The main destructive megatendencies of the contemporaneity such as the global conflict, globalization of criminality, and international terrorism are analyzed. The authors show the dual effect of the globalization on the modern civilization, system of world-wide political, economic, and humanitarian connections, transnational criminality, and international terrorism. The main features and the principles of organization of the modern international terrorism are elucidated.
Recent discussions of the epistemological and political implications of the situatedness of knowledge in International Relations (IR) have raised important questions regarding the future development of the discipline. They pose the challenge of understanding under what conditions human beings develop more or less reality-congruent knowledge about world politics and what are the implications of such knowledge for emancipatory political activity. This article argues that process sociology should be understood as a relevant complement to these discussions. Assuming a fundamentally 'realist' orientation, process sociology provides a sociologically informed analysis of the material, ideational and emotional forces shaping the development of knowledge. As such, it can help those concerned with the implications of the situatedness of knowledge in IR reinforce their capacity to both understand the social conditions under which it is possible to develop more detached and reality-congruent knowledge about the world and better identify and explain the historically emergent values that should orientate the emancipatory transformation of world politics.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is failing at the very time it is emerging as a new discipline. This has implications not only for CSR itself, but also other disciplines wanting to understand the role of the private sector in the global political economy. This article highlights some of the evidence for this failure, but more significantly shows how it is rooted in an orthodoxy that the discipline has created but is unable to examine. As a result, CSR treats as ideationally and historically neutral particular concepts and practices that define what business's relationship with wider society can mean. The article uses the perspectives of different social science disciplines to reveal the structural dimensions to CSR and some of their consequences. It proposes an alternative analytical framework for use by CSR and as an entry point for international relations and other disciplines wanting to understand the ways in which business shapes and responds to globalisation and influences the possibilities of contemporary society and governance.
Los ataques terroristas en Afganistán han ido in crescendo desde el inicio de la intervención internacional. Existen más de diez grupos terroristas, pero los talibanes ostentan el monopolio de la violencia terrorista. El objetivo de los talibanes es recuperar el poder político para volver a instaurar un régimen teocrático extremista en el país, por lo que sus objetivos se circunscriben únicamente a un entorno geográfico determinado: el territorio afgano. Los talibanes tienen como objetivo volver a dirigir las instituciones afganas y para ello han emprendido una campaña de terror a través de atentados contra la población civil, las fuerzas internacionales y las instituciones afganas, actuando como un tipo de organizaciones terrorista híbrida. El pacto firmado con los Estados Unidos, por el que se acuerda la retirada de las tropas norteamericanas, sitúa a los talibanes más cerca de conseguir su objetivo. Afganistán es el segundo país del mundo en número de atentados y la afgana es la segunda nacionalidad que cuenta más muertes por ataques terroristas. El principal responsable es el grupo talibán, pero no podemos obviar que el terrorismo en el país es consecuencia directa de la intervención de los Estados Unidos y sus aliados en 2001. Tras casi veinte años de guerra, el terror se ha convertido en una dinámica habitual para la sociedad civil afgana, que vive acostumbrada al horror del conflicto mientras espera una paz que nunca llega. ; Terrorist attacks have grown in Afghanistan since 2001. There are more than ten terrorist groups, but the Taliban has the hegemony of the violence in the country. Taliban´s main aim is to recover the politic power to set up a theocratic regime again in Afghanistan. With the purpose of achieving this goal, the Taliban has begun a terror campaign against civil society, international forces and Afghan institutions, behaving like a terrorist hybrid organization. The agreement entered into with the United States, according to which American troops are to leave Afghanistan, places the Taliban closer to achieving their objective. Afghanistan is the second country with the highest number of terrorist attacks and killed people in the world. The Taliban group is mostly responsible for this, but we cannot leave out that terrorism in Afghanistan is a consequence of the United States' intervention. After almost twenty years of war, the Afghan society has become used to living in a terror system while they await for peace. ; Instituto de Relaciones Internacionales
A new de facto rule has emerged in international investment law that emphasizes and prioritizes investment stability, imposing liability on host governments for a wide range of public interest measures deemed to interfere with "commitments" given to foreign investors by host governments. The arbitral decisions from which this new rule has emanated in treaty-based investment disputes resolve types of claims that have long been familiar to domestic jurisdictions. Yet, as this article uncovers through a comparative law analysis of factually similar cases decided under United States law over roughly the past 200 years, the approaches taken and pronouncements issued by the arbitral tribunals subject respondent governments to a much broader standard of liability than the more cautious and deferential stance toward legislative policy making and implementation that has been adopted and refined by US courts. In contrast to practice under US law, international tribunals' approaches in treaty-based investor-state arbitrations largely shift the risk of regulatory change from investors to states (and taxpayers), potentially putting greater pressure on governments to refrain from taking action to refine and upgrade their laws and regulations. The findings and policy implications of this comparative law analysis raise critical questions about the principles and justifications underlying this new rule in its current form, and the legitimacy and desirability of its continued application.
