TY  - RPRT
A1  - Aharon, Itzik
A1  - Brill, Antonia
A1  - Fonseca, Philip
A1  - Vandchali, Azin Alizadeh
A1  - Wendel, Nina
T1  - The Protection of Women Human Rights Defenders and their Collective Actions
T2  - Staat, Recht und Politik – Forschungs- und Diskussionspapiere
T2  - State, Law, and Politics - Research and Discussion Papers
N2  - This paper evaluates the construction of the rights of human rights defenders within international law and its shortcomings in protecting women. Human rights defenders have historically been defined on the basis of their actions as defenders. However, as Marxist-feminist scholar Silvia Federici contends, women are inherently politicised and, moreover, face obstacles to political action which are invisible to and untouchable by the law. Labour rights set an example of handling such a disadvantaged political position by placing vital importance on workers’ right to association and collective action. The paper closes with the suggestion that transposing this construction of rights to women would better protect women as human rights defenders while emphasising their capacity for self-determination in their political actions.
N2  - Dieses Papier bewertet die Konstruktion der Rechte von Menschenrechtsverteidigern innerhalb des Völkerrechts und ihre Mängel beim Schutz von Frauen. Menschenrechtsverteidiger wurden in der Vergangenheit auf der Grundlage ihrer Tätigkeit als Verteidiger definiert. Wie die marxistisch-feministische Wissenschaftlerin Silvia Federici behauptet, sind Frauen jedoch von Natur aus politisiert und sehen sich darüber hinaus Hindernissen für politisches Handeln gegenüber, die für das Gesetz unsichtbar und unantastbar sind. Die Arbeitsrechte sind ein Beispiel für den Umgang mit einer derart benachteiligten politischen Position, indem sie dem Recht der Arbeitnehmer auf Vereinigungsfreiheit und kollektive Aktionen entscheidende Bedeutung beimessen. Das Papier schließt mit dem Vorschlag, dass die Übertragung dieser Rechtskonstruktion auf Frauen Frauen als Menschenrechtsverteidigerinnen besser schützen und gleichzeitig ihre Fähigkeit zur Selbstbestimmung in ihrem politischen Handeln betonen würde.
T3  - Staat, Recht und Politik – Forschungs- und Diskussionspapiere = State, Law, and Politics - Research and Discussion Papers - 10 
KW  - Human Rights Defender
KW  - Women's Rights
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-444278
IS  - 10
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Boldrighini, Carlo
A1  - Frigio, Sandro
A1  - Maponi, Pierluigi
A1  - Pellegrinotti, Alessandro
A1  - Sinai, Yakov G.
T1  - 3-D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations: Complex blow-up and related real flows
JF  - Lectures in pure and applied mathematics
KW  - random point processes
KW  - statistical mechanics
KW  - stochastic analysis
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-472201
SN  - 978-3-86956-485-2
SN  - 2199-4951
SN  - 2199-496X
IS  - 6
SP  - 185
EP  - 194
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - RPRT
A1  - Bäumler, Jelena
T1  - The WTO’s Crisis
BT  - Between a Rock and a Hard Place
T2  - KFG Working Paper Series
N2  - The perception of the WTO is currently one of an organisation in crisis. Yet, appraisal varies regarding its extent and seriousness: Is it merely a rough time or are we standing on the edge of destruction? The article will trace developments inside as well as outside the WTO in order to assess the magnitude of the crisis. It will be argued that while certain developments inside the organisation, when seen in accumulation would already warrant serious attention, only together with developments taking place outside of the WTO, the two strands of developments unfold their full potential for the crisis. The overall situation renders the WTO in a difficult position, as it is currently unable to adapt to these challenges, while keeping calm and carrying on might similarly further the crisis. While States might improve and further develop their trade relations in bi- and plurilateral agreements, it is only the WTO that reflects and stands for the multilateral post (cold) war order.
T3  - KFG Working Paper Series - 42 
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-476017
IS  - 42
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Cheng, Ming Yu
A1  - Ong, Duu Sheng
A1  - Mustafa, Marzuki
A1  - Ewe, Hong Tat
T1  - Leadership Training in Malaysia
BT  - Impact and Implications
JF  - Potsdamer Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung
N2  - The higher education structure in Malaysia has experienced significant changes since the implementation of the Private Higher Educational Institutions Act of 1996. The unprecedented expansion of the higher education sector and the increasing autonomy conferred to universities have created a huge demand for competent university leadership that supports the development of higher education in Malaysia. This article discusses the very first national multiplication training in Malaysia in 2014 and analyses such out-comes as the identification of good practices for future initiatives and applications in university leadership training.
