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Die Verschleppung junger Frauen in Bordelle galt um 1900 als ein großes soziales Problem. Der weltweite Kampf gegen die "white slavery" (dt. "internationaler Mädchenhandel") beruhte jedoch auf einer Fiktion. Deutsche Kriminologen und angloamerikanische Sozialwissenschaftler haben nachgewiesen, dass die Zwangsprostitution als Form des organisierten Verbrechens in Wirklichkeit nicht existierte. Der Glaube daran wurde jedoch aus politischen Gründen am Leben erhalten: Zum einen eignete sich die Horrorgeschichte vom ausländischen Mädchenhändler zur Mobilisierung von Ressentiments, zum anderen richtete sich die Kampagne zur Rettung unschuldiger Mädchen gegen eine Anerkennung der Prostitution als Profession. Der Autor hat die Biographie des sozialen Problems bis in die Gegenwart hinein nachverfolgt. Ausgangspunkt seiner Fallstudie ist ein Beitrag zu der Berliner Schriftenreihe "Großstadt-Dokumente" aus dem Jahr 1908, der sich mit dem Phänomen des Mädchenhandels auseinandersetzt. ; Around 1900 it was widely considered a great social problem that young women ran the risk of being abducted and sold to brothels. The resulting world-wide campaigns against so-called white slavery (in German internationaler Mädchenhandel), however, was based on mere fiction. German criminologists and anglo-american social scientists have proven that forced prostitution as a form of organized crime per se did not exist. Yet the belief in this myth was kept alive for political reasons. On the one hand, the horror story of the foreign white slave trader was used to mobilize resentment against foreigners. On the other hand, the campaign for the rescue of innocent girls was directed against social movements that demanded the acknowledgment of prostitution as a profession. The author has investigated the biography of the social problem "white slavery trade" up to the present. The starting point of his case study is a contribution to the Berlin series of publications, Grossstadt-Dokumente, from 1908, which dealt with the phenomenon of white slavery trade.

AbstractThis article argues that paternalism is an organizing principle of the international humanitarian order. The international community is increasingly organized to preserve, protect, and promote human life, reflecting an ethics of care and impulse to intervene for the greater good. This mixture of care and control is captured by the concept of paternalism, which Gerald Dworkin famously defined as 'the interference with a person's liberty of action justified by reasons referring exclusively to the welfare, good, happiness, needs, interests or values of the person being coerced'. Paternalism is either present or dormant in many (if not nearly all) interventions that are designed for the betterment of people and the good of humanity. This article has four goals: 1) to reassess and examine the analytical power of this much maligned and misunderstood concept; 2) to consider the dimensions upon which paternalism varies in order to develop the concept's value for empirical analysis; 3) to speculate how and why paternalism's form has moved from 'strong' to 'weak' over the last hundred years; and, 4) to consider whether, why, and when paternalism might be legitimate.

AbstractTwo contemporary streams of thought in international relations offer significant theoretical challenges to the field and to the way it has been organized since the time of Rousseau. New power cycle theories propose that the etiology of war resides in different growth rates among the major powers. Hegemonic wars are a recurrent consequence of the states system. The literature suggests that the patterns of the past are likely to be repeated in future; hence, the only solution to the problem of war is the transcendence of the states system. The second body of literature proposes that growing interdependence is bringing profound structural changes that are already leading to the demise of the nation state and to the transformation of the states system. The essay critically examines these theories and outlines reasons why both are empirically and logically deficient. These bodies of literature also illustrate how even among rigorous quantitative analysts, normative concerns animate research. Finally, the author suggests why the search for a theory or model of international politics is doomed to failure, and why a healthy field will be characterized by intellectual pluralism.

The idea that international politics can be a theoretical science logically homeomorphic to theoretical physics finds its most perspicuous recent expression in a methodological falsificationist program for its realization. But the program is a syllabus of epistemological errors which, upon detailed examination, collapses into incoherence. This article gives particular attention to three aspects of the program: the principle of interdependent deduction, the falsifiability criterion and the critical testing policy. Despite the systematic and resolute efforts on the part of its adherents to fix a methodological grammar for international studies, the program of methodological falsificationism is revealed to be: essentially a complete failure. The main source of the difficulty is located in the failure to appreciate the role of metaphysics in the sciences which, contrary to the standard positivist-empiricist view, constitutes the driving force behind scientific discoveries. Since a monistic metaphysics, however, may be neither possible nor desirable for the social and political sciences, a deconstructive metaphysical program is recommended. The final conclusion that vastly increased attention needs to be given to ontological and metaphysical issues seems completely warranted.

Die Anwendung von parallelen Grundrechtskatalogen auf innerstaatlicher Ebene wirft häufig die Frage nach der richtigen Lösung auf, wenn beide Grundrechtskataloge zu unterschiedlichen Ergebnissen kommen. In diesem Buch wird die Konzeption der Grundrechte als die Transformation moralischer Rechte im positiven Recht für das Staats- und Völkerrecht vertreten. Auf dieser Grundlage werden die Wirkungen internationaler Grundrechte in den nationalen Rechtsordnungen von der Schweiz, Deutschland, Österreich und Mexiko skizziert. Außerdem werden grundrechtsdogmatische Modelle zur Erklärung des Verhältnisses zwischen nationalen und internationalen Grundrechten entwickelt und die Eigenschaften ihrer Abwägung auf innerstaatlichen Ebenen beschrieben

International Case Studies in Service Learning contributes a deeper insight into the multifaceted nature of the subject and its associated perplexities. Featuring authors that have adopted a holistic approach, capturing various interventions and approaches and moving to discover the most accurate path towards gaining a complete picture of how service-learning impacts students, the chapters investigate the issue specifically through an emphasis on problem solving, experiential learning and community engagement. Shedding light on how successfully service learning has been adopted to the existing curriculum and the emergence of a new breed of students, who are aligned with the needs of the community and undertake collaborative work to solve real world issues, International Case Studies in Service Learning is invaluable to both researchers, teachers and scholars.

The relative merits of different arbitral venues are conveyed accessibly and practically in this far-reaching survey, with contributions from prestigious practitioners from every major global seat. This work offers comparative analysis of the relative challenges arising at venues around the world, supported by a Scorecard of Venue Issues to allow easy comparison. A reliable tool during the negotiation and drafting stages, it enables a newly tactical consideration of venue, whilst providing instant answers to those in unfamiliar jurisdictions. Offering detailed analysis of a range of key venues, it addresses not only the practical reality but also the history and development in these seats, making the text both an academic and a practical investment.

Von Wohnungsmärkten können erhebliche Risiken für Anleger, die Finanzstabilität und die gesamtwirtschaftliche Entwicklung ausgehen. Eine gründliche Analyse dieser Risiken ist daher wichtig. Steigende Risiken können regulatorische Maßnahmen zur Risikoreduktion erfordern. Hierbei ist es sinnvoll, zyklische und strukturelle Risiken zu unterscheiden.
Der Beitrag Strukturelle und zyklische Risiken auf internationalen Wohnungsmärkten erschien zuerst auf Wirtschaftliche Freiheit.

La premiere edition de cet ouvrage, publiée sous le titre de Traité élémentaire de droit international privé, a été honorée d'une récompense part l'Académie des sciences morales et politiques (Concours Wolowski, 1888)." ; Mode of access: Internet.