Using detailed insights from those with first-hand experience of conducting research in areas of international intervention and conflict, this handbook provides essential practical guidance for researchers and students embarking on fieldwork in violent, repressive and closed contexts.Contributors detail their own experiences from areas including the Congo, Sudan, Yemen, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Myanmar, inviting readers into their reflections on mistakes and hard-learned lessons....

The eruption in the early 1990s of highly visible humanitarian crises and exceedingly bloody civil wars in the Horn of Africa, imploding Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, set in motion a trend towards third party intervention in communal conflict in areas as far apart as the Balkans and East Timor. However haltingly and selectively, that trend towards extra-systemic means of managing ethnic and national conflict is still discernible, motivated as it was in the 1990s by the inability of in-house acco...

This book is written in honour of Hans-W. Micklitz for his jubilee 70th birthday and the closure of his twelve-year term as the Chair for Economic Law at the European University Institute (EUI). Hans-W. Micklitz has gained international recognition for dedicating his extensive and fruitful career to diverse areas of law: European Economic Law, European Private Law, National and European Consumer Law, Legal Theory, theories of Private Law and Social Justice. This book is a product of the co...

Lojze Kovačič wurde dem slowenischen Vater und der deutschen Mutter 1928 in Basel geboren. Dort betrieben die Eltern eine vergleichsweise erfolgreiche Schneider- und Kürschnerwerkstatt. Da der Vater die Schweizer Staatsangehörigkeit zurückwies, wurde die Familie 1938 nach Jugoslawien abgeschoben. Kovačič starb 2004 in Ljubljana. Die Roman-Trilogie "Die Zugereisten" zählt zu den bekanntesten und meist übersetzen Meisterwerken des Autors. Im deutschsprachigen Raum wurde die Übersetzung der G...

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the world's largest regional security organisation, possesses most of the attributes traditionally ascribed to an international organisation, but lacks a constitutive treaty and an established international legal personality. Moreover, OSCE decisions are considered mere political commitments and thus not legally binding. As such, it seems to correspond to the general zeitgeist, in which new, less formal actors and forms of int...

In den letzten Jahren entstanden als Reaktion auf die Finanzmarktkrise im Finanzsektor zahlreiche europäische und nationale Regelungen zur Begrenzung von Managergehältern. Dazu gehören insbesondere die Instituts-Vergütungsverordnung, die Versicherungs-Vergütungsverordnung, das Kapitalanlagegesetzbuch sowie das BaFin-Rundschreiben zu Mindestanforderungen an die Compliance-Funktion (MaComp). Auch die branchenunabhängige Regelung des § 87 AktG wurde verschärft. Die vorliegende Untersuchung gi...

“I have seen the UN perform on a changing global stage in many UN missions. This book examines how the UN must continue to evolve amongst changing state actors, differing regional organisations and a constant global paradigm shift. It is essential material for enhancing one’s understanding of the nature of international conflict and for the continued relevance of the UN as a key stakeholder and participant in world affairs.”—Maj. Gen. Kristin Lund, Head of Mission and Chief of Staf...