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"International Society" published on by Oxford University Press.

Wissenschaft und Politik müssen sich heute vielfachen, oft neuen Herausforderungen stellen: Zerfallende Staaten, Verteilungskonflikte, Terrorismus und Flüchtlingsströme sind nur einige Beispiele. Im vorliegenden Band zeichnen renommierte Experten und Expertinnen aus dem In- und Ausland ein Panorama der internationalen Sicherheitsherausforderungen des 21. Jahrhunderts. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Rolle Deutschlands zeigen sie dabei strategische Ansätze auf, wie diese Herausforderungen effektiv und sinnvoll bewältigt werden können, und liefern so neue Impulse für die sicherheitspolitische Debatte in Deutschland.

This study is an exploration of the logic of hegemony in one of the most significant policy areas of international relations: international security. I argue that despite huge international opposition during the Court's early years of existence as well as the fact that 3 out of 5 permanent United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members are not Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, UNSC decision-making between 2002 and 2010 was framed by the hegemonic Justice discourse. The result of intense lobbying by international criminal law experts, NGO human rights activists, policymakers, journalists, and state representatives acting within the United Nations Security Council, the International Criminal Court Assembly of States Parties and the media, Justice was the new ideology of international security. In order to empirically analyze this process of hegemonization, I developed a hermeneutic conceptual framework based on Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe's Poststructuralist Discourse Theory (PDT) and an inductive qualitative research strategy that can be applied to concrete international policy discourses. I defined hegemony as a process of hegemonization that takes place under specific historical circumstances in a particular international policy area. In order to reveal its workings I relied on a comprehensive list of PDT concepts operationalized as meso-level Discursive Mechanisms. Through the linking of various political demands, the creation of a collective identity, the gripping of the floating signifiers "Peace", "Security", "Sovereingty", "Protection", "Accountability", and "Rule of Law", and institution of a new political imaginary, Justice became one of the most successful discourses in early 21st century international relations. The new security ideology withstood challenges from three major counterdiscourses: the homegrown American version of "Politicization", the African Union's institutional discourse, and the ongoing normative attack from the loose network of actors defending ...

Der folgende Aufsatz stellt Prozesse des Wissensaustauschs am Beispiel der Schulbuchrevision im Deutschland der Nachkriegszeit dar. Ausgehend von dem Modell des "policy borrowing" von Phillips und Ochs (2003) werden die personellen, inhaltlichen und institutionellen Verknüpfungen zwischen deutschen und internationalen Akteuren dargestellt. Besondere Berücksichtigung findet dabei die Schulbuchpolitik der britischen Besatzungsbehörde sowie der UNESCO mit ihrem Grundsatz der Bildung für internationale Verständigung. Der Aufsatz zeigt am Beispiel des Braunschweiger Schulbuchinstituts und der internationalen Schulbuchrevision, dass Wissenstransfer nicht nur in eine Richtung stattfand, sondern Standardisierungsprozesse in Theorie und Praxis auf einem sich gegenseitig beeinflussenden Netzwerk von Akteuren und Institutionen beruhte. (DIPF/Orig.) ; This paper illustrates processes of knowledge exchange by using the textbook revisions that took place in post-war Germany as a case study. It presents the connections between German and international participants, in terms of substance and at both personal and institutional levels, on the basis of Phillips and Ochs' 'policy borrowing' model. The authors pay particular attention to the textbook policies of the British occupying authorities and UNESCO, which were based on the principle of education for international understanding. The paper refers to the "Internationale Schulbuchinstitut in Braunschweig" (International Textbook Institute in Braunschweig) and international textbook revision to demonstrate that knowledge transfer was not a one-way street. Rather, that standardisation processes in both theory and practice depended upon a mutually influential network of individuals and institutions. (DIPF/Orig.)

Currently, scholars and political leaders are facing various global challenges: failing states, conflicts over distribution, terrorism and the refugee crisis represent only some of them. In this book, acclaimed experts from Germany and abroad offer a panorama of the international security threats of the 21st century. With a particular focus on the role of Germany, these experts present strategic approaches through which these challenges can be tackled in the most effective and sensible way, thus providing new impulses for the security policy debate in Germany.

International trade and migration are two important dimensions of globalization. Although governments have been very willing to open their borders to trade, they have not been so liberal in their immigration policies. It has been suggested, however, that a causal positive link might exist between immigration and trade. Negotiations would provide a justification for our failure to adopt more liberal immigration laws. Whereas in an ideal world we might adopt more efficient laws, we currently live in a highly nonideal world in which other governments discriminate against our nationals (in their goods markets, service markets, labor markets, or capital markets). Given this reality, we may use costly policies as bargaining chips, offering to reform our protectionist policies in exchange for liberalizing reforms by other governments that discriminate against our nationals. Reforms implemented through a multilateral agreement would allow each participant to increase its national economic welfare while improving global economic welfare.

"Anarchy in International Relations" published on by Oxford University Press.

"Postcolonialism in International Relations" published on by Oxford University Press.

This book presents a distinctive approach to the study of war and its law. It provides a vehicle for students from various disciplines -- historical analysis, international relations theory, law and economics, behavioral economics and psychology, science and technology (including the study of the environment), sociology, political philosophy, moral and ethical theory, and comparative religion -- to work together in addressing the cutting edge issues presented in the modern law of war. Practical activity in the law of war – in governments, international governmental and nongovernmental organizations, and elsewhere -- now requires an ability to understand the language of practitioners in other disciplines who participate in the formation of new norms and their application in the law of war; and practitioners in those other disciplines who participate in the formation and application of the law of war now also need to have an understanding of the distinctive features of international law as a separate discipline. Thus, much as war itself is too important to be left to generals, the law of war is too important to be left to international lawyers alone. The book can be used in research seminars in international law at law schools, graduate programs in these various disciplines, and even in advanced courses at the undergraduate level, with the goal of enabling students to develop interdisciplinary fluency in discussion of the case studies ranging from the Melian Dialogue to the Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice. ; https://scholarship.law.edu/fac_books/1128/thumbnail.jpg