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AbstractEven though the international permeates our daily lives in many ways, it rarely discloses itself as part of our everyday engagements. Drawing from Martin Heidegger's phenomenology, this article seeks to explore the ways in which the international remains hidden to, as well as the ways in which the international can become part of, our being-in-the-world. Additionally, it will show the terms in which International Relations (IR) scholars can disclose the world of the international, and what the implications of that 'knowing' are for the discipline. Finally, it will explore the possibilities and limitations of a Heidegerrian phenomenology for a social science such as IR.

"Der Beitrag untersucht die Rolle, die das Konzept der 'Zivilgesellschaft' als ein symbolisches Werkzeug in den interorganisatorischen Netzwerken der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit spielt. Zunächst wird dabei die Karriere des Zivilgesellschaftskonzepts im Kontext der internationalen Entwicklungskooperation geschildert. In einem zweiten Schritt wird am Beispiel der 'rituellen Evaluierung' einer asiatischen NGO durch ein europäisches Hilfswerk gezeigt, wie die Zivilgesellschaftsnorm als realitätsstiftende organisatorische Fiktion funktioniert und welche eigentümlichen Paradoxien sich hieraus ergeben. Möglicherweise trägt jedoch der Wandel der 'Zivilgesellschaft' zu einer Norm, die den Austausch zwischen höchst ungleichen Organisationsakteuren regelt, trotz ihrer rituellen Funktion etwas bei zur Annäherung von Problemdeutungen und Handlungsperspektiven in weit auseinander liegenden Weltteilen. Der Autor erinnert in diesem Zusammenhang an Albert Hirschmans Begriff der 'notwendigen Illusionen'. Am Schluss wird die Frage gestellt, ob nicht heute, angesichts der fundamentalen politischen Instabilität in großen Teilen der Welt, das Programm der 'Stärkung der Zivilgesellschaft' ironischerweise beinahe synonym geworden ist mit einem Programm zur Stärkung elementarer staatlicher Strukturen." (Autorenreferat)

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed issues related to the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) financial situation, focusing on: (1) the Fund's situation regarding quota resources that IMF obtains from its member countries and that is used for most of its financial assistance; (2) the level of resources that the Fund has reported as actually available for lending; and (3) other resources that the Fund potentially has available for conducting its operations, such as resources obtained through borrowing and the Fund's gold holdings."

THIS ARTICLE ARGUES THAT THE POLITICAL AND MILITARY STRUGGLES FOR NAMIBIA'S INDEPENDENCE HAVE A LEGAL DIMENSION WHICH IS IMPORTANT. THE ARTICLE SHOWS HOW LONG THE SUBJECT OF NAMIBIA HAS BEEN ON THE INTERNATIONAL AGENDA, DEVELOPING A LEGAL CONSENSUS, EXPLAINS THE CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE OF THIS CONSENSUS, OUTLINES THE UN'S PLANS FOR NAMIBIA, AND FINALLY SHOWS HOW SOUTH AFRICA HAS ATTEMPTED TO UNDERMINE THE LEGAL CONSENSUS.

"Domestic Coalitions: International Sources and Effects" published on by Oxford University Press.

This paper adds to the literature on the determinants of international migration. First, we offer a joint analysis of the driving forces of migration capturing year-to-year variations and long-run effects. Second, we analyze the dynamic response of migration to shocks to its determinants. We start by presenting a theoretical model that allows us to model migration as an augmented gravity equation. We then construct a rich panel data set with 16 destination and 198 origin countries between 1980 and 2014. Most importantly, we find that climate change is a more important driver than income and political freedom together. Our results imply that a large time dimension is key to understand the effects of climate change. We then estimate a panel vectorautoregressive model showing that the dynamic response of migration is very different across shocks to different driving forces. Our findings carry implications for national and international immigration policies.

This volume is the result of the collaboration between the International Migration Review 2 and two of the scientific committees of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). The Committee on International Migration and the Committee on Data Collection and Processing in LDC's jointly organized a Workshop entitled "International Migration Statistics: Their Problems and Use" that took place in Ottawa, Canada from 11 to 13 November 1987. Preliminary versions of about half of the articles contained in this volume were presented at that Workshop. A full report of the discussions that took place at the Workshop is also included.