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An author who won the 4th Yomiuri Yoshino Sakuzo prize for his new book on international politics this year places the role of military might in international politics in historical perspective. (Gaiko Forum)

This study seeks to examine the factors that influence the adoption of ISAs, intending to stimulate establishing a responsible and efficient auditing regime in Libyan auditing practice, shedding light on challenges in auditing practices in the North African region. This study conducted semi-structured interviews with 43 participants that represented 5 key actors from within the auditing field in Libya, including preparers and users of annual reports. Regarding ISAs adoption, the study focused on those institutional isomorphism drivers that are found to produce a greater impact on the experience of auditing practice in Libya. The identified factors are (a) foreign corporations, such as accountancy firms, (b) economic systems and the stock market, (c) international financial institutions (IFIs), and (d) the legal system. The research demonstrated that these drivers systematically and consistently predict the level of ISAs adoption commitment and associated harmonisation. Given the growing interest in harmonising auditing practice not only by scholars but also by policy and decision-makers, the relevance of this research cannot be questioned since it addresses significant concerns and contributes to the development of an under-researched topic in Africa. This paper expands the literature on the importance of harmonising auditing practices and provides fresh insights into auditing practices in a politically unstable country. Awareness is also raised about the most relevant drivers of adopting ISAs and several implications for policymakers and regulators in pursuing international harmonisation of auditing standards.

Japan's changing international role / Mike M. Mochizuki -- The domestic foundations of Japan's international contribution / Masaru Kohno -- War renunciation, Article 9, and security policy / Jitsuo Tsuchiyama -- Participation in UN peacekeeping operations / Go Ito -- A defense posture for multilateral security / Michael O'Hanlon -- Adapting to global economic change / Edward J. Lincoln -- Building stable international financial relations / Yoshiko Kojo -- Responding to the Asian financial crisis / Juichi Inada -- The politics of memory in Japanese foreign relations / Thomas U. Berger -- The role of human rights: the case of Burma / Catharin Dalpino -- Dealing with a rising China / Mike M. Mochizuki -- The pragmatic liberalism of an adaptive state / Thomas U. Berger

Im Vergleich mit dem unter Chruscev verabschiedeten 3. KPdSU-Programm vom 31.10.61 analysieren die Autoren die außenpolitischen Akzentverschiebungen des Gorbacev-Programmentwurfs vom 15.10.85 im Hinblick auf die Perzeption des internationalen Kräfteverhältnisses, die Bewertung der Folgen eines globalen Krieges und die Rolle von Entspannung und Kooperation. (BIOst-Hml)

Wege in die Welt der Sozialen Arbeit Seit 1990 sind eine Reihe von Änderungen in der Internationalen Gemeinschaft bzw. dem UN-System erfolgt. Diese Änderungen haben eine Beteiligung von AbsolventInnen psychosozialer Fächer an den Aufgaben dieser Gemeinschaft möglich, wenn nicht sogar notwendig gemacht. Es wird aufgezeigt, wie sich Interessierte auf Tätigkeiten im UN-System, in Internationalen NGOs und anderen Organisationen vorbereiten können. In diesem Buch geht es um Organisation, Arbeitsweise und Handlungsfelder der Internationalen Gemeinschaft. Die Autorin zeigt auf, welche Änderungen im System der Vereinten Nationen erfolgt sind und wie es sich geöffnet hat – nicht nur den Nichtregierungsorganisationen gegenüber, sondern auch für AbsolventInnen der psychosozialen Studiengänge, die sich heute mit mehr Aussicht auf Erfolg als früher um Stellen im UN-System bewerben können. Das Buch kann als Vorbereitung für eine Bewerbung im UN-System dienen: Die Ausführungen zur 'Ausgangslage' im ersten Kapitel skizzieren vorrangig die Lage der Sozialen Arbeit in Deutschland. Die weiteren Kapitel zu den internationalen Organisationen, den zwischenstaatlichen wie auch den Nichtregierungsorganisation sind auch für AbsolventInnen anderer psychosozialer Fächer interessant: Das komplexe System der internationalen Zusammenarbeit wird lebendig erklärt und durch zahlreiche aussagekräftige Praxisbeispiele anschaulich gemacht. Es werden konkrete Tipps zur Organisation und Schwerpunktsetzung des Studiums und zu Hilfen und Förderungen gegeben. Die Melange aus sachlicher Information und persönlichem Erzählen, die hier gewählt wurde, macht' die Welt' für die LeserInnen dieses Buches tatsächlich erreichbar. Aus dem Inhalt Bedeutung des Themas für und in Deutschland Der Bologna-Prozess, deutsche Besonderheiten, europäische Unterschiede und die Master in Sozialer Arbeit Das UN-System, Organe und Organisationen Der NGO-Boom Die Hauptakteure und ihre Relevanz für die psychosozialen Berufe Wege in die Welt – ein praktischer Wegweiser. Prof. Dr. Angelika Groterath, Diplom-Psychologin und Psychologische Psychotherapeutin, Professorin und Auslandsbeauftragte, Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften und Soziale Arbeit, Hochschule Darmstadt.

