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Annotation Written for those involved in the markets who have always found that there was never one central source for a comprehensive treatment of the international rice market. It brings together information from a wide variety of international sources, and includes discussion of the various elusive companies' peripheral to the market, such as grain and freight companies. This is essential reading for all involved with international affairs in general and for governments and other agencies concerned with vital international food distribution questions as well as economists and those directly involved in the trade

Who Owns the Preah Vihear Temple? A Cambodian Position -- Who Owns the Preah Vihear Temple? A Thai Position -- Combating Terrorism and the Use of Force against a State: A Relook at the Contemporary World Order -- Application of the Law of Self-Determination in a Postcolonial Context: A Guideline -- Scenarios of the China's ADIZs above the South China Sea -- Natural Disaster in Armed Conflict Area: The Implementation of the Doctrine of Responsibility to Protect in the ASEAN -- Regulating Ballistic Missile Usage for Ensuring Civil Aviation Safety: As a Matter of Urgency -- The Future of Informalism in the Economic Integration of ASEAN -- Rule of Law as a Framework within the ASEAN Community -- The Harmonization of Competition Laws towards the ASEAN Economic Integration -- The ASEAN Single Shipping Market: Towards a Regional Cabotage Regime -- Free Movement of Judgments in Cross-Border Money Laundering Crimes: A Legal Stance toward the ASEAN Legal Integration -- Vietnam's Position on the Sovereignty over the Paracels & the Spratlys: Its Maritime Claims -- The Philippine Claim to Bajo de Masinloc in the Context of the South China Sea Dispute -- Maritime Boundary Disputes between Indonesia and Malaysia in the Area of Ambalat Block: Some Optional Scenarios for Peaceful Settlement -- The Dispute between Malaysia and Indonesia over the ND6 and ND7 Sea Blocks: A Malaysian Perspective -- Legal Framework on the Marine Environment Protection of Straits used for International Navigation: Has It Been Effective in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore?.

I. In the field of international law every subject generally acts in person, through its own organs, without resorting to cooperation with other subjects. However, international practice shows that members of the community of nations sometimes act on behalf of other members, with the legal effect that the transactions performed by the acting subject in the name and for the account of the other have for the latter the same legal consequences as if it had acted in person. This happens, for example, when a state, duly authorized, concludes through its own organs a treaty for another state: the latter is thus bound by the treaty exactly in the same way as if it had concluded the treaty itself, through its own organs. This legal phenomenon implies a split between the immediately acting international person and the person to whom the legal effects of these acts are imputed.

PurposeInternational mindedness (IM) is a core element of International Baccalaureate (IB) programs. Implementation of IM varies with the type of international school and where the IB school is situated. This article seeks to understand the tensions that three teachers experienced while teaching the IB Diploma Program history curriculum.Design/methodology/approachFor this study, three IB teachers examined their experiences teaching the history curriculum. This article offers relevant research on the difficulties in implementing IM and the following tensions: (1) situating the IB curriculum; (2) with hegemonic privilege and (3) in high-stakes testing.FindingsIM can be integrated into the history curriculum to make the history curriculum relevant for the global community. While each interviewee enjoys teaching in the IB program and believes the IB history curriculum offers opportunity for IM, they also feel the history curriculum would benefit from modification. Each interviewee's points of view bring a relevancy and an authenticity for why tensions exist when teaching IB diploma history.Originality/valueThere is a gap of research in how and to what extent teachers implement IM into the IB high school history curriculum. Further, teachers' views regarding the IB history curriculum and whether the history curriculum facilitates one's teaching IM is largely anecdotal. Thus, this study is unique in its offering three interviews by IB high school history teachers on IM and the tensions they feel when teaching about and attempting to implement IM.

As a mark of its deep gratitude to Mr. Hans Bachmann, who was recently nominated an honorary member, the ICRC has awarded him its silver medal. Mr. Bachmann was presented with the medal on 7 April 1976 at an informal meeting. In his address of thanks to his fellowmembers, he said:"When,early in 1942, Carl-J. Burchkardt agreed that I should join the International Committee as a novice—who had everything to learn— it proved to be a major blessing in my life ! The extraordinary personality of this exceptional man, the warmth of his heart, his sense of true proportions, his perspicacity in judging men and events—everything in him added up to make him a master who guides us through the whole course of our existence. His conception of the mission of the Red Cross— simple and effective provision of aid to those in distress—was in keeping with what he himself deeply felt. He placed the high competence he had acquired as a diplomat entirely at the service of a humanitarian task, and he believed that the art of diplomacy had to be performed with that same instinct with which natives found their way through virgin forests.

