TY  - GEN
A1  - Schneiker, Andrea
T1  - Privatisierung des Militärischen? : Private Militärfirmen als Akteure in der US-Außenpolitik
T1  - Private military companies in US foreign policy
N2  - Since the early 1990s the use of private military companies (PMCs) has proliferated. Especially the United States are increasingly turning to private contractors to perform military tasks. Privatization advocates claim that PMCs work cheaper than the military. In addition to that, PMCs give the cover of plausible deniability that regular troops lack. But the fact that legislative control or public debate are missing raises the question of accountability and underlines the need for legal means to control and regulate PMCs and their operations.
KW  - USA
KW  - private Militärfirmen
KW  - Außenpolitik
KW  - zivil-miltärische Beziehungen
KW  - USA
KW  - private military companies
KW  - foreign policy
KW  - civil-military relations
Y1  - 2005
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-48317
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Kleger, Heinz
T1  - EU-Verfassung im Härtetest
T1  - The EU-plebiscite in France : wither the constitution?
N2  - The author discusses the failure of the EU-Constitution plebiscite in France and focuses on the different arguments brought forward in the French debate over the EU-Constitution. The draft of the Convent was a complex volume full of compromises. However, in comparison with the Treaty of Nice, it would have been a starting point for achieving a direct trans-national democracy. According to the author, the referendum only failed due to some unique plebiscite elements that were instrumentalised by governments which had overestimated themselves.
KW  - Europäische Union
KW  - EU-Verfassungsvertrag
KW  - direkte Demokratie
KW  - Frankreich
KW  - European Union
KW  - EU-Constitutional Treaty
KW  - direct democracy
KW  - France
Y1  - 2005
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-48022
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Karolewski, Ireneusz Pawel
T1  - Zwischen Machtstreben und Toleranz : Verfassungsdiskurs in Polen
T1  - Between power and tolerance : the Polish debate aboutthe EU-Constitution
N2  - The Polish discourse about the European Constitution has one feature in common with the discourses of other member states: it deals with everything but the text of the Constitution Treaty itself. At its core it oscillates between the Polish striving for power in the EU and the toleration for cultural difference in Europe. The opposite of the latter has been particularly significant during the referendum debates in France and the Netherlands, which let to the rejection of the constitutional treaty.
KW  - Europäische Union
KW  - EU-Verfassungsvertrag
KW  - Polen
KW  - European Union
KW  - EU-Constitutional Treaty
KW  - Poland
Y1  - 2005
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-48045
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Schmierer, Joscha
T1  - Provinzialismus könnte angenehm sein
T1  - Provincialism might be comfortable
KW  - Deutsche Außenpolitik
KW  - Europa
KW  - UNO
KW  - Terrorismus
KW  - German foreign policy
KW  - Europe
KW  - UNO
KW  - terrorism
Y1  - 2005
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-47579
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Bittner, Jan
A1  - Lederer, Markus
T1  - Finanzmärkte und Sicherheit : die Bekämpfung der Finanzquellen des Terrorismus
T1  - Financial markets and security : the abatement of financial resources for terrorism
N2  - Since 9/11, the fight against the financial sources of terrorism has become a major arena for international co-operation. In the first part, the paper highlights the borderline between security studies and international political economy. The second part of the paper asks how successful the international community is in this fight. The authors show that the idea of seizing terrorist funds and denying access to the international financial system is not a very promising one. They conclude that, so far, results have been mixed and that only a political approach to the problem promises a solution.
KW  - Terrorismus
KW  - Terroristenfinanzierung
KW  - terrorism
KW  - terrorist finance
Y1  - 2005
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-9734
ER  -