Search results

The discipline of International Relations and cognate fields of Comparative Politics and Development Studies have more or less successfully contained the study of Africa's condition within the limits of the dominant Western imagination, with grave consequences. Africa is seen and analyzed as a site of weak states and neopatrimonial rule. The continued dominance and ubiquity of such analytical vocabularies and their underlying methods rests on many forces, one of which is the reluctance to acknowledge that Africans can and do articulate their own analyses of their condition and to respect such analyses. This article seeks to remember some of the routinely forgotten international relations which structure Africa's contemporary condition, by turning to the work of Cameroonian film director Jean-Marie Teno. Teno's work, in particular Afrique Je Te Plumerai and Le Malentendu Colonial, is profoundly important for students of international relations. This article examines the content, form, and effect of the critique Teno elaborates in Afrique Je Te Plumerai.

The article investigates interaction and integration in Latin America, using nations as units. Four indices of international stratification are presented and compared, and intensity of interaction within different pairs of nations is analysed. Interaction is measured in terms of trade, airborne transport, participation in continental meetings, negotiations, and participation in World Wars. The consequences of interactive disequilibrium appear important in analysis of inter action. An equilibrated pair, with units of equal status, is characterized by mutual exchange on equal level of intensity, and mutual influence that flows within the pair. A disequilibrated pair may be characterized by high intensity of interaction, but the exchange is not mutual, and there is no flow of influence. Equilibrated units influence each other; while in a disequilibrated pair one unit dominates, not influences, the other. The medium status units appear most important in international integration; such units foresee mobility in the international system, and imagine that international integration may make it possible to challenge top status units in the system. These and other findings are compared with findings in small group research, which are proved fruitful in the interpretations of our findings. We discover that Latin American nations do not imitate and are not responsive towards the United States because of lack of mobility within the inter-American system. Since the United States behaves as a 'superdog' in the system, thus dominating Latin American nations, the Latin American nations become followers of the United States and eager participants in inter-American meetings. It is our contention, however, that the United States' image in Latin America disappears when United States dominance ceases, because this image is not internalised in the local culture. One important policy implication emerges from our analysis: if a nation wants to influence another, its policy should aim at supporting the other nation in its attempts to gain the same status in the system as that of the 'would-be' influencer.

This study examines the role of international courts and tribunals (ICTs) as important agents for the peaceful settlement of international disputes through the instrumentality of law. The rapid upswing in the number of specialised international courts and tribunals (in areas such as trade, human rights, law of the sea, criminal justice and environment) can be perceived as an attempt by sovereign States to maintain the viability of ICTs in light of perplexity in international relations, growing recognition of peaceful co-existence, quest for institutionalised cooperation and emergence of some of the "common concerns of humankind", as well as the "duty to cooperate". The article has sought to make sense of the emergence of ICTs as the "New Environmental Sentinels" and what it portends for our common future. Do we need a specialised international environmental court?

In the current interdependent global economic system, measures adopted nationally by governments to safeguard financial stability sometimes produce cross-border spillovers. A question arises as to how international economic law shall treat states' regulatory powers to tackle internal and external economic and financial threats. The goal of the research is to analyze (i) how international law distributes between different international subjects the social costs of global instability in the event of emergencies, and (ii) how regulatory powers are attributed in a situation of economic and financial interdependence. To do so, this essay sets out a law and economics theory that conceptualizes financial stability in international law as the result of a trade-off between three competing regulatory objectives: domestic stability, global stability, and financial integration. The way in which the interplay between these objectives is represented in law crucially influences the balance of rights and obligations in the formulation of national economic and financial policies, and the level of protection against economic threats. This essay argues that current international law is largely inefficient because it structures the protection of financial stability as a matter of the individual rights of each state, rather than a social problem of the international community.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER ONE: The Role of International Order in U.S. Strategy -- Risks to the Current Order -- Roadmap and Methodology -- CHAPTER TWO: Defining the International Order -- The Post-World War II, Rules-Based Liberal Order -- The Order's Purposes and Its Effects -- Conclusion and Policy Implications -- CHAPTER THREE: Engines of International Order -- Rational Pursuit of Common Interests -- Interests of a Hegemonic Power -- Domestic Politics -- Socialization and Constructed Identities -- Systemic Effects -- Conclusion and Policy Implications -- CHAPTER FOUR: U.S. Approach to the International Order -- U.S. Visions of the International Order -- The International Order in U.S. National Security Strategy Documents -- U.S. Interests and Approaches to the International Order -- Conclusion and Policy Implications -- CHAPTER FIVE: Implications for a Research Agenda -- References

The International Criminal Court (ICC) formally came into being on 1 July 2002 after the required 60th ratification of the Rome Statute was deposited. The states parties were able to quickly proceed with the details of the court's operationalization -- a budget for court & a process for nominating judges. However, the establishment of the ICC continued to be controversial, with many states opposed to its creation & the US one of its strongest opponents. In 2002. ICC was made a political pawn between its proponents & opponents & the US took various steps to dilute the effectiveness of the court & shield its citizens from the court's jurisdiction. 1 Table. Adapted from the source document.

Der Dreiklang International - Europäisch - Regional steht für aktuelle politische und gesellschaftliche Ebenen der Veränderung, die von der Wissenschaft aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven aufgegriffen werden. Zu nennen sind die Internationalisierung der Wirtschaft, der europäische Einigungsprozess und die Wechselwirkungen der beiden erstgenannten Bereiche mit der regionalen Entwicklung. Betont werden die Potentiale der integrativen Verflechtung. Der vorliegende Sammelband versteht sich als Versuch, die vielfältigen Forschungsleistungen auf diesem Gebiet zusammen zu führen und wird getragen vom Forschungsnetzwerk Wirtschaft - Recht - Bildung an der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. Beteiligt sind Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus Forschung und Lehre des Mittelbaus. Wir diskutieren die Veränderungslinien sowohl in grundlagentheoretischer Richtung wie auch in konkreten Problemfeldern. Das Buch wendet sich damit an Dozentinnen und Dozenten, Praktikerinnen und Praktiker sowie Studierende.

Der Dreiklang International - Europäisch - Regional steht für aktuelle politische und gesellschaftliche Ebenen der Veränderung, die von der Wissenschaft aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven aufgegriffen werden. Zu nennen sind die Internationalisierung der Wirtschaft, der europäische Einigungsprozess und die Wechselwirkungen der beiden erstgenannten Bereiche mit der regionalen Entwicklung. Betont werden die Potentiale der integrativen Verflechtung. Der vorliegende Sammelband versteht sich als Versuch, die vielfältigen Forschungsleistungen auf diesem Gebiet zusammen zu führen und wird getragen vom Forschungsnetzwerk Wirtschaft - Recht - Bildung an der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. Beteiligt sind Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus Forschung und Lehre des Mittelbaus. Wir diskutieren die Veränderungslinien sowohl in grundlagentheoretischer Richtung wie auch in konkreten Problemfeldern. Das Buch wendet sich damit an Dozentinnen und Dozenten, Praktikerinnen und Praktiker sowie Studierende.