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Burron provides a critical analysis of Canadian and US democracy promotion in the Americas. He concentrates on Haiti, Peru, and Bolivia in particular but situates them within a larger analysis of Canadian and US foreign policy - bilateral and regional - in the areas of trade, investment, diplomacy, security and, for the United States, the war on drugs.

In response to the growing world interest in ethnic conflict studies, I present the case of the Lebanese Christian Nationalist Claim. The work includes an exhaustive review of the conceptual debate over the impact of nationalism in world politics. In order to explore the importance of the historical and regional context of ethnic claims, the dissertation takes Lebanon as a case study. ; Grounded in current theory and drawn from sources in several languages, the thesis examines the historical roots of the claim, reconstructs the development of the nationalist ideology of the Lebanese Christians, and chronicles their rise to power. My objective is to challenge the current state of Lebanese studies and propose alternative analyses of the Lebanese conflict to the field of international studies. This work goes to great lengths to review the intellectual legitimacy of the claim and demonstrate its role in the nationalist struggle. To do so, I analyze in detail the various factors involved in the development of a Christian Lebanese ethnic nationalism. Yet the greatest contribution of this work is its documentation and analyses of deterioration of the unity surrounding the ethnic claim and the loss of the Christian enclave. ; Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-08, Section: A, page: 3196. ; Supervisor: Haim Shaked. ; Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Miami, 1993.

In the aftermath of the Cold War the hope for a more stable and just international order rapidly dissolved underneath the pressure of internecine conflicts raging on all continents. The Rwanda and Srebrenica genocides especially proved that promoting peace is a particularly fraught challenge in the face of intra-state conflict and sub-national groups that boldy confront nation-states. Tim Murithi investigates the role that ethics plays in promoting and consolidating peacebuilding, synthesizing the fields of moral philosophy and international relations through an analysis of the ethics of negotiation, mediation, forgiveness, and reconciliation. In its exploration of the extent to which ethical concerns influence and inform peacebuilding, this book contributes to a growing body of literature on ethics and international relations that enable students, scholars, and practitioners to contextualize their understanding of a principled peacebuilding

China versteht es, die vielen Krisen der Welt zum eigenen Vorteil zu nutzen. Einerseits. Denn erfolgreiche Außenpolitik sieht anders aus – und der Druck auf Xi Jinping steigt. (IP)

Investitionen geht häufig ein Vergabeverfahren voraus. Die Realisierung der Investition hängt in solchen Fällen vom Zuschlag ab. Sieht ein ausländischer Bieter sein Projekt bereits im Vergabeverfahren durch unfaire Behandlung, Diskriminierung oder intransparente Vergabeentscheidungen gefährdet, stellt sich auch die Frage nach der Geltung des im Bereich des Marktzugangs zurückhaltenden Investitionsschutzrechts.Die Arbeit untersucht die Anwendung des Investitionsschutzrechts in der Frühphase einer Investition und betrachtet Vergabeverfahren mit verschiedenen Bieter-Konstellation aus investitionsschutzrechtlicher Perspektive. Ein Vergleich typischer vergabe- und investitionsschutzrechtlicher Standards zeigt, wie die Prüfung vergaberechtlicher Sachverhalte nach investitionsschutzrechtlichen Maßstäben gelingen kann.

Brexit und Trump-Wahl lassen die deutsche Kanzlerin freundlicher auf Europa blicken als zuvor. Nach Emmanuel Macrons Sieg in Frankreich sieht Angela Merkel die Stunde für mehr Integration gekommen - bei Themen wie Flüchtlingen, Verteidigung und mit Einschränkungen auch bei der Reform der Eurozone. Bis dahin war es für sie ein weiter Weg.

Existing theories of change in campaign strategies predict cross-national convergence in candidates' linkages to voters and the degree of policy focus and cleavage priming in their appeals. However, the prevailing national patterns of electioneering in Chile, Brazil, and Peru have actually diverged from one another since their transitions from authoritarian rule. Based upon content analysis of television advertising, interviews with campaign staff, and case studies of specific elections in these three countries, this article develops a theory of success contagion that can explain the evolution of presidential campaign strategy in third-wave democracies. The author argues that the first politician to combine a victorious campaign with a successful term as president establishes a model of electioneering that candidates across the ideological spectrum are likely to adopt in the future. Such contagion can occur directly, through politicians' imitation of each other's strategies, or indirectly, with communities of campaign professionals playing an intermediary role. Strategic convergence is less likely in cases of repeatedly poor governing performance. Instead, candidates tend to choose strategies through an inward-oriented process of reacting against previous errors. Initial testing suggests the theory is generalizable to other new democracies with at least moderate organizational continuity across elections. (World Politics / SWP)