This Element provides an explanation for the power of weak states in international politics, focusing on the case of international climate negotiations at the United Nations. The author points to the pitfalls of assuming that weak countries elicit power from their coordinated salience for climate issues. Contrastingly, it is argued that weak states' influence at global climate negotiations depends on the moral authority provided by strong states. The author maintains that weak states' authority is contingent on international vulnerability, which intersects broader domestic discussions of global justice, and pushes the leaders of strong countries to concede power to weak countries. New empirical evidence is shown in support of the theory.
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"Covid-19 and the Global Political Economy investigates and explores how far and in what ways the Covid-19 pandemic is challenging, restructuring, and perhaps remaking aspects of the global political economy. Since the 1970s, neoliberal capitalism has been the guiding principle of global development: fiscal discipline, privatisations, deregulation, the liberalisation of trade and investment regimes, and lower corporate and wealth taxation. But, after Covid-19, will these trends continue, particularly when states are continuing to struggle with overcoming the pandemic and violating one of neoliberalism's key principles: balanced budgets? The pandemic has exposed the fragility of the global political economy, and it can be argued that the intensification of global trade, tourism, and finance over the past 30 years has facilitated the spread of infectious diseases such as Covid-19. Economies in lockdown, jittery markets, and massive government spending have therefore caused a re-evaluation. This volume brings together leading and upcoming critical scholars in international relations and international political economy to provide novel, timely, and innovative research on how the Covid-19 pandemic is impacting (and will continue to impact) the global economy in important dimensions including state fiscal policy, monetary policy, the accumulation of debt, health and social reproduction, and the future of austerity and the fate of neoliberalism. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and experts in the fields of international relations and international political economy, as well as history, anthropology, political science, sociology, cultural studies, economics, development studies, and human geography"--
This book is Volume 3 of the Proceedings of the World Economic Congress held in Athens in 1989 under the auspices of the International Economic Association. It considers various aspects of economic policy and development faced by countries with different social, cultural and political systems.
This book provides an examination of contemporary Anglo-American relations. Anglo-American relations, sometimes controversially referred to as the Special Relationship,?constitute arguably the most important bilateral relationship of modern times. Yet in?recent years, there have been frequent pronouncements that this relationship has lost its 'specialness'. This volume brings together experts from Britain, Europe and North America in a long-overdue examination of contemporary Anglo-American relations that paints a somewhat different picture. The discussion ranges widely, from a.
Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung in Umweltangelegenheiten beruht auf der Idee, dass Bürger und Behörden eine ökologische Verantwortung haben, auf die Erde zu achten. Rechtlich wird diese Idee durch Beteiligungsrechte in Verwaltungs- und Gerichtsverfahren einerseits und in rechtlichen Pflichten für die Behörden andererseits zum Ausdruck gebracht. Trotz gemeinsamer internationaler (Aarhus Convention) und supranationaler (EG-/EU-Richtlinien) Verpflichtungen unterscheiden sich diese Rechte und Pflichten in den europäischen Rechtsordnungen aufgrund von unterschiedlichen Rechtsvorschriften sowie (Rechts-)Traditionen. Ziel ist es, einen rechtsvergleichenden Überblick über die Beteiligungsrechte für Bürger und die Pflichten der Behörden in Deutschland und Italien als Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Union zu geben. Dies trägt zur besseren Umsetzung der völkerrechtlichen Verpflichtungen ebenso wie zur Herausbildung eines sich gerade entwickelnden gemeinsamen europäischen Rechts zur Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung in Umweltangelegenheiten bei. The book provides a comparative overview of the implementation of participatory rights in environmental decision making. The core idea was to explore the legal cultures of various EU member states, where the principles of the Aarhus Convention have been implemented in national law with a focus on German and Italian environmental law. Our project aims to contribute to the knowledge of whether European Union law is on the right way to establish such an approach. Trotz gemeinsamer internationaler (Aarhus Convention) und supranationaler (EU-Richtlinien) Verpflichtungen unterscheidet sich die Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung in Umweltangelegenheiten in der EU aufgrund von unterschiedlichen Rechtsvorschriften sowie Rechtstraditionen. Ziel ist es, einen rechtsvergleichenden Überblick über die Beteiligungsrechte für Bürger in Deutschland und Italien als Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Union zu geben, um zu einem harmonisierten Verständnis beizutragen. Eva Lohse hat Jura in Erlangen und Lausanne studiert und 2005 einen LLM in Europarecht und Rechtsvergleichung an der University of Kent, Canterbury (UK), gemacht. Nach der Promotion hat sie sich 2015 an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg habilitiert. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen im internationalen Umweltrecht, der Rechtsvergleichung und dem Schutz von Grund- und Menschenrechten in Mehrebenensystemen. Sie ist derzeit wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Hans-Liermann-Institut an der FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg und am Institut für Rechtstheorie der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Margherita Poto ist Tenured-Assistant Professor in Verwaltungsrecht an der Universität Turin (Italien). In den letzten 14 Jahren lagen ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte im Verwaltungsrecht aus italienischer sowie aus vergleichender Perspektive. Daneben hat sie sich mit Finanzaufsicht, Umweltrecht und dem zunehmenden globalen Bewusstsein für Umweltschutz, Lebensmittelrecht und Nachhaltigkeit beschäftigt. Dahinter steckt die Idee, Bezüge zwischen Rechtskulturen und -traditionen zu finden und »best practices« aus aller Welt zu vergleichen.
Distinctive due to explicit and systematically developed links between international relations (IR) and related disciplines, this book addresses global and regional interactions and the complex policy problems that often characterise this agenda. In this instance they pay particular attention to linking up with peace research, international political economy (IPE) and cultural political economy (CPE), sociology, political geography, development studies, linguistics, cultural studies, environmental studies and energy research, gender studies, and traditions of area studies.
Klappentext: Environmental issues are increasingly important factors in world politics - just think of the intense speculation over the climate change discussions at the forthcoming G8 summit. The study of global environmental politics draws on a variety of academic traditions. It uses international relations theory to look at the concerns and actions of states, but has also had to find a variety of new concepts and perspectives in order to explain issues unique to the study of the environment. Here, DeSombre examines four important aspects of the field: international environmental cooperation; the relationship between the environment and security; the issues of science, uncertainty and risk; and the role of non-state actors. In the second half of the book she examines these issues through the use of case studies on specific problems facing the global environment, including global change, the politics of whaling, the protection of Amazonian biodiversity and acid rain in Europe and North America.
In its first "Plan on Building the Rule of Law in China (2020-2025)", the leadership in Beijing has set out its vision for a coherent and genuinely Chinese legal system. The focus here is on the term "socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics". It should "basically take shape" by 2035. Marxist-Leninist legal concepts remain fundamental. The aim is to use the law as a political instrument to make the state more efficient and to reduce the arbitrariness of how the law is applied for the majority of the population, among other things, with the help of advanced technology. In some areas, for example on procedural issues, Beijing continues to draw inspiration from the West in establishing its Chinese "rule of law". However, the party-state leadership rejects an independent judiciary and the principle of separation of powers as "erroneous western thought". Beijing is explicitly interested in propagating China's conception of law and legal practice internationally, establishing new legal standards and enforcing its interests through the law. Berlin and Brussels should, therefore, pay special attention to the Chinese leadership's concept of the law. In-depth knowledge on this topic will be imperative in order to grasp the strategic implications of China's legal policy, to better understand the logic of their actions and respond appropriately. (author's abstract)
