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Research across several disciplines has focused on the intersection between the international and the urban to shed light on transformations in global politics. Recently, this intersection has become the focus of critical International Relations scholars. Despite transversal interest, disciplinary boundaries often limit the scope of academic debate. In the interest of developing a transdisciplinary research agenda, this review article charts three different ways that scholars have theorised the relationship between the international, the urban, and the political across disciplines. A review of five recently published books, situated within a broader study of the literature, serves to do this.

"Der Internationale Strafgerichtshof und die Ukraine: Ein Balanceakt zwischen Recht und Politik" bietet eine aktuelle Analyse der komplexen Wechselbeziehungen zwischen internationalen Strafverfolgungsmechanismen und geopolitischen Realitäten. Das Buch erläutert die Geschichte des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs, seine Arbeitsweise und die speziellen Herausforderungen, die sich nicht nur im Kontext der Ukraine-Krise ergeben haben. Autoritären Regimen, politischen Vetos und der schieren Unmöglichkeit, hochrangige Amtsträger vor Gericht zu bringen, wird breiter Raum eingeräumt. Dabei werden sowohl die rechtlichen Mechanismen als auch die ethischen Dilemmata diskutiert, die sich aus der Suche nach Gerechtigkeit in einer Welt ergeben, in der Macht oft über Recht steht.Das Buch untersucht, wie die Ukraine, obwohl kein Vertragsstaat des Römischen Statuts, durch eine Ad-hoc-Erklärung die Zuständigkeit des IStGH anerkannt hat. Es beleuchtet auch die vielschichtigen politischen und juristischen Hürden, die entstehen, wenn der IStGH versucht, sich in Konflikten zwischen Nicht-Vertragsstaaten - in diesem Fall Russland und der Ukraine - einzuschalten. Auch die Situation um den vom Internationalen Strafgerichtshof ausgestellten Haftbefehl gegen Wladimir Putin wird beleuchtet. "Der Internationale Strafgerichtshof und die Ukraine" wirft ein scharfes Licht auf die Grenzen und Möglichkeiten des internationalen Strafrechts in einer zunehmend polarisierten Welt

"[I]n all of our operations involving the use of force, including those in the armed conflict with Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated forces, the Obama Administration is committed by word and deed to conducting ourselves in accordance with all applicable law…[I]t is the considered view of this Administration…that US targeting practices, including lethal operations conducted with the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, comply with all applicable law, including the laws of war." - Harold Koh, US State Department Legal Adviser. "My concern is that these drones, these Predators, are being operated in a framework which may well violate international humanitarian law and international human rights law." - Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions. The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly referred to as "drones", in lethal targeting operations, is one of the most topical and controversial issues in international law. The writer's interest in this area, the relationship between technological developments in warfare and settled principles of international law, developed from his attendance at a lecture given by Professor Harold Koh at Queen's University in Belfast back in May 2013. Professor Koh's now seminal speech to the American Society of International Law in 2010, while serving as Legal Adviser to the US Department of State, set out the US Government's position on the legality of drone strikes under international law. In recent years, the United States has increasingly utilised drone technology to target and kill enemy operatives in its counter-terrorism operations – against Al-Qaeda and Taliban forces in Afghanistan and North West Pakistan, and against militants affiliated with Al-Qaeda in Somalia and Yemen. UAVs have taken on an ever more prominent role in the US's current military and counter-terrorism operations, given their relative low cost, greater accuracy and precision, reduced blast radius, advanced surveillance capabilities, and greater flight time than conventional manned aircraft. The recent proliferation of armed UAV technology, and its deployment in situations of asymmetrical conflict for the purpose of conducting targeted killing operations, has fuelled a public and academic debate, centrally focused on issues regarding the compatibility of such technology and current targeting practices with established norms of international law. The term "targeted killing" does not yet have an agreed definition under international law, although Murphy and Radsen have formulated the following useful definition: extra-judicial, premeditated killing by a state of a specifically identified person not in its custody. Targeted killings by means of unmanned drone strikes have proven to be a successful counter-terrorism strategy, not only in terms of locating, targeting and eliminating enemy operatives, but also, and perhaps more importantly, given public discontent at long-standing military deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, in avoiding many of the challenges that flow from the use of traditional military forces, such as public hostility to the deployment of traditional ground forces, the detention of enemy forces, as well as security threats to military personnel from insurgent attacks. In the context of the US drone program, three discrete areas of international law are of particular relevance: 1. the jus ad bellum, which sets out the narrow circumstances in which a state can lawfully resort to the use of armed force; 2. international human rights law, the corpus of which is of universal application, particularly in situations of armed violence falling below the threshold of an armed conflict; 3. the jus in bello, international humanitarian law, which regulates the conduct of hostilities in situations of armed conflict. What follows in this work is an analysis of the legality of US drone strikes in key target states through the prism of each of the three aforementioned paradigms. What shall become clear is that, while the use of armed drones per se may not violate international law as an unlawful means and method of warfare, the broad interpretation of the jus ad bellum favoured by the United States in the years since the 9/11 attacks, in particular those rules relating to the resort to force by a victim state in self-defence in response to an armed attack, as well as current US targeting practices, in particular the controversial use of Signature Drone Strike Protocol (SDSP), have been the subject of rigorous academic debate, and for the most part have proven difficult to reconcile with established principles of international law. This debate remains far from settled, and in consequence the entire US drone program, shrouded in a veil of secrecy, remains of dubious legality, particularly when examined through the prisms of international human rights law and international humanitarian law.

The Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) held its fourteenth session in Rome from August 21 through September 15, 1962, under the presidency of Dr. E. Ortona (Italy). The Assembly adopted measures to assure that the development and use of supersonic civil aircraft would not be detrimental either to the public or to international civil aviation. The ICAO Council was to work toward international agreement on the operational characteristics of critical importance in insuring that supersonic aircraft could fit into the same environment as subsonic aircraft, and also on the problems of noise near airfields, sonic boom, and radiation hazards. A second object of Council concern would be the assessment of the operating requirements of the supersonic aircraft, so that international agreement could also be reached on the ground facilities and services required and the places where these would have to be installed.

Frechette, Louise: Canada and the 1995 G7 Halifax Summit. - S. 1-4. Dobson, Wendy: Summitry and the International Monetary System. - S. 5-13. Williamson, John: Reform of the international financial institutions. - S. 15-22. Smith, Murray: International financial institutions and the World Trade Organisation: Making the linkages work.- S. 23-30

"Die Bemühungen um eine Reform der internationalen Finanzarchitektur sind vor allem eine Reaktion auf die Häufung von internationalen Finanzkrisen in den neunziger Jahren und Ausdruck verbreiteter Unzufriedenheit mit der Arbeit des IWF. Das Krisenmanagement des IWF ist vor allem in den USA unter Beschuss geraten. Dort hat die vom Kongress eingesetzte Meltzer-Kommission ein Schrumpfungsprogramm für IWF und Weltbank vorgeschlagen. Bundesregierung und Bundesbank verfolgen demgegenüber einen behutsameren Reformkurs, der am universellen Charakter des IWF festhält." (Autorenreferat)

Intro -- Contents -- International Law and Sea Level Rise Report of the International Law Association Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise -- Abstract -- Keywords -- International Law Association Sydney Conference (2018): International Law and Sea Level Rise -- Part I: Background -- A Establishment of the Committee and Its Mandate -- B Background for the Establishment of the Committee -- 1 Conclusions of the Baselines Committee Sofia Report and Resolution 1/2012 -- 2 Scientific Assessments of On-going Sea Level Change and Projections of Future Rise -- 2.1 Progress in the Understanding of On-going Sea Level Change -- 2.2 Improvements in Projections of Future Sea Level Rise -- 2.3 Challenges that Remain -- 3 Change of Epochs in the History of the Earth: A New Context for International Law -- C Work of the Committee and Focus of this Report -- Part II: Law of the Sea Issues -- A Sea Level Rise and Maritime Zones and Boundaries -- 1 Effects of Sea Level Rise on Limits of Maritime Zones -- i) Maintaining Baselines despite Physical Changes Brought about bySea Level Rise -- ii) Maintaining Existing Outer Limits despite Physical Changes Broughtabout by Sea Level Rise -- 1.1 Emerging State Practice -- 1.2 Proposal of the Committee -- 2 Effects of Coastline Changes on Agreed and Adjudicated Maritime Boundaries -- 2.1 Proposal of the Committee -- B Issues of Statehood and International Legal Personality in the Case of Total Loss of State Territory or Its Becoming Permanently Uninhabitable -- Part III: Sydney Declaration of Principles on the Protection of Persons Displaced in the Context of Sea Level Rise -- Purpose -- Scope -- Definitions -- Principle 1 - The Primary Duty and Responsibility of States to Protectand Assist Affected Persons -- Principle 2 - The Duty to Respect the Human Rights of AffectedPersons.

The collapse of the Eastern European communist regimes led to a re-evaluation of Hegel's philosophies as inspiration for shaping the post-communist governments. Concerned that the reappearance of literature on Hegel's ideas often expresses inaccurately and one-sidedly the philosopher's views, Brown attempts to clarify Hegelian ideas of absolute knowledge and self-knowledge that lead to the model of the modern state as "the vehicle for the self-expression of spirit…governed only by the requirements of reason" upon which Hegel grounds international ethics. The author links Hegel's work to some practical international concerns, such as internationalism, ethnocentrism, relativism, and the vision of the end of history. The author refers to Francis Fukuyama's essay "The End of History?" (1989) celebrating the triumph of political and economic history, and showing how it was based on an inaccurate interpretation of Hegel. When evaluating recent interpretations of Hegel's work, Brown shows that one must be cautious to review the accuracy of his explicit views.