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ABSTRACTAs the state has become more susceptible to global pathologies, public policy scholars have found increasingly common ground with their IPE cousins. The development of these relatively young fields of study – increasingly they are sub-disciplines – has been commensurate but rarely intersecting. Yet contemporary maelstroms of global politics, economics, health, and security, span borders with ease, and increasingly force us to recognise, reconsider, and reconceptualise the overlapping realms of the national and international. In so doing, we must overcome the disciplinary distinctions. In this article, we traverse the prominent in-built disciplinary imperatives and methodologies that have kept these two disciplines from concerted inter-operability or, at least, interchange of theories and concepts. To do so, we begin by presenting a brief overview of the conceptual pedigrees and trajectories of these disciplines, before drawing attention to the prominent prevailing overlaps, 'trespasses' and tensions as they specifically relate to policy convergence and diffusion, and policy transfer. We proceed to specify a reconciliation of these tensions through, in the third section, a brief study of the growth of global administrations, administrators, and administrative spaces. This, we contend, stands as a paradigm case of how reconciled IPE/public policy concepts can produce enhanced theoretical and substantive insights into the transnationalising political world.

'Dieser Artikel setzt sich mit der Rolle von Politiklernens für die Herausbildung der österreichischen Reproduktionstechnologiepolitik während der 1980er und frühen 1990er Jahre auseinander und sucht diesbezügliche Befunde für eine Weiterentwicklung der Konzeption des Politiklernens nutzbar zu machen. Drei Annahmen dieser Konzeption werden genauer untersucht: dass politische AkteurInnen in erster Linie aus Erfahrungen mit Policy-Wirkungen lernen; dass eine bestimmte Politik als Reaktion auf die Herausforderung einer als politikextern verstandenen Welt zu sehen sei; und dass Lernen vorrangig zwischen Policies zu verzeichnen sei, nicht jedoch innerhalb eines Politikprozesses. Im Beitrag wird gezeigt, dass diese Annahmen nur bedingt auf den Fall der österreichischen Reproduktionstechnologiepolitik zutreffen, da sich aufgrund der Novität der Reproduktionstechnologien ein entsprechendes Politikfeld erst herauszubilden hatte. Dennoch kann davon ausgegangen werden, dass Lernprozesse hierfür eine wesentliche Rolle spielten. Es wird geschlussfolgert, dass Policy-Lernen nicht notwendigerweise auf tatsächlich gemachten Erfahrungen beruhen muss, sondern auch auf 'imaginierte' Erfahrungen fußen kann. Des Weiteren können Lernprozesse auch in der Übersetzung von Grundüberzeugungen der politischen AkteurInnen in Policies erfolgen. Schließlich finden Lernprozesse nicht nur zwischen Politiken statt, sondern auch innerhalb des Politikformulierungsprozesses.' (Autorenreferat)

The EU-China cooperation on security in Africa has remained on the level of aspirations and policy formulation with insignificant tangible results. Traditionally, the EU has played a strong role in Africa's security architecture, and China's participation within this policy area will open up areas of possible cooperation and conflict. Both China and the EU share the same goals in Africa—a stable and secure Africa. To achieve that objective, Africa, China and the EU agree, in principle, that a comprehensive approach that incorporates both traditional and non-traditional security methods, as well as a greater level of development support for African nations, must be taken. However, several challenges impede such cooperation. An EU arms embargo on China, conceptual gaps between the EU and China in human rights and sovereignty, and increasing levels of competition for natural resources are all barriers to trilateral security. This paper outlines those challenges, focusing particularly on barriers to cooperation in the areas of traditional and non-traditional security and development aid projects.

In this paper a conceptual model is developed that relates loyalty to a community of countries to the material benefits derived from it, measured by the transfer of extra income. We argue that the extent of a country's welfare, and consequently its acceptance to participate in a community increase together with the latter's scope for influence on the former. We use the paradigm of Greece, which is one of the main recipient countries in the EU. It was found that financial transfers concerning regional policy affect in the long-run 'the acceptance of European integration' by the public in Greece while social policy funds appear to have short-run positive effects on public opinion.

"Feminism in Foreign Policy" published on by Oxford University Press.

