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On 1 February 2020, the Central Service Point for Professional Recognition (ZSBA) began its work for an initial period of four years. As an accompanying measure to the Skilled Workers Immigration Act, the ZSBA advises and supports skilled workers abroad who want to work in Germany in the recognition of their professional qualifications. This is intended to make the recognition procedure more transparent and efficient for skilled workers. At the same time, this should relieve the burden on the offices responsible for professional recognition in Germany. Using individual data from the ZSBA and its own quantitative and qualitative surveys of guidance counsellors, guidance officers and employees of competent bodies and other stakeholders, the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training has investigated the extent to which the Service Agency has achieved these goals after around 2.5 years of operation. The evaluation report documents that the ZSBA has assisted almost 10,000 people during this period. Most of them come from third countries and are often trained in health or technical professions. Most of them express satisfaction with the service provided by the ZSBA. It is established as a new actor, fills a gap in the counselling process and is already used by a large part of the competent bodies. The report also describes potential for optimisation and contains recommendations for action, for example with regard to counselling in the mother tongue, visibility and distribution of professionals across the federal territory

Providing a much-needed study on cybersecurity regime building, this comprehensive book is a detailed analysis of cybersecurity norm-making processes and country positions, through the lens of multi-stakeholder diplomacy. Multi-disciplinary and multi-national scholars and practitioners use insights drawn from high-level discussion groups to provide a rigorous analysis of how major cyber powers view multi-stakeholder diplomacy. Looking at how past cybersecurity initiatives and multi-stakeholder negotiations in other fields illuminate its dynamics, this book will help put states' approaches towards multi-stakeholder cyber diplomacy into perspective, and frame the role of private actors in cybersecurity regime building. Evaluating the most promising institutional arrangements and mechanisms for implementing cybersecurity, this book combines top-down analyses relevant to the design of international cybersecurity regimes with bottom-up case studies, tracing the approaches of important states towards multi-stakeholder participation in cyber diplomacy. With a wealth of policy-relevant findings, this book will be welcomed by practitioners and scholars of international law, international organisation and international cybersecurity as well as multi-stakeholder governance and multilateral regimes. Policymakers and diplomats involved in international cybersecurity processes will also benefit from its cutting-edge comparative analysis of the approaches of key cyber powers.

Oscar Sanchez-Sibony reveals the origins of our current era in the dissolution of the institutions that governed the architecture of energy and finance during the Bretton Woods era. He shows how, in the second half of the 1960s, the Soviet Union sought to dismantle the compartmentalized nature of Bretton Woods in order to escape its material ostracism and pave a path to global finance and exchange that the United States had vetoed during the 1950s and 1960s. Through the construction of a set of pipelines that helped Europe's energy regime change from coal to oil and gas, the Soviet Union succeeded in developing market relations and a relationship with Western capital as durable as the pipelines themselves. He shows how a history of the development of capitalism needs to integrate the socialist world in bringing about the new form of capitalism that regiments our lives today.