KW  - university leadership in Malaysia
KW  - higher education
KW  - university management
KW  - training programme
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-493444
SN  - 978-3-86956-496-8
SN  - 2192-1075
SN  - 2192-1083
IS  - 5
SP  - 37
EP  - 51
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Devi, Mays
T1  - Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), 336 p., $ 28.
JF  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-486214
SN  - 978-3-86956-493-7
SN  - 1614-6492
SN  - 1862-7684
VL  - 2020
IS  - 26
SP  - 152
EP  - 154
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Di Rocco, Emilia
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - Review of Silvio Bär & Emily Hauser (eds.), Reading Poetry, Writing Genre. English Poetry and Literary Criticism in Dialogue with Classical Scholarship
BT  - Bloomsbury Academic (London & New York 2019) (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception), xii & 256 p. ISBN: 978-1-350-03932-2, $ 102.60 (hb)
JF  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.183
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 370
EP  - 378
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Echeverría King, Luisa Fernanda
A1  - Acuña Paez, Katherine
A1  - Coronado Vargas, Carlos
T1  - Enhancing Internationalisation for Peacebuilding among Higher Education Institutions in Post-Conflict Colombia
JF  - Potsdamer Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung
N2  - This article collected the results of a qualitative study focused on Colombian Higher Education Institutions’ representatives partaking in the training ‘Internationalisation for Peacebuilding 2018’. The selected Higher Education Institutions and representatives were all located in regions acutely affected by the Colombian armed conflict, now experiencing multifaceted challenges and opportunities in a post-conflict scenario. Interviews with participants of the training were conducted to analyse the skills acquired and to identify possible improvements brought about by the training at the institutions. The article further identifies specific needs of the institutions, to be taken into account for future courses on internationalisation for higher education institutions.
KW  - internationalisation for higher education
KW  - capacity building
KW  - international cooperation
KW  - peacebuilding
KW  - quality in higher education
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-493500
SN  - 978-3-86956-496-8
SN  - 2192-1075
SN  - 2192-1083
IS  - 5
SP  - 103
EP  - 121
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Figari, Rodolfo
A1  - Teta, Alessandro
T1  - Zero-range hamiltonians for three quantum particles
JF  - Lectures in pure and applied mathematics
KW  - random point processes
KW  - statistical mechanics
KW  - stochastic analysis
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-472189
SN  - 978-3-86956-485-2
SN  - 2199-4951
SN  - 2199-496X
IS  - 6
SP  - 175
EP  - 184
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - RPRT
A1  - Frodermann, Corinna
A1  - Wrohlich, Katharina
A1  - Zucco, Aline
T1  - Parental Leave Reform and Long-run Earnings of Mothers
T2  - CEPA Discussion Papers
N2  - Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women’s employment rates but decrease their wages in case of extended leave durations. In view of these potential trade-offs, many countries are discussing the optimal design of parental leave policies. We analyze the impact of a major parental leave reform on mothers’ long-term earnings. The 2007 German parental leave reform replaced a means-tested benefit with a more generous earnings-related benefit that is granted for a shorter period of time. Additionally, a “daddy quota” of two months was introduced. To identify the causal effect of this policy on long-run earnings of mothers, we use a difference-in-difference approach that compares labor market outcomes of mothers who gave birth just before and right after the reform and nets out seasonal effects by including the year before. Using administrative social security data, we confirm previous findings and show that the average duration of employment interruptions increased for high-income mothers. Nevertheless, we find a positive long-run effect on earnings for mothers in this group. This effect cannot be explained by changes in working hours, observed characteristics, changes in employer stability or fertility patterns. Descriptive evidence suggests that the stronger involvement of fathers, incentivized by the “daddy months”, could have facilitated mothers’ re-entry into the labor market and thereby increased earnings. For mothers with low prior-to-birth earnings, however, we do not find any beneficial labor market effects of this parental leave reform.
