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Book description : Book 1 of the Arcadia Trilogy (Arcadia Series) Arcadia Greentree knows she isn't exactly normal. But then she discovers she isn't Arcadia Greentree either.Arcadia sees the world like no one else. Exceptionally observant,



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Simon Chesterman

Professor Simon Chesterman is Dean of the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. He is also Editor of the Asian Journal of International Law and Secretary-General of the Asian Society of International Law.

Educated in Melbourne, Beijing, Amsterdam, and Oxford, Professor Chesterman's teaching experience includes periods at the Universities of Melbourne, Oxford, Southampton, Columbia, and Sciences Po. From 2006-2011, he was Global Professor and Director of the New York University School of Law Singapore Programme.

Prior to joining NYU, he was a Senior Associate at the International Peace Academy and Director of UN Relations at the International Crisis Group in New York. He has previously worked for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Yugoslavia and interned at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

Professor Chesterman is the author or editor of eighteen books, including "One Nation Under Surveillance" (OUP, 2011) ; "Law and Practice of the United Nations" (with Thomas M. Franck and David M. Malone, OUP, 2008) ; "You, The People" (OUP, 2004) ; and "Just War or Just Peace? " (OUP, 2001) .

He is a recognized authority on international law, whose work has opened up new areas of research on conceptions of public authority - including the rules and institutions of global governance, state-building and post-conflict reconstruction, and the changing role of intelligence agencies.

In 2016 he published his first novel: "Raising Arcadia" (Marshall Cavendish, 2016) .



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