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Following corroboration of the existence of the anthropologically enhanced greenhouse effect, international environmental agreements were concluded by the international community. The article summarizes the development of international climate policy with particular emphasis on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992) & the Kyoto Protocol (1997). The main provisions of these agreements are highlighted, followed by an assessment of the state of international climate policy & a brief examination from the perspective of the theories of international relations. The author concludes with suggestions for further political science research & highlights major challenges that international climate policy faces today. 2 Tables. Adapted from the source document.

Internationale Fragen und Bezüge werden in der Sozialen Arbeit zunehmend wichtig. Mit diesem Buch soll eine stärkere und fundiertere Auseinandersetzung der Sozialen Arbeit mit internationalen Perspektiven angeregt und unterstützt werden. Ausgewählt wurden verschiedene Themen und Fragen, die im Ensemble internationalen Wandels und dessen Wirkungen auf Soziale Arbeit eine Rolle spielen.Am Anfang stehen Überblicke, die Entwicklungen (in) der Sozialen Arbeit in internationaler Hinsicht aufgreifen. Im zweiten Teil beschäftigen sich verschiedene AutorInnen mit Themen, die in diesem Rahmen von Bedeutung sind (HIV/AIDS, Menschenrechte, Armut, Migration, Soziale Entwicklung, Europäisches Sozialrecht). Im dritten Teil werden Organisationen und Organisationsmöglichkeiten in internationaler Hinsicht vorgestellt und deren (mögliche) Wirkungen analysiert.

Summarizes development of an international climate policy in context of the perceived danger of global warming from carbon dioxide emissions; highlights the main provisions of the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 1997 Kyoto Protocol; recommendations for further research. Summary in English.

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Today, environmental security is a socially compelling issue. As a historian, the author shows that the connection between environment and security did not originate with the end of the Cold War. Rather, environmental concerns related to security policy were already evident in 1970. Then as now, international environmental problems that transcend borders have challenged political demarcations while demanding new solutions.

In the 1980s, international banking regulation was considered a good example of successful regime activities. National regulators engaged in intergovernmental negotiations that led to an international standard of protection against financial risks. During the 1990s, a multilevel system of regulation developed that stresses the cooperation of public & private actors & the interplay between domestic & international levels. The article deals with the reasons for the transition from the first to the second institutional setting. It is argued that regulators choose different regulatory models depending on the type of regulatory problem they have to solve & on the strategic situation they face. In the 1980s, the strategic situation resembled a distributional conflict that could be solved by intergovernmental negotiations. In the 1990s, more complex types of financial risks have evolved that are turning regulation into a "game against nature." Negotiations are gradually being replaced by communication-based learning processes. Adapted from the source document.

The International Handbook is to be published in two volumes. The first volume with 27 chapters is dedicated to the basic principles of criminology. The second volume with 32 articles is occupied with special criminological problems. The chapters of the two volumes are dealt with by forty leading criminologists of ten countries. The International Handbook is providing information on all essential fields of criminology. It gives information on the level of the latest criminological research outcome. Comprehensive bibliographies lead the way to a deepening of criminological knowledge. The Intern

Harald Mueller's proposal to include the theory of communicative action in the theoretical modeling of international relations has been severely criticized. According to the critics, there are no criteria for identifying the shift from strategic to communicative action. The intention of this paper is to support the project initiated by Mueller by dealing with the "transition problem" within the theoretical framework of Habermas's social theory. Mueller has to be reproached for not having adequately integrated the ideality of Habermas's concept of communication into an analytical framework that also aims to include the facticity of noncooperative solutions to conflicts. It is only when the structural perspective of Habermas's social theory is taken into consideration that the "transition problem" can be solved, as this procedure allows the normative & substantial thesis to be established that in conflict situations the protagonists of international relations ideally coordinate their actions by applying the mode of communicative action, which corresponds to cooperation. In this case, the facticity of forms of noncooperative solutions to conflicts, ie, the strategic coordination of actions, can be attributed to nonfulfilled conditions for communication. Adapted from the source document.