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Shrinking the state : neoliberal economists and social spending in Latin America / Jeffrey M. Chwieroth -- The meaning of development : constructing the World Bank's good governance agenda / Catherine Weaver -- Institutionalized hypocrisy and the politics of agricultural trade / Mlada Bukovansky -- Frames, scripts, and the making of regional trade areas / Francesco Duina -- Imagined economies : constructivist political economy, nationalism and economic-based sovereignty movements in Russia / Yoshiko M. Herrera -- Firm interests in uncertain times : business lobbying in multilateral service liberalization / Cornelia Woll -- Trade-offs and trinities : social forces and monetary cooperation / Wesley W. Widmaier -- Moby Dick or Moby Doll? : discourse, or, how to study the "social construction of" all the way down / Charlotte Epstein -- Bringing power back in : the IMF's new constructivist strategy in critical perspective / Jacqueline Best -- The ethical investor, embodied economies, and international political economy / Paul Langley

With contributions by a variety of internationally distinguished scholars on international law, world trade, business law and development, this unique examination of the roles of China and India in the new world economy adopts the perspectives of international economic law and comparative law. The two countries are compared with respect to issues concerning trade and development, the World Trade Organization, international dispute settlement, regional/free trade agreements, outsourcing, international investment, foreign investment, corporate governance, competition law and policy, and law and development in general. The findings demonstrate that, though their domestic approaches to economic issues diverge, China and India adopt similar stances at the international level on many major issues, recapturing images which existed during the immediate post-colonial era. Cooperation between China and India could provide leadership in the struggle for economic development in developing countries

chapter 1 Institutional challenges for China's business reforms in a globalized econom -- chapter 2 Industrial restructuring and corporate governance in China's large-scale state-owned enterprises -- chapter 3 Regional comparative analysis of China's banking system -- chapter 4 Solving agency problems in a cross-border environment -- chapter 5 Foreign banks-market entry and foreign investment -- chapter 6 Accounting for intangible assets and the relevance of financial statements in developed and emerging capital markets: Australia and China -- chapter 7 Changing structure of Chinese enterprises and human resource management practices in China -- chapter 8 The management of human resources in Shanghai -- chapter 9 SECTION THREE -- chapter 10 Pension reform in China: imperatives, constraints and outcomes -- chapter 11 Globalization and occupational health and safety regulation in China -- chapter 12 SECTION FOUR -- chapter 13 Raw entrepreneurship and the rise of the new private sector in western China.

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on the Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Rational Choice and the Governance Structure of the European Union: An Introduction -- 2 Maastricht and the Democratic Deficit -- Comment -- 3 Comment Peter Moser Policy Making and Commission Appointment in theEuropean Union -- Comment -- 4 Beyond Comitology: A Comparative Analysis of Implementation Procedures with Parliamentary Involvement -- Comment -- 5 European Union Power and Regional Involvement: A Case Study of the Political Implications of the Reform of the Structural Funds for Ireland -- Comment -- 6 Political Accountability in an Economic and Monetary Union -- Comment -- 7 Explaining the Centralization of the European Union: A Public Choice Analysis -- Comment -- 8 Government Formation in the European Parliament -- Comment -- 9 Decision-Making in the European Union: The Power of Political Parties -- Comment -- 10 Integration through Referendums? -- Comment -- Index.

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Public and political controversies over Investor–State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) have prompted reform processes in international investment law, at bilateral, regional and multilateral levels, with different actors shaping the future of international investment governance. In its essence, the options for the ISDS reform reflect the diverging perspectives on the rule of law in international law. Ultimately, they present a choice about who should control power over States' action in issues of public importance – the States who have created the system, or international investment tribunals who have shaped the legal development of the system. This paper considers the application of the rule of law as a normative meta-principle to international investment law and its dispute settlement, and it sheds light on different perspectives of this concept, as they shape the ongoing ISDS reform(s).

In the 1940s the Afghan dynasty in Kabul and newly independent rulers in Pakistan did not meet the challenges of building enduring representative political institutions and sustainable national economies. The dynamics of post-war globalized political and economic relationships undermined perceived elements of colonial-era stability. Borderland individuals and communities buffeted by post-war uncertainties and traumas from the Partition of British-India in August 1947 often ignored or resisted state-building efforts too often seen as lacking political legitimacy or local benefit. State institutional failures of governance in the 1970s that preceded subsequent decades of regional instability were foreshadowed in the 1940s. By 1950, the working of global capital, including in the form of American corporate interests, complicated any state notions that foreign funded economic development schemes might substitute for substantial structural political and social reforms.

Reconstruction, after slavery and the Civil War, helped lay down the foundation of what we call Constitutional Democracy in America. As the world wars ended, countries woke up after a long oppressive night of bad dreams. These "undeveloped states" of the post-postcolonial heritage have evolved into the so-called Third World, aka, the "underdeveloped" or "developing" nations. There is a developmental dialectic in the becoming of these "welfare states" striving for democratic governance for progressive social change. A general rubric of reconstruction or "nation building" is usually referred to as Social Development (SD) with implicit specificity of regional goals. This article is a critique of the developmental processes which have impacted human lives and social structures in the global North and South with emphasis on the American history, racial ideology, and political structuralism, loosely entitled "Third Reconstruction."

