Die Herausgeber, Professoren an der Universität Bremen, gehen einen guten Einblick in eine Welt, die öffentlich nicht in Erscheinung tritt, die die Globalisierung aber erst möglich macht. Es ist eine realistische Schilderung von Facetten der heutigen Seeschifffahrt, keine historische...

This report presents the global ocean/sea ice configuration at eddy-resolving resolution developed at CMCC, and describes numerical results from the first simulation. The model configuration, based on the NEMO system, has 1/16◦ horizontal spacing at the equator and uses 98 vertical levels. So...

1. Historical background -- 2. The LLMC Convention -- 3. The 1996 protocol -- 4. Conventions relating to the carriage of passengers and their luggage by sea -- 5. Conventions relating to liability and compensation for pollution damage -- 6. The Nairobi convention -- 7. Relationship between...

In this paper, we present the basic ideas, the design and some key results of an ongoing research project on the transformation of the national political space in Western Europe. We start from the assumption that the current process of globalization or denationaliza-tion leads to the formation...

The location behaviour of modern multinational multi-plant firms appears to exhibitincreasingly a flexible mobility pattern with a strong tendency towards footlooseness. Thespatial-economic dynamics - often across the border - of such firms is sometimesencapsulated in the term 'nomadic firms'....

A major question in the globalization debate is whether outsourcing and offshoring activities are beneficial to the home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs, using a recent theory on trade in tasks. A production...