International Finance (University Casebooks) (Chicken Skin)
by Hal S. Scott
Europe, the State and Globalisation explores the interplay between the state and state sovereignty, nationalism, European integration and globalisation. It provides essential foundations in all these areas, while using stimulating arguments to prompt discussion and provoke interest in the relationships between these processes. Throughout, Europe, the State and Globalisation addresses various issues of historical and theoretical importance, including the institutions of the European Union, integ...
The United Nations and International Politics (Studies in Contemporary History)
by Stephen Ryan
Taking an historical approach, Dr. Ryan explores both how the UN has affected world politics and how the international political system has formed and limited the work of the Organization. The book looks at why the UN was created, how it was affected by the Cold War and how successive Secretaries-General struggled to find a role for themselves. We see how negative and even hostile views of the UN were changed by the end of the Cold War and by the UN-sponsored action in the Gulf, why the UN ove...
Same-Sex Families and Legal Recognition in Europe (European Studies of Population, #24)
This open access book focuses on family diversity from a legal, demographical and sociological perspective. It investigates what is at stake in the life of homosexuals in the field of family formation, parenting and parenthood, what it brings to everyday life, the support of the law, and what its absence implies. The book shows the paths leading to the adoption of laws while demographic analyses concentrate on the link between registration of same-sex marriages and same-sex parenting with a deta...
Great Britain and the Creation of the League of Nations
by George W. Egerton
Although British leaders made the principal contribution to the drafting of the League of Nations Covenant, Egerton shows that the British political elite opposed the type of league that emerged from the peace conference. These skeptics objected to the articles attempting to create a system of collective security"" and preferred to build upon the traditions of the British Empire to institute a system that would integrate ""functional"" cooperation."" Originally published 1978. A UNC Press Endu...
If, as many cultural critics have asserted, the world is becoming more like the Caribbean, then the task of charting what we mean by "the Caribbean" is an urgent one. This careful study of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) calls attention to the ways in which ideas about nature and choice have come to justify a social order in which half the population is deemed not to belong and is denied legal rights. The BVI, one of Britain's few remaining colonial possessions, has become an important destinat...
Internationale Prinzipien Fuer Grenzueberschreitende Insolvenzverfahren (Schriften Zum Verfahrensrecht, #45)
by Olaf Benning
Insolvenzverfahren uber das Vermoegen von Unternehmen sind haufig grenzuberschreitender Natur. Die anwendbaren Vorschriften jedoch waren lange Zeit nationalen Ursprungs. Diese Arbeit untersucht die wesentlichen Modellregelungen zum Insolvenzrecht, die auf internationaler Ebene bestehen, und ausgewahlte nationale Rechtsordnungen. Dies soll allgemeine Prinzipien aufzeigen, die fur grenzuberschreitende Insolvenzen von Unternehmen gelten. Schwerpunkte sind die Europaische Insolvenzverordnung aus dem...
Voelkerrechtliche Haftung Im Kulturguterschutzrecht (Interdisziplinaere Europa Studien, #5) (Interdisziplinare Europa Studien, #5)
by Matthias Friehe
Diese Arbeit untersucht verschiedene konkrete Situationen, in denen voelkerrechtliche Bestimmungen zum Kulturguterschutz verletzt sind. Verletzungen des Kulturguterschutzes loesen voelkerrechtliche Haftungsanspruche aus. Dies gilt insbesondere fur die Raub- und Beutekunstproblematik aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Hier folgt aus den Grundsatzen zur Staatenverantwortlichkeit, dass die Staaten untereinander zur Ruckgabe verschleppter Kulturguter verpflichtet sind. In Friedenszeiten loesen vor allem Ver...
