Bestandverträge in Einkaufszentren: Aktuelle Entwicklungen in Judikatur und Rechtspolitik

Nachdem es zuletzt etwas ruhiger um die Frage nach der korrekten Qualifikation von Bestandvertr?gen in Einkaufszentren (EKZ) geworden zu sein schien, sind nunmehr wieder interessante Entwicklungen zu verzeichnen. Einerseits liegt eine neue Entscheidung des OGH vor, die als weiterer beachtlicher Schritt zur Konsolidierung der einschl?gigen Judikatur gewertet werden kann. Andererseits werden dem Vernehmen nach gegenw?rtig massive Anstrengungen unternommen, um eine gesetzgeberische Intervention zu diesem Themenkomplex herbeizuführen. Im folgenden Beitrag werden die geschilderten aktuellen Entwicklungen n?her dargestellt und gewürdigt.     

Questioning Cognitivism and Constructivism in IR Theory: Reflections on the Material Structure of Ideas

In recent years, it has been highlighted in international relations theory that mainstream approaches neglect the role of ideas in relation to the formation of interests and international co-operation. This article critically discusses the renewed emphasis on ideas. 'Cognitive' and 'constructivist' approaches are outlined as the two main strands in the debate and a neo-Gramscian position within it is sketched. Importantly, a neo-Gramscian position is able to conceptualise the material structure of ideas, thereby overcoming the separation between ideas and material structure from the very beginning.     

Zur Rechtsqualität von Kfz-Parkwippen ("Stapelparkern") auf einer WE-Liegenschaft; Stapelparkanlage als "gesondert abzurechnende Anlage" iSd § 32 Abs 6 WEG 2002?

In der technischen Vorrichtung zum Erreichen einer Parkwippe ist ein allgemeiner Teil der Liegenschaft zu sehen, wenn sich die gesamte Hydraulik für die Stapelparker in einem nicht dem WE zugeordneten Raum, sondern auf einer Allgemeinfl?che befindet. Resultiert aus der Zubeh?reigenschaft der Stellfl?chen der Parkwippen die Unzul?ssigkeit der Nutzung durch andere Wohnungseigentümer und kommt es zu evident unterschiedlichen Aufwendungen gegenüber gew?hnlichen und Stapelabstellfl?chen, muss die objektive Sinnhaftigkeit einer gesonderten Abrechnung iSd § 32 Abs 6 WEG 2002 grunds?tzlich bejaht werden.     

Molecular study of time dependent changes in DNA stability in soil buried skeletal residues

In the past years, many publications about identification and sex-determination of dry human bones by means of DNA analysis have been published. However, few studies exist that investigate the potential use of DNA technique to determine the postmortem interval (PMI). In the present study we analyzed the rate of increasingly smaller fragments of chromosomal DNA and PMI.     

Fatalismus. Über eine vernachlässigte Stütze sozialer Ordnung

Most sociological explanations tacitly assume that contemporary social orders are based on the propensities of active, purpose-driven entities. These explanations underestimate the stabilizing effects of fatalistic patterns which make members accept even those social arrangements that they do not appreciate, and prevent discontent from being translated into a critique of society. This kind of fatalism cannot only be found among the utterly powerless. There also is a fatalism of the privileged (which sometimes takes the form of “positive thinking”), as well as a kind of fatalism particular to social elites. This elite fatalism also demonstrates how fatalism, since it eases the burden of thinking about alternatives, has action-enabling effects (which are part of this stabilizing mechanism). In order to analyze these order-sustaining mechanisms, this paper first reconstructs a self-critique of sociological normativism going from Durkheim to Bourdieu and to Boltanski to then take up classical pragmatist ideas that help us to understand fatalism as a particular type of socially mediated reflexivity.     

Recasting the Power Politics of Debt: structural power,hegemonic stabilisers and change

The 2007–08 financial crisis exposed and exacerbated the debt pathologies of the West. This paper examines whether the new global debt relations that have been generated by this crisis have transformed global power politics, changing the way in which the global South and the global North interrelate and interact. To do so the paper analyses the G20 advanced and emerging economies, examining a number of key indicators related to debt, indebtedness and financial leverage. This research leads to two main findings. First, the crisis has indeed given rise to new global debt relations. As a result, any reforms in the post-crisis global political economy will take place in an environment that favours the rising powers. Second, the USA maintains its capacity to control the parameters of this new global debt politics and economics, but cannot directly impose the terms of a solution to the existing ‘global/hegemonic imbalances’ on the rising powers.