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Machine generated contents note: -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- About the Contributors -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Transparency in electoral governance -- Pippa Norris -- Part II: Upwards accountability to the international community -- 2. International monitors -- Craig Arceneaux and Anika Leithner -- 3. International enforcement -- Daniela Donno -- 4. Electoral reform -- Ferran Martinez i Coma -- 5. Election audits -- Erica Shein and Chad Vickery -- Part III: Horizontal accountability to state actors -- 6. Election management -- Holly Ann Garnett -- 7. Constitutional courts -- Armen Mazmanyan -- 8. Poll workers -- Alistair Clark and Toby S. James -- Part IV: Downward accountability to civil society -- 9. Domestic monitors -- Max Grömping -- 10. The fourth estate -- Alessandro Nai -- Part V: Conclusions -- 11. Electoral transparency, accountability and integrity -- Pippa Norris -- Notes -- References -- Index

Origin and further development / Norman Weiss -- Interpretation and amendments of the founding treaty / Christian Walter -- Membership and observer status / Eckart Klein -- Seat and symbols of the Council of Europe / Eckart Klein -- Budget and financing / Stefanie Schmahl -- The Committee of Ministers / Simon Palmer -- The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe / Philip Leach -- Secretariat / Matthias Ruffert -- European Court of Human Rights / Elisabeth Lambert-Abdelgawad -- Congress of Local and Regional Authorities / Bert Schaffarzik -- Commissioner for Human Rights / Oliver Dorr -- The Conference of International Non-Governmental Organisations of the Council of Europe / Heike Krieger -- The Administrative Tribunal / Dorothee von Arnim -- The Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) / Rainer Steckhan -- European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & Healthcare (EDQM) / Robert Uerpmann-Wittzack -- Eurimages fund / Tarlach McGonagle -- Co-operation Group to Combat Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in Drugs (Pompidou Group) / Werner Sipp -- European Centre for Global Interdependence and Solidarity (North-South Centre) / Markus Kaltenborn -- European Audiovisual Observatory / Tarlach McGonagle -- European Centre for Modern Languages / Tarlach McGonagle -- Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO) / Wolfgang Rau -- European Convention on Human Rights / Oliver Dorr -- European Social Charter / Oliver Dorr -- Conventions on the Protection of National Minorities / Stefan Oeter -- Convention of Human Rights and Biomedicine / Robert Uerpmann-Wittzak -- Anti-discrimination policy / Thomas Giegerich & Sara Jötten -- Core Monitoring Mechanisms and Related Activities / Andrew Drzemczewski -- Establishing Common Standards and Securing the Rule of Law / Marten Breuer -- Combating Terrorism and Organized Crime / Christian Walter -- Protecting Children / Ursula Kilkelly -- Media and Information Society / Robert Uerpmann-Wittzack -- Constitutional Standard-setting and Strengthening of New Democracies / Christoph Grabenwarter -- Securing and Enhancing the Common Cultural Heritage / Kerstin Odendahl -- Cross-border Cooperation / Matthias Niedobitek -- Programmes of Cooperation and Solidarity / Norman Weiss -- Impact of the Council of Europe on National Legal Systems / Marten Breuer -- The Council of Europe within the System of International Organisations / Stefanie Schmahl -- The Council of Europe and International Institutional Law : an Appraisal / Martin Breuer

Introduction to Economics -- Economics of Intellectual Property -- Patents -- Economics of copyright -- Trade Marks and Design Rights -- Trade Secrets and Other Rights -- Competition and Intellectual Property -- How Intellectual Property Delivers Value -- When Intellectual Property Delivers Value -- Determinants of Intellectual Property Value -- Intellectual Property and Intangibles Valuation Methodologies and Techniques -- Reporting and Accounting for Intellectual Property and Intangibles

A Chronology of Carl Schmitt's Life -- A List of Carl Schmitt's Writings -- "A Fanatic of Order in an Epoch of Confusing Turmoil" : The Political, Legal, and Cultural Thought of Carl Schmitt / Jens Meierhenrich and Oliver Simons -- A "Catholic Layman of German Nationality and Citizenship"? : Carl Schmitt and the Religiosity of Life / Reinhard Mehring -- The "True Enemy" : Antisemitism in Carl Schmitt's Life and Thought / Raphael Gross -- Schmitt's Diaries / Joseph W. Bendersky -- Carl Schmitt in Plettenberg / Christian Linder -- Fearing the Disorder of Things : The Development of Carl Schmitt's Institutional Theory, 1919-1942 / Jens Meierhenrich -- Carl Schmitt's Political Theory of Dictatorship / Duncan Kelly -- The Political Theology of Carl Schmitt / Miguel Vatter -- Teaching in Vain : Carl Schmitt, Thomas Hobbes, and the Theory of the Sovereign State / John P. McCormick -- Concepts of the Political in Twentieth-Century European Thought / Samuel Moyn -- Carl Schmitt's Defense of Democracy / William Rasch -- Same/Other versus Friend/Enemy : Levinas contra Schmitt / Aryeh Botwinick -- Carl Schmitt's Concepts of War : A Categorical Failure / Benno Teschke -- Carl Schmitt's Concept of History / Matthias Lievens -- What's "Left" in Schmitt? From Aversion to Appropriation in Contemporary Political Theory / Matthew G. Specter -- A Jurist Confronting Himself : Carl Schmitt's Jurisprudential Thought / Giorgio Agamben -- Carl Schmitt and the Weimar Constitution / Ulrich K. Preuss -- The Concept of the Rule-of-Law State in Carl Schmitt's Verfassungslehre / David Dyzenhaus -- Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt : Growing Discord, Culminating in the "Guardian" Controversy of 1931 / Stanley L. Paulson -- States of Emergency / William E. Scheuerman -- Politonomy / Martin Loughlin -- Carl Schmitt and International Law / Martti Koskenniemi -- Demystifying Schmitt / Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule -- Carl Schmitt and Modernity / Friedrich Balke -- Is "the Political" a Romantic Concept? : Novalis's Faith and Love or The King and Queen with Reference to Carl Schmitt / Rüdiger Campe -- Walter Benjamin's Esteem for Carl Schmitt / Horst Bredekamp -- Legitimacy of the Modern Age? : Hans Blumenberg and Carl Schmitt / Alexander Schmitz -- Tragedy as Exception in Carl Schmitt's Hamlet or Hecuba / David Pan --At the Limits of Rhetoric : Authority, Commonplace, and the Role of Literature in Carl Schmitt / Johannes Türk -- Carl Schmitt's Spatial Rhetoric / Oliver Simons

The importance of international politics in Niccolo Machiavelli's thought cannot be denied. Although the familiar ideas expressed in the 'Prince' and the 'Discourses' are obviously relevant, the 'Art of War', the 'History of Florence', the dispatches that he wrote during his diplomatic missions, several minor political writings, and the private letters contain a number of additional insights and observations that refine and enrich his views. This anthology gathers together for the first time all of Machiavelli's writing on international affairs