The monograph focuses on the human rights challenges that are associated with the involvement of States in economic activities and on the role that international law has to play in addressing and understanding some of those challenges. State-owned entities are looked at through the lens of...

The rule of law : theoretical principles -- International development law : substantive principles -- The rule of law : a projectized approach -- Is there a human right to development? -- International borrowing -- Privatization -- Emerging capital markets

Background and structure -- Cosmopolitanism, nationalism, and universalism : questions of priority and coherence -- On human rights -- On global economic justice -- On liberal democratic foreign policy.

"The challenge of global hunger is now high on the agenda of governments and international policy-makers. This new work contributes to addressing that challenge, by looking at the obstacles which stand in the way of implementing a right to food in the era of globalisation. The book describes the...

This contribution examines the mechanisms for inducing compliance with international norms and rules as one major form of institutional effects. More specifically, it tackles the process from norm recognition to norm compliance. Two social logics of institutional impact are distinguished. They...

This paper hopes to challenge the existing paradigm in refugee studies, which presents the development of domestic asylum policies as being essentially driven by a conflict between international humanitarian norms and the self-interest calculations of sovereign states. This paper will show that...

Im Januar 2022 werden die UN-Mitgliedstaaten Verhandlungen über ein globales Abkommen zur Bekämpfung der Cyberkriminalität aufnehmen. Mehr internationale Zusammenarbeit in diesem Bereich ist dringend geboten. Doch es gibt auch Risiken. So könnten vage Verpflichtungen, etwa zur Überwachung...