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Cover -- Guest editorial Rethinking international manufacturing in times of global turbulence -- Manufacturing network integration and culture: an institution-based view -- The influence of IIoT on manufacturing network coordination -- Using plant leaders' perspectives to overcome barriers to inter-plant exchange -- Lean manufacturing implementation and performance: the role of economic volatility in an emerging economy -- Proactive risk mitigation strategies and supply chain risk management performance: an empirical analysis for manufacturing firms in Turkey -- Relationship follows technology! How Industry 4.0 reshapes future buyer-supplier relationships -- Does plant role moderate relationship between internal manufacturing network integration, external supply chain integration, operational performance in manufacturing network? -- Global manufacturing value networks: assessing the critical roles of platform ecosystems and Industry 4.0 -- Value chains of the world's top manufacturing corporations: moving from tangible to intangible activities? -- Capability mapping to improve manufacturing network performance: or how a factory can target growth -- Interdependency in coordinating networked maintenance and modification operations.

Trade and economic policy -- The modern trade debate among economists -- The making and impact of trade agreements in national legal systems -- The WTO : history, structure, and future -- WTO dispute settlement -- Special topics in WTO dispute settlement -- Tariffs -- Quantitative restrictions -- National treatments : internal taxation -- National treatments : internal regulations -- Most-favored-nation treatment -- Preferential trade agreements -- General exceptions : GATT Article XX -- General exceptions : the chapeau of GATT Article XX -- Dumping and anti-dumping --Subsidies and countervailing duties-- Safeguards -- Agreement on sanitary and phytosanitary measures -- Agreement on technical barriers to trade -- Trade in services -- Trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights -- The WTO and developing countries

Preface -- Part I: The Essentials -- Chapter 1. Introduction (Jan Marie Fritz) -- Chapter 2. The Basics: From Concepts to Models (Jan Marie Fritz) -- Part II: Regional Histories -- Chapter 3. The History of Clinical Sociology in the United States (Jan Marie Fritz) -- Chapter 4. Clinical Sociology in Québec: When Europe Meets America (Jacques Rhéaume) -- Chapter 5. On the Origins of Clinical Sociology in France: Some Milestones (Vincent de Gaulejac) -- Chapter 6. Clinical Sociology in Japan (Yuji Noguchi and Hideyo Nakamura) -- Chapter 7. The Emergence of Clinical Sociology in South Africa (Tina Uys) -- Part III: Selected Applications -- Chapter 8. The Patient's Personal Experience of Schizophrenia in China: A Clinical Sociology Approach to Mental Health (Robert Sevigny) -- Chapter 9. Bridging Social Capital: A Clinical Sociology Approach to Substance Use Intervention (Miriam Boeri) -- Chapter 10. Children's Human Rights as a Buffer to Extremism: A Clinical Sociology Framework (Yvonne Vissing) -- Chapter 11. Clinical Sociology Contributions to the Field of Mediation (Jan Marie Fritz) -- Chapter 12. The Art of Facilitation (Jan Marie Fritz) -- Chapter 13. Organizational Consulting for Strategic Change in a Public School in Colombia (Fernando de Yzaguirre) -- Chapter 14. Climate Resilience Initiative in Metro Manila: Participatory Community Risk Assessment and Power in Community Interventions (Emma Porio) -- Chapter 15. The South African Military and Gender Integration: Bridging Theory and Practice (Lindy Heinecken) -- Chapter 16. Focus Groups in the Context of International Development: In Pursuit of the Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals (Janet Mancini Billson) -- Index.

