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The author argues that Israel stands on the frontlines of a new struggle over the international laws of war and exposes abuses of law that have been promulgated by international human rights lawyers, UN bodies, and intellectuals to illegitimately circumscribe the right of liberal democracies to defend themselves against transnational terrorists. The Goldstone Report, which was published by the United Nations in September 2009, and the Gaza flotilla controversy, which erupted at the end of May 2010, are examples of those abuses. This book criticizes the flawed assumptions and defective claims a

Part I. World and Global Economy -- Chapter 1. World and Global Economy, Global Business Environment and International Business: Nature, Formation, and Structure -- Chapter 2. Concepts and Theories of Global Economy -- Chapter 3. World Economy: Growth, Proportions, Efficiency, and Forecasting -- Chapter 4. World Economy Major Trends: New Normal, the Forth Industrial Revolution, Globalization, Sustainable Development -- Chapter 5. World Economy Major Trends: Evolution of National Economic Systems -- Chapter 6. World Economy Major Trends: International Economic Integration -- Chapter 7. Resources of World Economy: Human Capital -- Chapter 8. Resources of World Economy: Real Capital -- Chapter 9. Resources of World Economy: Financial Capital -- Chapter 10. Resources of World Economy: Natural Resources -- Chapter 11. Global Challenges: Environment -- Chapter 12. Global Challenges: Backwardness and Modernization.

Making a timely contribution to the legal literature, this important book discusses an under-analysed issue of great importance to international peace and security. It provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of the prevention of nuclear terrorism specifically through an international (arms control) law lens. Jonathan Herbach sets out a basis for better understanding how the international legal framework for nuclear security is structured and why it is structured that way, and offers a critical analysis of the component instruments that make up the framework. He highlights the strengths and analyzes possible gaps and weaknesses of these instruments and the legal framework as a whole, as well as explaining the framework's key characteristics, approaches and rationale. As nuclear security is by no means a static topic, with changing circumstances a defining feature of the area, the book also offers ideas for the path forward and conceptualizes ways to further strengthen the nuclear security legal framework. Offering a fresh perspective on the prevention of nuclear terrorism, this book will benefit academics and students of public international law, counter-terrorism and conflict and security law. It will also be a useful resource for governmental legal advisors, think-tanks and diplomats to inform their work on means and mechanisms to help strengthen the global nuclear security regime and to provide guidance for decision-making.

Eine immer wieder auch vom Scheitern verfolgte Klimapolitik zeigt nicht nur die Handlungsgrenzen der Staatengemeinschaft auf. Auch die Strategie der 'konfliktiven Kooperation' mit den Staaten, wie sie von NGOs lange schon praktiziert wird, ist an Legitimations- und Glaubwürdigkeitsgrenzen gestoßen. In Reaktion darauf betreten neue, transnational vernetzte soziale Bewegungen die Bühne der internationalen Politik. Die politische Gemengelage wird unübersichtlicher. Wie sehen die transnationalen Beziehungen der zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteure aus NGOs, Bewegungen oder außerparlamentarischen Initiativen aus? In welchem Diskurs- und Handlungskontext bewegen sie sich, wie ist ihr Verhältnis zum Staat und zur Privatwirtschaft, welche Themen werden in den Fokus gestellt und welche Forderungen oder Lösungsansätze haben die 'alten' wie die 'neuen' zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteure? Auf diese Fragen gibt das vorliegende Buch Antworten. Es wendet sich der übergreifenden Frage zu, ob im 'globalen Dorf' der Zivilgesellschaft Unterstützung für das geleistet werden kann, was in der internationalen Politik bisher nicht gelungen ist: die große Transformation des Energiesystems in Richtung einer nachhaltigen, klimaverträglichen Zukunft. Eine Zivilisierung des Klimaregimes scheint dafür unerlässlich.

In an age of electronic revolution, the conditions for global specialization have changed, be it from the nation's or from the fîrm's perspective. The logic behind the productive System is today even more integrative and systemic, hence upsetting the methods and concepts of economic and strategic analysis.
In focussing on the sphere of office-automation in the channel of electronics, the analytical framework used has been that of a « sub-channel » in order to define the interdependence and the effects of the technological synergy which are characteristic of office-automation, and to deduce the major trends in the international division of labour. Thus the use of a new, more comprehensive channel appears to be better suited for the analysis of future trends in the international division of labour.

The initiative to form an "Alliance of Civilizations" as a means to overcome cultural and political gaps originated in a proposal made by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to the Secretary-General of the United Nations during a speech at the 59th UN General Assembly on September 21, 2004. Kofi Annan officially took over the initiative, co-sponsored by the UN, the Spanish and the Turkish governments, on July 14, 2005. The Secretary-General also put in place a process to form a High Level Panel, which is expected to hold its first meeting in late November, in order to convert this first impulse into a feasible and operative concept by the end of 2006. On June 6-7, 2005, the Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI) and the Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE) organized an international seminar in Madrid, bringing together experts, academics and practitioners to analyse contemporary challenges, reflect critically on their implications for the present initiative, and enhance and enrich it. The present paper summarizes the main ideas for an Alliance of Civilizations, the major critical points, and the suggestions made, during the seminar, in order to tackle them.

International joint venture (IJV) research largely omits social and cognitive processes and, hence, overlooks their potentially important implications. This paper presents a four-year longitudinal investigation into the social identification and social enactment processes in a British-Italian, shared management joint venture. Using social identification and social enactment theories as conceptual anchors, the study reveals that national social identities were the dominant sense-making vehicle used by team members, although multiple sources of social identification were possible and present in this IJV. Contextual changes occurred that could be expected to favor organizational (IJV-based) social identities, but the dominant use of nationality-based identities did not change. Our findings suggest that social identity enactments (using particular boundaries to define primary social identities) by team members mediate the relationship of contextual variables, both environmental and structural, with group and organizational outcomes (such as role investment and job satisfaction). Our empirical results shed light on unresolved debates in the IJV literature, e.g., the implications of cultural distance and shared management for IJV performance. This study also contributes to social identity theory by highlighting promising directions for development of contextual and longitudinal dimensions in that research stream.