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Japanese investment in Europe has been growing by leaps and bounds and this book charts the course of this phenomenon, looking both at the Japanese experience of Europe and the European experience of the Japanese, and social, cultural and economic consequences of this encounter. This contemporary snap-shot is based upon a wealth of interviews and fully-illustrated by photographs, maps and diagrams.

First published in 1996, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.

From the viewpoint of newspaper organizations the main competitive media has shrunk to only one, the internet. But the effect of this innovation has been devastating in capturing the vast majority of the advertising revenues on which newspapers have depended. The larger the internet-based media became the more newspapers and other media shrank. Pairing an academic and former industry news manager, this textbook assesses the situation in which the regional news media industry finds itself, and explores methods, processes and techniques, which might usefully be introduced to help the news...

Debt is often thought of as a mere economic variable governed by a simplistic mechanical logic, ignoring its other facets. Whose debt, and debt of what exactly? This volume analyzes debt as a political and social construct, with a multiplicity of purposes and agents. All of these are vectors of meanings that are highly diverse, and of subtle distinctions; they show that debt is a transverse phenomenon, cutting across spaces that are not merely economic but also domestic, social and political. Each contributor takes a fresh view of the subject, dealing with debt at a different time, in a...

International Air Carrier Liability brings together essential treaties and airline-to-airline agreements on air carrier liability, safety and security, and supplements these with expert commentary and analysis. The examination considers the general regulatory framework of international civil aviation (including the Chicago Convention and related documents) and how the liability regime fits within that framework.

The book is divided into three parts: dealing in turn with liability, safety and security, and civil aviation regulation. Part I, for example, provides comment and...

Der Beitrag des Gesellschaftsrechts zur Verwirklichung des Binnenmarktes steht in vielen Bereichen noch aus. Dieser Befund war Ausgangspunkt der vorliegenden Untersuchung, die dem Leitgedanken eines binnenmarktkonformen Gesellschaftsrechts folgt. Dieser Leitgedanke hat einen rechtlichen und einen okonomischen Aspekt: Binnenmarktkonform im rechtlichen Sinne sind gesellschaftsrechtliche Regelungen, wenn sie den zwingenden rechtlichen Vorgaben des Gemeinschaftsrechts entsprechen; binnenmarktkonform im okonomischen Sinne sind sie, wenn sie dem grenzuberschreitenden Wirtschaftsverkehr im...