T3  - CEPA Discussion Papers - 16 
KW  - parental leave
KW  - wages
KW  - labor supply
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-443188
SN  - 2628-653X
IS  - 16
ER  - 
TY  - RPRT
A1  - Gallego Granados, Patricia
A1  - Wrohlich, Katharina
T1  - Selection into Employment and the Gender Wage Gap across the Distribution and Over Time
T2  - CEPA Discussion Papers
N2  - Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time (1990–2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the one observed in the data, which is mainly due to large positive selection of women into full-time employment. However, we show that selection-corrected wages of male and female workers at the lower half of the distribution have moderately converged over time. The reason for this development have been changes in the composition of the male full-time employment force over time, which in spite of the rather constant male full-time employment rate, have given place to a small but rising selection bias in male observed wages. In the upper half of the wage distribution, however, neither the observed nor the selection-corrected gender wage gap has narrowed over time.
T3  - CEPA Discussion Papers - 15 
KW  - gender wage gap
KW  - quantile regression
KW  - selection into employment
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-441691
SN  - 2628-653X
IS  - 15
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gausemeier, Bernd
T1  - Squaring the pedigree
BT  - Arthur Czellitzer’s ventures in eugenealogy
JF  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture
N2  - Arthur Czellitzer (1872 – 1943) embodies the interdependence between eugenics and genealogy in early 20th-century Germany. He developed widely discussed genealogical recording techniques designed both for studies about human heredity and for the use in historical family research. When he shifted his focus from medical family studies to Jewish family research after World War I, he maintained a eugenic agenda which was now primarily targeted at the preservation of the “Jewish race.”
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-485566
SN  - 978-3-86956-493-7
SN  - 1614-6492
SN  - 1862-7684
IS  - 26
SP  - 43
EP  - 50
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Grewing, Farouk F.
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - A Saturnalian poet as a literary critic
BT  - the carnivalesque poetics of Martial’s Apophoreta 183-196
JF  - thersites = tessellae – Birthday Issue for Christine Walde
N2  - This paper analyzes a specific section of Martial’s Apophoreta (Book 14), the ‘list’ of fourteen literary works that the poet-persona suggests to the reader as potentially suitable presents to give to friends on the occasion of the Saturnalia. It focuses strictly on the literary aspects of the poems and their underlying carnivalesque poetics. This includes an assessment of the logic of the poems’ arrangement and alleged inconsistencies. It is suggested that the section be read as a complex statement of Martial’s on various works and genres of Greek and Roman literature. The last couplet of the section (14.196), a certain Calvus’ work ‘On the use of cold water’ (De aquae frigidae usu), which is unidentifiable, receives particular attention, for previous scholarship has wasted a lot of ink on guessing what kind of work this may have been, thereby losing touch with the rich (meta-)poetics the couplet actually conveys.
KW  - Martial
KW  - epigram
KW  - Saturnalia
KW  - poetics
KW  - Apophoreta
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.170
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 176
EP  - 204
ER  - 
TY  - RPRT
A1  - Gulati, Rishi
T1  - Judicial Independence at International Courts and Tribunals
BT  - Lessons Drawn From the Experiences of the International Court of Justice and the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organisation
T2  - KFG Working Paper Series
N2  - The guarantee of judicial independence is undoubtedly one of the most important institutional design features of international courts and tribunals. An independence deficit can adversely impact a court’s authority, create a crisis of legitimacy, and undermine the very effectiveness of an international court or tribunal. It can hardly be denied that for an international court to be considered legitimate, a basic degree of independence is a must. An independent judiciary is a precondition to the fair and just resolution of legal disputes. In the context of interstate dispute settlement where the jurisdiction of courts is based on the principle of consent, in the absence of a basic degree of judicial independence, states may not be willing to submit to the jurisdiction of international courts. Comparing and contrasting the International Court of Justice and the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organisation, I assess whether those international judicial mechanisms possess the basic degree of independence required for a court to be able to maintain its credibility so that it can continue to perform its core function of adjudicating interstate disputes. With both those interstate adjudicative bodies constituting the two leading international courts in terms of participation and the sheer number of cases decided, much may be learned from comparing them. I argue there is a case for bolstering the independence of the ICJ; and without immediate reforms to the Appellate Body’s institutional design, its recent demise may become permanent. I conclude that if a basic degree of judicial independence cannot be guaranteed, it is preferable to let a court vanish for a while than to maintain a significantly deficient one.
