A review of the United Nations Human Rights Council is currently under way in Geneva and New York and is set to be finished by July 2011. This study analyses the role of the European Union in the Human Rights Council since the inception of the Council in 2006, and then considers its role in the...

Klappentext: Chinas Initiative "Neue Seidenstraßen" knüpft an die einstige weltpolitische Bedeutung des "Reichs der Mitte" an und entwirft gleichzeitig einen Bauplan zukünftiger Größe. Durch den Ausbau von Verkehrsinfrastruktur, Energieversorgung und Wirtschaftskorridoren zwischen Asien,...

This article examines the hypothesis that in the “Third Reich”, bureaucratic agencies engaged in economic policies competed with each other. First, a model of competition is constructed whose predictions are then compared with actual political processes in Nazi Germany. This shows that the...