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1. Germany - Israel : a prototypical political apology and reconciliation process / Stefan Engert -- 2. Germany - Poland : the ritualization of apology / Judith Renner -- 3. Poland - Germany : balancing competing narratives through apology / Judith Renner -- 4. Germany - Czech Republic : negotiating apologies / Judith Renner -- 5. Czech Republic - Germany : a pioneer apology / Judith Renner -- 6. Germany - Namibia : the belated apology to the Herero / Stefan Engert -- 7. Montenegro - Croatia : the pragmatics of apology / Michel-Andre Horelt -- 8. Serbia - Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina : different apology packages, different successes / Michel-Andre Horelt -- 9. France - Algeria : the double discourse of apology / Michel-Andre Horelt -- 10. Turkey - Armenia : from denial to excuse? / Stefan Engert -- 11. Japan - China and the two Koreas : the apologia syndrome / Stefan Engert -- 12. Indonesia - Timor-Leste : the common apology / Renate Strassner.

This book looks into the role and effects of public apologies in international relations. It focuses on two major questions - why and when do states issue apologies for historic crimes and how and under what conditions are these apologies successful in remedying conflictive relationships?In recent years, we have witnessed an unseen popularity of apologies, with numerous politicians, managers and clergymen being eager to apologise and atone for the wrong-doings of their countries or institutions. Public apologies, thus, are a new and highly interesting, while nevertheless still puzzling phenome.

Here, Daase begins by showing how the concept of the 'emerging norm' obscures the controversy behind the responsibility to protect and distorts its normative status. It also becomes clear that practitioners and theorists both assume a teleological understanding of norms that views the divide between legality and legitimacy as problematic and the fusion of law and moral as desirable. In the second section, he shows that, in contrast, the tension between legality and legitimacy is not as problematic as is often assumed. Moral and legal normativity complement each other in international politics even if they are not in harmony with one another. Adapted from the source document.

The article traces the extension of the concept of security over roughly the last fifty years. It differentiates between four dimensions of conceptual change: the referent object, the issue dimension, the spatial dimension and the dimension of perceived danger. The process of conceptual extension is explained not only as securitization, i.e. the result of voluntary speech acts, but as a macro-social process of the dissociation of state and society and the prevalence of liberal values.

"Der Artikel beschreibt die Erweiterung des Sicherheitsbegriffs über die letzten fünfzig Jahre. Dabei werden vier Dimensionen des Begriffswandels unterschieden: die Referenzdimension, die Sachdimension, die Raumdimension und die Gefahrendimension. Der Prozess der Begriffserweiterung wird nicht allein auf die Versicherheitlichung von Problembereichen, also auf bewusste Sprechakte, sondern auf den makrosozialen Prozess der Dissoziation von Staat und Gesellschaft und die Durchsetzung liberaler Werte zurückgeführt." (Autorenreferat)

This volume evaluates the impact of coercive arms control efforts to curb the spread of weapons of mass destruction in the twenty-first century. A new paradigm in arms control is gradually replacing the idea that mutually agreed restrictions on armaments can improve international security. Thus, Hedley Bull's classic definition of arms control as the ""cooperation between antagonistic pairs of states in military affairs"" needs to be amended by a new notion of coercive arms control as the set of non-cooperative and non-reciprocal measures to restrict the weapons or military capabiliti.

This book explores the unintended consequences of security governance actions and explores how their effects can be limited.Security governance describes new modes of security policy that differ from traditional approaches to national and international security. While traditional security policy used to be the exclusive domain of states and aimed at military defense, security governance is performed by multiple actors and is intended to create a global environment of security for states, social groups, and individuals. By pooling the strength and expertise of states, internati.

AbstractA Theory of Global Governance is a long awaited book that finally theorizes the increasing authority of international institutions and the conflicts emerging from it. With its focus on reflexive deference as a basis for international authority it covers important elements of global governance but also leaves some critical blind spots regarding the forms of super- and subordination. In our engagement with Michael Zürn's book we propose to conceptualize international authority as a subcategory of international rule instead of its essence and to investigate various forms of rule by way of analyzing the resistance they provoke instead of institutionalized mandates.

Rule is commonly conceptualized with reference to the compliance it invokes. In this article, we propose a conception of rule via the practice of resistance instead. In contrast to liberal approaches, we stress the possibility of illegitimate rule, and, as opposed to critical approaches, the possibility of legitimate authority. In the international realm, forms of rule and the changes they undergo can thus be reconstructed in terms of the resistance they provoke. To this end, we distinguish between two types of resistance - opposition and dissidence - in order to demonstrate how resistance and rule imply each other. We draw on two case studies of resistance in and to international institutions to illustrate the relationship between rule and resistance and close with a discussion of the normative implications of such a conceptualization.

Rule is commonly conceptualized with reference to the compliance it invokes. In this article, we propose a conception of rule via the practice of resistance instead. In contrast to liberal approaches, we stress the possibility of illegitimate rule, and, as opposed to critical approaches, the possibility of legitimate authority. In the international realm, forms of rule and the changes they undergo can thus be reconstructed in terms of the resistance they provoke. To this end, we distinguish between two types of resistance—opposition and dissidence—in order to demonstrate how resistance and rule imply each other. We draw on two case studies of resistance in and to international institutions to illustrate the relationship between rule and resistance and close with a discussion of the normative implications of such a conceptualization.