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Diese Broschüre gibt einen Überblick über die Arbeitsweise des Umweltbundesamts, seine wichtigsten Funktionen und Aufgaben im internationalen Kontext. Sie stellt beispielhaft wichtige Abkommen, Programme und Vereinbarungen vor und macht deutlich, wie Deutschland sich innerhalb der EU und international für den Schutz von Gesundheit, Umwelt und Klima engagiert.

The strengths of international investment law - above all, a strong focus on investor interests and an effective adjudication and enforcement system - also entail its weaknesses: it runs the danger of impeding or even sanctioning the host states' legitimate regulatory interests and ignoring other fields of public international law. How does it cope with public interest concerns such as human rights, the environment or the fight against corruption? At the heart of this book lies a fresh approach towards a general theory of such global public interest considerations in the investment realm. Delineating how and why those considerations matter, and why the current system does not accommodate them properly, Andreas Kulick fleshes out general principles and customary international law as defences the host state may raise against alleged investor rights infringements and promotes proportionality as the appropriate balancing mechanism.

Im Kalten Krieg herrschte Konfrontation ohne tatsächliche Aggression zwischen den Supermächten. Heute beschreitet man weltpolitisch zwar gemeinsame Wege. Doch die eigene Überlegenheit ist noch immer letztes Ziel der "Großen". Aber wo bleibt dabei Europa? Der Vordenker und maßgebliche Mitgestalter der deutschen Ostpolitik unter Willy Brandt skizziert seine Sicht auf die internationale Lage und plädiert für eine europäische Sicherheitspolitik. (WeltTrends / SWP)

Views of delegates to the International Round Table of "The United Nations and international democracy", held in Geneva, July 1-2, 1994, on challenges faced by the UN due to perceived US influence on the Security Council.

The ITLOS Yearbook 2017 provides information on the composition, jurisdiction, procedure and organization of the Tribunal and reports on its judicial activities in 2017, in particular on the Judgment delivered by the Special Chamber in Case No. 23. The Yearbook is prepared by the Registry of the Tribunal. Le TIDM Annuaire 2017 fournit des informations essentielles concernant la composition, la compétence, la procédure et l'organisation du Tribunal. Il donne également un aperçu des activités judiciaires du Tribunal au cours de l'année 2017, en particulier en ce qui concerne l'arrêt rendu par la Chambre spéciale dans l'affaire no. 23. L' Annuaire est rédigé par le Greffe du Tribunal

Internationale Regime bilden sich als Ordnungsfaktoren in den internationalen Beziehungen heraus, um die Kosten ansonsten unkoordinierter nationaler Aktionen zu minimieren. In einer Typologie wird nach dem Verbindlichkeitsgrad internationaler Normen und Standards und nach der Prozedur der Entscheidungsfindung unterschieden. Acht internationale und regionale Menschenrechtsregime werden für den Zeitraum 1945-1985 untersucht. Die Untersuchung nichtökonomischer internationaler Regime stellt ein Hilfsmittel für die Politikanalyse internationaler Kooperation dar, wenngleich der theoretische Aussagegehalt begrenzt ist.(SWP-Bmt)

This article details the process used by MediaOne International (formerly called U S WEST International) to convert its traditional expatriate pay policy to a flexible pay program. By bundling relocation costs into a lump-sum relocation allowance, and traditional expatriate balance sheet compensation items into a "flexpat" payment, the company met its objective of reducing its administrative workload associated with payroll and expense processing for international assignees. The project also resulted in reduction of costs associated with international assignments. In addition to explaining the composition of the relocation and flexpat payments, this article discusses the project planning, execution, employee communications and implementation activities associated with the conversion.

Blockchain is the first global mechanism for the transfer and storage of value. Despite being conceived as an alternative to state and law, the technology and its use cases raise many legal questions, most notably, regarding jurisdiction and applicable law with respect to transactions and assets recorded on the blockchain. The issue is complex given the decentralised nature of the network. In this volume, academics and practitioners from various countries try to provide detailed answers to these questions as they relate to crypto-assets, cryptocurrencies, crypto derivatives, stablecoins, Central Bank Digital Currencies and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs), as well as specific transactions and issues, such as property rights, secured transactions, smart contracts and bankruptcy. With specific chapters on national approaches (Germany, Japan, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, United States), the volume explores the need and possibility for legal harmonisation of these issues through global fora, such as the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) UNIDROIT.

Contents: International organization: a state of the art on an art of the state, by Friedrich Kratochwil and John Gerard Ruggie; The rise and fall of international organization as a field of study, by J. Martin Rochester.

Introduction: digital inclusion: empowering people through information and communication technologies (ICTS) / Massimo Ragnedda and Bruce Mutsvairo -- Digital inclusion in advanced countries. Reducing and preventing digital discrimination: digital inclusion strategies in Europe / Massimo Ragnedda -- Not so ubiquitous: digital inclusion and older adults in Australia / Sue Malta and Raelene Wilding -- Digital inclusion in international perspective: an asset-based approach to digital inclusion research in t US context / Bianca C. Reisdorf and Colin Rhinesmith -- Digital inclusion in BRICS countries. From access to proficiency: reconceptualising digital inclusion in a rural area in South Africa / Lorenzo Dalvit -- Mapping the evolutive trajectories of China's digital divide: a longitudinal observation / Jianbin Jin, Fanxin Meng, Anfan Chen, Lin Shi, and Tao Wang -- Changes in knowledge acquisition according to the proximity with digital media networks / Andrea Limberto -- Digital inclusion in the Middle East. Digital inclusion in Jordan: opportunities and hurdles / Hanna Kreitem -- An explanatory analysis of Facebook's effect on social cohesion in Iran / Hamid Abdollahyan and Mahin Sheikh Ansari -- "Nothing is ever truly new": the persisting digital exclusion in Israel, 2002-2013 / Amit M. Schejter, Orit Ben-Harush, and Noam Tirosh -- Digital inclusion in Africa. LCT and development: narrowing the digital divide and the knowledge gap of ICT users in Cameroon and Ghana / Kehbuma Langmia and Christiana Hammond -- Kenya's digital divide: challenged, evolving, and persistent / Norbert Wildermuth -- Afterword, why digital inclusion now? / Gerard Goggin