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Main description: Der Europäische Binnenmarkt ist in den letzten Jahren Schritt für Schritt in den Bereich der ärztlichen Berufsausübung gerückt. Allein schon aufgrund der weitgehenden Beseitigung der nationalen Grenzen der kassenärztlichen Versorgung und der rasanten Entwicklung in der Telemedizin zeigt sich eine immer stärkere Herausbildung einer zwischenstaatlichen Wettbewerbssituation. Die Frage des Einflusses der mitgliedstaatlichen Arzthaftungsbestimmungen auf diese Entwicklung ist damit aktueller denn je.Das ärztliche Haftungsrecht liegt sowohl national- als auch internationalprivatrechtlich an der Schnittstelle zwischen der Souveränität der Mitgliedstaaten und den primärrechtlichen Grundfreiheiten, speziell in Form der Dienstleistungsfreiheit. Claudia Wagner verfolgt das Ziel, diese Schnittstellen aufzuzeigen und zu untersuchen, ob und inwieweit es sich bei den einschlägigen nationalen Kollisionsnormen und sachrechtlichen Haftungsregelungen um rechtfertigungsbedürftige Hindernisse des freien Dienstleistungsverkehrs handeln kann.

Terrorism has little or nothing to do with globalization, just as it has little or nothing to do with Islam. Most of the many varieties of terrorism that afflict and have long afflicted the world are responses not to global phenomena, but to intensely local ones. Examples include particularly ethnic, nationalist, and religious fault lines such as violence by Catholics and Protestants in Ireland; Basques in Spain; the Hindu Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka; Kashmiris, Sikhs, and Hindu nationalists in India; the Aum cult in Japan; and Uighurs in Xinjiang, China. The terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center on September 11 were also not making a statement against globalization, unlike the anti-globalization activist who leads French farmers in trashing McDonald's outlets there.' Rather, as far as can be discerned from the propaganda of the hijackers' assumed leader, Osama bin Laden, they were making a statement against, variously, the U.S. military presence in Saudi Arabia, its insistence on continued bombing of and economic sanctions against Iraq, and its support of Israel against the Palestinians. In my experience, and from what I read, these same resentments are felt by most Muslims everywhere, who nonetheless condemn terrorism and recognize it to be counter to the teachings of Islam. On October 10, the sixty countries which belong to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), unambiguously declared of the September 11 attacks that "such deplorable terrorist acts' run counter to Islam's tolerant heavenly message of peace, harmony, tolerance, and respect among people . Islam values human life and denounces the killing of innocent people."

`Summit meetings' are defined as ad hoc meetings where heads of state &/or heads of gov &/or foreing ministers from at least 2 of the big powers are present. 147 meetings of this kind in the period Jun 1941 to Jun 1961 are analyzed using as independent variable the diff phases in East-West relations. As dependent variables use is made of a number of indicators of how limited or restricted the meetings were in scope &/or participation. The data give a certain support to a combination of hyp's about the effects of polarization & predictability in soc relations, but there are also alternative interpretations. The data seem to indicate that summit meetings are used most often & in a least restricted way when: (1) there is an alliance against a 3rd power, or (2) there is conflict, with bloc-formation (relatively) completed. The standard polarization hypothesis in sociol'al theory is then modified so as to be valid only till the conflict org's have been completed & predictability has been obtained, but it is indicated that contact in this late phase of the history of a conflict may be of little instrumental value. Finally the need is pointed out for a permanent pattern of summit contact, perhaps within the framework of the UN while the big powers can use ad hoc meetings as pol'al sanctions. HA.