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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Perspectives on International Political Economy -- Chapter 1 What Is International Political Economy? -- Chapter 2 Laissez-Faire: The Economic Liberal Perspective -- Chapter 3 Wealth and Power: The Mercantilist Perspective -- Chapter 4 Economic Determinism and Exploitation: The Structuralist Perspective -- Chapter 5 Constructivism -- Part II Structures of International Political Economy -- Chapter 6 The Global Production Structure -- Chapter 7 The International Trade Structure -- Chapter 8 The International Finance and Monetary Structure -- Chapter 9 The Global Security Structure -- Chapter 10 The International Knowledge Structure: Controlling Flows of Information and Technology -- Part III States and Markets in the Global Economy -- Chapter 11 The Development Challenge -- Chapter 12 The Fragmentation of the European Union: The Crossroads Redux -- Chapter 13 Moving into Position: The Rising Powers -- Chapter 14 The Middle East and North Africa: Things Fall Apart -- Part IV Transnational Problems and Dilemmas -- Chapter 15 The Illicit Global Economy: The Dark Side of Globalization -- Chapter 16 Energy and the Environment: Navigating Climate Change and Global Disaster -- Chapter 17 Global Health: Refugees and Caring for the Forgotten -- Glossary -- Index

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1. Causes and Implications of Ethnic Conflict -- 2. The Ethnic Sources of Nationalism -- 3. Domestic Politics and Ethnic Conflict -- 4. Democratization and Ethnic Conflict -- 5. Nationalism and the Crisis of the Post-Soviet State -- 6. The Security Dilemma and Ethnic Conflict -- 7. Beyond Nationalism and Internationalism: Ethnicity and World Order -- 8. Ethnic Conflict and Refugees -- 9. International Mediation of Ethnic Conflicts -- 10. Outside Intervention in Ethnic Conflicts -- 11. The United Nations and International Security -- 12. Managing the Politics of Parochialism -- Bibliography -- Index

When Robert Z. Aliber's The International Money Game first appeared in 1973, it was widely acclaimed as the best - and the most entertaining - introduction to the arcane mysteries of international finance. The 7th edition of this classic work has been fully re-written to recognize the immense changes in the global economy in the last thirty five years. There have been four waves of financial crises; each wave has involved the failures of banks and other financial institutions in three, four, or more countries. Each wave of crises has been preceded by a wave of credit bubbles, which has inv

Aktuelle politische Antwortstrategien auf Klimawandel berücksichtigen einerseits Klimaschutzmaßnahmen (Engl. mitigation), andererseits auch die Anpassung (Engl. adaptation) an den schon verursachten Wandel des Klimas und dessen Folgen. Gegenstand dieser Untersuchung sind die nationalen Anpassungsstrategien an Klimawandel von Bangladesh und Malawi. Aus einer sozial-ökologischen Perspektive werden die politischen Strategien der Länder zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel in den Kontext der internationalen Klimapolitik gestellt und kritisch beurteilt. Dabei wird von einem multidimensionalen Verständn

Flüchtlingshilfe in Afrika ist ein Produkt unterschiedlicher Interessenlagen. Relevante Akteure in diesem Zusammenhang sind das UN-Hochkommissariat für Flüchtlinge (UNHCR), die heterogene Gruppe der Nicht-Regierungsorganisationen, die afrikanischen Regierungen und die Massenmedien. Die internationale Flüchtlingshilfe verfehlt in Afrika ihre Ziele. Als Reaktion hierauf haben sich das UNHCR und die Nicht-Regierungsorganisationen auf eine "Partnership in Action" geeinigt, die die Flüchtlingshilfe effektiver machen soll. Perspektivisch bedarf es jedoch einer Überwindung der Fluchtgründe durch Armutsbekämpfung, Grundbedürfnissicherung, Demokratisierung und präventive Diplomatie. (ICE)

What accounts for the paradoxical militarization, which occurs simultaneously to processes of cooperation in Defence in the South American region? With an analysis informed by a theoretical framework which combines the Regional Security Complex Theory (RSCT) with the English School of International Relations approach and based on systematic review methodology, this research seeks to contribute to answering this question in order to understand International Security in South America. Evidence suggests the centrality of the regional primary institutions, which both stimulate and restrain conflicts, but also effective cooperation and integration in the region, remaining a security regime.

Describes how, in response to a weakened market share, the USA sponsored the White House conference on travel and tourism which was held in October 1995. A highly successful event, the conference proposed strategies and tactics which encourage international travel to the USA. Suggests that, on the one hand, this conference points to future increased competition which the USA will exert within the international tourism industry. On the other hand, believes the findings and suggestions of the conference may be useful to the European travel and tourism industry as it forges tactics for its own future growth.

This paper seeks to establish the existence of an international business cycle during the postwar period through a variety of statistical techniques. It also isolates some of the features of this cycle: for example, the differing levels of synchronization between different countries and the changes in these levels over time. One conclusion is that future work on the international cycle must focus on the observed simultaneity between the U.S., Japan and Germany. Another surprising conclusion, given the theoretical consequences of increased integration, is that there is no evidence of a tendency towards greater synchronization over the period.

Aus polnischer Sicht

Traditional international law and its instruments are stagnating both in terms of quantity and quality. New, alternative forms of cross-border cooperation, in particular processes of informal international lawmaking, have emerged and gained prominence since the 2000s in response to an increasingly diverse, networked, and knowledge-based society. This transformation impacts on the three axes of actors, processes and outputs in the international legal order. We challenge the assumption that traditional international law is, by definition, legitimate and that this would not be the case for new forms of informal lawmaking: whereas traditional international law is often based on "thin state consent", a "thick stakeholder consensus" underlies many of the new forms of cooperation. It is submitted that the evolution in the international legal order demands an adjustment of models to keep both new forms of cooperation and traditional international law in check. This paper thereto assesses the legitimacy of international legal processes, tackling also the question whether new forms benefit powerful actors and how to keep activity accountable, both domestically and internationally, towards internal and external stakeholders, through ex ante, ongoing and ex post control mechanisms, involving not only managerial or administrative checks and balances but also political and judicial oversight. The paper furthermore examines whether some of the new outputs of international cooperation could already be seen as part of traditional international law and how traditional and new forms are (or could be) interacting before international courts and tribunals. To conclude, a redefinition of the academic discipline of international law to keep both the field and its students sociologically relevant is proposed.

Rebekka Hye-Knudsen untersucht die Normen des europäischen Internationalen Zivilprozessrechts, soweit sie für Verfahren über die Verletzung von Marken, Patenten und Urheberrechten von Bedeutung sind. Neben den Gerichtsständen setzt sie sich mit den Möglichkeiten des grenzüberschreitenden Eilrechtsschutzes auseinander. (Quelle: Umschlagtext des Verlages).