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Discusses failure of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to ensure the stability of the global financial system, and reforms with the global reserve system, bankruptcy laws, and national debts.

This article examines how states and international organizations can be held to account for extraterritorial human rights violations. I develop and investigate the potential of what I call an "indirect accountability" mechanism. In indirect accountability relationships, accountability fora do not directly hold states and international organizations that commit extraterritorial human rights violations to account as these are frequently immune to direct accountability claims. Instead, they hold them to account indirectly by addressing accountability claims to an implicated third party, expecting that the third party will upload the accountability claims to the state or international organization. After conceptualizing the mechanism and its scope conditions, I conduct two brief qualitative case studies using the method of deductive process tracing to explore the potential of the mechanism. The first case study traces efforts to indirectly hold the United States to account for violating foreigners' privacy rights in the context of mass surveillance. The second case study traces attempts to indirectly hold the United Nations Security Council to account for violating the due process rights of blacklisted terror suspects. Both case studies provide support for the mechanism.

China's vision for international order is a matter of great global interest. This book analyses China's vision for foreign policy and how it is seeking to achieve its goals with its immediate neighbours. The book provides a historically informed account by examining the legacy of China's imperial past and traditional political philosophy, giving insights into the country's view of its place in today's world. It argues that China today sees the maintenance of order as its own responsibility and that it believes this order needs to attribute different roles to 'small' and 'big' states to ensure stability. Furthermore, it explores the different tools China employs to achieve its vision, including a proactive diplomacy, the control of international discourse, threat of punishment for 'misbehaviour', and the promise of economic benefits in return for compliance.

In 1997 Turkey and Syria were on the brink of war, engaged in a very real power struggle. Turkey was aligned with Syria's main enemy, Israel, and there were seemingly intractable differences on the issues of borders, the sharing of river waters and trans-border communities. In less than a decade, relations were transformed from enmity to amity. What explains this remarkable change? Given that Turkey and Syria are two pivotal states in the region, what are the implications of this changing relationship for the international politics of the Middle East, the balance of power and regional stabilit.

Now thoroughly updated, this respected text provides a clear, concise, and affordable narrative and analytical history of American foreign policy from the revolutionary period to the present. This edition includes an all-new chapter on the George W. Bush presidency, 9/11, and the war in Iraq. The historiographical essays at the end of each chapter have been revised to reflect the most recent scholarship.""The History of American Foreign Policy"" chronicles events and policies with emphasis on the international setting and constraints within which American policy-makers had to operate; the dome

Providing perspectives from five Western capitals, this multinational study examines the formidable political and structural conditions for effective collaboration between NATO and the United Nations in performing peace-making and peacekeeping missions. The diplomatic and military requirements for operating principles of collective security in post-Cold War Europe are illuminated by contrasting the policies of major NATO governments. Candid assessments of the differing national attitudes that lie behind them are offered by an international team of scholars. Their analyses are set against the backdrop of the experience in Yugoslavia, and the momentous decisions on NATO's structural reform and enlargement

In Münster wurde im April 2018 der 1. Dialog Internationales Familienrecht veranstaltet. Unter dem Generalthema "Migration und IPR" haben sich Vertreter aus Wissenschaft und Praxis mit den Herausforderungen auseinandergesetzt, die sich im internationalen Familien- und Familienverfahrensrecht aus der besonderen Lebenssituation von Flüchtlingen und Migranten ergeben. Der Band versammelt die auf der Tagung gehaltenen Vorträge.

Main description: Die seit Jahrzehnten weltweit stark wachsenden internationalen Handels- und Kapitalverflechtungen lassen die nationalen Wirtschaftsentwicklungen zunehmend interdependent werden. Welchen Herausforderungen ist unter diesen Umständen die nationale Wirtschaftspolitik ausgesetzt? Wo setzt die Internationalisierung fast aller Wirtschaftsprozesse der nationalen Wirtschaftspolitik Grenzen? Mit diesen und anknüpfenden Fragen befasste sich der Wirtschaftspolitische Ausschuss des Vereins für Socialpolitik auf seiner diesjährigen Jahrestagung. Der hier vorliegende Tagungsband dokumentiert die wesentlichen Aussagen und Ergebnisse.Dabei geht es zunächst um Internationalisierungsaspekte im Rahmen der Europäischen Integration: Welche Konsequenzen hat der angestrebte Beitritt zur EWU für die nationale Arbeitsmarktpolitik in den mittel- und osteuropäischen Mitgliedsländern der EU? Inwiefern ist innerhalb der Währungsunion noch Spielraum für eine nationale Geldpolitik? Welche Interdependenz besteht zwischen der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik der EU und Entwicklungen auf den Weltagrarmärkten?In einem zweiten Block werden vor allem wettbewerbstheoretische und ordnungspolitische Aspekte der weltwirtschaftlichen Verflechtungen thematisiert. So befasst sich ein Beitrag mit den Wettbewerbsproblemen bei der Marktabgrenzung im Rahmen der Bewertung internationaler Fusionen; die Übertragbarkeit des in der EU geltenden Prinzips der gegenseitigen Anerkennung auf die globale Ebene wird geprüft; und schließlich wird der Mangel an hinreichenden ordnungstheoretischen Grundlagen in der internationalen Klimaschutzpolitik deutlich gemacht.

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