Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Military

Serving Whose Interests? explores the political economy of trade in services agreements from a critical legal perspective. The controversy surrounding the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and its variants at the regional and bilateral levels can, it is argued, be seen as a clash between two paradigms. For most of the twentieth century, under welfare states and state socialism, these services were viewed from a local and national perspective as embodying a mix of economic, social and cultural dimensions and were managed by the state through strong regulation and direct...

In China, rent seeking has been linked to the idea of the local developmental state in which rapid economic development is explained in terms of the promotion of village and township enterprises by local cadres who wants to maximize revenue. At the same time, the rent-seeking state is also seen as the root of corrupt practices and in the creation of a political market where state assets and authorities are diverted into private interests.

Despite the prevalence of rent seeking practices in present day China, no systematic study of the phenomenon across different regions and...

Cloud-Computing ist eines der heissesten Themen der letzten Zeit und verspricht dem Nutzer dieser Technik viele Vorteile von der einfachen Nutzung beliebiger Anwendungen bis hin zu Kosteneinsparungen durch die okonomische Nutzung von Ressourcen. Das zugrunde liegende Netzszenario der Cloud beruhrt neben Sicherheitsaspekten auch eine Vielzahl von Rechtsfragen. Die vorliegende Darstellung der Materie berucksichtigt ausfuhrlich und fundiert alle rechtlichen Probleme und hilft, diese inder Praxis sinnvoll zu losen.

On 11 November 2001, the People s Republic of China officially became a member of the World Trade Organisation. During the preceding two decades China emerged as a major trading and maritime nation, has adopted more than twenty maritime related laws and has ratified most of the important international maritime conventions.

Maritime Law and Policy in China contains new translations of all the major maritime laws of the People s Republic of China together with detailed explanations of the rationale behind the legislation. A comprehensive examination of the Maritime Code 1992...

Under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Canada, the United States, and Mexico continue to maintain their own distinct tax regimes, jealously guarding their sovereign right to do so. At times, these different tax systems harm the economic welfare of the trade bloc by imposing barriers to cross-border flows of capital. In NAFTA Tax Law and Policy, Arthur J. Cockfield analyzes these different tax systems and proposes a number of recommendations to reduce the harm caused by these barriers.

Cockfield argues that it is unrealistic to expect the NAFTA countries to...