Law, economics, social sciences

Recently, technical supervision has become significantly more important. The reasons for this include the increasing shifting of non-ministerial tasks to subordinate authorities, the privatization of public tasks and the frequent interdepartmental cooperation between ministries. Ultimately, official technical supervision is increasingly proving to be a management and control instrument in the field of public administration. The author carries out a comprehensive systematization of the technical supervision in the currently existing system, but at the same time shows ways to a new...

Fear of Islam is growing in the western world. What are the historical, political, sociocultural and religious perspectives underlying this sense of threat? In particular, the warning signs from Islamic fundamentalists and the failed integration policy of recent years are the subject of controversial discussion in the western world - especially in Germany. This book attempts to provide an answer by looking at developments in the Islamic world itself. This includes, on the one hand, Islamic fundamentalism and Al-Qaeda, but...

The international interdependence of markets and economic relations presents the operating companies with new tasks and additional challenges. However, in intercultural economic conflicts that arise in the area of ​​tension between global integration and cultural identity, the tried-and-tested negotiation patterns and mechanisms of conflict resolution in the respective home culture quickly reach their limits. Time-consuming and costly court proceedings usually only lead to the formal clarification of legal claims by the parties involved, but are unsuitable for creating the basis...

In recent years, the effects of climate change have become the most important political issue that not only affects the ecological movement, but has long since moved onto the agenda of geopolitics - because nothing is more important than security and peace itself."Climate change is a potential threat to global peace. The book and the authors remind us that we must finally act together before it's too late is." Marcus Seyfarth, Chairman of the Foreign and Security Policy Study Groups e.V."The...

In view of the broad discussion and in the light of the Hessian project, the Foundation of the Hessian Lawyers' Association announced a student essay competition and awarded the "Prize of the Foundation of the Hessian Lawyers' Association". The participants were called upon to critically examine and constructively pursue one or more fundamental questions triggered by the electronic tag. The contributions received were judged by a jury consisting of lawyer Thomas Scherzberg, chairman of the Hessian criminal defense association and...

The work deals with the legal comparison of detention law in Germany and the United States of America and draws important conclusions on the need for change in German law. After an outline of German law regarding arrests, the US legal system in general is presented. This is followed by explanations of the theory and practice of initiating pre-trial detention in the USA. Both the federal law of the United States of America and state law are discussed. State practice...

The limitation of employment contracts is currently - compared to previous years - a phenomenon that is applied more often than average in the modern working world. This "extension of the probationary period" has far-reaching effects on the legal situation of the contracting parties. In the event of incorrect fixed-term contracts, the employer in particular runs the risk of unintentionally seeing an employee with a permanent contract. This book deals in particular with multiple fixed-term contracts and, based on the...

The book deals with the current topic of consumer protection in the case of a choice-of-law clause in e-commerce. A special focus is placed on the relevant provisions of the Rome I Regulation, which came into force in Germany on December 17th, 2009. A practical example, which is included at the appropriate places, serves to clarify and understand the legal explanations, even for non-lawyers. The relevance of the topic for corporate practice and how to deal with it becomes clear...

"It is the great achievement of Martin Wassermair to have identified a historical place in which continuity and rupture, complexity and simplicity in the process of formation and deformation are clearly manifested. Performances of ' Fidelio' did not only take place at such central reference points of Austrian self-discovery as in the years 1955 and 1945. Through Beethoven, the social-democratic workers' movement connected with the bourgeois nation - but at that time the German nation, and Beethoven is also recognizable as...

The role of Islam in Indonesia's recent political and civil society history has been the subject of controversial discussions for years. Since the overthrow of Suharto in 1998, and in the course of the democratization process that began thereafter, militant Islam in particular has increasingly attracted the attention of world public opinion, in addition to the large number of newly emerging Islamic-influenced parties. Klaus Behnam Shad's work is dedicated to the question of how the highly complicated relationship between domestic...

Development cooperation, consisting of the entirety of private and public sponsoring organizations, is subject more than ever to the change of globalization and is under international pressure. Against this background, Austria's development cooperation policy is also increasingly being criticized. The lack of harmonization of development cooperation among donor countries and Western institutions and the increasing bureaucracy of development cooperation in priority countries in Africa are among the greatest challenges to which answers and solutions must be found. This work shows...

The concepts of the state and state system have always determined the formation of theories in international relations. Under the rapid pressure to change from diverse globalization processes, both concepts are currently reaching the limits of their ability to explain, even becoming an obstacle to knowledge. This study is therefore dedicated to both a decidedly historical presentation of the development of the state and the state system and a reconstruction of the theory of the English school. In the context...