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The international intellectual property system provides an important illustration of how regime complexity shapes domestic and international strategies of states and non-state actors. This article describes and graphically illustrates the multifaceted nature of the international intellectual property system. It then analyzes the consequences of regime complexity for international and domestic politics, emphasizing the strategy of regime shifting and its consequences for chessboard politics and the domestic implementation of international rules.

This article assesses the impact of sovereign countries in global financial governance. It uses the methodology of international political economy that studies the interaction between political and economic processes in the international arena. It shows the dualistic nature of international financial institutions, which, on the one hand, represent intergovernmental organizations and, on the other hand, are financial institutions with financial goals. The author investigates the principles of sovereign equality, equitable geographical representation and equal (parity) representation of groups of countries with distinct interests in the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Group of 20 (G20) and Financial Stability Board (FSB). The IMF's decision-making mechanism is shown in detail, including its executive board and the recent redistribution of quotas among member states, with special attention on the formula for calculating quotas, its criticism and possible reform. The article shows the major causes of reducing the impact of the IMF and the formation of a new, globally distributed system of financial governance. The article shows the hierarchy (by function as well as by country representativeness) of the system of global financial governance, established by 2010. It discusses the leadership of countries according to quantity and to key indicators (revenues, assets and market capitalization) of global systemically important financial institutions (banks and insurance company). Based on countries' membership in the G7 and the G20, the FSB, IMF, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, and Bank for International Settlements countries are designated as at the core, semi-periphery or periphery of the international financial system in the context of the world systems theory. The influence of the technical elite, prevailing in the international financial sector, as well as the qualitative composition (education) of its members are revealed. The article concludes that there is significant polarization in the international financial system (core and the socalled marginal majority). Unlike the IMF, the newly created global financial institutions of the G20 and FSB fully comply with the principles of equitable geographical representation and parity representation of states with distinct interests.

The International Relations Study has undergone many changes in its dynamics,especially in view of the dynamic conditions of world politics. It directly influences the development of the IR study. This paper discusses how the theory of complex systems explain the dynamics of the international system after the end of the Cold War. Through the theory, the author seeks to see the changes that occur in interstate interaction, especially in the framework of thinking about the interests of each country. Interaction between countries then encourage the existence of different systems between one another, depending on how the country chooses interaction groups. The author also seeks the inter-state interaction that formed into an international system can be studied from the transition process to change the direction of interaction to see how the true international system is formed through the views of the theory of complex systems.

Aus international vergleichender Perspektive erhalten sowohl Österreich als auch die Schweiz in Einschätzungen die besten Stilnoten hinsichtlich ihrer wirtschaftspolitischen Glaubwürdigkeit in den 80er und 1990er Jahren. In diesem Beitrag werden deren politisch-institutionelle Grundlagen erörtert. Der zentrale Befund lautet, daß Österreich und die Schweiz ihr Profil glaubwürdiger Wirtschaftspolitik seit Mitte der 1980er Jahre durch eine im internationalen Vergleich nahezu einmalige Sammlung förderlicher Rahmenbedingungen erlangen. Hierbei handelt es sich um eine von den Weisungen der Regierung unabhängige Zentralbank, eine institutionalisierte Regelung zum Ausgleich konfligierender Interessen zwischen politischen Akteuren im Sinne konsensualer Praktiken, ein Umfeld konfliktarmer Arbeitsbeziehungen, institutionelle Hürden in Gestalt einer föderalen Finanzverfassung, die einer fiskalpolitischen Stimulierung der Volkswirtschaft entgegenstehen, und schließlich um die dauerhafte Zugehörigkeit zu einem Regime fester oder flexibler Wechselkurse. (Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft / FUB)

Davon ausgehend, dass eine der entscheidenden Konstanten der internationalen Beziehungen deren Konflikthaftigkeit ist, wird zunaechst der Konfliktbegriff im Sinne von Boulding und Singer praezisiert. Anhand dieser begrifflichen Praezisierung werden dann die Bedingungen fuer den Aufstieg und Fall der Entspannungspolitik (Brandt / Schmidt) untersucht und als ein dominierendes Regelmuster zur Entschaerfung des Ost-West-Konflikts waehrend der siebziger Jahre interpretiert. Dem folgt eine Diskussion um die Gruende, die fuer die Erfolglosigkeit der Bemuehungen, die Gegensaetze zwischen den westlichen Industrienationen und den Entwicklungslaendern des Suedens in Form des Nord-Sued- Dialogs zu verringern, verantwortlich sind. (ABi).

Where does international order come from? How is it established and maintained? Why does it break down? With every sovereign state its own master, how can order prevail? Answering these questions in a briskly paced, systematic survey, Stephen Kocs explores the rise and fall of successive international systems across the centuries - from the dynastic institutions of Renaissance Europe, to the power-politics systems of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe, to the liberal international systems of the contemporary world.

The system of international relations is undergoing a period of serious transformation. The changes that have occurred have touched upon the fundamental princi ples and structure-forming elements of the world political system, thereby determining the long-term trends of its development.