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Der Verfasser wendet sich der weltpolitischen Bedeutung der USA zu und erläutert diese unter Hinweis auf Bereiche, in denen eine US-amerikanische Vormachtstellung bereits erreicht ist oder zumindest angestrebt wird. Das Sendungsbewusstsein, mit dem die amerikanische Mission und die eigenen ökonomischen Interessen vorwärts getrieben werden, kann aber die Grenzen der Macht nicht vollständig verdecken. Der Verfasser erkennt solche Limitierungen in den innenpolitischen Problemen der Haushalts- und Sozialpolitik oder in den Sicherheits- und Wirtschaftskonflikten, die nur durch internationale Zusammenarbeit zu lösen sind. Eine mögliche Perspektive zur Domestikation des US-amerikanischen Machtstrebens könnten kooperative Handlungsgefüge sein, in denen der Führungsanspruch der USA berücksichtigt und zugleich in eine internationale Kooperationsgemeinschaft eingebunden wird. (ICE2)

Front Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Conditions -- 1. Sickly Sapling, Glorious Tree? -- 2. Multilateralism and Engagement -- 3. The US Global Security Guarantee and UN Collective Security -- Part Two: Heuristics -- 4. Always Engage: The United States and the Security Council -- 5. Sometimes Engage: Internal UN Management and the General Secretariat, the Buyout of the UN-that-Works, and Containment of the UN-that-Doesn't -- 6. Parallel Engagement: International Development and Global Human Welfare -- 7. Disengage and Obstruct: The UN-of-Values and the Human Rights Council -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- About the Author -- About the Hoover Institution's Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law -- Index.

Relationships and relational outcomes are key in international development volunteering (IDV) research, but little attention has been paid to the spaces of relationship formation. This article contributes to the literature by unpacking volunteer–local relationships using a spatial lens. It uses a case study of Singapore–Cambodia IDV projects spanning the short and long-term temporal continuum to unpack how space, time and structure influence volunteer–local relationships. It presents three distinct development spaces—structured, social and transition spaces—that shape hierarchical, reciprocal or convivial relationships. These findings highlight the role organizations play in volunteer–local relationships, and the importance of making space and time for more equitable relationships.

With the widespread use of technology, a new host of threats appear that affect the American government, businesses, and civilians. This is why Cybersecurity is a global emergency that involves not only the United States, but all countries, and which makes it necessary for the gaps within international cybersecurity to be filled. Cyber security crosses all geographic boundaries and must be addressed wholistically in order to be effective. Current regulations within cyberspace are not adequate and in order to protect each state from cyber threats, it is imperative for the states to create a collaborative solution to the issues within the current cyberspace in order to maintain peace.

L'article examine comment et pourquoi des acteurs deviennent passeurs de normes. À partir d'une enquête de terrain prolongée, l'étude de cas porte sur le transfert des normes de l'asile en Ukraine. Des organisations internationales établissent une chaîne de transfert et recrutent des agents qui, avec des employés d'ONG locales, fréquemment novices dans le domaine de l'asile, deviennent des passeurs de profession. Ils diffusent ensuite des standards internationaux auprès des fonctionnaires ukrainiens, souvent par des liens personnels, et parviennent à faire d'eux des passeurs de conviction. L'approche par les passeurs permet de nuancer les dichotomies entre transferts imposés et transferts volontaires, ainsi qu'entre promoteurs et destinataires de normes. Elle contribue également aux recherches émergentes sur les temporalités des transferts.

AbstractIn May to July 1931, a series of financial panics shook central Europe before spreading to the rest of the world. This article explores the role of cross‐border banking linkages in propagating the central European crisis to Britain and the US. Using archival bank‐level data, the article documents US and British banks' exposure to central European frozen credits in 1931. Central European lending was mostly done by large and diversified commercial banks in the US and by small and geographically specialized merchant banks/acceptance houses in Britain. Differences in the organization of international bank lending explain why the central European crisis disturbed few US banks but endangered many British financial institutions.

Investigating highly mobile labor populations presents researchers with unique challenges and opportunities. In this paper, I share my experiences and reflections in collecting international merchant seafarers' oral histories and propose to move the dialogue forward regarding the use of hybrid qualitative research practices. Seafarers are constantly moving, at sea and in port, and traditional research methodologies are inadequate in determining the nature of modern-day seafaring. I suggest how qualitative research methods must be flexible enough to accommodate researchers' needs in a chaotic global milieu. Investigators researching highly mobile labor populations, as well as mobile immigrant and refugee communities, can gain insights into the challenges and methods available for meeting those challenges.

