The first three volumes of the World Court Digest cover the periods 1986 to 1990, 1991 to 1995 and 1996 to 2000. We are happy to issue the fourth volume, covering the period from 2001 to 2005. We hope that this new Digest will be welcome to all those interested in the case law of the International Court of Justice. We are, of course, aware that nowadays the decisions of the Court are easily accessible through electronic data systems. However, there is no systematic analysis available in the form presented by the World Court Digest. Therefore, the Digest will be useful for those who wish to find the most recent position of the Court on a particular issue of international law. As the three previous volumes, also this fourth volume will be made available through electronic data on the homepage of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. The first five years of the new century have been a busy period for the Court due to its continuing heavy caseload. The cases concerned a variety of legal issues reaching from the use of force and self-defence to questions of land and maritime boundary delimitation, immunity, consular matters, revision of judgments and the effect of provisional measures. The parties to the cases were States from all parts of the world demonstrating the general acceptance of the Court.

Each financial crisis calls for - by its novelty and the mechanisms it shares with preceding crises - appropriate means to analyze financial risks. In Extreme Financial Risks and Asset Allocation, the authors present in an accessible and timely manner the concepts, methods, and techniques that are essential for an understanding of these risks in an environment where asset prices are subject to sudden, rough, and unpredictable changes. These phenomena, mathematically known as "jumps", play an important role in practice. Their quantitative treatment is generally tricky and is sparsely tackled in similar books. One of the main appeals of this book lies in its approachable and concise presentation of the ad hoc mathematical tools without sacrificing the necessary rigor and precision.This book contains theories and methods which are usually found in highly technical mathematics books or in scattered, often very recent, research articles. It is a remarkable pedagogical work that makes these difficult results accessible to a large readership. Researchers, Masters and PhD students, and financial engineers alike will find this book highly useful.

The first three volumes of the World Court Digest cover the periods 1986 to 1990, 1991 to 1995 and 1996 to 2000. We are happy to issue the fourth volume, covering the period from 2001 to 2005. We hope that this new Digest will be welcome to all those interested in the case law of the International Court of Justice. We are, of course, aware that nowadays the decisions of the Court are easily accessible through electronic data systems. However, there is no systematic analysis available in the form presented by the World Court Digest. Therefore, the Digest will be useful for those who wish to find the most recent position of the Court on a particular issue of international law. As the three previous volumes, also this fourth volume will be made available through electronic data on the homepage of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. The first five years of the new century have been a busy period for the Court due to its continuing heavy caseload. The cases concerned a variety of legal issues reaching from the use of force and self-defence to questions of land and maritime boundary delimitation, immunity, consular matters, revision of judgments and the effect of provisional measures. The parties to the cases were States from all parts of the world demonstrating the general acceptance of the Court.

This volume contains presentations and discussions from a conference of the Association of German Constitutional Law Professors held in Kiel on 3-6 October 2012.

Lehre und Praxis der Staats- und Volkerrechtswissenschaft wurden uber Jahrzehnte durch Jochen Abr. Frowein mitgepragt. Diese Schriftensammlung mit den wesentliche Publikationen des Jubilars macht seine Forschungsschwerpunkte zuganglich und wurdigt zugleich sein Gesamtwerk."

Peoples and minorities in many parts of the world assert a right to self-determination, autonomy, and even secession from a state, which naturally conflicts with that state's sovereignty and territorial integrity. The right of a people to self-determination and secession has existed as a concept within international law since the American Declaration of Independence in 1776, but the exact definition of these concepts, and the conditions required for their application, remain unclear. The Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice concerning the Declaration of Independency of Kosovo (2010), which held that the Kosovo declaration of independence was not in violation of international law, has only led to further questions. This book takes four conflicts in the post-Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) as a starting point for examining the current state of the law of self-determination and secession. Four entities, Transnistria (Moldova), South Ossetia, Abkhazia (both Georgia), and Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan), claim to be entitled not only to self-determination but also to secession from their mother state. For this entitlement they rely on historic affiliations, and on charges of discrimination and massive human rights violations committed by their mother state. This book sets out its analysis of these critical issue in three parts, providing a detailed understanding of the principles of international law on which they rely: The first part sets out the contours and meaning of self-determination and secession, including an overall assessment of secession within the Commonwealth of Independent States. The second section provides case studies investigating the events in Transnistria, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Nagorno-Karabach in greater detail. The third and final section extends the scope of the examination, providing a comparative analysis of similar conflicts involving questions of self-determination and secession in Kosovo, Western Sahara, and Eritrea.

