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International Taxation of Banking' introduces and analyses the international tax issues which relate to international banking activities. Banking is an increasingly global business, with a complex network of international transactions within multinational groups and with international customers. This book provides a thorough, practical analysis of international taxation issues as they affect the banking industry, and it includes the structures used in bank treasury operations and transfer pricing issues for multinational banking groups

New technologies, falling transportation costs, improvements in education, and increased opportunities for international business contributed to economic growth. Without political stability, however, world trade could not have flourished at a steady and healthy rate.

There has been an almost 50% increase in the volume of major conventional arms transfers over the past four years, reversing a downward trend after 1997. The USA and Russia were the largest suppliers in the five-year period 2002-2006, each accounting for around 30% of global deliveries. Exports from European Union (EU) members to non-EU countries accounted for just over 20% of global deliveries. Because of its very limited internal market, the Russian arms industry remains heavily dependent on exports -- most newly produced weapons in Russia are exported -- to maintain an arms industry and fund development of new weapons and technology. This limits the possibility that Russia will exercise restraint in its arms exports. The arms industries of the USA and EU members are in general far less export dependent. China and India remained the largest arms importers in the world. Also among the top 10 importers were five Middle Eastern countries. While much media attention was given to arms deliveries to Iran, mainly from Russia, deliveries from the USA and European countries to Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were significantly larger. Especially worrisome are deliveries of long-range conventional strike systems to these states and the effects this may have on regional stability. Because the development of large weapon systems is becoming increasingly costly, nearly all countries have become or soon will become dependent on other countries for weapons or weapon technology. This could lead to mutual dependency -- as in US-Europe relations -- or to one-sided dependency, as is the case for most developing countries. Some countries may be unwilling to accept dependency or be unable to access arms and technology. They may try, at high economic cost, to become autonomous in arms production or may focus on relatively cheap alternative weapons such as weapons of mass destruction, or war-fighting strategies such as terrorism and IT warfare. The problem of controlling state supplies of weapons to rebel groups, while not new, was highlighted in 2006 by the arsenal acquired by Hezbollah from Iran and used in its war with Israel, and by serious breaches by state actors of the UN arms embargo on Somalia. Transparency in arms transfers, which in the 1990s saw significant improvement, with more and better national export reports, has remained stagnant in the past few years. Adapted from the source document.

This book presents papers on different perspectives in tackling the economic, racial and other injustices which generate conflict. The papers infer that the nuclear threat provides the most urgent manifestation of the inadequacy of war as a means of resolving differences between nations.

Propaganda is persuasive COMM, as are advertising, educ, & pol'al campaigning. Propaganda differs from the latter in source, purpose, & target. Most of the internat'l activity that goes by the name of propaganda, however, is not persuasive COMM but is what the author refers to as facilitative COMM. The latter is effective if & when it opens up channels of COMM with a potential audience. Persuasive COMM, which comprises a minute part of the activity of modern propaganda agencies, is effective only to the extent that it achieves an articulate objective. To accomplish this, the propagandist must not only have control of the propaganda vehicle but must be able to predict the outcome of his activities. Unfortunately, although a great deal of res has been done on the effects of COMM & a fair amount of theory has been developed, the propagandist is still shooting in the dark. HA.

Due Diligence in International Law identifies due diligence as the missing link between state responsibility and international liability. Acknowledged in all legal fields, it ensures international peaceful cooperation and prevents significant transboundary harm, yet it has thus far not been comprehensively discussed in literature. The present volume fills this void. Kulesza identifies due diligence as a principle of international law and traces its evolution throughout centuries. The no-harm principle, key to identifying responsibility for transboundary harm, focal to international environmental law and applicable to e.g. combating terrorism, follows states' obligation of due diligence in preventing foreign harm. This obligation, present in various treaty-based and customary regimes is argued to be a principle of international public law applicable to all obligations of conduct.

Ansichten zu verschiedenen Ländern, Beurteilung der amerikanischen und
sowjetischen Politik sowie das USA-Bild der Deutschen.

Themen: Wichtigste Probleme der BRD; Einstellung zu England,
Frankreich, Schweden, Niederlande, China, Amerika und Sowjetunion;
gewünschte politische Orientierung der BRD; Beurteilung der
sowjetischen Außenpolitik, der Friedensbemühungen der Supermächte, der
Kriegsgefahr und der allgemeinen Erfolge der Westmächte und der
kommunistischen Mächte; Einstellung zur amerikanischen bzw.
sowjetischen Hilfe für Afrika und zur Ausweitung des Osthandels;
Einstellung zur Vereinigung Europas, zur Atomenergie und zu
Atomwaffenversuchen; Beurteilung der Abrüstungsbemühungen; Einstellung
zu Konflikten in den früheren Besitzungen Englands, Frankreichs und der
Niederlande; Einstellung zum Sozialismus, Kommunismus und Kapitalismus
(Skala); gewünschte Übereinstimmung des Wirtschaftssystems der BRD mit
dem der USA; Beurteilung des Begriffs ´Jedermann-Kapitalismus´ und
verschiedener Bereiche des amerikanischen Lebens; Kenntnis der
Rassenprobleme in den USA und ihre Auswirkungen auf das Bild von
Amerika; Parteipräferenz; Mitgliedschaft in einer Gewerkschaft.

Demographie: Alter (klassiert); Geschlecht; Familienstand;
Schulbildung; Beruf; Haushaltseinkommen; Haushaltungsvorstand;
Bundesland.

Interviewerrating: Schichtzugehörigkeit und Kooperationsbereitschaft
des Befragten; Anzahl der Kontaktversuche.

Zusätzlich verkodet wurde: Intervieweridentifikation; Intervieweralter
und Interviewergeschlecht; Ortsgröße.