet state and transformation of the European order. Both Washington and Moscow wanted to diffuse the Baltic crisis, but neither was certain how to do it. The United States had never recognized the annexation of the Baltic states and thus tried to perform a highly challenging balancing act of supporting Baltic independence without jeopardizing relations with Kremlin. Meanwhile, Mikhail Gorbachev faced an increasingly pressing choice between democratization and preservation of the Soviet empire. This book studies the relations between those at the top of international and domestic power hierarchies with those situated at their margins. It shows how at the time of deep historical change, the disruption of existing power structures causes uncertainty that limits the agency of the powerful and opens widows of opportunity for those seen as marginal.
Introduction
Authors: Bergmane Una 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
The introduction lays out the main arguments of the book. It explains how the deep changes in Soviet domestic dynamics, brought by Gorbachev’s reforms, made both Moscow and Washington uncertain about how to deal with the Baltic claims for independence. The United States was unsure on how to support the Baltic cause without provoking a Soviet crackdown or a general destabilization of the USSR, while Moscow was unready to address the grievances emerging from the increasingly democratic and pluralistic periphery, that defied the previous patterns of imperial dominance. At the same time, Baltic independence movements, pro-independence governments, and diaspora activists deployed considerable efforts to internationalize the Baltic question and sought recognition both as legal act and ontological affirmation.
The Aftermath and Legacy
Authors: Shipton Alyn 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
Returning from Hollywood in 1960, Mulligan founds his Concert Jazz Band (CJB) and is reunited with Brookmeyer. The band debuts at Basin Street East, before playing at the Village Vanguard, where the band later recorded for Norman Granz at Verve. Mel Lewis replaced Bailey on drums. The chapter explores the relationship between the CJB and the Quartet, notably on “You Took Advantage of Me.” It also explores the CJB records from its extensive overseas touring. Financial and other pressures forced Mulligan to disband in July 1961, apart from occasional reunions, and his final group discussed here is the early 1960s quartet with Brookmeyer, Crow, and drummer Gus Johnson, which summarizes all the achievements of the 1950s pianoless quartet in one highly accomplished ensemble.
Foundations
Authors: Kenny Kevin 
Published: May 2023

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This chapter examines what it meant for the early United States to be both a haven for European immigrants and a slaveholding republic. The Constitution recognized and protected slavery through the fugitive slave clause, the three-fifths clause, and the migration or importation clause, which prohibited Congress from outlawing the importation of enslaved persons for twenty years. Strangely for a country that attracted so many foreigners, however, the Constitution offered no guidelines on the admission, exclusion, or removal of immigrants. It authorized Congress to devise a naturalization policy for immigrants after they arrived, which Congress restricted to white people. Yet the Constitution did not define citizenship, and the states rather than the federal government controlled mobility and political membership in the early republic. Tensions over which level of government controlled mobility—by immigrants, free black people, or slaves—peaked during the crises over the Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) and Missouri’s admission to the Union (1820–1821).
The Threat to Slavery
Authors: Kenny Kevin 
Published: May 2023

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This chapter examines a series of antebellum court cases concerning the mobility of black people and immigrants. In Commonwealth v. Aves (1836), the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that an enslaved person brought into a free state was automatically free. In Groves v. Slaughter (1841), the US Supreme Court examined congressional and local power over the interstate slave trade. In Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842), the Court ruled that states could not infringe on the federal government’s power to return fugitive slaves, but neither did they have to enforce federal laws. Northern states passed new personal liberty laws in response, while southern states demanded a stronger fugitive slave act. In the Passenger Cases (1849), the Supreme Court invalidated two state immigration laws as violations of federal commerce power, but the four dissenters, led by Chief Justice Roger Taney, defended these laws as legitimate exercises of police power and warned that southern states risked losing control over black mobility.
America the Unleashed
Authors: Toft Monica Duffy , Kushi Sidita 
Published: May 2023

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The post-9/11 era ushered in a significant US foreign policy reorientation from “diplomacy first, and force as a last resort,” to “military force first.” This period saw the rise of Department of Defense (DOD) budgets and special operations and the waning of Department of State (DOS) funds, influence, and diplomatic capacity—a hallmark of kinetic diplomacy. The Bush Doctrine also pushed preventative wars and unilateral practices of rampant militarism. During this era, the United States overestimated the capabilities of its military superiority, disregarding other tools of statecraft. The chapter highlights increasing trends of US militarism and blurred grand strategy, characterizing the United States as a world bully who still cannot win its most important foreign policy battles. This chapter reserves a separate section to discuss new US military technology such as drone warfare.
Introduction
Authors: de Alcantara Pedro 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
Creative Health for Pianists is based on a series of musical archetypes: short snippets that condense one or more dimensions of music. In their basic form, the archetypes are easy to play and suited to a complete beginner. At the same time, the archetypes open the floodgates of creativity for pianists at any level. The archetypes may become the foundation of healthy technique, defined as the fashioning of a creative response to a creative situation. Technique is the result of a balance of tensions, physical, musical, sonic, and rhythmic. This balance is often perceived as a form of relaxation. When the pianist’s ego gets out of the way, music itself does a lot of the interpretive work for the pianist.
Celeste
Authors: de Alcantara Pedro 
Published: May 2023