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The aim of this research is to assess the power of the accounting profession on the international standard setting institutions after their reform in 2001. International accounting standard setting, technical and political process, can be studied through power relations. A theoretical framework is built on the basis of the theory of power of Lukes (1974, 2005). It is then applied to the study of the power of the accounting profession on the international standard-setter, focusing on the first dimension of the framework, the study of observable conflicts, and the third dimension, the study of latent conflicts. The application of the first dimension goes through the case-study of the development of IFRS 3 "Business Combinations". The results show that the IASB has not changed its position on the key issues of the project despite opposition from members of the accounting profession. The application of the third dimension goes through the study of the composition of the main bodies of the international standard-setter. The study of IFRS Foundation's constitution and the analysis of the profile of the standard setters can highlight an increased presence of members of the large audit firms. The results of these two studies are finally compared, discussed and reconciled ; Cette recherche tente d'évaluer le pouvoir de la profession comptable dans le cadre de la normalisation internationale après la réforme des institutions en 2001. La normalisation comptable internationale, processus technique et politique, se prête à une étude à travers les relations de pouvoir. Une grille d'analyse théorique est construite sur la base du cadre du pouvoir de Lukes (1974, 2005). Elle est ensuite appliquée à l'étude du pouvoir de la profession comptable sur le normalisateur international, en privilégiant la première dimension de ce cadre, l'étude des conflits observables, et la troisième dimension, l'étude des conflits latents. La première dimension est opérationnalisée à travers l'étude du développement d'un projet particulier, la norme ...
The aim of this research is to assess the power of the accounting profession on the international standard setting institutions after their reform in 2001. International accounting standard setting, technical and political process, can be studied through power relations. A theoretical framework is built on the basis of the theory of power of Lukes (1974, 2005). It is then applied to the study of the power of the accounting profession on the international standard-setter, focusing on the first dimension of the framework, the study of observable conflicts, and the third dimension, the study of latent conflicts. The application of the first dimension goes through the case-study of the development of IFRS 3 "Business Combinations". The results show that the IASB has not changed its position on the key issues of the project despite opposition from members of the accounting profession. The application of the third dimension goes through the study of the composition of the main bodies of the international standard-setter. The study of IFRS Foundation's constitution and the analysis of the profile of the standard setters can highlight an increased presence of members of the large audit firms. The results of these two studies are finally compared, discussed and reconciled ; Cette recherche tente d'évaluer le pouvoir de la profession comptable dans le cadre de la normalisation internationale après la réforme des institutions en 2001. La normalisation comptable internationale, processus technique et politique, se prête à une étude à travers les relations de pouvoir. Une grille d'analyse théorique est construite sur la base du cadre du pouvoir de Lukes (1974, 2005). Elle est ensuite appliquée à l'étude du pouvoir de la profession comptable sur le normalisateur international, en privilégiant la première dimension de ce cadre, l'étude des conflits observables, et la troisième dimension, l'étude des conflits latents. La première dimension est opérationnalisée à travers l'étude du développement d'un projet particulier, la norme ...
