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Metaphors constitute a fundamental way in which humans understand the world around them. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of metaphors in theories of international relations. Until recently, conscious attention to metaphors in theories of international relations has been haphazard and sporadic. This book examines the metaphors that inform the major paradigms in international relations theory.

This dissertation contains three essays on monetary policy, dynamics of the interest rates and spillovers across economies. In the first essay I examine the effects of monetary policy and its interaction with financial regulation within a micro-founded macroeconometric framework for a closed economy with a heterogeneous banking system, facing a period of low interest rates. I analyse the interplay between monetary policy and banking regulation and study the role of agents' expectations for the effectiveness of unconventional monetary policy tools. In the next essay, I argue that openness is crucial for understanding the dynamics of the term structure. In an empirical application, I show that my model of the term structure fits well the yield curve in-sample and has a sound ability to forecast interest rates out-of-sample. The model accounts for the expectations hypothesis, replicates the forward premium anomaly and reconciles the uncovered interest rate parity implications. The last essay is concerned with the dynamics of co-movement among macroeconomic aggregates and the degree of convergence or decoupling amongst economies. The model includes measures of financial and trade-based interdependencies and incorporates feedback between macroeconomic variables and time-varying weights. The findings point at the importance of asset price movements and financial linkages. ; In meiner Dissertation beschäftige ich mich mit aktuellen Fragestellungen der internationalen und monetären Makroökonomie. Das erste Kapitel zielt auf die Analyse der Effekte der Geldpolitik und ihrer Wechselwirkung mit der Bankregulierung im Rahmen eines mikroökonomisch fundierten Modells für die geschlossene Wirtschaft mit heterogenem Banksektor ab, die sich in einer Periode von niedrigen Zinsen befindet. Der Originalbeitrag bezieht sich auf die Analyse des Zusammenspiels zwischen Geldpolitik und Bankregulierung, und insbesondere auf die Untersuchung der Rolle von Erwartungsbildung bezüglich der künftigen Politik der Zentralbanken im Hinblick auf Effektivität der nicht konventionellen geldpolitischen Instrumente. Im nächsten Kapitel beschäftige ich mich mit einem der Transmissionsmechanismen für die Geldpolitik, der Zinsstrukturkurve, und belege, dass Offenheit der Wirtschaft von entscheidender Bedeutung für das Verstehen der Dynamik der Zinssätze ist. Insbesondere untersuche ich, wie die von innen und von außen kommenden makroökonomischen Faktoren in einer offenen Wirtschaft die Bewegungen der Zinsstrukturkurve und der Risikoprämien beeinflussen. Das letzte Kapitel beschäftigt sich mit Modellierung der Dynamik der makroökonomischen Größen zwischen verschiedenen Ländern, d.h. mit dem eigentlichen Prozess, der die Dynamik der Makrofaktoren aus dem zweiten Kapitel bestimmt. In diesem Teil meiner Dissertation bearbeite ich die Fragestellung, ob die Länder oder Ländergruppen in wirtschaftlicher Hinsicht dazu tendieren zu entkoppeln oder ob sie aufgrund zunehmender Globalisierung konvergieren.

Der Autor untersucht Formen und Prozesse internationaler Zusammenarbeit, wie sie in den Vorstellungen von einem Weltstaat und einer Weltregierung, in den Vereinten Nationen (UNO), dem internationalen Regionalismus, Bestrebungen zur Internationalen Integration, der EG und Allianzen wie der NATO und dem Warschauer Pakt zum Ausdruck kommen. Abschließend werden die bi- bzw. multipolaren Strukturen des Weltsystems analysiert. Dem Beitrag ist eine Typologie internationaler Organisationen beigefügt. (STR)

The analysis of the cases concerning international territorial administration involves the results of research of taking over administration over the strategically and internationally important areas in the periods after World War I and II, respectively. All analysed cases among which are the mandates of the League of Nations, non-selfgoverning, strategic and trust territories or generally speaking, 'internationalised territories' in the system of United Nations indicate that international administration of territory is established by the division of power by two or more states in an area or by the transfer of administrative authorities to an international body or the international organisation. As a rule, they are established because the political and social conditions are not fully created as well as because of the unequal power of international legal subjects. The transformation of international territorial administration in the contemporary period results from the transformation of the United Nations collective security system. In critical situations it can serve to achieve political legitimacy and legal and economic subjectivity of the territory.

