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It takes an almost reckless optimism to find a silver lining in the abject failure of basic institutions, let alone democracy, to take root in postwar Iraq. But look hard enough and it's possible to discern one: enhanced legitimacy in the international community for what has been called "neotrusteeship," an arrangement whereby multilateral institutions temporarily govern states that have collapsed in spasms of misrule and violent conflict.

To empower the "right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty according to law", Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights identifies a range of "minimum guarantees" for suspects under investigation and for the accused at trial. Significant among these is that the suspect/accused is "not to be compelled to testify against himself or to confess guilt".

Schafraneks Bericht von dem internationalen historischen Kolloquium über den Spanischen Bürgerkrieg konzentriert sich auf die Thesen Ronald Frasers, der auf der Grundlage "mündlicher Geschichte" eine Gesamtdarstellung des Spanischen Bürgerkriegs versucht hat. Fraser selber hat den Einwand formuliert: "Die Summe von Mikro-Erfahrungen schafft aus sich heraus noch keine objektive Makro-Totalität." Unter Anerkennung des Geleisteten - vertieftes Verständnis von der "Doppelherrschafts"-Situation in Spanien 1936, aber auch der Unvorbereitetheit der anarchistischen CNT - pflichtet Schafranek Frasers Anliegen bei, die Interviewten im größeren Rahmen an der neuen Geschichtsschreibung teilhaben zu lassen. Der "oral history" ist nach Schafranek auch ein wesentlicher Beitrag zur Geschichte der Frauen in der spanischen Revolution zu verdanken. (WU)

Der Autor befaßt sich mit den ungarischsprachigen Beiträgen von Zoltan Ronai zwischen 1920 und 1937 und umreißt kurz Lebenslauf und Stellenwert dieses sozialdemokratischen Juristen und Publizisten in der ungarischen Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung. Die Artikel erschienen in der in Wien herausgegebenen Wochenzeitschrift "Villagossag", in der theoretischen Zeitschrift der Partei "Socializmus" und im "Nepszava-Kalender", der Publikationen der geistigen Elite der Partei beinhaltet. Ronai wurde als erfahrener Politiker und zeitgenössischer Chronist geschildert, der nicht nur aktuelle politische bzw. historisch bedeutende Ereignisse der internationalen Arbeiterbewegung analysierte, sondern auch viele anderen Fragen, z.B. Faschismus, Völkerbund, Innenpolitik verschiedener Länder, darunter besonders Frankreich. (HRS)

Afghanistan has come to be seen as emblematic of the security threats besetting peace and security operations, and in this article we consider the response to such threats via the 'bunkering' of international staff. Drawing on an in-depth qualitative survey with aid and peacebuilding officials in Kabul, we illustrate how seemingly mundane risk management procedures have negative consequences for intervening institutions; for the relation between interveners and national actors; and for the purpose of intervention itself. Bunkering, we argue, is deeply political–'imprisoning' staff behind ramparts while generating an illusion of presence and control for ill-conceived modes of international intervention.

Afghanistan has come to be seen as emblematic of the security threats besetting peace and security operations, and in this article we consider the response to such threats via the 'bunkering' of international staff. Drawing on an in-depth qualitative survey with aid and peacebuilding officials in Kabul, we illustrate how seemingly mundane risk management procedures have negative consequences for intervening institutions; for the relation between interveners and national actors; and for the purpose of intervention itself. Bunkering, we argue, is deeply political – 'imprisoning' staff behind ramparts while generating an illusion of presence and control for ill-conceived modes of international intervention.

This paper looks at the political economy of merger policy under autarky and in international markets. We assume that merger policy is decided by antitrust authorities—whose objective is to maximize welfare—but can be influenced by governments, which are subject to lobbying by firms (insiders or outsiders to the merger). We argue that political economy distortions may explain some of the recently observed merger policy conflicts between authorities and politicians, as well as between institutions belonging to different countries. We illustrate our analysis with applications motivated by recent merger cases that have been widely debated in the international press.