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With focus on three distinct international systems -- the interwar, the postwar or Cold war, & the emerging post-Cold war period -- examined is the impact of changing system structure (bipolarity, multipolarity), the degree of ideological conflict at the big-power level, alliance patterns, & rates of military technological change on such aspects of the arms trade as supplier markets, patterns of supplier-recipient relations, transfer modes, & levels of arms dependency by recipients. The emerging post-Cold war period already appears to evidence some trends in arms transfer patterns reminiscent of the interwar period, specifically those involving the depoliticization & denationalization of that trade. The impact of the military-technical revolution in an era of contracting global arms transfers is viewed as crucial to the emerging arms trade. Adapted from the source document.

Vorwort; Inhaltsübersicht; Inhaltsverzeichnis; Abkürzungsungsverzeichnis; Abbildungsverzeichnis; 1 International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation; 1.1 Grundlagen; 1.2 Organe; 1.2.1 Board; 1.2.2 Trustees; 1.2.3 International Financial Reporting Interpretations Committee; 1.3 Due Process; 1.4 Überblick über die fachliche Arbeit; 1.4.1 Vorbemerkung; 1.4.2 Rahmenkonzept; 1.4.3 International Financial Reporting Standards; 1.4.3.1 Aktuelle Standards; 1.4.3.2 Improvement- und Konvergenzprojekte; 1.4.3.3 Aktuelle Exposure Drafts; 1.4.3.4 Interpretationen des IFRIC

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Die Frage nach den Ursachen von Krieg und Frieden und nach den Möglichkeiten des Friedens hat die Disziplin "Internationale Beziehungen" von Anfang an geprägt. Das Verhältnis von Recht und Macht kann als Schlüsselfrage der Friedensproblematik gelten. Auf die Frage, wie Frieden möglich ist, hat die Disziplin unterschiedliche Antworten gefunden. Der Verfasser stellt die Friedenskonzeptionen des Neorealismus, des Institutionalismus, des Konstruktivismus und des Liberalismus unter der Perspektive vor, welchen Beitrag sie zum Wissen um den Frieden leisten. Da Heterogenität als Komplementärentwicklung der Globalisierung die Weltordnung noch lange Zeit prägen wird, diskutiert er abschließend, in wie weit die einzelnen Ansätze das Moment der Heterogenität in ihre Friedenstheorie einbeziehen. (ICE2)

The increasing outsourcing of the activities of international organizations to private companies, especially in security and military fields, raises the question whether the conduct of private companies can be attributed to the delegating organization. The paper seeks to explore this new topic in the light of the criteria of attribution provided by the International Law Commission in the Draft Articles of responsibility of international organizations adopted on first reading in 2009. The paper highlights the advantages of the solution reached by the Commission, but also underlines the gaps it has left open. It formulates suggestions for changes the Commission should follow during the second reading in order to make more clear the approach it has adopted.

Background: There is a long scholarly debate on the trade-off between research and teaching in various fields, but relatively little study of the phenomenon in law. This analysis examines the relationship between the two core academic activities at one particular school, the University of Chicago Law School, which is considered one of the most productive in legal academia. Method: We measure of scholarly productivity with the total number of publications by each professor for each year, and we approximate performance in teaching with course loads and average scores in student evaluations for each course. In OLS regressions, we estimate scholarly output as a function of teaching loads, faculty characteristics, and other controls. We also estimate teaching evaluation scores as a function of scholarly productivity, fixed effects for years and course subject, and faculty characteristics. Result: Net of other factors, we find that, under some specifications, research and teaching are positively correlated. In particular, we find that students' perceptions of teaching quality rises, but at a decreasing rate, with the total amount of scholarship. We also find that certain personal characteristics correlate with productivity. Conclusion: The recent debate on the mission of American law schools has hinged on the assumption that a trade-off exists between teaching and research, and this article's analysis, although limited in various ways, casts some doubt on that assumption.

On 19 December 2008 the Official Journal of Belgium published the 'Law regarding the procurement and use of human body material destined for human medical applications or for scientific research purposes'. This paper will comment on various aspects of the Law: its scope of application (what is understood by 'body material'?); its concept of 'residual human body material' (with far-reaching implications for the type of consent required for research); the nature of actions with and uses of human body material that are explicitly prohibited; the right of donors to be informed of relevant information revealed by the use of their body material; and the special responsibilities placed on hospital ethics committees. As will be argued in this paper, several of these provisions are highly problematic from an ethical point of view, especially those relating to consent. Meanwhile, the Minister of Public Health has asked the Belgian Advisory Committee on Bioethics for advice on the incorporation of the 'presumed consent' model, that applies to post mortem organ donation, into the biobank Law's provisions on post mortem removal and use of body material. This aspect of the Law effectively extends the 'presumed consent' regime, both from organs to body material in general, and from therapeutic uses to research uses.

RESUMEN: Este artículo pretende mostrar algunas relaciones entre el derecho y la sexualidad, a partir del análisis de la legislación penal colombiana sobre los delitos sexuales. Parte de la consideración de que las relaciones del derecho con la sexualidad han reproducido o ampliado otros controles como los provenientes de la religión, la moral y diversos discursos científicos, y eso ha conducido a un control adicional, carente muchas veces de racionalidad sostenible. Se plantea la necesidad de desexualizar los derechos. ; ABSTRACT: This article intends to show some relations between law and sexuality, from the analysis of the Colombian penal legislation on the sexual crimes. It brings the consideration that the relations of the law with sexuality have reproduced or expanded other controls as the originating of religion, moral and diverse scientific speeches, and that has conducted to an additional control, lacking many times of sustainable rationality. It presents the need of desexualize (eliminating the sexual element from) the rights.

The Ecumenical Patriarchate is considered first among equals of all the Orthodox churches and presides over 200 million Christians. The ecumenical mission of the patriarchate is seriously contested by the official stance of the Turkish government and by ultranationalists who fear that the patriarchate might gain extraterritorial privileges and become a Vatican. At present, the Ecumenical Patriarchate is an institution with a global reach, but one that lacks a legal personality. The essay presents the two contrasting perspectives regarding the ecumenical status of the patriarchate and documents how the sources of the patriarchate's soft power marshal support in favor of its ecumenical mission.