This article seeks to explain the variables which promote military coups in Africa in the new millennium. The study adopts historical research design and is grounded on the theory of Human Security. Data are sourced from secondary sources and presented qualitatively. These data are analyzed with content analysis techniques. This study identifies relics of authoritarianism, weak democratic structures, failure of democracy, and poor regional and global democratic governance, as well as indiscipline in the armed forces as reasons for recurrence of military coups in Africa. It therefore concludes that coup making could be checked and recommends the criminalization of coup plotting globally with deterrence punitive measures. Besides, African states need to address the socio-political and economic factors, as well as other human security variables which justify military intervention in their respective domains.

AbstractGendered migration governance has emerged as a key modality through which South Asian countries mobilise and manage women migrant workers. This involves complex policy articulations encompassing the restriction, protection and promotion of migration. Through analysis of state discourse and stakeholder responses in India and Sri Lanka, we examine how policies of labour‐sending states co‐produce and compound migrant vulnerability by displacing responsibility for risk‐management onto individual migrants and intermediaries. We suggest that institutional constraints on women's exit coalesce with structural inequalities at the regional level to exacerbate precarity during the course of migration, reducing potential economic gains from migration while heightening individual risk. The paper concludes by identifying the need for gender‐responsive, evidence‐based policy frameworks to promote safe migration and provide inclusive local employment alternatives.

The performance of individual international organizations (IOs) has received considerable scholarly attention, not in the least because their importance for global governance. This paper adds to this body of work by adopting genuine comparative lenses. Based on a novel survey, it assesses the attributed performance of 49 IOs over two important dimensions: problem-solving effectiveness and legitimacy of outputs. This reveals variation between IOs with respect to both components. We derive hypotheses from international cooperation and IO design. The quantitative analysis reveals that except deliberative diplomatic practices many factors increasing attributed legitimacy differ from the ones increasing the attributed problem-solving effectiveness. Most notably, autonomous secretariats increase the problem-solving effectiveness attributed to IOs. Legitimacy attributions increase when IOs are regional instead of global in nature and when non-state actors have access to IO decision-making.

The regional autonomy system has a great impact on the Indonesian local government to create good governance so as to prevent corruption. This study aims to examine the impact of detection of irregularities, audit opinion, and audit rectification on the level of corruption in provincial governments in Indonesia. The data collected in this research was the audit report of the Audit Board of the Republic of Indonesia and the annual report of The Corruption Eradication Commission in 34 provinces in 2015-2019. Further, the data was analyzed using multiple linear regression. The results indicate that the detection of irregularities and audit rectification has a positive impact on the level of corruption, while the irregularities and audit opinion do not have impact on the level of corruption. These results are expected to encourage the government to strengthen its financial supervision system.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the role of Australian climate scientists in advancing the state of knowledge about the causes and mechanisms of climatic change and variability in the Southern Hemisphere during the 1970 and 1980s.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses the methods and insights of environmental history and the history of science to analyse archival and published data pertaining to research on atmospheric pollution, the Southern Oscillation and the regional impacts of climate change.FindingsAustralia's geopolitical position, political interests and environmental sensitivities encouraged Australian scientists and policymakers to take a leading role in the Southern Hemisphere in the study of global environmental change.Originality/valueThis article builds on critiques of the ways in which planetary and global knowledge and governance disguise the local and situated scientific and material processes that construct, sustain and configure them.

The article presents an analysis of the powers of the Republic of Serbia Constitutional Court to resolve competency and electoral disputes. The leading method in this study is the system analysis, which allows a comprehensive review of the system of measures and procedures aimed at implementing the dispute resolution function of the constitutional justice body of Serbia. Analyzing the evolution of the organizational process and the expansion of the practice of Serbian Constitutional Court, the author concluded that the modern constitutional legislation of the Republic of Serbia provided the judicial constitutional control body with sufficiently effective capabilities to resolve a wide range of legal disputes to protect the principles of the rule of law, constitutionality, legitimacy, and separation of powers, as well as rights to regional autonomy and local governance.

This handbook offers a critical assessment of the African agenda for conflictprevention, peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding; the challengesand opportunities facing Africa's regional organisations in their effortstowards building sustainable peace on the continent; and the role ofexternal actors, including the United Nations, Britain, France, and SouthAsian troop-contributing countries. In so doing, it revisits the late AliMazrui's concept of Pax Africana, calling on Africans to take responsibilityfor peace and security on their own continent. The creation of the AfricanUnion, in 2002, was an important step towards realising this ambition, andhas led to the development of a new continental architecture for morerobust conflict management. But, as the volume's authors show, the questfor Pax Africana faces challenges. Combining thematic analyses and casestudies, this book will be of interest to both scholars and policymakersworking on peace, security, and governance issues in Africa.

The book addresses three key topics. First, the Europeanization of migration and border policies at EU level is discussed in a more general manner. Second – and closely related to the first notion – the author explores the facets of the so-called 'downloading' policy in the EU's multi-level governance system, thus disentangling the processes of Europeanization from the supranational EU level through the national (ch. 3) up to the regional level (ch. 4), where it is supposed to be implemented in first instance. Third, Buraczyński seeks to elaborate on the consequences of these policy changes for the self-positioning and behavioural patterns of the residents of the borderlands. The temporal and spatial context is framed by the Subcarpathian region in the very southeast of Poland (Karpatenvorland) that is studied from the transformation period of 1989 until present day.