The M. H. Ross Papers contain information pertaining to labor, politics, social issues of the twentieth century, coal mining and its resulting lifestyle, as well as photographs and audio materials. The collection is made up of five different accessions; L2001-05, which is contained in boxes one through 104, L2002-09 in boxes 106 through 120, L2006-16 in boxes 105 and 120, L2001-01 in boxes 120-121, and L2012-20 in boxes 122-125. The campaign materials consist of items from the 1940 and 1948 political campaigns in which Ross participated. These items include campaign cards, posters, speech transcripts, news clippings, rally materials, letters to voters, and fliers. Organizing and arbitration materials covers labor organizing events from "Operation Dixie" in Georgia, the furniture workers in North Carolina, and the Mine-Mill workers in the Western United States. Organizing materials include fliers, correspondence, news articles, radio transcripts, and some related photos. Arbitration files consist of agreements, decisions, and agreement booklets. The social and political research files cover a wide time period (1930's to the late 1970's/early 1980's). The topics include mainly the Ku Klux Klan, racism, Communism, Red Scare, red baiting, United States history, and literature. These files consist mostly of news and journal articles. Ross interacted with coal miners while doing work for the United Mine Workers Association (UMWA) and while working at the Fairmont Clinic in West Virginia. Included in these related files are books, news articles, journals, UMWA reports, and coal miner oral histories conducted by Ross. Tying in to all of the activities Ross participated in during his life were his research and manuscript files. He wrote numerous newspaper and journal articles on history and labor. Later, as he worked for the UMWA and at the Fairmont Clinic, he wrote more in-depth articles about coal miners, their lifestyle, and medical problems they faced (while the Southern Labor Archives has many of Ross's coal mining and lifestyle articles, it does not have any of his medical articles). Along with these articles are the research files Ross collected to write them, which consist of notes, books, and newspaper and journal articles. In additional to his professional career, Ross was adamant about documenting his and his wife's family history in the oral history format. Of particular interest are the recordings of his interviews with his wife's family - they were workers, musicians, and singers of labor and folk songs. Finally, in this collection are a number of photographs and slides, which include images of organizing, coal mining (from the late 19th through 20th centuries), and Appalachia. Of note is a small photo album from the 1930s which contains images from the Summer School for Workers, and more labor organizing. A few audio items are available as well, such as Ross political speeches and an oral history in which Ross was interviewed by his daughter, Jane Ross Davis in 1986. All photographic and audio-visual materials are at the end of their respective series. ; Myron Howard "Mike" Ross was born November 9, 1919 in New York City. He dropped out of school when he was seventeen and moved to Texas, where he worked on a farm. From 1936 until 1939, Ross worked in a bakery in North Carolina. In the summer of 1938, he attended the Southern School for Workers in Asheville, North Carolina. During the fall of 1938, Ross would attend the first Southern Conference on Human Welfare in Birmingham, Alabama. He would attend this conference again in 1940 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. From 1939 to 1940, Ross worked for the United Mine Workers Non-Partisan League in North Carolina, working under John L. Lewis. He was hired as a union organizer by the United Mine Workers of America, and sent to Saltville, Virginia and Rockwood, Tennessee. In 1940, Ross ran for a seat on city council on the People's Platform in Charlotte, North Carolina. During this time, he also married Anne "Buddie" West of Kennesaw, Georgia. From 1941 until 1945, Ross served as an infantryman for the United States Army. He sustained injuries near the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944. From 1945 until 1949, Ross worked for the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, then part of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), as a union organizer. He was sent to Macon, Georgia, Savannah, Georgia and to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he worked with the United Furniture Workers Union. He began handling arbitration for the unions. In 1948, Ross ran for United States Congress on the Progressive Party ticket in North Carolina. He also served as the secretary for the North Carolina Progressive Party. Ross attended the University of North Carolina law school from 1949 to 1952. He graduated with honors but was denied the bar on the grounds of "character." From 1952 until 1955, he worked for the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers as a union organizer, first in New Mexico (potash mines) and then in Arizona (copper mines). From 1955 to 1957, Ross attended the Columbia University School of Public Health. He worked for the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund from 1957 to 1958, where he represented the union in expenditure of health care for mining workers. By 1958, Ross began plans for what would become the Fairmont Clinic, a prepaid group practice in Fairmont, West Virginia, which had the mission of providing high quality medical care for miners and their families. From 1958 until 1978, Ross served as administrator of the Fairmont Clinic. As a result of this work, Ross began researching coal mining, especially coal mining lifestyle, heritage and history of coal mining and disasters. He would interview over one hundred miners (coal miners). Eventually, Ross began writing a manuscript about the history of coal mining. Working for the Rural Practice Program of the University of North Carolina from 1980 until 1987, Ross taught in the medical school. M. H. Ross died on January 31, 1987 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. ; Digitization of the M. H. Ross Papers was funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Abstract: Have international courts been too conservative in handling environmental cases? The overall conclusion is obvious: progressive arguments about the environment do not normally appeal to States, and they are therefore not made in court. The very considerable progress in developing international environmental law we have witnessed in the thirty years since I started writing on the subject has not been led by courts or tribunals. Inter-State litigation is an important and useful tool in upholding the rule of law, affirming the development of a coherent body of law, and applying it to the facts, but it is not the way to answer the problems posed by those who seek better, more progressive, or more radical solutions to the world's many environmental problems. For that we must turn to governments and international institutions. Stronger political action on achieving the objectives of multilateral environmental agreements is what the world needs to tackle its growing environmental crisis, not more law-making or more litigation.

The Handbook surveys operational approaches to poverty reduction mostly within the World Bank and provides a framework for (1) analyzing poverty and preparing country poverty assessments, (2) designing country assistance strategies that support country efforts to reduce poverty, and (3) measuring and monitoring progress. The Operational Directive provides practical suggestions for strengthening the focus of the World Bank's operations on poverty reduction. (DÜI-Hff)