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Contends that the international community recognizes the urgency of developing alternative energy sources, highlighting cooperative work as well as the efforts of multinationals. How government incentives and investment are helping ameliorate the higher costs of alternative energy production is noted.

Governments across the world regularly invoke sovereignty to demand that the international community "mind its own business" while they commit human rights abuses. They proclaim that the sovereign right to be free from international intervention in domestic affairs permits them unfettered discretion within their territory. This Article seeks to challenge those proclamations by resort to sovereignty in the people, a time-honored principle that is typically more rhetorical than substantive. Relying on classical interpretations of sovereignty, this Article infuses substance into the concept of sovereignty in the people to recognize that a government is entitled to sovereign rights only as the legitimate representative of the people and only as long as it fulfills its duties to them. The Article then examines the conditions that must be met for a government to claim sovereign rights, as well as how and by whom access to these rights should be determined. Taken to its logical conclusion, sovereignty in the people establishes that (1) sovereign rights can be lost when governments commit less than the most egregious human rights abuses, which differentiates this from the responsibility to protect; and (2) any form of government is at risk of losing these rights, including democracies.

The 2009 Bundestag election was the first poll in Germany to be monitored by the Organization for Security & Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Given the high level of public trust in the integrity of the process in the country, the decision to deploy such a mission was frequently noted with surprise. Contrary to what has been implied by reports in the media, no special occasion caused the decision in favor of observing the elections. Rather, the international election experts' deployment has to be understood in the context of the OSCE's efforts to expand its structured & standardized election observation methodology also to established democracies among its participating states. The OSCE mission assessed the German election process positively. Nevertheless, its international experts suggested a revision of the election law in order to enable a judicial appeal of decisions by the Federal Election Committee already before an election. In addition, appealing decisions of the Election Scrutiny Board of the Bundestag should not depend upon signatures by 100 supporters. It was also proposed to make the eligibility of contesting the elections subject to a set of precise, objective, & measurable criteria. Furthermore, speeding up the publication of donations for political parties was recommended. Adapted from the source document.

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; INTRODUCTION. Where It All Began; CHAPTER ONE. Theoretical Approaches in Norm Dynamics; Part I. Norm Conflicts and Norm Dynamics; CHAPTER TWO. Regime Conflicts and Norm Dynamics: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons; CHAPTER THREE. Humanitarian Arms Control: The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty, the Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons, and the Convention on Cluster Munitions; Part II. External Drivers of Norm Dynamics; CHAPTER FOUR. Arms Control Norms and Technology

Demonstrates the close relation between Japan?s changing international status and the thought process behind this by focusing on the public discussion on China and China politics during the interwar years 1895-1904.