The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe is now a well-established international organization endowed with a sophisticated institutional web, which should allow it to perform the historical task of stabilizing Europe. As a regional organization under Chapter VIII of the United Nations Charter, the OSCE can avail itself of classical tools of conflict prevention and crisis management, such as dispute settlement and peace-keeping. Lawyers immediately perceive the peculiarity of an organization whose constitutive instrument lies in the province of soft law instead of being based on...

This volume is the product of a joint effort at the Research Centre of the Hague Academy of International Law. In addition to the introductory reports by the two directors of studies, it assembles the contributions of participants from 15 countries - a group of young lawyers from very diverse legal cultures, who have since embarked on auspicious professional and academic careers. The topic selected, i.e., the instruments of international environmental policy, was an expedition into as yet uncharted territory, in the borderland of international economic law and international environmental law....

Die vorliegende Schrift ist das erste Teilergebnis eines umfassenden Forschungsvorhabens, das ein zentrales Problem moderner bundes staatlicher Ordnungen, namlich die Kooperation zwischen den ver schiedenen bundesstaatlichen Wirkungseinheiten, rechtsvergleichend zu erfassen trachtet. Sie ist beschrankt auf die Darstellung der bundes staatlichen Kompetenzordnung, die eine notwendige Voraussetzung fUr das Verstandnis bundesstaatlicher Kooperation in ihren vielfalti gen Formen und Gestalten ist. Zwar bedauere ich, hier mit Teilergeb nissen an die wissenschaftliche Offentlichkeit zu treten, tue...