TY - JOUR A1 - Weiß, Norman ED - Löhr, Isabella ED - Rehling, Andrea T1 - Neue Weltinformationsordnung reloaded? Eine globale Informationsordnung als Herausforderung für das Völkerrecht JF - Global Commons im 20. Jahrhundert : Entwürfe für eine globale Welt (Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte ; Bd. 15) N2 - Global commons form a comparatively new part of international law, since the term appeared in international discussions and codifications only in the second half of the 20th century. The Common Heritage of Mankind is the corresponding legal principle that can establish an international regime to determine the legal status of non-sovereign territories and to allocate exploitation rights. Its main aim is to balance competing national claims by emphasising mankind’s common interest in the preservation and controlled exploitation of natural re- sources. Against this background, the chapter sheds a critical light on attempts to transfer the institute of the Common Heritage of Mankind to the sphere of communication. Taking debates revolving around the New World Information and Communication Order in the framework of UNESCO since the late 1970s as a starting point, the author analyses the pitfalls and limits of attempts to establish governance structures for a global information order, including recent attempts to govern the internet. Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-3-11-036211-4 SN - 1616-6485 SP - 167 EP - 198 PB - Oldenburg Wissenschaftsverlag CY - München ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Weiß, Norman ED - Löhr, Isabella ED - Wenzlhuemer, Roland T1 - Institutionalised Co-operation on International Communication : The International Administrative Unions as a Means of Governing Globalisation Processes T2 - The Nation State and Beyond : Governing Globalization Processes in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Transcultural Research - Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context) N2 - The nineteenth century witnessed restoration and reformation, the heyday of the nation state in Europe and inter-state cooperation at the same time. Driven by technical progress, communication across borders became an everyday phenomenon demanding transnational cooperation and regulation. Whereas in the political field irregular conferences turned out to be an appropriate instrument for governing transnational cooperation, a more constant and institutionalised matter proved to be adequate for technical cooperation. In 1865, the International Telegraph Convention set up a relevant administrative union which merged in 1932 with the International Radiotelegraph Union from 1906 to form the newly labelled International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The parties to the ITU met regularly in so-called plenipotentiary conferences every 3 years. Already in 1875 the International Telegraph Convention was completely redrafted and the organisation’s structure changed. The contracting parties created an instrument that paved the way for a modern form of international standard setting. The new, simplified convention contained only general provisions of a policy nature that would remain in effect for an “indeterminate length of time” (Art. 20), detailed rules of a transitory and specific nature that might be subject to frequent changes with the progress of technology were put into the “Regulations for international service” (also known as the Telegraph Regulations). The newly established “administrative conferences” attended by technical experts from the member states were responsible for revising the regulations when necessary. This was an early example of the transferral of power from sovereign nation states to an international organisation in order to govern transnational communication effectively. The administrative unions, as the first examples in modern history, show the ability of self-interested rational agents to overcome collective action dilemmas, i.e. situations where cooperation avoids sub-optimal outcomes for cooperators. The newly created institutions shaped a spirit of cooperation and the practice of standard setting proved that cooperation is effective. Furthermore, they show the spill-over effects of cooperation: increased cooperation in one area leads to increased cooperation in other areas. Y1 - 2010 SN - 978-3-642-32934-0 (online) SN - 978-3-642-32933-3 (print) U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32934-0 SN - 2191-656X SP - 65 EP - 82 PB - Springer CY - Berlin, Heidelberg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weiß, Norman ED - Breuer, Marten ED - Epinay, Astrid ED - Haratsch, Andreas ED - Schmahl, Stefanie ED - Weiß, Norman T1 - Der Rechtsstaat im Risiko JF - Der Staat im Recht : Festschrift für Eckart Klein zum 70. Geburtstag (Schriften zum öffentlichen Recht ; Bd. 1232) Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-3-428-13738-1 SP - 365 EP - 383 PB - Duncker & Humblot CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weiß, Norman T1 - Bedeutung und Funktion von Zivilgesellschaft und Öffentlichkeit im demokratischen Rechtsstaat am Beispiel der Bundesrepublik Deutschland JF - Jahrbuch des Öffentlichen Rechts der Gegenwart : Neue Folge ; 61 Y1 - 2012 UR - https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/jahrbuch-des-oeffentlichen-rechts-der-gegenwart-neue-folge-9783161524172 SN - 978-3-16-152417-2 SN - 0075-2517 VL - 61 SP - 15 EP - 60 PB - Mohr Siebeck CY - Tübingen ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Hüfner, Klaus A1 - Sieberns, Anne A1 - Weiß, Norman T1 - Menschenrechtsverletzungen: Was kann ich dagegen tun? : Menschenrechtsverfahren in der Praxis T3 - DGVN-Texte Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-3-923904-69-3 VL - 55 PB - UNO-Verl. CY - Bonn ER - TY - THES A1 - Weiß, Norman T1 - Kompetenzlehre internationaler Organisationen BT - Theory of the powers of international organisations T2 - Beitäge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-642-03377-3 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03378-0 VL - 209 PB - Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg CY - Berlin, Heidelberg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weiß, Norman T1 - Aspekte der Grotius-Rezeption am Beispiel von "Mare Liberum" Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-86956-015-1 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weiß, Norman T1 - Das globale Menschenrechtssystem : Entwicklungsstand und Voraussetzungen seiner Verwirklichung Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-8329-4139-0 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weiß, Norman T1 - Erläuterungen zum Rat der Ostseestaaten und einige Überlegungen zum Hohen Kommissar für Menschenrechte der Vereinten Nationen Y1 - 1995 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weiß, Norman T1 - Zum Grundrechts- und Minderheitenschutz in der Europäischen Union Y1 - 1996 ER -