Priorities in addressing research gaps and challenges should follow the order of im­por­tance, which in itself would be a matter of defining goals and metrics of importance, e.g. the extent, impact and likelihood of occurrence. For improving assessments of cli­mate change impacts on agriculture for achieving food security and other sustainable develop­ment goals across the European continent, the most important research gaps and challen­ges appear to be the agreement on goals with a wide range of stakeholders from policy, science, producers and society, better reflection of political and societal prefer­ences in the modelling process, and the reflection of economic decisions in farm manage­ment within models. These and other challenges could be approached in phase 3 of MACSUR.Climate change will affect human well-being and welfare through the impact on agricul­tural production of food, feed, and bioeconomy resources and as well as on the ecosystem and social services of rural agriculture. Associations among the many facets of agricultural production are non-linear and involve synergies and tradeoffs. In addition, these associa­tions may vary across a heterogeneous, large spatial and political arena like Europe. For improved assessments of climate change impacts, existing modelling and assessment methodologies will have to be extended (or in specific cases new ones developed) to accommodate these heterogeneities and interactions.Assessments at spatial scales of farm level or greater must include socio-economic aspects at time-scales greater than one year. At these scales, within-year and production-unit (plants, animals, plots) variation is dampened and variation in political settings, consumer attitudes and national economies, availability of resources, and value of products move to the fore.FACCE MACSUR researchers identified needs for research to improve integrated assessments for information of policy, producers, consumers in five areas: (a) assessment criteria, (b) generalization of existing and new knowledge, (c) political and societal settings, (d) on-farm processes (generation of outputs from available resources, including their variation and disturbances), and (e) assessing implications of sub-optimal and technology-improved food production for global food security.

The Monetary Policy and The Exchange Rate Policy in China Index 1.The People's Bank of China 1.1 The history of The People's Bank of China 1.2 The role of The People's Bank of China 1.3 Internal departments 2.The Fiscal policy of china 3. The monetary policy of China 3.1 monetary policy 3.2 The Crisis over the last 10 years 3.3 independence of PBC 3.4 Taylor's rule in China 4. Comparison 4.1 Fed Reserve and ECB 4.2 Comparison of EU, US and China central banks and economies 5 The exchange rate policy of China 5.1 fixed exchange rate and floating exchange rate 5.2balance of international payments and capital mobility 5.3The policy ofChina 6 The future of CNY in the world arena 7.Can the CNY become a currency of international rank?

Introduction: theorizing urban minority communities in postnational Europe -- "Stranger in my own country" : European identities, migration, and diasporic soundscapes -- Dimensions of diaspora : women of color feminism, black Europe, and queer memory discourses -- Secular submissions : Muslim Europeans, female bodies, and performative politics -- "Because it is our stepfatherland" : queering European public spaces -- Conclusion: "an infinite and undefinable movement

It is a predominant assumption in contemporary political and academic debates that gender roles and attitudes supporting women's paid work among immigrants are deep-rooted and stable over time. However, the actual work–family orientations among immigrants are rarely studied. The purpose of this article is to study to what extent and at what pace immigrants in general adapt to the attitudes towards women's paid work that prevail in the host countries. A cross-national research strategy is applied using the European Social Survey rounds 2 (2004), 4 (2008) and 5 (2010), allowing us to compare and analyse attitudes towards women's paid work among 13,535 foreign-born individuals resident in 30 European countries. The results indicate that immigrants' attitudes towards women's paid work are highly structured by the institutional and cultural context of the host country. Both male and female immigrants, as well as immigrants with and without children, adapt to host country attitudes at a high pace.

We analyze the impact of efficiency on bank risk. We also consider whether bank capital has an effect on this relationship. We model the inter-temporal relationships among efficiency, capital and risk for a large sample of commercial banks operating in the European Union. We find that reductions in cost and revenue efficiencies increase banks' future risks thus supporting the bad management and efficiency version of the moral hazard hypotheses. In contrast, bank efficiency improvements contribute to shore up bank capital levels. Our findings suggest that banks lagging behind in their efficiency levels might expect higher risk and subdued capital positions in the near future.

The ESS survey (European Social Survey, http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org) emerged from the need to obtain comparative data in Europe on a number of issues concerning political science, sociology, social psychology, mass communication or economics. The ESS is a study introduced in 2002 and replicated every two years. This is the fourth edition of the study in Switzerland. The ESS provides indicators on the practices and representations of the Swiss population, making it possible to compare them with European countries and to observe the evolution over time. The 2008 edition focuses on attitudes towards age groups and the perception of public policies.