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With the UK presidency of the EU Council of Ministers pending (July 2005), EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson is coming under increased pressure to modify the European Commission's approach to Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations with African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. Criticism and pressure for change is not only coming from an increasingly vocal and active campaign by non-governmental development agencies in the UK, Europe and Africa (see http://www.stopepa.org/ for details of the campaign), but also from several more official sources. These include the Africa Commission established by prime minister Tony Blair, the inquiry by the House of Commons Select Committee on International Development into EU-ACP EPA negotiations1 and the joint position paper adopted by the UK Department of Trade and Industry and Department for International Development.2

Commissioner Mandelson has responded to this criticism by modifying and extending the rhetoric on the centrality of development concerns to the EC's approach to EPA negotiations. However it is still unclear to what extent the Commissioner's rhetoric is being taken up in practice by EC trade negotiators and EC aid officials. As the Zambian trade minister, Dipak Patel, has recently declared:


what Peter has said in his speech to the LSE [London School of Economics] was excellent, but perhaps his negotiators need to read it more than we do.
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Private environmental regimes as tools for global governance -- When are private environmental regimes effective and why? -- International forestry regulation and the forest stewardship council -- The Forest Stewardship Council in Argentina and Brazil -- The international chemicals manufacturing industry and responsible care -- Responsible care in Argentina and Brazil -- Globally sown, locally grown : how local organizational capacity limits the viability of global private regimes

This timely Research Handbook investigates the radically transformative impact of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), addressing key questions regarding its economic, political and strategic consequences: what does the Chinese government hope to achieve with the BRI? How have recipient states responded? And what are its potential opportunities and risks? Bringing together prominent international scholars and analysts, this Research Handbook arrives at a critical time in the infrastructural development of the BRI, shedding light on its influence in the future of global politics and economics. Chapters unpack the role of the BRI in Chinese foreign policy, placing infrastructural development at the centre of regional affairs, great power dynamics and economic and investment trends. Employing geopolitical and diplomatic modes of investigation, it offers critical and holistic views of the progress and challenges of the BRI's implementation and its implications on the world stage. Providing an innovative global viewpoint on the BRI, this Research Handbook offers cutting-edge perspectives for scholars and researchers of political science, particularly those investigating the latest developments in Chinese domestic and foreign policy. Its practical insights and broad empirical analysis will also benefit policymakers and think tank analysts working in the field.

Проаналізовано зарубіжний досвід проходження державної служби та можливості його використання в Україні в умовах адміністративної реформи. Особливу увагу приділено аналізу досвіду проходження державної служби в умовах її модернізації в таких країнах, як Франція, Німеччина, Велика Британія, США та Японія.Встановлено, що для модернізації державної служби, наближення до ідеального типу управління в Європі були розроблені різні моделі, які об'єднуються загальною назвою «нове державне управління».Здійснено систематизацію основних тенденцій розвитку інституту проходження державної служби в країнах демократії, до яких віднесено: розробку програм реформування й модернізації державної служби та прийняття нового законодавства про державну службу; оптимізацію та створення в системі державної служби нових організаційних структур; існування спеціальних інститутів управління державною службою; послідовне скорочення державного апарату; створення інституту вищих керівників; використання методів менеджменту, запозичених з приватного сектора; ротації кадрів; наявність кодексів етики; забезпечення процесу безперервної професійної освіти державних службовців. ; In the most countries the deep modernization and reforming of civil service were launched in 70­80 years of the past century and now these processes have given good results. Therefore, it will be useful to adopt a foreign experience on reforming and civil service performance with the aim to determine effective components of civil service performance in Ukraine. The analysis shows that the process of the civil service reforming and development, improving of the performing process are characterized in the world practice as the continental and Anglo­Saxon models, but despite of this most countries have a mixed model of civil service. For modernization of the civil service and approximation to the most preferable type of management in Europe were developed different models, which named «new public administration». In the article the international experience of France, Germany, ...