Internationale Unternehmen sehen sich mit einer zunehmenden Anzahl nationaler Kartell- und Wettbewerbsrechtsordnungen konfrontiert. Die Abhandlung untersucht das Ende 1999 in Kraft getretene argentinische Gesetz 25.156 zum Schutz des Wettbewerbs sowie die Entscheidungspraxis der argentinischen Wettbewerbsbehoerde Comision Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia (CNDC). Schwerpunkte bilden die Darstellung der Beurteilung horizontaler und vertikaler Wettbewerbsbeschrankungen sowie die neu eingefuhrt...
Wahrend in westlichen Industrielandern der Einkommensteuer innerhalb der nationalen Steuersysteme eine uberragende Bedeutung zukommt, spielt sie in Entwicklungslandern nur eine untergeordnete Rolle. Die Arbeit befasst sich mit den Problemen, die Entwicklungslandern bei der Erhebung einer direkten Einkommensteuer begegnen. Die Probleme werden am Beispiel Vietnams aufgezeigt. Es wird untersucht, inwieweit eine Einkommensbesteuerung durch indirekte Steuern eine Alternative zu einer Einkommensbesteu...
The theory of enterprise unity is of particular importance to multinational enterprises with many affiliates. The law pertaining to the relationship of the various entities within such a group has to address itself to a whole array of problems. The comparison of the approaches taken by the legal systems surveyed is concerned with the antitrust perspective as discernible from the enforcement practice. The possible application of the Competition Rules to such intra-group arrangements involves an e...
Das Implementationssystem Europaischer Politik (Studien Zur Europaischen Union, #4)
by Andrea Szukala
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 regist...
Apartheid's Last Stand is an original study which sets out to demonstrate how and why the apartheid state was neither able to maintain white dominance of the political system nor capable of reforming itself. The book's central argument is that the South African government consciously developed and introduced a programme of limited reforms in accordance with the guiding principles of counter-revolutionary strategy and the so-called 'liberal' vision of apartheid. Rejected by the majority of South...
In the aftermath of World War Two, approximately three million Sudeten-Germans were expelled from their homes in the former Czechoslovakia because of their part in the dismemberment of the Czechoslovak Republic by Nazi Germany in 1938-39. For many years their representatives, the Sudeten-German Association, attempted in vain to redress the wrong done to their people. However, the end of the Cold War has given a new impetus to their campaign. Currently they attempt to block Czech entry into the E...
The International Law Commission was established in 1947 with a view to carrying out the responsibility of the General Assembly, under article 13(1)(a) of the Charter of the United Nations, to "initiate studies and make recommendations for the purpose of ... encouraging the progressive development of international law and its codification." Since its first session in 1949, the Commission has considered a wide-range of topics of international law and made a number of proposals for its codificatio...
The Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law
by Francoise Bouchet-Saulnier
A History of the International Movement of Journalists (Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media)
by Kaarle Nordenstreng, Ulf Jonas Bjork, Frank Beyersdorf, Svennik Hoyer, and Epp Lauk
Aggression Against Ukraine (American Foreign Policy in the 21st Century)
by Thomas D Grant and T Grant
Fragmented Borders, Interdependence and External Relations (Palgrave Studies in International Relations )
Japan's reputation for humanitarianism rests on the generous behaviour accorded to 70,000 Russian prisoners of war in Japan during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05). This contrasts sharply with the brutality displayed during the Pacific War (1941-45) towards 200,000 Allied prisoners of war. The power of the State to coerce the people, by using the reverence felt for the Emperor, enabled the Japanese to switch humanitarianism on, or off, apparently at will. This extraordinary volte-face is explore...
Eine Gesellschaft als Rechtsform fur ein Unternehmen wird immer dann verwendet, wenn mehrere Personen gemeinschaftlich durch Einsatz ihrer Arbeitskraft und/oder ihres Kapitals unternehmerisch tatig werden. Die Rechtsform der Gesellschaft, insbesondere der Kapitalgesellschaft, hat den Vorteil, dass die Haftung auf bestimmte Kapitalbetrage beschrankt werden kann und damit das Risiko des unternehmerischen Engagements kalkulierbar wird. Der Wunsch der Beschrankung der Haftung macht die Organisation...