How do domestic political institutions affect the outcomes of international trade negotiations? Specifically, are the aggregate trade barriers agreed upon by a democratic pair lower than those by a pair composed of a democracy and an autocracy? I revisit these important questions by highlighting some problematic aspect of the analysis by Mansfield, Milner, and Rosendorff (2000). Contrary to their central conclusion, I find that whether the aggregate trade barriers are lower for a democratic pair than those for a mixed pair depends on the preferences of the decision makers involved. Thus, although domestic political institutions are important, they alone are insufficient to predict a higher level of cooperation among democracies.

Für die Erfassung des Phänomens Streik ist ein neuer Forschungsansatz entwickelt und erprobt worden. Es handelt sich um einen Ansatz, der - international vergleichend - nicht nur ökonomische, sondern auch soziale und politische Faktoren als Determinanten von Streik erfaßt; die empirische Überprüfung der Hypothesen erfolgt durch quantitative Datenanalyse. Der Verf. stellt drei verschiedene Studien (Hibbs, Snyder) vor, die sich mit Streikbedingungen in westlichen Industriegesellschaften beschäftigen. Die Ergebnisse dieser Untersuchungen können dazu beitragen, verschiedene Hypothesen der älteren Streikforschung zu relativieren. Vor allem zeigt sich, daß ökonomisch-psychologische Faktoren (Unzufriedenheit, relative Verarmung etc.) allein keine befriedigenden Erklärungen für Streik ermöglichen. Politische und organisatorische Variablen dagegen spielen eine dominante Rolle. Wichtig ist die Unterscheidung zwischen kurz- und langfristigen Effekten derselben Variable. Sozialdemokratische Regierungsmacht kann zum Beispiel nicht sofort, wohl aber längerfristig zu einer Abnahme von Streiks beitragen. Auch das Forschungsresultat, daß Arbeitslosigkeit zu weniger Streiks führt, kann eher politisch als psychologisch erklärt werden (die Arbeitnehmer sind sich ihrer schwächeren Machtposition bewußt). Der Verf. weist allerdings nachdrücklich darauf hin, daß aus Daten keine zwingenden Interpretationen abgeleitet werden können; somit können die Resultate nur vorläufigen Charakter beanspruchen. (JL)

Collection of reports generated by Section IV: The Christian Political Role in International Policy, a group of participants at the BJC's 12th Annual Conference.

Cognitive short cuts / Kimberly Hutchings -- Interrogating white male privilege / Kevin Dunn -- The machine in the may / Terrell Carver -- Bodies of technology and the politics of the flesh / Cristina Masters -- Militarized masculinity and post-traumatic stress disorder / Sandra Whitworth -- Contesting the masculine state / Daniel Conway -- National myths and the creation of heroes / Jamie Munn -- 'Porno-nationalism' and the male subject / Dibyesh Anand -- Masculinity/ies, gender and violence in the struggle for Zimbabwe / Jane L. Parpart.

This article discusses the incorporation and implementation of international laws, specifically international treaties and agreements into the domestic legal system of Bangladesh. The position of international laws in the legal system of Bangladesh and their authority to interpret and challenge domestic laws has been focused upon. To that effect, the constitutional provisions dealing with international law along with various authoritative court decisions have been analyzed. Additionally, status and implementation of customary international laws in Bangladesh have also been absorbed. How the norms of customary international laws are being incorporated and implemented have been discussed in detail. The analytical methods of research have been carried in the piece highlighting judicial decisions and international instruments. This article is based on secondary materials with the key sources including textbooks, reports, journal articles, conference papers, daily newspapers and online documents. The study has also relied on international instruments, domestic laws and decided cases of Apex Court of Bangladesh. The findings show that as a democratic country Bangladesh needs to incorporate for the sake of its own people the provisions of international treaties into domestic laws. This is a gradual but perilous process which would take more than political goodwill to materialize. As a young nation, it still has a long way to go to level its regulations up-to the international standards. The positive indication is that the supreme courts of Bangladesh are increasingly realizing and interpreting international instruments through their decisions pressurizing the government to make positive changes in the legislations.

AbstractThis paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries' fertility norms. We provide a rigorous test of the diffusion of fertility norms using highly detailed original data on migration. Our results provide evidence of a significant transfer of destination countries' fertility norms from migrants to their country of origin: a 1% decrease (increase) in the fertility norm to which migrants are exposed reduces (raises) home country fertility by about 0.3%. JEL classification: J13, J61, O11