This book reveals how conflicting worldviews are at the root of public controversies on policy and trade issues. It highlights the particularly controversial disputes at the level of the World Trade Organization in the case of regulating beef-hormones and GMOs, aiming to show how negotiators of international agreements, members of dispute settlement bodies, and policy makers in general could have recourse to concepts of other disciplines such as epistemology and philosophy in order to addr...

The Winter 2020-21 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Winter 2020-21 Issue, edited by Editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and Poetry Editor John Skoyles, features poetry an...

Zum 1.1.2021 ist das neue Sanierungsgesetz (StaRUG) in Kraft getreten und hat erhebliche Auswirkungen auf die Bank-, Sanierungs- und Insolvenzpraxis. Die Neuauflage stellt u.a. den Anwendungsbereich und Umfang des Stabilisierungs- und Restrukturierungsrahmens nach dem StaRUG vor. Das neue Kapitel zum vorinsolvenzlichen Restrukturierungsverfahren greift aktuelle Fragestellungen auf, das Thema Eigenverwaltung wird vor dem Hintergrund der Ergebnisse der ESUG-Evaluation vertieft dargestellt. N...

The Winter 2025-26 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Winter 2025-26 issue features poetry and prose by Alice Hoffma...