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The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy is an annual publication which provides a comprehensive overview of current developments in the international investment law and policy field, focusing on recent trends and issues in foreign direct investment (FDI), investment treaty practice, and investor-state arbitration. Today, international investment law consists of a network of multifaceted, multilayered international treaties that, in one way or another, involve virtually every country of the world. The evolution of this network raises a host of issues regarding international investment law and policy, especially in the area of international investment disputes. The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2012-2013 monitors current developments in international investment law and policy, focusing on recent trends and issues in foreign direct investment (FDI). With contributions by leading experts in the field, this title provides timely, authoritative information on FDI that can be used by a wide audience, including practitioners, academics, researchers, and policy makers. Contributions to the Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2012-2013 cover the 2012-2013 trends in international investment agreements, the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) trends, and the challenge of investment policies for outward FDI, as well as a review of 2012 international investment law and arbitration. This edition contains essays from the Symposium on Sustainable Development and International Investment Law: Bridging the Divide. Also included are general articles providing an analysis of arbitral tribunal practice regarding the applicable law to state contracts under the ICSID Convention in the Twenty First Century; the role of municipal laws in investment arbitration; the status of state-controlled entities under international investment law, the US and the Trans-Pacific partnership (TPP); new 2012 US Model BITs; and the Regulation of FDI in Bolivia. This volume concludes with the winning memorials from the 2012 FDI International Moot Competition. ; https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/sustainable_investment_books/1013/thumbnail.jpg

Der Demokratischen Republik Kongo droht in den nächsten zwei Jahren eine weitere Destabilisierung. Vor dem Hintergrund ohnehin sehr fragiler Verhältnisse wird der für 2015/16 anstehende Zyklus von sechs Wahlen die Spannungen im Land verschärfen. Im Fokus der Aufmerksamkeit stehen die Parlaments- und Präsidentschaftswahlen, gerade weil offen ist, ob und wann diese überhaupt stattfinden werden. Über allem hängt die Frage, ob Präsident Joseph Kabila nach zwei Amtszeiten abtreten wird. Die internationale Gemeinschaft sollte die Wahlen nur unterstützen, wenn die Regierung und die Wahlkommission ein glaubhaftes Interesse an freien und fairen Wahlen zeigen. Dies ist nicht erkennbar. Wahlen sind per se keine Garantie für die Stabilisierung des Landes. Aber ohne Wahlen, die Mindeststandards erfüllen, scheint selbst ein mittelfristiger Abzug der VN-Friedensmission MONUSCO, wie jüngst vom VN-Sicherheitsrat thematisiert, kaum denkbar. (SWP-Aktuell)

AbstractThe International Social Security Association is marking this year its 60th Anniversary, and this is an appropriate time to consider and evaluate the organization's work. Does the apparatus of Committees, reports and a triennial Assembly justify the cost of participation by members, ultimately borne by contributors or taxpayers? The paper gives a brief history of ISSA and its forerunners, describes the working methods, gives an account of the 22nd Assembly held in 1986 in Montreal, and concludes with an assessment of its efficacy.

Das International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) ist ein länderübergreifendes, fortlaufendes Umfrageprogramm, das jährlich Erhebungen zu Themen durchführt, die für die Sozialwissenschaften wichtig sind. Das Programm begann 1984 mit vier Gründungsmitgliedern - Australien, Deutschland, Großbritannien und den Vereinigten Staaten - und ist inzwischen auf fast 50 Mitgliedsländer aus aller Welt angewachsen. Da die Umfragen auf Replikationen ausgelegt sind, können die Daten sowohl für länder- als auch für zeitübergreifende Vergleiche genutzt werden. Jedes ISSP-Modul konzentriert sich auf ein bestimmtes Thema, das in regelmäßigen Zeitabständen wiederholt wird. Details zur Durchführung der nationalen ISSP-Umfragen entnehmen Sie bitte der Dokumentation. Die vorliegende Studie konzentriert sich auf Fragen zu sozialer Ungleichheit.

Examines how the end of the Cold war confrontation has set the stage for an enhanced role for intergovernmental organizations, making an overhaul of the International Civil Service (ICS) urgent. The legacy of the first-generation ICS is briefly reviewed & the transfer of this model to the second-generation ICS, now a body of around 100,000 functionaries at 7 main duty stations, is described. Internal rifts & external images of the ICS are discussed & attention is directed at the democratic deficit & the identity deficit of international civil servants. The challenges of field operations & the temptations of regionalism are explored. Fresh opportunities are discussed for a transition to a third-generation ICS to rationalize the prevailing ramshackle, accretive structures of the second generation & meet pragmatic world needs. 3 Photographs. AA

This article advances the discussion of the contentious question of links between global inequalities of power and violent responses, focussing on globalisation and non‐inclusive forms of governance. Drawing on international political economy, the article criticises the "nationstate‐centrism" in much political discourse, suggesting that both authority and security need to be reconsidered — to account for less plausible national borders and controls. It suggests that "human security" (including issues of development and equality) ought to replace "national security" as the primary focus of public policy. It draws attention to the intractability of difference, insisting that the terrorism of 2001 has complex transnational antecedents. Realist approaches to international order have become part of a problem to be overcome through further intellectual debate.

We develop a simple search equilibrium model of workplace training and education based on two features. First, investment in education improves job-related learning skills and reduces training costs burdened by firms. Second, firms with vacant skilled job slots can choose between recruitment from the market and training. Compared to Germany and Japan, the US has both a higher inflow rate into unemployment and a higher efficiency of the matching process. While the combined effort of these differences on the share of educated labor is ambiguous, the effect on the percentage of firms undertaking workplace training is to unambiguously reduce it.