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“Celeste” is an exploration of the piano’s sonic dimensions, including resonance, sympathetic vibrations, and the interplay of consonance and dissonance. Each of these factors depend on touch and timing. Inviting the pianist into this vast territory of sonic exploration, the chapter starts with a very easy exercise that allows for an immediately enhanced perception of sound. The basic exercise or archetype is varied into compositions that expand the occupation of the sonic territory. The chapter contains a detailed and practical study of the harmonic series, compositions that open up the pianist’s perception of harmonics and voicing, and compositions using extended drones and highlighting the role that the lowest note in a musical texture plays in determining consonance and dissonance. The chapter also contains a simple but effective exercise and improvisational prompt for the pianist to sense and control the influence of the right pedal on the overall sonic effect of a chord or passage.
Gesture
Authors: de Alcantara Pedro 
Published: May 2023

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“Gesture” gathers multiple tools to help the pianist become aware of the interaction between intention, gesture, and sound. Exercises includes the “Crawler,” which renders the hands strong and adaptable; “Crossing Hands,” highlighting the play of opposing forces between the left and the right sides of the body; “Singing Thumbs,” which give extra attention to the thumbs’ anchoring role in piano technique; and “Nested Thumbs,” which invite the hands to intertwine and relax; and multiple exercises to facilitate change, adaptation, growth, and expressivity when it comes to the use of the pianistic hands. Simple exercises are developed into compositions of varying complexity and difficulty. The chapter includes a sequence of compositions for the right hand alone and for the left hand alone, with innovative ideas to help the pianist master the all-important thumb passing in changes of position up and down the keyboard.
Mudra
Authors: de Alcantara Pedro 
Published: May 2023

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“Mudra” presents concepts and exercises to help the pianist conceive of hands as heralds of meaning and beauty. The central archetype, named “Mudra,” is a seemingly ordinary five-note chord, which becomes ever less ordinary the more one practices it. The archetype allows for a sense of structure and elasticity in the hands. Exercises and compositions show how a structured hand is capable of change, movement, and adaptation. The chapter touches upon the mystical or symbolic dimensions of existence, while at the same time proposing practical exercises to help the pianist integrate the symbolic with the technical dimensions of piano playing. Multiple compositions develop the chapter’s central archetype, showing how a simple building block is a potential shapeshifter that may give rise to highly varied sounds, rhythms, and sequences. The chapter covers the difficulties of playing three notes against two. It concludes with three single-hand compositions that encapsulate the richness of expression of which the pianist’s hands are capable.
Conclusion
Authors: de Alcantara Pedro 
Published: May 2023

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The conclusion incites the reader to appreciate the stories behind the individuals who play the piano so differently one from the other. The story of Glenn Gould, for example, is inseparable from Glenn Gould himself; and the story of Glenn Gould is completely distinct from the story of Artur Rubinstein. Readers of Creative Health for Pianists may nourish their own playing with the stories they tell themselves regarding their experiences with the piano. The conclusion evokes Plato and his belief in archetypes, which are central to the methodology of Creative Health for Pianists. Plato is also evoked for his invention of Atlantis, the utopian civilization which, though fictional, became real to many people over the millennia. Finally, the conclusion posits that Creative Health for Pianists is rooted in the culture of the imaginary but inspiring Atlantis, where the conservatory is called the House of Unconditional Love.
A Summary of Treaty Benefits
Authors: Moore John Norton 
Published: May 2023

Abstract
This Chapter discusses the multiple benefits the UNCLOS Treaty provides for the United States; indeed more benefits for the United States than to any other nation in the world. These benefits include a massive extension of United States sovereign rights in the oceans, protection of navigational freedom for military and commercial vessels and aircraft, huge expansion of United States fishery resources, assured access to strategic minerals of copper, nickel, cobalt, manganese and rare earths from the deep seabed, the first major framework for protecting the marine environment, and important new mechanisms for peaceful resolution of oceans disputes. The United States territorial sea receives a fourfold increase from three nautical miles to twelve nautical miles, and the overall area of United States resource jurisdiction is increased to an area larger than the continental United States itself. Each of the “USA” designated deep seabed mine sites is approximately the size of the State of Rhode Island and each contains strategic minerals worth at least a quarter of a trillion dollars. Of particular importance to the United States Navy, the Treaty protects freedom of navigation through international straits and broad corridors within archipelagic island nations, and ensures full navigational freedom within the new 200-mile economic zone and beyond.
A Summary of Costs from Non-Accession
Authors: Moore John Norton 
Published: May 2023

