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Assesses the extent to which the EU can be said to have developed a `foreign economic policy'. Derives questions about the effectiveness of EU policies and the ways in which they reflect the changing nature of the world. Concludes that the EU represents tendencies towards multilayered policymaking in conditions of enhanced interdependence and interpenetration, which have significance for the analysis of the world political economy in general. Illustrates from the concluding stages of the GATT Uruguay Round. (Original abstract-amended)

AbstractThe identification of contaminated land and its associated problems is a multi‐stage process covering the first suspicion of contamination through to the final assessment in which hazards and risks are determined so that appropriate remedial measures can be taken. In the UK, an effort has always been made to distinguish between the existence of 'contamination', and any assumption that this automatically implies the existence of a 'problem'. The task is to identify contaminated land which might currently, or in the future, pose a threat to (a) human welfare, (b) the environment, or (c) natural resources. This can be achieved through an appropriately designed site investigation and subsequent careful assessment of the results.This paper is intended as a broad look at identification, investigation, and assessment processes.

Explores the need to cope with uncertainty in policy formulation and implementation and formulate propositions about the ways in which policy-makers might respond to it. First, identifies some sources and manifestations of uncertainty in foreign policy; secondly, develops a frame-work within which policy-makers' responses to uncertainty can be located; and finally, it applies the framework to Reaganite foreign policy. Discusses conclusions. (Abstract amended)

Male koalas scent-mark by grasping a vertical object, generally a tree, and rubbing the sternal gland against it. The behaviour first appears at 3 y of age, and reaches a peak a year or two later.

It is frequently performed in conjunction with bellowing, especially in response to agonistic encounters or the bellow of a rival male, and often by itself in circumstances where a bellow might be expected.

It is sometimes a response to unfamiliar surroundings or objects, and otherwise is performed by a male moving about a pen. Scent-marking may primarily be a response to unfamiliarity which, having become associated with displaced aggression, has been entrained to the bellowing drive.