Intro -- International Fraud Handbook -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the ACFE -- Part I -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- What Is Fraud? -- Components of Fraud -- What Factors Lead to Fraud? -- The Fraud Triangle -- Control Weaknesses -- The Impact of Fraud -- All Organizations Are Susceptible to Fraud -- The High Cost of Occupational Fraud -- The Indirect Costs -- Types of Fraud Affecting Organizations -- Occupational Fraud -- External Fraud -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Legal Issues Pertaining to Fraud -- Types of Legal Systems -- Religious and Secular Systems -- Common Law and Civil Law Systems -- Definition of Evidence -- Three Basic Forms of Evidence -- Direct versus Circumstantial Evidence -- Admissibility of Evidence -- Relevant -- Authentic -- Admissibility of Testimonial Evidence -- Examples of Common Evidentiary Rules in Adversarial Proceedings -- The Rule against Character Evidence -- The Rule against Opinion Testimony -- The Rule against Hearsay -- Chain of Custody -- Privileges and Protections -- Legal Professional Privileges -- Legal Work Privileges -- Self-Evaluation Privilege -- Marital Privilege -- Parent-Child Privilege -- Law Enforcement Privilege to Withhold the Identity of an Informant -- Accountant-Client Privilege -- Other Privileges -- Judicial Treatment of Privileges from Foreign Jurisdictions -- Individual Rights during Examinations -- Employees' Duties and Rights -- Employees' Duty to Cooperate -- Duty to Preserve Information Relevant to Litigation -- Employees' Contractual Rights -- Whistle-Blower Protections -- Employees' Privacy Rights in the Workplace -- Individuals' Rights and Obligations under Criminal Law -- The Law Relating to Government Search and Seizure -- Search Warrants -- Investigations in Private Actions -- Defamation -- Privacy Laws.

The volume of international transfers of major conventional weapons in 2006-10 was 24 per cent higher than in 2001-2005, continuing the upward trend. The United States and Russia were the largest exporters of major conventional weapons in 2006-10, accounting for 53 per cent of the volume of exports. Countries in Asia were their largest recipients. Economic and foreign policy considerations continued to play a central role in their respective decisions on arms exports. The US Administration has made proposals to reform its export controls to prevent arms and technology from reaching adversaries and to better facilitate transfers to allies. Russia's decision in 2010 to cancel the delivery of S-300 air defence systems to Iran is significant for its reputation as a 'reliable' supplier. The major recipient region in 2006-10 was Asia and Oceania (accounting for 43 per cent of imports of major conventional weapons), followed by Europe (21 per cent) and the Middle East (17 per cent). India was the largest recipient of major conventional weapons in 2006-10, pushing China into second place. South Korea (6 per cent), Pakistan (5 per cent) and Greece (4 per cent) were the other largest recipients. Although India and Pakistan have both imported large quantities of weapons to counter external security threats, internal security challenges are currently the most pressing issue for Pakistan and also a source of much concern in India. India is the target of intense supplier competition for billion-dollar deals, in particular for combat aircraft and submarines. Pakistan relies on US military aid and Chinese soft loans for most of its acquisitions. Both countries are likely to remain major recipients in the coming years. Member states of the European Union are obliged to apply criteria relating to conflict prevention when making decisions on export licence applications. A framework has been elaborated for EU members to harmonize interpretation of these criteria, along with those applying to human rights and economic development. However, during 2006-10 divisions among EU member states on the interpretation of criteria relating to conflict prevention have been particularly evident with regard to Israel, Georgia and Russia. Differences between EU members relate in large part to the long-standing arms trade and security ties with certain states, as well as national security and economic interests more generally. Adapted from the source document.

Innerhalb der letzten zehn Jahre haben empirische Forschung und Theoriediskussion zur Funktion 'internationaler Regime' auf dem Gebiet der internationalen Beziehungen zugenommen. Einer kritischen Literaturbesprechung folgt ein Überblick über unterschiedliche Definitionen von internationalen Regimen. Für die Regime-Analyse werden strukturelle, spieltheoretische, funktionale und kognitive Ansätze geprüft. Ein wesentlicher Mangel der Regime-Literatur liegt in der fehlenden Einbeziehung innenpolitischer Prozesse. Die Suche nach einer engen systemischen Theorie darf die auf innenpolitische Geschichte und Prozesse gerichtete Forschung nicht verdrängen. (SWP-Bmt)