International audience ; Established in 1919 by Part XIII of the Treaty of Versailles, the ILO is the result of a political compromise intended to meet the expectations of public opinion while avoiding a major social crisis in a context of demobilization and Communist revolutionary contagion. In the short time of the social history of the industrial world, its creation is a continuation of the nebulous reformer of the social question, as in the dynamics impelled by the international trade union movement during the war. Conceived as a tripartite organization associating employers and workers representatives with States, it focuses its activity on the elaboration of international labor legislation which it bases on humanist values and a fundamental principle inscribed in the first lines of the preamble of the Part XIII: the indissoluble link between the promotion of social justice and the establishment of universal peace. The present study is based on the examination of these legal productions which account for the polemical nature of the debates which cross and surround the nascent institution, in particular in the Twenties. At the same time, they legitimize the ILO as the site of a deeply innovative experience in the field of contemporary international relations which would illustrate a questioning of the presuppositions of the Westphalian system brought about by the growing interdependence of societies and states . By inscribing this organization in a temporality of modernity, this production translates the significance of political and social issues in legal discourse. The empirical and concrete character of the legitimation process is illustrated by the validation of practices contested by certain socio-professional groups, or by certain States, by the voice of diplomats or licensed jurists, which concern the nature of the institution, its areas of competence and its normative capacity. ; Instituée en 1919 par la Partie XIII du Traité de Versailles, l'OIT (ILO) est le résultat d'un compromis politique destiné ...

International audience ; Established in 1919 by Part XIII of the Treaty of Versailles, the ILO is the result of a political compromise intended to meet the expectations of public opinion while avoiding a major social crisis in a context of demobilization and Communist revolutionary contagion. In the short time of the social history of the industrial world, its creation is a continuation of the nebulous reformer of the social question, as in the dynamics impelled by the international trade union movement during the war. Conceived as a tripartite organization associating employers and workers representatives with States, it focuses its activity on the elaboration of international labor legislation which it bases on humanist values and a fundamental principle inscribed in the first lines of the preamble of the Part XIII: the indissoluble link between the promotion of social justice and the establishment of universal peace. The present study is based on the examination of these legal productions which account for the polemical nature of the debates which cross and surround the nascent institution, in particular in the Twenties. At the same time, they legitimize the ILO as the site of a deeply innovative experience in the field of contemporary international relations which would illustrate a questioning of the presuppositions of the Westphalian system brought about by the growing interdependence of societies and states . By inscribing this organization in a temporality of modernity, this production translates the significance of political and social issues in legal discourse. The empirical and concrete character of the legitimation process is illustrated by the validation of practices contested by certain socio-professional groups, or by certain States, by the voice of diplomats or licensed jurists, which concern the nature of the institution, its areas of competence and its normative capacity. ; Instituée en 1919 par la Partie XIII du Traité de Versailles, l'OIT (ILO) est le résultat d'un compromis politique destiné ...

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The issue of the defining elements of a truly fair justice system has become a constant and consistent concern of international and/or regional political and legal organisations. Given the scale of the phenomenon of establishing and resorting to international courts and tribunals, reflecting, among others, the preference and availability of international actors for settling their disputes by independent and impartial decision-makers, the principles and values of the international judiciary have been subjected to discussions in an increasingly elaborate manner. Among these, judicial independence occupies a special position, being tightly connected to the issue of the legitimacy of such institutions, as an essential factor in ensuring voluntary compliance to the internationally adopted decisions. In this context, the present paper addresses the independence of the judiciary in international courts, both in terms of the fundamental theoretical contributions and from a practical perspective, by following the institutional provisions and guarantees for ensuring an independent and impartial judiciary in the statutes of two of the most relevant international courts, namely the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court.