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Vorwort -- Inhalt -- 1. Einleitung -- 1.1. Relevanz des Themas und Problemstellung -- 1.2. Forschungslücke und Zielsetzung der Arbeit -- 2. Internationale Vergleiche - Entwicklung, Bedeutung, Kriterien -- 3. Theoretische Ansätze zur Nachrichtenselektion -- 3.1. Mehrebenenmodelle der Nachrichtengebung -- 3.2. Die Nachrichtenwerttheorie -- 3.3. Zwischenfazit -- 4. Muster in der Auslandsberichterstattung: Forschungsstand -- 4.1. Zentrale Befunde der Nachrichtengeografie -- 4.1.1. Determinanten der Auslandsberichterstattung -- 4.1.1.1. Die Bedeutung von Ereignis- und Kontextmerkmalen

Erster Teil Theoretische Überlegungen -- 1. Einleitung -- 2. Zum Begriff "Internationale Verbrauchsangleichung" -- 3. Methodologische Voraussetzungen der empirischen Sozialforschung -- 4. Konzeptionelle Überlegungen zum Ablauf der Untersuchung -- 5. Statistische Probleme der Untersuchung -- Zweiter Teil Darstellung der Verbrauchsentwicklung in Europa -- 1. Die Verbrauchsstruktur in Europa im Jahre 1963 — ein Einblick in die Vielfalt der Verbrauchsverhältnisse — -- 2. Einzeldarstellungen ausgewählter Güterbereiche -- 3. Zusammenfassung und Schlußbetrachtung -- Literatur.

The "Russian Idea" in International Relations identifies different approaches within Russian Civilizational tradition - Russia's nationally distinctive way of thinking - by situating them within IR literature and connecting them to practices of the country's international relations. Civilizational ideas in IR theory express states' cultural identification and stress religious traditions, social customs, and economic and political values. This book defines Russian civilizational ideas by two criteria: the values they stress and their global ambitions. The author identifies leading voices among those positioning Russia as an exceptional and globally significant system of values and traces their arguments across several centuries of the country's development. In addition, the author explains how and why Russian civilizational ideas rise, fall, and are replaced by alternative ideas. The book identifies three schools of Russian civilizational thinking about international relations - Slavophiles, Communists, and Eurasianists. Each school focuses on Russia's distinctive spiritual, social, and geographic roots, respectively. Each one is internally divided between those claiming Russia's exceptionalism, potentially resulting in regional autarchy or imperial expansion, and those advocating the Russian Idea as global in its appeal. Those favoring the latter perspective have stressed Russia's unique capacity for understanding different cultures and guarding the world against extremes of nationalism and hegemony in international relations.

"Der Beitrag veranschaulicht die nach wie vor unbefriedigende Entwicklung des deutschen Arbeitsmarktes im internationalen Vergleich. Dafür sind vier Hauptgründe ausschlaggebend: Fehlanreize im Steuer- und Transfersystem, die hohe Regulierungsintensität am Arbeitsmarkt und auf den Produktmärkten, das ungenügende 'Matching' am Arbeitsmarkt sowie bildungspolitische Defizite. Um die Situation in Deutschland nachhaltig zu verbessern, müssen das Abgaben- und Transfersystem reformiert, die Durchlässigkeit des Arbeitsmarktes vergrößert, die Effektivität der Arbeitsmarktpolitik gesteigert sowie grundlegende Änderungen im Bildungssystem vorgenommen werden." (Autorenreferat)

AFTER EXAMINATION OF THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TERRORISM AND ITS RESULTANT EFFECTS UPON ITS VICTIMS, AND A REVIEW OF SPECIFIC TERRORIST INCIDENTS, THE AUTHOR CONCLUDES THAT THE EXPANSION OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM PROVES THAT IT IS A NEW AND PARTICULARLY EFFICIENT MEANS OF COMBAT IN TODAY'S WORLD.

Argues that tariffs are necessary as sanctions to defend against unfair labor practices and to protect democratic self-government and human rights; international perspective.

The present thesis sets out to provide an understanding of how European integration affects NPs in the EU and their relationship to the executive. The main objective of the empirical analysis is to investigate how parliamentary control of government serves EU scrutiny between 1999 and 2011. The case study, which focuses on the Luxembourgish Chamber of Deputies allows for a test of changes in governmental discretion on three parliamentary control dimensions in different domestic and European contexts of coalition governments and European Treaties. The theoretical framework for interpreting the impact of the EU on NPs and executive-legislative relations is a combination of the larger concept of top-down Europeanisation with the principal agent approach. The emphasis is on the EU as an external force being central in the adaptation of parliamentary control of government, while taking into account the particularity of parliament as a principal. Based on the delegation argument, we generate hypotheses about the evolution of parliamentary democracy under the condition of a highly decentralised committee system, multiple committee membership, high party cohesion and majority government. Our empirical findings run counter to the predictions of the deparliamentarisation hypothesis. This owes to the fact that we investigate parliamentary control of government in a most inclusive perspective. Rather than weakened, this study considers the Luxembourgish parliament strengthened not least by the opportunities offered by the Lisbon Treaty. In complicity, it backs up a government which has lost on discretion at EU level.