"Die Bismarcksche Sozialversicherung ist ein Erfolgsmodell des Industriezeitalters, das viele Nachahmer gefunden hat. Doch in den letzten Jahrzehnten ist Kritik an diesem Modell aufgekommen. Sie konzentriert sich auf drei institutionelle Eigenschaften des Systems: Die Betonung von Geldleistungen gegenüber Sachleistungen, die sogenannte Arbeitnehmerzentrierung und die Finanzierung über Beiträge auf Arbeit passen danach nicht in eine Umwelt, die durch Deindustrialisierung, steigende Frauenerwerbstätigkeit, die Auflösung des Normalarbeitsverhältnisses und eine sinkende Arbeitseinkommensquote gekennzeichnet ist. Der Beitrag bietet anhand von quantitativen Indikatoren einen international vergleichenden Überblick über die Probleme und die Anpassungsschritte, die in den Sozialversicherungsländern in der Periode von 1990 bis heute unternommen wurden. Es zeigt sich, dass Deutschland in einigen Bereichen tatsächlich einen Reformbedarf aufweist, für den die nachfolgenden Beiträge des Schwerpunkthefts Vorschläge erarbeiten." (Autorenreferat)

The Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) held its eighteenth annual meeting in Washington, D.C., from September 30 through October 4, 1963, under the chairmanship of Mr. Emilio Colombo, Governor for Italy. Introducing the annual report, Mr. Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, the new Chairman of the Executive Board and Managing Director of the Fund, welcomed the governors of the twenty member countries which had joined the Fund since the last annual meeting: Algeria, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Leopoldville), Dahomey, Gabon, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, and Upper Volta. With the addition of these new members the Fund had a total membership of 102. Mr. Schweitzer commented that in the fiscal year ended in April 1963 eighteen countries had purchased the equivalent of $580 million from the Fund and the equivalent of $807 million had been received in repurchases. Both purchases and repurchases were less than in the previous fiscal year when the United Kingdom had made a very large drawing. The Fund had also made stand-by arrangements with twenty countries under which $1.8 billion was available, including the recently renewed stand-by arrangement of $1.0 billion with the United Kingdom and the $500 million stand-by arrangement with the United States.

A mission sent by the International Monetary Fund to India, at the request of that government, to study monetary and financial problems arising from the Indian government's five-year development plan, said that $400 million would be needed to complete the program, according to a report released on February 7, 1954. The report indicated that this financing might be sought internally as well as through foreign assistance. The mission regarded the program, which was estimated to call for a total investment of $7 billion, as "essential to the well-being of the people of India and … important to the survival of democracy in Asia". While grants-in-aid would have a better economic effect than borrowing to obtain the necessary foreign aid, the report noted, the Indian economy was sound and should be able to borrow abroad if need be. Among the special problems covered in the report was the unpredictability of an adequate food supply; the mission recommended that India conclude special arrangements with the United States, Canada and Australia for a supply of wheat to meet "any extraordinary future needs". In presenting the report to the Indian Parliament, the Indian government welcomed the Fund's study but made it clear that it was not committed to its recommendations.

The report of the Director-General on the work of the International Refugee Organization since July 1,1948 stated that by December 1948, IRO had received 1,000,000 applications for assistance. The main factors contributing to the high rate of intake were: 1) the large number of applications from persons who, employed in Germany and Austria, had not previously required IRO assistance, but who, as a result of widespread unemployment appearing immediately after the currency reforms, were unable to support themselves or their families; and 2) the influx of new refugees from eastern Europe. The administrative restriction upon the admission of new cases only on proof of hardship had been maintained. The figure for new admissions to care and maintenance had reached an average of 8,000 per month, including approximately 1,100 births. Despite a high rate of new admissions, the total number of refugees receiving care and maintenance, rather than simply help in resettlement or repatriation, had diminished at a rate of 10,000 or more per month. Of the major national or ethnic groups, the Jewish group had declined most rapidly, reflecting principally departures for Israel. In addition to those persons receiving care and maintenance, there were 191,232 refugees registered for IRO services. This brought to a total 715,091 persons receiving IRO assistance at the end of December 1948.