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Since 2005 there has been an upward trend in deliveries of major conventional arms. The annual average for 2004-2008 was 21 per cent higher than for 2000-2004. Almost 80 per cent of the volume of exports for the period 2004-2008 was accounted for by the five largest suppliers-the United States, Russia, Germany, France & the United Kingdom. China remained the single largest recipient for the period 2004-2008 but imports decreased significantly in the past two years. Deliveries to Asia & the Middle East increased. The negative impact of small volumes of arms deliveries was highlighted by the case of the renewed civil war in Sri Lanka. Adapted from the source document.

A review essay on books by (1) Ankie Hoogvelt, Globalisation and the Post Colonial World: The New Political Economy of Development (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997); (2) Philip McMichael, Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective (Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge, 1996); & (3) John Rapley, Understanding Development: Theory and Practice in the Third World (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1997). These texts examine the connection between development & international relations in the contemporary UK, with Rapley offering an introduction to development theory & emphasizing the state's role in development, McMichael investigating how development engenders social transformation & international inequality, & Hoogvelt exploring how changes in international politics impact various peoples & regions. Although their accounts of the shortcomings of development theory are not original, their examinations of the inextricable connection between the international & the national are welcomed. The texts are praised for problematizing the application of development theory, which is dominated by Western thought, on a global basis. Arguing that Third World nations are principally perceived as disrupting world order, it is contended that international relations must incorporate more development-focused issues into the discipline (eg, the impact of global capitalism on development in Third World nations). 4 References. J. W. Parker

"Geld regiert die Welt" - dies ist im Zuge der weltweiten Finanzkrise deutlich geworden. Eine Reform des völker- und europarechtlichen Rahmens für Finanzen und Wirtschaft, welche die Macht des Geldes einhegt, ohne die Wirtschafts- und Kapitalverkehrsfreiheit zu strangulieren, erscheint unumgänglich. Auch im Völkerrecht sind "Tropfen sozialen Öls" unabdingbar, um die Ziele der UN-Charta von Frieden und Wohlstand in der Welt einzulösen. Selbst im reichen, politisch homogenen und sozialstaatlichen Europa gehen die Auffassungen über notwendige Reformschritte auseinander. Nahezu unüberbrückbar erscheinen die Gegensätze zwischen dem wohlhabenden "Norden" und dem aufstrebenden "Süden" im Rahmen des WTO-Systems. Die folgenden Beiträge zu einschlägigen Rechtsfragen sind aus einer Ringvorlesung hervorgegangen, die das Walther-Schücking-Institut für Internationales Recht an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel im Wintersemester 2009/10 und im Sommersemester 2010 veranstaltet hat.