In 1997 Turkey and Syria were on the brink of war, engaged in a very real power struggle. Turkey was aligned with Syria's main enemy, Israel, and there were seemingly intractable differences on the issues of borders, the sharing of river waters and trans-border communities. In less than a decade, relations were transformed from enmity to amity. What explains this remarkable change? Given that Turkey and Syria are two pivotal states in the region, what are the implications of this changing relationship for the international politics of the Middle East, the balance of power and regional stabilit.

Now thoroughly updated, this respected text provides a clear, concise, and affordable narrative and analytical history of American foreign policy from the revolutionary period to the present. This edition includes an all-new chapter on the George W. Bush presidency, 9/11, and the war in Iraq. The historiographical essays at the end of each chapter have been revised to reflect the most recent scholarship.""The History of American Foreign Policy"" chronicles events and policies with emphasis on the international setting and constraints within which American policy-makers had to operate; the dome

This book sheds new light on a major issue on the international trade policy agenda - the promotion and defence of competition in globalizing markets. The liberalization of cross-border flows of goods, services and capital that has occurred during the last decade has made competition increasingly important. The authors discuss multi-national approaches to competition policy in the WTO, European Union, the Americas, OECD, UNCTAD and CER. They investigate the policy responses to anti-competitive, cross-border business transactions and argue that a growing reliance on competition law is not

'Südostasien steckt in der Krise. Ausländische Investitionen sind seit der Asienkrise 1997 zurückgegangen, SARS, die Vogelgrippe und terroristische Anschläge wie auf Bali im Oktober 2002 schädigen das Ansehen der Region zusätzlich. Um diesen Problemen zu begegnen, hat die Vereinigung südostasiatischer Staaten (ASEAN) auf ihrem Gipfel im Oktober 2003 eine Zukunftsvision entworfen. Mit dieser ASEAN Vision 2020 gilt es auch, den Abstieg der Organisation in die Bedeutungslosigkeit zu verhindern. Doch bislang tun sich die ASEAN-Staaten schwer, tatsächlich gemeinsam zu agieren und sich als Gemeinschaft zu begreifen. Vielen Staaten fehlt der politische Wille zu mehr Kooperation und Transparenz; Souveränität wird oft überbetont. Insofern ist fraglich, ob die Vision einer Sicherheitsgemeinschaft nach europäischem Vorbild zukünftig umsetzbar sein wird. Katja Freistein untersucht die Aussichten für eine Gemeinschaftsbildung anhand der drei Politikfelder Wirtschaft, Sicherheit und Identitätsbildung. In allen drei Bereichen stellt sie erhebliche Defizite und Schwierigkeiten fest, erkennt aber auch Ansätze, die als Einzelmaßnahmen zunächst vielversprechend sind. So sind die wirtschaftlichen Disparitäten zwischen den Staaten erheblich und nicht dauerhaft tragbar, das Freihandelsabkommen AFTA könnte jedoch neue wirtschaftliche Dynamik in die Region bringen. Sicherheitspolitisch bleiben große Konflikte weiterhin bestehen, neue Initiativen der Zusammenarbeit - zum Beispiel in der Terrorismusbekämpfung - könnten aber ein Schritt in Richtung multilateraler Kooperation sein. Entscheidend ist, dass sich auf Dauer ein 'Wir-Gefühl' in der ASEAN entwickelt, das die Mitglieder zur Gemeinschaft verbindet. Noch ist die Bereitschaft zu großen Veränderungen innerhalb der ASEAN schwach. Wenn diese jedoch langsam stärker wird und sich ein Reformwille einstellt, besteht die Chance, dass sich nach der Erweiterung der Gemeinschaft auf eine ASEAN-10 auch die notwendige Vertiefung des Vertrauens, der multilateralen Beziehungen, Kooperationen und institutionellen Verflechtungen entwickelt, die eine Sicherheitsgemeinschaft ausmacht.' (Autorenreferat)