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Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Politics and Political Science -- 2. Equality to Freedom -- 3. Law and Government -- 4. Ethics and Politics -- 5. Power, Interests, and the Common Good -- 6. Justice and Revolution -- Select Annotated Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y

Hauptbeschreibung: Der Begriff der dépeçage beschreibt im IPR eine Spaltung des anwendbaren Rechts. Im europäischen Rechtsraum ist die Skepsis gegenüber der dépeçage groß, während sie im US-amerikanischen Recht eine liberalere Handhabung erfährt. Dennoch können auch in der EU durch eine Spaltung des anwendbaren Rechts durchaus angemessene und im Vergleich zur Anwendung eines einheitlichen Rechts vorteilhafte Ergebnisse entstehen. Andrea Aubart untersucht die Behandlung der dépeçage schwerpunktmäßig in der Rom I-VO und der Rom II-VO. Darüber hinaus geht sie

From the UN Security Council and the European Union's Council of Ministers to obscure committees on food labelling or the scheduling of World Fairs, several thousand multilateral conferences are held each year. Why do governments deploy so much effort in these activities? What goes on behind the scenes at these meetings? How are their outcomes determined and what are the real-world consequences? Ronald A. Walker reveals the inner workings of such conferences, the result-oriented strategies that are pursued behind a façade of formal ritual and their impact on the behaviour of sovereign states.

This paper discusses environmental policies which aim at a sustainable use of domestic resources which are mobile. It assumes that one country introduces such a policy but the other country does not. If a resource is mobile, strict domestic environmental policies may increase the resource imports from other countries. This paper shows that a unilateral environmental policy may even imply an increased resource use. In this case, a large part of the sustainability objective is met by substituting domestic resource extraction by imports. When sustainability is modelled in an inter temporal, competitive framework, the paper shows that the sustainability rule will not lead to a slower rate of extraction of the resource.

Starting in the 1990s, scholarship has produced interesting, new, nuanced ideas about the potential role of international institutions in transforming the global political system. Political scientists have achieved a new understanding of how the Westphalian system came into being, and this understanding has provided a rudimentary model of the dynamics of system transformation. The new institutionalism has provided insights into the possible role of institutions. Scholars have developed new understandings of secondary consequences of conducting interactions among nation-states through international institutions. The study of a particular institution, the European Union, has been revitalized and important knowledge has emerged about its dynamics and trajectory. Finally, scholars have begun to raise questions about the properties of a non-Westphalian system, especially about how democratic accountability could be established. This chapter examines each of these developments in turn.