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This Chapter describes the substantial costs to the United States from continuing non-accession to the Law of the Sea Convention. These include loss of two of the original United States deep seabed mine sites, “USA-2” and “USA-3,” with an estimated value of half a trillion dollars in strategic minerals of copper, nickel, cobalt, manganese and rare earths; and risk of loss of the two remaining United States mine sites, “USA-1” and “USA-4,” for a loss of another half trillion in strategic minerals. Continuing non-adherence also puts at risk in multiple ways the critical navigational freedoms won by the United States in the UNCLOS negotiations. It further places at risk international recognition of the substantial extended continental shelf won by the United States, and it precludes the United States from membership in three important new oceans institutions created at the initiative, or with the support, of the United States. Non-adherence also undermines United States leadership in the oceans and complicates United States efforts in oceans organizations such as the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the Arctic Council, and in international negotiations such as the ongoing negotiation concerning marine biological diversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (the BBNJ negotiations).
Arguments Against the UNCLOS Treaty Are False or Misleading
Authors: Moore John Norton 
Published: May 2023

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This Chapter moves to a discussion of arguments made against the UNCLOS Treaty and why they are false or misleading. It identifies and provides an overview response to the principal arguments which have been made against United States accession to the Treaty, while the next Chapter provides a compendium of specific examples of these false or misleading arguments. As the core response to the isolationist narrative against the Treaty this Chapter is the longest in the book. It begins with an identification of the principal arguments which have been made against UNCLOS and then responds to each, detailing why these arguments are either false, misleading, or both. In doing so the Chapter considers, in turn, arguments asserting loss of American sovereignty, harm to American security, harm from dispute resolution provisions, harm to United States interests in deep seabed mining, criticism of the royalty payments under Article 82 of the Convention in exchange for the massive new extended continental shelf for America, arguments that the Treaty is an arm of the United Nations, arguments that America should simply continue to live under customary international law or the 1958 Geneva Conventions, arguments that America should shoot its way to the rule of law in the oceans, arguments that bilateral approaches to oceans law are superior to the multilateral approach which hugely succeeded in UNCLOS, arguments that UNCLOS was primarily a “third world scheme,” arguments that President Reagan would have opposed UNCLOS even after the 1994 renegotiation of Part XI on deep seabed mining which met all of his conditions for United States support, arguments that Republicans or conservatives are united in opposition to the Convention, and arguments asserting that the legal regime brought about through the UNCLOS negotiations was “always the law.” Of particular note, the sections on dispute resolution and on royalty payments under Article 82 provide important history on the background of the negotiations in these areas, as well as a review of the most important decisions of the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea. And the section on President Reagan’s views includes a clear statement from George P. Shultz, Reagan’s former Secretary of State, that the Reagan Administration made it clear that it would support UNCLOS if the Administration’s “position on the sea-bed were accepted.”
The Senate Resolution of Advice and Consent
Authors: Moore John Norton 
Published: May 2023

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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has previously done the heavy lifting on UNCLOS. Thus, in its favorable consideration of the Convention in 2003-04, and again in 2007-08, the Committee, working with the Executive Branch, prepared a detailed Resolution of Advice and Consent. This Resolution, rarely noticed by the critics, contains important additional layers of protection for the United States. This Chapter discusses this Resolution and its included understandings and declarations. “Understandings” simply reflect the official view of the United States as to the meaning of articles of the Convention. “Declarations” make United States choices as permitted by the Convention, such as the choice under Article 298 exempting “military activities” from the compulsory dispute settlement provisions of the Convention. “Declarations” also make choices under domestic law, such as Section 3, paragraph 24 of the Senate Resolution declaring the bulk of the Convention as “not self-executing” in United States domestic courts. One significant reason for moving forward to Senate advice and consent is that when the Resolution is adopted the multiple understandings in the Resolution, reflecting the United States view of critical articles, including many of the most important articles protecting navigational freedom, will become part of the interpretive process for governments and tribunals in interpreting the Convention. These authoritative understandings will provide a critical push-back against erroneous interpretations made by rogue governments such as that of Iran concerning the Strait of Tehran. While this Chapter concludes that no changes are necessary in this Resolution to further protect United States’ national interests, it also concludes that there is no reason not to add an additional understanding on dispute resolution; an understanding which is consistent with the Treaty but which as a clarification would definitively set aside lingering concerns with respect to the dispute settlement provisions of the Convention. Accordingly, this Chapter concludes with a discussion of such an additional understanding, and a suggested text of such an understanding should members of the Senate be so inclined. The author believes that it would be foolish not to move forward with Senate advice and consent if a simple additional understanding added to the previously adopted Resolution of Advice and Consent would generate the necessary votes for Senate approval.