Making the Strategic Partnership between Japan and Europe Work

EU-Japan cooperation on issues related to security includes efforts for eradicating terrorism, coordinating policy, and working together in crisis management operations. The EU and Japan share the same values and are societies based on democracy and the rule of law, and they have similar approaches to regional and global peace and stability. In 2015 the three focus areas are EU-Japan cooperation for global peace and stability, cooperation for contributing to addressing global challenges, and the promotion of the strategic partnership. This article suggests that bilateral cooperation between the EU and Japan will encourage multilateral commitment for global cooperation to resolve global problems.     

Limited Access Order in Tunisia: Elements of a Political Economy of Autocratic Regimes

In 2009, North, Wallis, and Weingast (NWW) introduced an integrative theory of institutional economics and economic history which rests on the inter-linkage of economic and political order. The article applies this novel theoretical conception to the historical development of Tunisian political economy. It is argued that the neo-Weberian concept of neopatrimonialism fills a theoretical gap as to the analysis of the structure and the dynamics of an autocratic regime and takes Tunisian economic history as an example. While the economic and political order during the pre-colonial period can be analyzed within NWW's framework, the colonial period needs conceptual modifications. Of particular interest are the mechanisms which transformed the post-colonial order into an autocratic regime and a rent-creating economic order. It is argued that a recent reformulation of neopatrimonialism, developed by political scientists based on institutional uncertainty, expands on economists’ understanding of how an autocratic regime stabilizes its political power and creates rents, doorstep conditions towards a competitive open access order notwithstanding.     

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<Emphasis Type="Italic">Daphné Josselin,William Wallace</Emphasis> (eds.): Non-state actors in world politics

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Daphné Josselin, William Wallace (eds.): Non-state actors in world politics Hampshire/New York: Palgrave Publishers 2001, 294 S., Paperback ￡ 16,99 (€ 28,90)

     

Vertrag mit Schutzwirkung zugunsten Dritter im Bereich der öffentlichen Sozialverwaltung

Das Land Nieder?sterreich schlie?t mit Sozialeinrichtungen der freien Wohlfahrtspflege Vereinbarungen über die direkte Leistungserbringung an behinderte Personen. Die Sozialeinrichtungen haften aufgrund eines Vertrages mit Schutzwirkung zugunsten Dritter bei allf?lligen Fehlern in der t?glichen Betreuung. Die zwischen dem Land Nieder?sterreich und dem gesch?digten Pflegling bestehende ?ffentlich-rechtliche Sonderbeziehung schlie?t einen Anspruch des Pfleglings aus Vertrag mit Schutzwirkung zugunsten Dritter nicht aus.