The Nancy N. Boothe papers, 1980-2009 [bulk 1990-1997], are composed of articles, notes, reports and a wide variety of feminist publications. Much of the material documents the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women, which Ms. Boothe attended as Executive Director of Atlanta's Feminist Women's Health Center. Artifacts, artwork and textiles relate to the conference and to other women's and health issues. ; Born in Battles Wharf, Alabama (1948), Nancy N. Boothe graduated from the University of South Alabama as a registered nurse (1971). She received a B.S. in nursing from the Medical College of Georgia (1976), and a master's degree in Counseling from Troy State University [Florida Region] (1981). Boothe served in the U.S. Nurse Corps in the U.S. and Korea (1970-1984), and worked as clinical director and consultant at a number of health facilities in Louisiana and Florida. She became Executive Director of the Atlanta Feminist Women's Health Center in 1994. In 1995, she attended the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, where she taught the workshop, ""GYN Self-Help."" Boothe has served on the boards of All Women's Health Services in Portland and Eugene, Oregon; the Sexual Assault Center, Atlanta, Georgia; and the Jeanette Rankin Foundation, Athens, Georgia. She is also a member of the Feminist Majority Foundation's ""Women's Commission for Congressional Oversight"" and A.P.D. Citizen Review Panel.; Founded in California in 1971 by Carol Downer (1933-) and Lorraine Rothman (1932-2007), the Feminist Women's Health Center was established to empower women through self-knowledge, education and self-help groups. The Atlanta Feminist Women's Health Center was established in 1977. Its mission is to ""provide accessible, comprehensive gynecological healthcare to all who need it without judgment. As innovative healthcare leaders, [they] work collaboratively within [their] community and nationally to promote reproductive health, rights and justice. [They] advocate for wellness, uncensored health information and fair public policies by educating the larger community and empowering [their] clients to make their own decisions.""; The United Nations convened the Fourth World Conference on Women, September 4-15, 1995, in Beijing, China, with a Platform for Action that aimed at achieving greater equality and opportunity for women. Three previous World Conferences were held in Mexico City (International Women's Year, 1975), Copenhagen (1980) and Nairobi (1985). 189 governments and more than 5,000 representatives from 2,100 non-governmental organizations participated in the Beijing Conference. The principal themes were the advancement and empowerment of women in relation to women's human rights, women and poverty, women and decision-making, the girl-child, violence against women and other areas of concern. The resulting documents of the Conference are The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. The U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women manifested a global women's movement for change and has been called ""the Woodstock of the women's movement.""; The World Conference on Women was also accompanied by an informal meeting (August 30-September 8) of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). This NGO Forum on Women, Beijing '95, brought together thousands of women from around the world to exchange information and ideas, celebrate women's achievements and contributions and draw attention and develop solutions to discrimination facing women world-wide.
In the complex political scene surrounding the death of Francisco Franco, Spanish female architects were crossing borders to try and understand what was happening abroad. This article provides unpublished data on the various experiences of female graduates in Spain when they shared their enthusiasm, concerns and energy with colleagues from other countries at international conferences that took place before the arrival of democracy. For almost four decades, between 1939 and 1975, Spanish female architects were limited by the patriarchal system&rsquo ; s own barriers and by the political barriers imposed by Franco&rsquo ; s regime. This paper aims to organise and articulate women&rsquo ; s memories, proving the implicit acceptance of patriarchal ideas and models at the start of the 20th century, the timidity of the congress resolutions in the sixties and the later awakening provided by UIFA (Union Internationale des Femmes Architectes) congresses. Finally, it is worth examining the metamorphosis that occurred in free western societies in the 20th century, with respect to the role played by women as a user and as a professional, through the attentive gaze of women architects from a nondemocratic country.
Third-party funding (TPF) is a species of the common law doctrine of maintenance and champerty. With the burgeoning of global trade, the need for funding arbitral proceeding of high magnitude have witnessed an upward trend. TPF is a method wherein the impecunious party to the dispute enters into a contract with a third-party, who is not a party to the arbitration agreement, to finance the arbitration proceeding and run the risk of either paying or receiving the proceeds, costs, or award awarded against or in favor of such party. TPF, on one hand, provides a gateway to justice to the impecunious party and on the other hand, causes an impediment to the recognition and enforcement mechanism of arbitral awards. TPF flourishes as an alternative to support arbitral proceedings by acting as an investment for the financers but what impact it has on the market, in the long run, is still unclear. TPF assists the struggling party to appoint highly qualified specialists and a learned arbitrator through financial assistance but restricts the party autonomy and raises justifiable doubts as to the independence and impartiality of the arbitrator due to the leverage the financer holds in such an arrangement. Last but not least, TPF may also, at times, result in the disclosure of attorney-client communication to the financer. The present article is an analytical study of TPF as a mechanism in international commercial arbitration and what challenges it poses to its practice. Moreover, the article places reliance on the work of various scholars, and adopting the inductive approach of reasoning, reflects upon the plausible remedies for challenges that TPF poses to international commercial arbitration. Keywords: Third-Party Funding; Commercial Arbitration; International; Challenges; Regulation.