How do traditional church and state relations, developed within Christian legal orders, respond to Muslim immigration and religious diversification? Focusing on Great Britain and Germany, this question is treated from a comparative perspective in this book. After looking at the history of establishment and disestablishment in Great Britain and Scandinavia, the book's contributions cover specific aspects, such as the individual's legal protection in religious courts, employment disputes, church autonomy, the role of religious communities in public life, and the legal status of Muslim communities in particular. Additionally, some of the essays show how the relationship is influenced by the European Convention on Human Rights. The book is the result of a research project that forms part of the Cluster of Excellency "Religion and Politics" of the University of Munster, Germany. (Series: Schriften zum Religionsrecht - Vol. 4)

Erstmals seit Anfang der 70er Jahre behandelt die Arbeit den von der VN-Satzung fur regionale Aktivitaten der Friedenssicherung gezogenen rechtlichen Rahmen anhand der jungsten Praxis des Sicherheitsrats und bestimmter Regionalorganisationen (u.a. ECOWAS, GUS, OAS, OSZE, NATO, WEU). Der Begriff der Regionalorganisation, insbesondere im Verhaltnis zu Organisationen kollektiver Selbstverteidigung, die Moeglichkeiten regionaler Friedenssicherung in den Bereichen friedliche Streitbeilegung, Durchfuhrung von Zwangsmassnahmen und die Entsendung von Friedenstruppen werden eroertert. Ausserdem wird die neuerdings verstarkt stattfindende Zusammenarbeit zwischen Vereinten Nationen und Regionalorganisationen dargestellt.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Klassiker und Theorierichtungen, Note: 1,0, FernUniversitat Hagen (Institut fur Soziologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit wird uberpruft, ob die Definition des Sozialkapitals nach Bourdieu in der Netzwerktheorie sinnvoll angewendet werden kann. Methodisch wird zunachst das soziale Kapital nach Bourdieu definiert und in Relation zur Verwendung des Begriffs in der Netzwerktheorie analysiert. Im zweiten Teil wird eine handlungstheoretische Analyse durchgefuhrt. Dieser Schritt ergibt sich aus den definitorischen Fragen zum sozialen Kapital. Welche Handlungen sind notig, um soziales Kapital zu erweitern? Dementsprechend werden die Handlungskonzepte der Netzwerk- und Feldtheorie gegenuber gestellt, um eine theoretische Grundlegung auf mikro- und makrosoziologischer Ebene zu ermoglichen.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Sonstiges, Note: 1,0, FernUniversitat Hagen (Institut fur Philosophie), Veranstaltung: Sozialphilosophische Bedingungen der Kultur, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, Satres Verstandnis des An-Sich-Seins, Fur-Sich-Seins und Hegels Fursichsseins zu erklaren. Weiterhin das Fur-andere-Sein darzulegen und Hegels Herr-Knecht Dialektik darzustellen, sowie Sartres Zustimmung und Kritik an ihr zu erklaren. Zum Abschluss wird das Thema der Negation erortert, wobei zwangslaufig auf das dialektische Verstandnis Sartres und seine Hegelbezuge eingegangen wird. Im Fazit soll gezeigt werden, wo Sartres Ansatz im Bereich der Negation logisch ist und ob seine intersubjektive Hegelkritik gerechtfertigt ist.

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 1997 im Fachbereich BWL - Marketing, Unternehmenskommunikation, CRM, Marktforschung, Social Media, Note: 2,3, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster (Wirtschaftswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Internationales Management, Prof. Dr. Klaus Backhaus, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Inhaltsverzeichnis: Inhaltsverzeichnis: Abkurzungsverzeichnis Symbolverzeichnis Abbildungs- und Tabellenverzeichnis Verzeichnis der Anhange 1.Einleitung 2.Veranderte Rahmenbedingungen fur Unternehmen in der Europaischen Union durch die Einfuhrung des Euro 2.1Stufenplan zur Europaischen Wahrungsunion 2.1.1Der Vertrag von Maastricht 2.1.2Bar- und Buchgeldphase des Euro 2.2Kosten- und Preiswirkungen in einem veranderten Wettbewerbsumfeld 2.2.1Reduktion und Wegfall von Transaktionskosten 2.2.2Euro-bedingte Preistransparenz 3.Auswirkungen der Einfuhrung des Euro auf die Marketing-Konzeption von Unternehmen 3.1Ausgewahlte Aspekte der Marketingziele und -strategien 3.1.1Okonomische und psychographische Ziele 3.1.2Marktsegmentierungs- und Marktbearbeitungsstrategien 3.2Konsequenzen fur das Absatzmarketing 3.2.1Kontrahierungspolitik 3.2.2Produktpolitik 3.2.3Distributionspolitik 3.2.4Kommunikationspolitik 3.3Konsequenzen fur das Beschaffungsmarketing 3.3.1Entstehen eines Euro-Sourcing 3.3.2Ausgewahltes Euro-Beschaffungsmanagement im Industriegutermarketing 4.Euro-spezifisches Preismanagement in Unternehmen 4.1Aspekte der preistaktischen Verfahren 4.1.1Doppelte Preisauszeichnung und Umstellungsmodus 4.1.2Optionen der Neupositionierung mittels Euro-Preisen 4.1.2.1Wahrnehmungs- und Reaktionsschwellen 4.1.2.2Umrechnungsmodus 4.1.2.3Mogliche Optionen neuer Euro-Preise 4.2Aspekte der Preiskoordination als preisstrategisches Verfahren 4.2.1Strategie der Preisdifferenzierung und Preisharmonisierung 4.2.2Euro-Preiskorridor zur Vermeidung von Preisverfall 4.2.2.1Grundlagen des Euro-Preiskorridors 4.2.2.2Determinanten des Euro-Preiskorridors 4.2.2.3Verfahren zur Bestimmung