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The article explores the theoretical linkage between international crises & national identity-building processes. Japan's security policy since the beginning of the 1990s will be used as a test case. The most obvious finding is that Japan has tried to incrementally change its security posture & engage more actively in international security affairs after three such crises: the North Korean nuclear crisis of 1993, the North Korean missile test of August 1998 & the events of 11 September 2001. It becomes evident that Japan's security policy had already changed significantly before the attacks of 9/11. After September 2001, it irreversibly gained a new quality. On the basis of the empirical findings presented in the article, the author is able to detect an irrefutable nexus between crises & identity change. References. Adapted from the source document.

This article discusses whether the successful model of the Conference for Security & Cooperation in Europe during the East-West-Conflict may be an option for detention & reconciliation on the Korean peninsula. Because of the nuclear debate provoked by North Korea, multilateral negotiations within the Six-Party-Talks should lead to a peaceful solution. However, the blackmailing politics of the communist regime in Pyongyang, the tensions between China & Japan, the carrot-&-stick policy of the US administration & the independent foreign policy of South Korea toward the US have challenged the necessity of establishing a sustainable security regime. The article examines whether in the future the Six-Party-Talks could be transformed into such a security regime. Tables, References. Adapted from the source document.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child was ratified by 192 states, which meet their obligation of reporting about the implementation of the Convention within their territory to a large extent. However, the monitoring Committee on the Rights of the Child established by the Convention has almost no means by which it can sanction violations of the provisions of the Convention, which still are widespread. In many countries a change of fundamental attitudes towards children is needed. The author argues that the public dialogue of State Party & monitoring Committee is the most appropriate way to promote changed attitudes & practice in various socio-cultural contexts. Applied & proposed procedures of strengthening the dialogue are assessed. References. Adapted from the source document.

As shown by qualitative studies, treaty ratification has had a greatly uneven impact on human rights practices by governments. Quantitative studies correlating treaty ratification & government practices come to mixed results. Some claim that ratification does not significantly improve human rights practices, others argue that they do even though this can hardly be demonstrated by empirical analysis. It is against this backdrop that measuring human rights in principle, practice & as outcomes acquires a special significance -- guiding states as to monitoring for processes & results, & providing human rights actors, both domestic & international with an additional basis as to their policy strategies. Figures, References. Adapted from the source document.