How Do You Solve a Problem Like Legitimacy? Contributing to a new research agenda

Previously in this journal, Gunter Schubert's article, entitled ‘One-party rule and the question of legitimacy in contemporary China’, called for the setting up of a new research agenda to analyze the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). While making a valuable contribution to the study of the CCP's legitimacy, Schubert's emphasis on the empirical measurement of this concept gives rise to a number of conceptual and theoretical issues. As a consequence, this article seeks to contribute to the research agenda by addressing these issues. In so doing, it suggests that a shift away from a narrow empirically-measured focus on legitimacy towards a broader conceptually-driven concern with legitimation would allow for a more inclusive agenda within the China studies community and lead to a more complete understanding of why the CCP remains in power.     

Sovereignty Negotiations and Gibraltar's Military Facilities: How Two "Red-Line" Issues Became Three

The Brussels Agreement signed between Britain and Spain in 1984 aimed to resolve all aspects of the dispute over Gibraltar, including sovereignty, which dated back to the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713. Desultory progress was made in negotiations until 2001, when the British Government decided to attempt to negotiate a joint sovereignty agreement. From the outset two non-negotiable ('red-line') issues on Britain's part were established: the agreement must be permanent, and it must be subject to a referendum in Gibraltar. As the negotiations progressed, a third 'red-line' issue emerged: Britain insisted on retaining control of Gibraltar's military facilities. The article explores how this third issue emerged and the possible reasons why it did so following 9/11.     

Verjährung und Treu und Glauben

Eine gegen Treu und Glauben versto?ende Berufung auf den Ablauf der Verj?hrungsfrist liegt vor, wenn die Fristvers?umnis auf ein Verhalten des Gegners zurückgeht. Erforderlich ist ein Verhalten des Anspruchsgegners, durch das der Anspruchsberechtigte veranlasst wurde, seine Forderung nicht fristgerecht geltend zu machen; dabei genügt es, wenn der Gl?ubiger nach objektiven Ma?st?ben der Auffassung sein konnte, sein Anspruch werde befriedigt oder nur mit sachlichen Einwendungen bek?mpft. Bei pflichtwidriger Anlageberatung kann der Gesch?digte den Vertrauensschaden verlangen.