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Environmental regulations often want to stimulate the generation and adoption of ecoefficient innovations. An important argument in the public debate is also the creation of new markets for environmentally benign products, processes and services that other countries adopt and therefore generate...
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policy-relevant abatement scenarios and to quantify the associated economic implications across major world regions. Based on … sell emission abatement to the industrialized world. Equity rules to allocate abatement duties are mainly based on the …
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The concept of global governance has emerged as a key theoretical approach since the 1990s. Applied to the transformation of international security, it has suggested a shift from the state-dominated bipolar system of the Cold War era to a new multipolar and multilateral security architecture in...
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This working paper introduces the concept of legal personality of non-state actors as an indicator of the democratic legitimacy of international organizations (IOs). Globalization has led to changes in statehood which are reflected in new democratic forms of participation and new expectations...
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This paper deals with the ways in which the interconnectedness of multiple political levels in increaingly internationalized structures of governance impacts on these levels' democratic legitimation. Focusing on the European Union (EU), it argues that in the EU's multi-level system, the...
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international governance. Many organizations, prominently among them the World Trade Organization (WTO), have come under …
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The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was held by the United Nations in 2003 to draft a programmatic … argumentative input only led to minor changes in the policy documents. The case of the World Summit on the Information Society …
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international relations — and arrives at some tentative conclusions derived from the unique position and history of the world’s most …
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the world market since they dependent strongly on international trade and capital and they are too small to have a major … direct impact on economic changes beyond their national borders. These adaptations to changing world markets need to be based … flexibility. This is the core of Peter Katzenstein’s path breaking book about ‘Small States in World Markets’, which is based on …
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Drawing on Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems, we analyse the importance of different styles of expectation (cognitive and normative) for global research and development. In our study, we find that contrary to Luhmann's prediction in 1971, the normative expectation style still plays a...
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