T3  - KFG Working Paper Series - 41 
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-475997
IS  - 41
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Heinemann, Matthias
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - Review of Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice (eds.), The Reception of Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture. Beauty, Bravery, Blood and Glory
BT  - Brill (Leiden/Boston 2017) (= Metaforms 11), XIV + 424 pp., 32 mostly color illustrations. ISBN: 9789004347724, € 149.00 (hb, also available as e-book)
JF  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/0.34679/thersites.vol11.111
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 392
EP  - 400
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Herskovitz, Yaakov
T1  - Rachel Rojanski, Yiddish in Israel: A History (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020), 338 p., $ 40.
JF  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-486238
SN  - 978-3-86956-493-7
SN  - 1614-6492
SN  - 1862-7684
VL  - 2020
IS  - 26
SP  - 158
EP  - 160
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hryniv, Ostap
A1  - Wallace, Clare
T1  - Phase separation and sharp large deviations
JF  - Lectures in pure and applied mathematics
KW  - random point processes
KW  - statistical mechanics
KW  - stochastic analysis
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-472168
SN  - 978-3-86956-485-2
SN  - 2199-4951
SN  - 2199-496X
IS  - 6
SP  - 155
EP  - 164
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jansen, Sabine
A1  - Kolesnikov, Leonid
T1  - Activity expansions for Gibbs correlation functions
JF  - Lectures in pure and applied mathematics
KW  - random point processes
KW  - statistical mechanics
KW  - stochastic analysis
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-472121
SN  - 978-3-86956-485-2
SN  - 2199-4951
SN  - 2199-496X
IS  - 6
SP  - 145
EP  - 154
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jansen, Sabine
A1  - Kuna, Tobias
A1  - Tsagkarogiannis, Dimitrios
T1  - Virial inversion for inhomogeneous systems
JF  - Lectures in pure and applied mathematics
KW  - random point processes
KW  - statistical mechanics
KW  - stochastic analysis
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-472111
SN  - 978-3-86956-485-2
SN  - 2199-4951
SN  - 2199-496X
IS  - 6
SP  - 135
EP  - 144
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jansen, Sabine
A1  - Tsagkarogiannis, Dimitrios
T1  - Mayer expansion for the Asakura-Oosawa model of colloid theory
JF  - Lectures in pure and applied mathematics
KW  - random point processes
KW  - statistical mechanics
KW  - stochastic analysis
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-472109
SN  - 978-3-86956-485-2
SN  - 2199-4951
SN  - 2199-496X
IS  - 6
SP  - 127
EP  - 134
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - RPRT
A1  - Jorgensen, Malcolm
T1  - The United States and the International Law of Global Security
T2  - KFG Working Paper Series
N2  - For the United States the ‘international law of global security’ is, in a unique sense, synonymous with the entire project of constructing global legal order. Uniquely preponderant power enjoyed since the end of the Second World War has allowed US preferences to manifest not merely in specific rules and regimes, but in purposive development of the entire structure of global legal order to favour American security interests. Perceptions of a recent decline in this order now find expression in advocacy for a ‘liberal’ or ‘rules-based’ international order, as the claimed foundation for global prosperity and security. This working paper seeks to map out the parameters of US contributions to the global security order by uncovering the strategic and political foundations of its engagement with the international law of global security. The paper begins by reflecting on competing US conceptions of the relationship between national security and global order as they evolved across the twentieth century. The focus then turns to three significant trends defining the contemporary field. First are US attitudes toward multilateral institutions and global security, and the ongoing contest between beliefs that they are mutually reinforcing versus beliefs that US security and global institutions sit in zero-sum opposition. Second is the impact of the generational ‘War on Terror’, which has yielded more permissive interpretation and development of laws governing the global use of violence. The final trend is that towards competitive geopolitical interests restructuring international law, which are evident across diverse areas ranging from global economics, to cybersecurity, to the fragmentation of global order into spheres of influence. Looking ahead, a confluence of rising geopolitical competitors with divergent legal conceptions, and conflicted domestic support for the legitimacy and desirability of US global leadership, emerge as leading forces already reshaping the global security order.
T3  - KFG Working Paper Series - 43 
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-476030
IS  - 43
ER  -