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This book enquires into the counter-hegemonic capacity of international criminal justice. It highlights perspectives and themes that have thus far often been neglected in the scholarship on (critical approaches to) international criminal justice. Can international criminal justice be viewed as a 'counter-hegemonic' project? And if so, under what conditions? In response to these questions, scholars and practitioners from the Global South and North reflect inter alia on the engagement with international criminal justice in the context of Ukraine, Palestine, and minorities in South-Asia while also highlighting the hegemonic tendencies built into the institutional structure of the International Criminal Court on the axes of gender and language.

This Handbook—one of a new series—sets out to describe the current state of the art in International Political Theory, and to advance this discourse into new areas. A key feature of the Handbook is the way in which its contributors engage with "real politics": although the importance of developing so-called ideal theory is acknowledged in several chapters, the main emphasis of the book is on an engagement with empirical data and real-world politics. Conventional distinctions such as that between "critical theory" and "problem-solving theory" are challenged—the underlying contention is that, ultimately, all theory is problem-solving, and an emphasis on norms and normative theory cannot be understood as separate from so-called positive International Relations Theory. The contributors have approached the themes of the Handbook from different angles in relation to a wide range of different topics in ways that showcase the diversity of perspectives and traditions that make up the field of International Political Theory. The Handbook consists of fifty chapters organized into nine sections, covering History, Traditions and Perspectives, International Justice, Violence and Conflict, Humanitarianism and Human Rights, Democracy, Accountability and Global Governance, Ethics and International Public Policy, New Directions in International Political Theory, and, finally, a section which puts in question the relationship between International Political Theory and Real Politics.

Mit der Europäischen Unterhaltsverordnung und den Übereinkommen der Haager Konferenz für Internationales Privatrecht sind drei neue Rechtsinstrumente zur grenzüberschreitenden Unterhaltsdurchsetzung geschaffen worden. Franziska Bartl untersucht, welche Veränderungen sich durch diese neuen Regelwerke auf internationaler und europäischer Ebene hinsichtlich der grenzüberschreitenden Unterhaltsdurchsetzung ergeben. Hierbei erläutert die Verfasserin die Schwierigkeiten, die bislang bei der Unterhaltsdurchsetzung mit Auslandsbezug bestanden haben. Sie vergleicht die neuen Rechtsinstrumente und analysiert, ob bzw. inwieweit die bestehenden Probleme gelöst werden konnten. Im Rahmen dessen beantwortet Franziska Bartl auch die Frage, ob es auf europäischer Ebene überhaupt eines eigenständigen Rechtsinstruments zur grenzüberschreitenden Unterhaltsdurchsetzung bedurfte.

John Smith, an American citizen, is engaged in a profitable local business in a foreign country. He unexpectedly receives information from a reliable source that the people of the vicinity plan to attack and destroy his establishment within twenty-four hours. Smith at once imparts this information to the local authorities, who take no steps whatever to protect him. The threatened attack occurs and his business is either severely damaged or ruined. It is obvious that we have here a case for diplomatic representations. A foreigner residing in a friendly state has suffered injury to his property at the hands of the nationals of that state, under conditions where national responsibility attaches. The state of residence has failed to meet its international duty of taking adequate steps to afford the resident foreigner the protection of the local law; in other words, it has not been diligent in attempting to prevent the perpetration by its nationals of acts violative of the local law directed against the foreigner and resulting in injuries to his business interests.