Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Business Law

European views on Turkey's membership in the EU have been split between those in support of its full integration and those advocating a privileged partnership. To the extent that many of the latter proposals imply that Turkey will be partially integrated within Europe in certain areas, the question of Turkey's accession is probably not about 'if', but about 'how much' integration there will be within the Union's structures. The purpose of this book is not to offer a definitive response to this question. The book aims instead to examine the complexity of the issues pertaining to Turkey's...

Walk down any main street in Paris or New York and there is evidence of the counterfeit goods trade. This is the first book to fully examine the size of the counterfeit market. It describes counterfeit trade from a global and strategic business perspective.

Auf europaischer Ebene ist Haupt- und Vorzeigeinstitut des Klimaschutzes das 2005 neu eingefuhrte CO2-Zertifikatehandelssystem. Es ist eine Art Marktordnung, die auf der europaischen Emissionshandelsrichtlinie beruht, die jedoch eine Reihe wesentlicher Entscheidungen dezentral an die Mitgliedstaaten delegiert, allen voran die Allokation der Zertifikate. Diese Arbeit hat zum Ziel, die grundrechtlichen Vorgaben fur den nationalen Gesetzgeber bei der Entscheidung uber die Zu- und Aufteilung der Zertifikate zu analysieren. Hierzu nimmt sie auf Basis einer Untersuchung der...

In the 2009 elections, the European centre-right emerged victorious, thus affirming its political domination in contemporary European politics. The aim of this book is not to provide an analysis of the factors that contributed to the EPP s political prevalence. Instead, it is to help this large political family maintain its vigour of political thought and policy prescriptions. The book provides a forum for prominent centre-right thinkers to debate the major European problems of our times, with particular emphasis on the management of the financial crisis and the next institutional steps...

In Policy Challenges and Political Responses, leading public choice scholars confront the most significant problems facing democratic societies at the dawn of the 21^st century. Ranging widely across the policy spectrum, this authoritative volume demonstrates the vibrancy and continuing relevance of the public choice research program by applying its ideas and methods to constitution-making in the European Union, terrorism, the growth of government, political campaign finance, vote-counting technologies, participatory democracy, corporate governance, school...

Having explored multifaceted issues of IPR enforcement, this book argues that IPR enforcement problem is not an actual outcome of Confucian philosophy and "to steal a book" is not an "elegant offence." This book demonstrates that counterfeiting and piracy are common inevitable consequences of inadequate economic development and a by-product of a unique set of socioeconomic crises deriving from the development of a dysfunctional institutional regime. By examining areas of compatibilities between European and Chinese cultures and analysing painful lessons from the US-China negotiations over...