"Presenting International Studies as a wide, plural and inherently interdisciplinary field of research, this book shows its links with philosophy, peace research, history, geography, globalization studies, international political economy, political psychology, sociology and social theory, linguistics, strategic or war studies and anthropology"--
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Internationaler Wettbewerb ist heutzutage eher der Normalfall als eine Ausnahmeerscheinung für viele Unternehmen. Um unter den verschärften Wettbewerbsbedingungen langfristig überleben zu können, bedarf es von Unternehmensseite der Genese adäquater internationaler strategischer Verhaltensweisen. Alexander Upitz verfolgt die Fragestellung, über welche internationalen Wettbewerbsstrategien Pioniere und Follower zum jeweiligen Markteintrittszeitpunkt in Auslandsmärkte eintreten. Aufgrund des geringen Forschungsstandes reflektiert der Autor die bestehende Literatur umfassend und kritisch. Im Besonderen stellt er die heterogenen Forschungsansätze zur Abgrenzungskontroverse detailliert gegenüber. Über die Modellierung von Pionier- und Followermerkmalen sowie ihrer unterschiedlichen externen Wettbewerbssituationen werden Implikationen für das strategische Verhalten abgeleitet. Als Ergebnis erklärt der Autor mittels eines differenzierten Bezugsrahmens Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede internationaler Wettbewerbsstrategien von Pionieren und Followern in Auslandsmärkten. Der Inhalt: Internationalisierung - Ländermarktspezifische Timingstrategien - Internationaler Wettbewerb - Internationale Wettbewerbsstrategien von Pionieren und Followern. Die Zielgruppen: Dozierende und Studierende der Wirtschaftswissenschaften, insbesondere aus den Bereichen internationales und strategisches Management sowie Marketing - Fach- und Führungskräfte aus den Bereichen Geschäftsführung, Business Development, Vertrieb und Marketing. Der Autor: Alexander Upitz war wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Organisation & Planung an der Universität Duisburg-Essen und ist zurzeit als Projektleiter bei einer internationalen Managementberatung tätig.
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International political economy is both a discipline and a set of global practices and conditions. This volume explores how the two are related, illustrating the changing character of the global political economy, as well as changing perspectives on that character. The authors first consider how social issues, policy concerns, and philosophical judgments help constitute IPE both as a worldview and as a discipline. A central theme here is the reciprocal creation of the discipline and the social practices said to comprise it. Subsequent chapters illustrate the incongruence between the nature of the social world as alleged in IPE's premises—which often distortedly frame issues—and the alternative characterizations available from other social groups, behaviors, and approaches. Finally, conclusions are drawn about the tensions between "conventional" and "alternative" framings of the international political economy, raising questions about the nature, consequences, and insights of diverse approaches to IPE
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"This ground-breaking book brings clarity to the dynamically developing field of international tax law. It empowers individuals and corporate taxpayers to navigate their way around and helps tax authorities take taxpayers' rights into account from the beginning. The book is the result of several years of research conducted with the support of the International Law Association. Taxpayers in International Law puts taxpayers' rights on the global international tax agenda as the necessary counterweight and complement to Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS). Importantly, it pleads for a global minimum standard of legal protection of the fundamental rights of taxpayers and extracts the content of such rights from relevant constitutional principles of many countries around the world. The book is structured in 3 parts: Part I focusses on the legal sources and on the relations between taxation and international human rights law. Part II identifies general principles and specific taxpayers' rights, groups them into 3 categories (procedural, related to sanctions, and substantive), and analyses the different implications that arise in each of them. Part III features concrete proposals for establishing a global framework for the protection of taxpayers' rights, including guidelines for tax authorities. The book is a unique instrument for the daily work of practitioners and international tax scholars interested in securing the protection of taxpayer's fundamental rights, as well as for those involved in tax collection worldwide. Taxpayers can refer to the book to find out which rulings and concepts can help them enforce their rights; tax authorities and judges can use the book to verify which rights have to be respected."
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Das vorliegende Buch führt in gängige Theorieperspektiven der Disziplin Internationale Beziehungen ein, ohne dabei den Stil und die Strategie verfügbarer Einführungen in diese Materie zu kopieren. Ziel ist es, den Studierenden die eigenständige Arbeit mit den Theorien der IB zu erleichtern. Für die eigenständige Arbeit mit den Theorien ist es grundlegend, sowohl die Aussagenlogik, als auch die Argumentationslogik der Theorien bezüglich konkreter historischer Ereignisse zu verstehen. Das Buch bietet die Voraussetzungen hierfür.
International energy law embodies a matter of keen interest that affects the daily lives of citizens in developing and developed countries worldwide. Among numerous other effects, international energy law influences gas prices, wages, employment rates and domestic market regulations. The weight of these direct consequences of international energy law and policy led to the creation of this year's symposium topic. The goal of this year's symposium is to identify issues arising from various international energy laws as well as to understand the effects that recent international events, including the fall of Enron, the creation of NAFTA and the political unrest in the Middle East, have had on the formulation and implementation of international energy law. The papers in this issue examine the corporate, political, social, legal and other factors impacted by energy law and policy across the globe. Each article in the symposium issue addresses cross-cutting issues relating to the field of international energy law, in the hopes that every country may draw lessons from successful laws or policies as well as mistakes made.
In: Journal of international relations and development: JIRD, official journal of the Central and East European International Studies Association, Volume 8, Issue 1, p. 285-303
Defence date: 9 June 2014 ; Examining Board: Professor Martin Scheinin, EUI (Supervisor) Professor Nehal Bhuta, EUI Professor William Schabas, Middlesex University, London Judge Christine Baroness Van den Wyngaert, International Criminal Court. ; This PhD thesis was awarded the Cappelletti Prize. ; Complicity is a criminal law doctrine that attributes responsibility to those who do not physically perpetrate the crime. It is an essential mode of liability for core international crimes because it reaches out to senior political and military leadership. These persons do not usually engage in direct offending, yet in the context of mass atrocities they are often more culpable than foot soldiers. The Statutes of the ad hoc tribunals, hybrid courts and the International Criminal Court expressly provide for different forms of complicity, and domestic legal systems recognize it in one form or another. This is in contrast with alternative modes of liability implied from the Statutes to address the situations with multiple accused removed from the scene of the crime / (in)direct co-perpetration, extended perpetration and the joint criminal enterprise.
Auf dem Hintergrund der historischen Entwicklung der internationalen Beziehungen und der weitgehenden Veränderungen der Weltpolitik diskutiert der Beitrag die Frage, ob man angesichts der Tendenzen noch von "Internationalen Beziehungen" sprechen kann. Die Anwesenheit von neuen Strukturen und Prozessen erfordert einen neuen Begriff, z.B. das Konzept der post-internationalen Politik, mit dem auch der Übergang von der Moderne zur Postmoderne beschrieben werden kann. Am Beispiel von Lateinamerika wird verdeutlicht, dass die postmodernen Perspektiven besonders gut geeignet sind, die Veränderungen, die in den internationalen Beziehungen stattgefunden haben, zu verstehen und sich gut in die klassischen Debatten der internationalen Studien (Idealisten versus Realisten, Traditionalisten versus Szientisten sowie Neorealisten) einfügen. Abschließend geht es um die Auswirkungen der strukturellen Veränderungen im internationalen System nach dem Ende des Kalten Krieges auf Lateinamerika und die Etappen seiner internationalen Einbindung. (ICH)