Suchergebnisse

Luftverschmutzung - Gewässerschutz - Abfallbeseitigung - Umweltgefährdung durch Atomanlagen - Ursachen der Umweltkrise - Möglichkeiten der Zusammenarbeit mit dem Westen

Positivism is seen as one of the most influential theoretical frameworks for understanding international law. This book investigates its origins and demonstrates how it has influenced the development of international law. It illuminates and re-assesses the work of Hans Kelsen and Lassa Oppenheim, two of the key architects of positivist thought.

Zusammenfassung: Unter Bezug auf die Internationalisierungsdebatte in der Psychologie wird die internationale Verbreitung der Sozialpsychologie aus dem deutschsprachigen Bereich mit dem Gesamt aller anderen psychologischen Teildisziplinen verglichen. Bibliometrische Untersuchungsbefunde belegen einen markanten Anstieg des Anteils englischsprachiger Publikationen aus der Sozialpsychologie seit 1980, der die entsprechenden Anteile aus dem Gesamt der anderen Teildisziplinen mit etwa dem Zweifachen deutlich übertrifft und in der sozialen Kognitionsforschung am ausgeprägtesten ist. Zitationsanalysen weisen darauf, dass Publikationen aus der Sozialpsychologie in englischen Fachzeitschriften im Durchschnitt häufiger zitiert werden als die Veröffentlichungen aus dem Gesamt der anderen Teildisziplinen. Nach den Befunden einer E-Mail-Befragung (N = 564) liegen die internationalen Stärken der Sozialpsychologie bei der Anzahl englischer Publikationen sowie internationalen "Peer-review"-Tätigkeiten, Verbandsmitgliedschaften, Gastaufenthalten und Forschungskooperationen.

A survey of journalism school offerings in the field of international communications shows 30 schools giving such instruction and 11 more planning to do so in the future. Professor Markham, head of the Department of News at Pennsylvania State University, analyzes the answers of 83 Schools.

International humanitarian law (IHL) carves out an impartial humanitarian space & recognizes the need for a neutral & independent organization to provide protection & assistance to victims of armed conflict. Against this backdrop, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has long served as an impartial, neutral & independent intermediary, carrying out the various tasks entrusted to it by the international community. Today's conflict environment & the "humanitarian" response to this environment have put pressure on the ICRC's conception of humanitarian action. Yet based on its experience, the ICRC remains convinced of the added value of its approach & is working to demonstrate the specific advantages of neutral & independent humanitarian action through its operational decisions & field strategies. This paper begins by identifying the legal basis for the ICRC's breed of humanitarian action, stressing how the ICRC's broad mission derives from this legal basis. It then examines current conflict trends & the challenges they pose for humanitarian action. Finally, it argues that neutral & independent humanitarian action -- as provided by the ICRC -- is essential in limiting the means employed & the human costs of war & armed violence. Adapted from the source document.

Most questions commonly asked about international politics are ethical ones. Should the international community intervene in Bosnia? What do we owe the starving in Somalia? What should be done about the genocide in Rwanda? Yet, Mervyn Frost argues, ethics is accorded a marginal position within the academic study of international relations. In this book he examines the reasons given for this, and finds that they do not stand up to scrutiny. He goes on to evaluate those ethical theories which do exist within the discipline - order based theories, utilitarian theories, and rights based theories - and finds them unconvincing. He elaborates his own ethical theory, constitutive theory, which is derived from Hegel, and highlights the way in which we constitute one another as moral beings through a process of reciprocal recognition within a hierarchy of institutions which include the family, civil society, the state, and the society of states

The multilateral trade agreements in the Annexes to the Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization provide a comprehensive structure for international trade. Why would trading partners in different countries feel the need to go outside this framework in order to set up preferential trade arrangements? This book considers the structure of the World Trade Organization's agreements and the types of preferential trade arrangements, and deliberates the value of the latter in the light of the operation of the former. Preferential Trade Agreements and International Law offers a comprehensive examination of preferential trade agreements and considers the features of specific regional and bilateral trade agreements without drawing upon systematic features and trends. It shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic and will be of value to researchers, academics, policymakers, and students interested in international trade and economic law.