Flexibility, Enhanced Co-operation and the Treaty of Amsterdam (European Dossier S.)
by Kerstin Junge
The Treaty of Rome talked of "ever closer union", and it was always assumed that all member states would move forward together in each stage of European integration. However, following "opt-outs" in the Maastricht Treaty and further enlargement, it has seemed increasingly likely that the European Union will become less uniform in future. This text explores discussion about the forms that it might take. The author shows that there has been a great deal of confusion in the usage of concepts such a...
Mortgage Lending in Europe and North America
This is a book focusing on international and cross border property finance. International Mortgage lending is a particularly complicated procedure because two basic fields of law are involved: the law of loans and local mortgage law. Each depends on the other but they can have different sources of law. Mortgage law contains the basic rules in order to ensure the repayment of the loan. Banks have to be sure that their mortgages are safe, which means that there is a system of land and mortgage reg...
This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of the nine environmental and health disputes that have been adjudicated at the WTO since 1995. The investigation concludes that criticism of the WTO has been overstated and, surprisingly, nations do in fact retain sovereignty over environmental and health policy. The disputes explored suggest that the WTO has been able to balance trade, environmental and health objectives. The discussion illuminates the strengths and weaknesses of the...
Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2018 (Netherlands Yearbook of International Law, #49)
This volume of the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law explores the many faces of populism, and the different manifestations of the relationship between populism and international law. Rather than taking the so-called populist backlash against globalisation, international law and governance at face value, this volume aims to dig deeper and wonders 'What backlash are we talking about, really?'. While populism is contextual and contingent on the society in which it arises and its relationshi...
Economic globalization has had a chilling effect on democracy since markets now do some of the work that governments used to do through the political process. More than two decades of deregulation have made a healthy economy appear to depend on unrestrained markets. But appearances are misleading-globalization is also a legal and political process. The future of democracy in the twenty-first century depends on the ability of citizens to reclaim a voice in taming globalization through domestic po...
Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention by Confidence-Building Measures
The participants of the Second Review Conference of the parties to the Biological Weapons Convention agreed on instituting voluntary confidence-building measures (CBMs) to strengthen the Convention. For this book SIPRI has gathered together experts in the fields of disarmament, epidemiology, molecular genetics, and virology. They evaluate the extent to which these CBMs contribute to preventing or reducing the occurrence of ambiguities, doubts, and suspicions which might be raised about complianc...
In accordance with Article 102 of the Charter and the relevant General Assembly Resolutions, every treaty and international agreement registered or filed and recorded with the Secretariat since 1946 is published in the United Nations Treaty Series. At present, the collection includes about 30,000 treaties reproduced in their authentic languages, together with translations into English and French, as necessary. The Treaty Series, where treaties are published in the chronological order of registra...
Philosophies of Integration (Migration, Minorities and Citizenship)
by Adrian Favell
A comprehensive comparative study of the distinct ideas and political arguments that have shaped French and British policies towards their ethnic minorities, and the effects of these intellectual frameworks at local, national and European levels. Charting the politics and events that brought the respective institutional solutions together, the author sets out the divergent conceptualisations of citizenship, nationality, pluralism, autonomy, public order and tolerance that make up the national 'p...
Celebrating UNICEF's 50th anniversary in 1996, this survey examines recent changes in public attitudes and government policies which have put the welfare of children at the top of the international agenda in the 1990s. Starting from the International Year of the Child in 1979, the author studies the two movements which have done most to raise the visibility of children in the public consciousness: the child survival campaign, which culminated in the 1990 World Summit for Children; and the moveme...
Providing critical assessment of the 'globalization thesis' through sustained analysis of the nexus of processes underlying social and cultural relations, this book examines, explores, and teases out the many contradictions embedded within different discourses of globalization. Together, the various chapters in the collection offer a wide-ranging critique of those accounts which represent globalization primarily, if not exclusively, as the classic story of European modernity with its attendant n...
Policing the New World Disorder
by Michael J. Dziedzic, Eliot M Goldberg, and Robert B Oakley
Sri Lanka's government declared victory in May, 2009, in one of the world's most intractable wars after a series of battles in which it killed the leader of the Tamil Tigers, who had been fighting to create a separate homeland for the country's ethnic Tamil minority. The United Nations said the conflict had killed between 80,000 and 100,000 people in Sri Lanka since full-scale civil war broke out in 1983. A US State Department report offered a grisly catalogue of alleged abuses, including the ki...
Clinton's Foreign Policy: a Documentary Record
by Auerswald, Duttweiler, and GAROFANO
The Definition of Subsidy and State Aid: Wto and EC Law in Comparative Perspective
by Luca Rubini
In a politically uncertain and distrusted world, citizens appear to be seeking political expression in their everyday lives and quite prominently in their consumption practices. In advanced consumer societies, the politics of consumption have come to the centre stage. This book elaborates on the grounded perceptions, practices and problematizations of the equation of political action and market action. It presents the opportunities and hindrances of alternative forms of partaking in civic life b...
Reconciliation in Conflict-Affected Communities
This book focuses on the formal and informal reconciliation processes during conflict and post-conflict periods in various locations in the Asia-Pacific, and includes cases studies based on primary research conducted in countries such as Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India, South Thailand, Bougainville and the Solomon Islands. It offers insights to further our understanding of the social and political processes of reconciliation in a region that has witnessed numerous armed...
Am 24. Oktober 1945 trat die Charta der Vereinten Nationen in Kraft. Die damals auf dem Hintergrund der Leiderfahrungen des Zweiten Weltkrieges festgeschriebenen Ziele haben auch heute in einer Zeit der beschleunigten Globalisierung und massiver Weltprobleme nichts an Aktualitat eingebusst. Nach sechs Jahrzehnten ihres Bestehens kann die UNO auf Erfolge zuruckblicken; sie muss aber auch Misserfolge eingestehen. Neue Aufgaben sind im Laufe der Zeit hinzugekommen. Gleichzeitig offenbart sich in ve...
EU Powers Under External Pressure (Oxford Studies in European Law)
by Christina Eckes
EU external actions have deep constitutional and institutional implications for EU law and practices. The EU's competences in external relations have continuously increased, including with the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon. As a result, the EU has become ever more active in external relations. This has in turn increased the internal constitutional and institutional effects of EU external actions. This book traces these legal effects and the broader constitutional implications, inclu...
One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. On April 22, 1915, the German military released 150 tons of chlorine gas at Ypres, Belgium. Carried by a long-awaited wind, the chlorine cloud passed within a few minutes through the British and French trenches, leaving behind at least 1,000 dead and 4,000 injured. This chemical attack, which amounted to the first use of a weapon of mass destruction, marks a turning point in world history. The preparation as well as the execution of the...