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International Authority, the Responsibility to Protect and the Culture of the International Executive
Mowbray, Jacqueline F - 2014
In her book, 'International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect,' Anne Orford compellingly demonstrates how the doctrine of responsibility to protect can be seen as providing a normative foundation for international authority already exercised through 'pre-existing practices of...
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Business and Human Rights : From Domestic Institutionalisation to Transnational Governance and Back Again
Methven O'Brien, Claire; Ford, Jolyon - 2020
The ‘business and human rights’ (BHR) field emerged amidst concerns during the last thirty years over the adequacy of national legal systems and institutions in addressing transnational human rights impacts of global market integration. BHR relies on transnational governance networks and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014101667
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Structure of a Transnational Criminal Network : 'Los Zetas' and the Smuggling of Hydrocarbons
Garay, Luis - 2017
countries across Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. While the operations of criminal networks inside of Mexico are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963760
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Extension of International Jurisdiction over Crimes Committed by International Terrorist Organisations
Ivanov, Eduard - 2013
In this article we analyses threats to international security posed by international terrorist organisations and main approaches to combating their criminal activities at the national and international levels. We offer own concept of responsibility of international terrorist organisations under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014161812
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Criminal Innovation and Illicit Global Markets : Transnational Crime in Asia
Broadhurst, Roderic - 2017
, and armed conflict as well as government and civil society responses to the impacts of these markets. In Asia, these … infrastructure development and increased wealth. Traditional crime groups have re-vitalized and new entrepreneurial crime groups have … trafficking) in Asia and worldwide. These developments have triggered extreme responses, such as Philippines' President Duterte …
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Interest Deductions and Multinational Enterprises : Goldilocks and the Brave New World
Burnett, Chloe - 2015
This article compares the “brave new” group-wide approach under Action 4 of the G20/OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting initiative to the fixed ratio alternative. The conclusion in this article is that the group-wide approach – which is not as novel as some assume – should be...
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Foreign Investment In and Out of Japan : Economic Backdrop, Domestic Law, and International Treaty-Based Investor-State Dispute Resolution
Hamamoto, Shotaro - 2011
This paper provides the first-ever detailed analysis of the dispute resolution provisions contained in Japan's burgeoning international investment treaties (BITs and FTAs or EPAs). That development is also located in the context of Japan's inbound and outbound flows in foreign investment and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132259
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Organizing with International Framework Agreements : An Exploratory Study
Rosado Marzán, César F. - 2014
In the United States, union density continues to decline, while income inequality increases. But while union density falls we have experienced the counterintuitive rise in international framework agreements (IFAs), or agreements signed by global union federations (“global unions”) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064385
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Trade Sanctions, Human Rights and Multinational Corporations : The EU-ACP Context
Amao, Olufemi O. - 2009
Significant numbers of multinational corporations ("MNCs") from the European Union ("EU") operate in the African, Caribbean and Pacific ("ACP") countries. The ACP countries are attractive operational bases because of the enormous availability of raw materials, low cost of labour, and favourable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202843
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Beyond Uncitral : Alternatives to Universality in Transnational Insolvency
Kipnis, Alexander M. - 2006
The rapid growth of international economic activity in the recent decades has brought forth a unique and formidable policy challenge. The challenge consists of reconciling two goals which sometimes compete directly with one another: creating a regime that allows economic interaction between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014057179