Ideology and international institutions
by Voeten, Erik
fromPrinceton scholarship online
Today's liberal international institutional order is being challenged by the rising power of illiberal states and by domestic political changes inside liberal states. Against such a backdrop, this book offers a broader understanding of international institutions by arguing that …
Across a broad sweep of the critical areas of business regulation - from contract, intellectual property and corporations law, to trade, telecommunications, labour standards, drugs, food, transport and environment - this book confronts the question of how the regulation of busin…
Forfatteren analyserer nogle internationale kriser, der har udviklet sig til konventionel krig, bla. 2. Verdenskrig, her engelsk/franske og tyske beslutningsprocesser i 1939/40, om israelske og ægyptiske overvejelser forud for krigene i Mellemøsten og endelig forfatterens egne b…
In the late 1990s an attempt got underway to develop a new paradigm for cultural development policy at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). The fruit of these efforts was the adoption of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of …
This thesis examines the implementation, enforcement and evolution of IP laws and regulations in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The period of interest includes the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty first century, with emphasis on the role …
The WTO, tourism and small states: finding policy space to develop This study examines whether the General Agreement on Services (GATS) provides the necessary policy space for small states to pursue their development agendas. Small states in this study are defined in power terms…
Fcuses on the accomplishments and struggles of UN economists and the role played by such UN agencies as the Department of Economic (and Social) Affairs, the United Nations Commission on Trade and Development, and the Economic Commission for Latin America (and the Caribbean). It …
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is often accused of, at best, not paying enough attention to human rights or, at worst, facilitating and perpetuating human rights abuses. This book weighs these criticisms and examines their validity, incorporating legal arguments as well as s…
International tax competition has come to the forefront of global economic policy debate at the outset of the 21st century. The importance of taxation regimes as an essential factor in driving economic growth, investment inflows and national developments has increasingly been re…
This work untangles debates about constitutionalisation and argues that the WTO is not, and should not, be described as a constitution by the standards of any conventional definition, or by the lights of any constitution to which we ought to aspire.
In clear, accessible language, the authors describe how people around the world have started challenging the New World Economy.