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AN IMPORTANT ISSUE IN THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IS WHETHER REGIMES ARE GROUNDED CENTRALLY ON MUTUAL INTERESTS AMONG SATES OR ON POWER RELATIONS. THIS ARTICLE PRESENTS THE BASIC NEOREALIST AND NEOLIBERAL PERSPECTIVES ON THIS ISSUE. IT NOTES, HOWEVER, THAT NEOREALISTS HAVE FAILED T RECOGNIZE THAT SOME REGIMES BASED ON MUTUAL INTEREST IN THE PROTECTION OF SATE POLITICAL AUTONOMY ARE CONSISTENT WITH NEOREALIST ASSUMPTIONS. THE ARTICLE ANALYZES THE INTERNATIONAL REGIMES FOR THE SHIPPING, AIR TRANSPORT, TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SERVICE INDUSTRIES AND FOCUSES ON THE MUTUAL INTERESTS IN FACILITATING THE FLOW OF INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE AND PROTECTING STATES' POLICY AUTONOMY IN STRATEGIC ECONOMIC SECTORS HAVE SUSTAINED VERY STRONG REGIMES SINCE THE LATE 19TH CENTURY. THE KEY EXCEPTION TO THIS EVALUATION IS THE CRUMBLING OF THOSE ASPECTS OF THE REGIMES GOVERNING PRICES AND MARKET SHARES SINCE THE LATE 1970S.

Auffanglager dürfen nur eine Übergangslösung darstellen. Mittelfristig ist ein rascher Übergang zu "Cash for Rent"-Modellen unter dem Dach einer internationalen Organisation, wie zum Beispiel den Vereinten Nationen, nötig. Um langfristig integrative wirtschaftliche Anreize zu schaffen, sollten Mietzuschüsse von Anfang an gewährt und mit beruflicher Bildung, Hochschulbildung und "Cash for Work"-Modellen kombiniert werden. Die Bewertung der regionalen oder lokalen Daseinsvorsorge muss mit profunden Konflikt- und Marktanalysen verknüpft werden. Darauf basierend sollten Erwerbsgrundlagen und Märkte (neu) aufgebaut werden. Statt zu einem ineffizientem Wirtschaftssystem zurückzukehren, gilt es kleine und mittlere Unternehmen besonders zu fördern. Maßnahmen der Regionalregierungen zu Förderung von lokaler Integration und Reintegration sollten gefördert werden. Dafür muss in den Aufnahmegemeinschaften die erforderliche zusätzliche Infrastruktur (Wohnungsbau / Bildung / Gesundheit) geschaffen werden. Dadurch würde die Solidarität mit den Geflüchteten honoriert werden, anstatt soziale Spannungen durch Beschränkung von Hilfe auf besonders schutzbedürftige Gruppen zu erhöhen. Minderheiten- und Menschenrechtsgarantien, (Wieder-)Eingliederungsprojekte und gute Regierungsführung sollten zur Voraussetzung für Hilfeleistungen gemacht werden. Um die Aussöhnung voranzutreiben, sollten alle Aktivitäten mit vertrauensbildenden Maßnahmen verknüpft werden. Im Rahmen von Infrastrukturprojekten sollten Räume der Begegnung zwischen Aufnahmegemeinschaften und Vertriebenen ausgebaut werden. Dabei sind allerdings traditionelle Strukturen ethnisch- religiöser Koexistenz zu berücksichtigen. Traumata sind weit verbreitet und müssen bei allen Projekten in entsprechenden psychosozialen Maßnahmen Berücksichtigung finden.

The global energy strategic landscape is undergoing significant changes. Factors leading to such changes include the eastward shift of the world energy consumption centre, the emergence of the United States as a major oil producer and the dramatic waning of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries' influence. These developments are shaping a new order of the global energy system and exerting profound influence on China's international strategic environment.

The paper is devoted to the analysis of failures, characteristic of the activities of Bretton-Woods institutions in Georgia after 2004. Their experts systematically overlooked the existence of non-budgetary accounts, violation of property rights, restriction of competition, manipulations with statistical data, weakening of the National Bank of Georgia, unnecessary issue of Eurobonds, poor tax policy etc. The case of Georgia may prove the necessity of reforming international financial institutions.

Analyzes the commodity import and export data reported by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's trading partners, to provide an assessment of both the current state and the development over time of its external merchandise trade sector, and by extension the domestic economy. Another version printed under the title ""Self-reliance" and economic decline: North Korea's international trade, 1970-1995," in: Problems of Post-Communism, 46:3-13, no. 1, Jan-Feb. 1999.

Bounded rationality and practice theory have both become popular theories of action for major strands of work in constructivist and rationalist International Relations (IR). Based on this observation, I make two arguments. The first is that although they underpin what are generally seen as opposed theoretical camps in IR, bounded rationality and practice theory share two fundamental assumptions. They both accept that how agents process information and make decisions depends on where they are situated in social space, and where they stand in historical time. In turn, these shared assumptions imply that they agree on the existence of a common type of change: change in terms of how groups of people process information and make decisions over time. My second argument is that by studying this type of change, it is possible to shed new light on major transformations of international relations, and that one way of engaging in this type of research is to study international practitioners' education over substantial time periods. With these arguments, this article makes a methodological contribution to the study of change in historical international relations and charts a practical course for pluralist dialogue in IR.