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Cover -- Contents -- Acronyms -- Executive Summary -- I. Introduction -- II. Progress, Pending Issues, and Recommendations Concerning the Compilation of ESS -- A. Current Account and Capital Account -- B. Financial Account and IIP -- III. Dissemination of ESS and Other Aspects of ESS Preparation in Argentina -- Appendices -- I. Action Plan from the November 2016 Mission with Implementation Status -- II. Participants in Mission Meetings -- III. Summary of Current and Capital Accounts under MBP5 and MBP6 Methodologies -- IV. Agreement Between the BCRA and the INDEC on the Exchange of Information and Release of Debt and DI Survey Data -- V. Quarterly Direct Investment Transactions and Holdings Reporting Form -- VI. Form for Use in Reporting Information on Reserve Transactions -- VII. International Investment Position for 2006-2016 Using the BPM6 Methodology

Human rights have been seen as basic to the ethical distinctiveness and legitimization of states. They also contribute to the international culture of state moral standards. Interdependence between states is based on a minimum of shared values or accepted rules, including human rights, which symbolically constitute a universe of constraints. The codification of human rights through the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Africa's experience in the area of international ethics support the hypothesis of an international culture of moral standards.

We hear a lot about the growth of world trade, globalization, and imbalanced distribution of incomes. Yet, how does one understand all the issues, thoughts, and arguments? How does one develop a time frame and context for these issues? This book helps you to do so. Includes reprints of articles from around the world.

The United Nations intervention in Kosovo & subsequent provision of democracy assistance via the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo are examined to ascertain the sustainability of the nation's democratic transition. An overview of the various circumstances that prompted the United Nation's intervention in Kosovo, eg, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's bombing of key Serbian military installations, is presented. After addressing the outcome of the Kosovo War & the international community's initial attempts to promote democracy in Kosovo, the stipulations of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 are reviewed. Attention is then dedicated to analyzing the interim administration's handling of the remaining Serbian population, the demilitarization of the Kosovar guerrilla forces, the recovery of the national economy, & the contestation of local & national elections; difficulties faced by the transitional government in achieving these objectives are highlighted. It is concluded that the Kosovar public will have to overcome the United Nations administrative & operational shortcomings in order to achieve a sustainable democratic political system. J. W. Parker

ABSTRACTThis article is an attempt to extract pervasive modes of thinking about nations and their foreign policies from three classical political theories and to examine to what extent it is possible to speak of "cognitive archetypes". The study consists of two cases. The first is a treatment of The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, in particular an analysis of the debate at Sparta as a rational choice model. The conclusion is that the assumptions underlying rational actor models and the argument as presented by Thucydides closely coincide. The second case is a comparison of the logical structure of the prisoner's dilemma and the state of nature as presented by Hobbes and Rousseau. It concludes that Rousseau presents a clearer exposition of the dilemma than Hobbes who by differentiating between the security of the individual in the state of nature and that of states in the international system finds the establishment of the Leviathan an adequate solution to the problem of order.

Cover -- Contents -- Glossary -- Executive Summary -- Action Plan -- I. Follow-up of the Recommendations of the March-April 2014 Mission -- A. Benchmark Actions -- B. Other Recommendations -- II. Other Activities Undertaken -- A. Table 3.1 in the QEDS -- B. Assistance Required by the SDBP -- III. Final Considerations -- Annexes -- I. Information to be Sought from the CDEEE for Monitoring the Work to Construct a Coal-Based Thermal Power Plant -- II. Table 3.1 in the QEDS as at December 2013.

Cover -- CONTENTS -- LABOR SUPPLY IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC: STOCKTAKING AND POLICIES -- A. Motivation -- B. Labor Supply Prospects: Baseline and Policy Scenarios -- C. An Analysis of Distortions Affecting Female Labor Force Participation -- D. Conclusions -- BOX -- 1. An Illustration of the Effect of the Non-Working Spouse Credit on Participation Incentives -- TABLE -- 1. Results from Policy Experiment -- References -- ANNEX -- I. Model Specifications -- LABOR PRODUCTIVITY IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC: STOCKTAKING AND POLICIES -- A. Motivation -- B. Sectoral Contributions to Labor Productivity -- C. Factor Contributions to Labor Productivity -- D. TFP Drivers: Factor Allocation and Technology Dispersion -- E. Future Issues -- F. Policy Implications -- References -- ANNEX -- I. Model Specifications.

Contents -- Executive summary -- Access to information and political finance reform: promising policy areas for building transparency -- Corruption and human rights -- Part one: Political corruption 1 Introduction -- Transparency International, Where did the money go? -- Transparency International, Standards on Political Finance and Favours -- 2 Political finance -- Political money and corruption -- The challenge of achieving political equality in South Africa -- Soft money ' reform in the United States: has anything changed?

The article discusses the importance of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a recently established intergovernmental organization to address the most heinous crimes. This organization is first evaluated with respect to its impact on the notion of national sovereignty, upon which the international system has long been based. Then the contribution of global civil society in the creation of the ICC is outlined in order to demonstrate that the global order is gradually departing from being state-centric. & finally, the US opposition to the ICC is briefly examined as that opposition is extremely relevant to the subject, given that the US is regarded as the sole superpower, which is supposed to have a determinative role in the conduct of global politics. Adapted from the source document.