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This provocative and original book provides a concise explanation of why global politics must be understood in ethical terms. Mervyn Frost illustrates the theory with a series of detailed case studies on the Iraq war, the war on terror, Iran, the use of private military companies, migration and terrorism and;in so doing;he forces the reader to confront their own necessary engagement;as ethical citizens of a global society.

This article deals with the issues of regulation of property relations of spouses in private international law. The article deals with the conflict issues of marriage, as well as the contractual regime of a property of spouses. The article reveals the content of the Minsk and Chisinau conventions on property relations between spouses. In particular, the conventions say that the property relations between spouses are determined by the legislation of the Contracting Party in whose territory they live together. If the husband lives in one Contracting State and the wife in the other and both have the same nationality, the law of the country of which they are nationals governs their property relations. Attention is paid to bilateral agreements on legal assistance to States in the field of property relations between spouses. For example, such an agreement exists between Russia and Estonia, and it helps to resolve various property issues between spouses. The domestic legislation of different States regulates the issue of determining the regime of matrimonial property in different ways. For example, in the States of the Anglo-Saxon legal system and in most Muslim countries there is only a regime of separate property. On the contrary, in the States of the Romano-German legal system, preference is given to the regime of the common property of spouses, and it is possible to establish a different regime of property relations by agreement of the spouses. According to this principle, and developing family law in Russia.

AbstractThis Special Issue on transnational labour law is placed in the context of the ILO centenary and the challenge of achieving the objective of decent work in a new century, under distinct transnational pressures. The author argues that international labour law, as the normative core of transnational labour law, can play a crucial role – in conjunction with a wide range of actors and the ILO in its standard‐setting and convenor capacities – in addressing this challenge and in reshaping the transnational legal architecture.

This special issue of Politik aims to widen the debate on Arctic security relations through a more comprehensive dialogue inclusive of the many different types of security, their interactions, and their challenges by using the theoretical approach of the Copenhagen School. A better understanding of security dynamics in the circumpolar North today demands a critical analysis of those changes through a multidisciplinary and multi-modal lens. Each chapter in this special issue provides one layer of that multimodal lens of Arctic security that, together, weave a complex web of change. This special issue therefore continues to move the discourse of polar security beyond – but not excluding – the conventional debates of military capabilities and state sovereignty towards a more comprehensive definition of security, including its interacting environmental, economic, political, health and cultural dimensions.

The traditional distinction between domestic and foreign politics, made by both decision-makers and analysts, is increasingly called into question by contemporary historical developments. The cold-war conflict and the attending mobilization of military, socioeconomic, and psychological resources by the superpowers and their allies; ventures of regional economic integration; the changing nature of the nation-state; the close connection between the conditions prevailing in the international system and the attempts made by the new states to modernize and to coalesce into viable societies—these are just a few examples of how foreign and domestic policy projects have become overlapping and perhaps entirely inseparable.

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In late 2020, news surfaced about one of the most extensive attacks on an information technology (IT) supply chain to date. Hackers exploited a vulnerability in the update system of Orion, a network-monitoring and management software developed by the company SolarWinds. Malicious code embedded in Orion updates created a backdoor into the systems used by numerous private and public entities. This backdoor was then used to insert additional malware into affected systems – in particular, spyware to exfiltrate confidential or sensitive data. Considering both the importance of preserving the integrity of IT supply chains and the diverse risks of harm that attacks such as the SolarWinds hack give rise to, this article examines this cyber operation according to the relevant rules of international law – notably those on sovereignty, non-intervention, general due diligence duties and international human rights law. It concludes that the operation may have been illegal on multiple fronts.

Ende 1989 gehörte die Republik Südafrika zu den am stärksten isolierten Staaten der Welt. Präsident F.W. de Klerk gelang es, diese Zwangsisolierung zu durchbrechen. Der Verfasser unterscheidet politisch-diplomatische, wirtschaftliche, sozio-kulturelle und militärische Isolierung, vergleicht Südafrika mit Israel, Chile und Taiwan. Bei der Schilderung der "Reintegration" zählt er neue diplomatische Beziehungen (zu Osteuropa, Marokko), wechselseitige Besuche und Reaktivierung der Mitgliedschaft in Internationalen Organisationen auf. Der Stand der Sanktionspolitik der Vereinten Nationen, der Europäischen Gemeinschaft, der USA, des Commonwealth, der OAU wird beschrieben, danach Außenhandel und Investitionen, Sportboykott, Luftverkehr und (kurz, speziell Waffenexporte) militärische Beziehungen. Abschließend wird die Frage gestellt, ob de Klerks Politik aus innerem Antrieb enstand oder vom Ausland erzwungen wurde: "...beide ziemlich parteiische Ansätze ... enthalten Elemente von Wahrheit...". Es wird vornehmlich auf südafrikanische Presse-Artikel verwiesen. (APA-Ans)