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Advocates an international legal regime to control the proliferation of information weapons & establish state liability for intentionally wrongful acts related to information operations. Attention is given to outlining the provisions of salient international telecommunications law, space law, international humanitarian law, & the law of international legal responsibility of states. Adapted from the source document.

Up-to-date research on the factors which contribute to the build-up of entrepreneurship. This volume provides an international, comparative and historical perspective, with a special focus on Mediterranean countries including Spain, Italy and Greece. The authors take a quantitative approach in their exploration of these, as well as many other countries including England, Scotland and Argentina. Whilst several chapters explore entrepreneurial success as their main dependent variable and study the factors that explain it, others deal with a variety of topics such as education, innovation, immigration, kinship links, the role of investment, geographical factors, and macroeconomic variables.

Financial institutions are increasingly linked internationally. As a result, financial crisis and government intervention have stronger effects beyond borders. We provide a model of international contagion allowing for bank bailouts. While a social planner trades off tax distortions, liquidation losses and intra- and intercountry income inequality, in the non-cooperative game between governments there are inefficiencies due to externalities, no burden sharing and free-riding. We show that, in absence of cooperation, stronger interbank linkages make government interests diverge, whereas cross-border asset holdings tend to align them. We analyze different forms of cooperation and their effects on global and national welfare.

In this paper, we study an international market with demand uncertainty. The model has two stages. In the first stage, the home government chooses an import tariff to maximize the revenue. Then, the firms engage in a Cournot or in a Stackelberg competition. The uncertainty is resolved between the decisions made by the home government and by the firms. We compare the results obtained in the three different ways of moving on the decision make of the firms. ; ESEIG / Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Centro de Matemática da Universidade do Porto and the Programs POCTI and POCI by FCT and Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e do Ensino Superior.

This study is an international review of approaches to police performance measurement which examines how police performance is measured in a selection of countries and assesses how police performance measurement in the Netherlands could be improved.

Dans son rapport à l'Assemblée du millénaire, le Secrétaire général de l'ONU, M. Kofi Annan, a exhorté la communauté internationale à parvenir une fois pour toutes à un consensus sur les questions fondamentales à régler au niveau des principes et de la pratique, à savoir : de quelle manière, à quel moment et sous l'autorité de quelles instances une intervention doit-elle avoir lieu ? C'est pour relever ce défi que la Commission indépendante internationale de l'intervention et de la souveraineté des états a été créée par le gouvernement canadien en septembre 2000. Le thème central de son rappo