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Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) have emerged along with the growing role of corporations in global development. One of the largest forms of PPP today is the UN Global Compact. The UN Global Compact involves of companies, NGOs, IGOs and state governments. All of them are trying to realize globalization with a more humanist face with attention to the protection of human rights, environment, labor standards and anti-corruption. Engaging private actors in global governance, The UN Global Compact raises many issues such as power, authority, and legitimacy. The effort to tackle it all is to increase PPP accountability. This research seeks to describe what efforts can be made to enhance private accountability within the international regime. The research undertaken is a descriptive study, focuses on public-private partnerships in the UN Global Compact regime. The study found that there were two attempts that could be done. First, by involving the stakeholders in the development of procedures, mechanisms, reporting and monitoring associated with trying to improve the company's reputation. Second, by looking at corporate relations as agent and UN Global Compact as principal in principal-agent relation in the international regime.

Intro -- Vorwort -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Abkürzungsverzeichnis -- Kapitel 1: Einleitung -- A. Wasservorkommen und die globale Wasserkrise -- B. Die Entwicklung des internationalen Wasserrechts -- C. Wasserknappheit am Nil -- D. Das rechtliche Nutzungsregime am Nil -- E. Ziele und Gang der Darstellung -- Teil I: Internationales Wasserrecht -- Kapitel 2: Entwicklung des internationalen Wasserrechts -- A. Anfänge und Entwicklung -- B. Theoretische Grundlagen -- I. Theorie der absoluten territorialen Souveränität -- II. Theorie der absoluten territorialen Integrität -- III. Theorie der beschränkten territorialen Souveränität -- IV. Theorie der Interessengemeinschaft -- Kapitel 3: Gewohnheitsrechtliche Grundsätze des internationalen Wasserrechts -- A. Materiell-rechtliche Grundsätze -- I. Prinzip der ausgewogenen und angemessenen Nutzung -- II. Verbot erheblicher grenzüberschreitender Schädigungen -- III. Pflicht zum Schutz internationaler Wasserläufe und ihrer Ökosysteme -- B. Verfahrenspflichten -- I. Allgemeine Kooperationspflicht -- II. Notifikationspflicht und dazugehörige Pflichten -- III. Konsultationspflicht -- IV. Pflicht zu regelmäßigem Daten- und Informationsaustausch -- Kapitel 4: Internationale Abkommen über grenzüberschreitende Süßwasserressourcen -- A. Globale Übereinkommen -- I. Übereinkommen über das Recht der nichtschifffahrtlichen Nutzung internationaler Wasserläufe von 1997 -- II. Artikelentwürfe über das Recht der grenzüberschreitenden Grundwasservorkommen -- B. Regionale Abkommen -- C. Wasserlaufübereinkünfte -- I. Regelungsgegenstände -- II. Anlehnung an globale und regionale Wasserabkommen -- D. Internationale Flusskommissionen -- Kapitel 5: Zwischenergebnis -- Teil II: Der Nil -- Kapitel 6: Der Nil und sein Einzugsgebiet -- A. Quellen, Einzugsgebiet und Flussverlauf -- B. Klima und Wasserknappheit

"This book offers a new approach for the future of democracy by advocating giving citizens the power to deliberate and to decide how to govern themselves. Innovatively building on and integrating components of representative, deliberative and participatory theories of democracy with empirical findings, the book provides practices and procedures that support communities of all sizes to develop their own visions of democracy. It re-vitalizes and re-infuses the 'democratic spirit' going back to the roots of democracy as an endeavour by, with and for the people, and should inspire us in our search for the democracy we want to live in. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students in democracy, democratic innovations, deliberation, civic education, and governance and further for policy-makers, civil society groups and activists. It encourages us to reshape democracy based on citizens' perspectives, aspirations, and preferences"--

Notions of culture, rituals and their meanings, the workings of ideology in everyday life, public representations of tradition and ethnicity, and the social consequences of economic transition- these are critical issues in the social anthropology of Russia and other postsocialist countries. Engaged in the negotiation of all these is the House of Culture, which was the key institution for cultural activities and implementation of state cultural policies in all socialist states. The House of Culture was officially responsible for cultural enlightenment, moral edification, and personal cultivation-in short, for implementing the socialist state's program of "bringing culture to the masses." Surprisingly, little is known about its past and present condition. This collection of ethnographically rich accounts examines the social significance and everyday performance of Houses of Culture and how they have changed in recent decades. In the years immediately following the end of the Soviet Union, they underwent a deep economic and symbolic crisis, and many closed. Recently, however, there have been signs of a revitalization of the Houses of Culture and a re-orientation of their missions and programs. The contributions to this volume investigate the changing functions and meanings of these vital institutions for the communities that they serve.

Intro -- Contents -- Maps -- Tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Author's Note -- 1. English Law and Puritan Society: The Legal and Social Foundations of Order, 1629-1640 -- 2. Real Property Litigation: The Social and Economic Backgrounds of Legal Change -- 3. Outsiders and Subgroups: The Coordinative Function of the Court -- 4. From Communalism to Litigation: The Elevation of Law and Legal Forms -- 5. The Court and the Community: Law in a Postrevolutionary Puritan Society -- 6. Challenges to the Law: The Conflict of Legal and Extralegal Methods of Social Control -- 7. Law, Magic, and Disorder: The Crisis of the Interregnum, 1684-1692 -- 8. Epilogue: A Contentious and Well-Ordered People -- Bibliography -- Index -- A-B -- C -- D -- E-G -- H-J -- K-L -- M-N -- O-R -- S -- T-W -- Y.