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Recent contributions in International Relations focus either on a shift from modernity towards postmodernity in approaches to address climate change, or underline the permanencies and continuities of modern thought and power hierarchies. In contrast, we suggest that there is a contradictory simultaneity of both of these framings through which the world is continuously decomposed and recomposed. Today climate change programmes seem to be driven by a key contradiction, which lies at the heart of the Anthropocene: the environment is ours to manipulate and yet is out of reach. Based on this framing, and thinking through Timothy Morton and Bruno Latour's writings on political ecology, we argue that "whatever action" best captures current policy thinking: multiple initiatives are taken without a telos; rather they are designed to avoid that opportunities for adaptation and climate mitigation are foreclosed.

This book traces and conceptualises the changing notion of democracy and demonstrates how democracy promotion finds itself at the heart of contemporary international discourses and policies. Democracy promotion is widely considered to constitute a hypocritical and failed 'grand international narrative' of the 1990s and has allegedly been replaced by other, more pressing and academically more captivating concerns, such as conflict management, statebuilding and climate change. This book challenges this position and argues that the core notions of democracy promotion, such as empowerment, inclusion and responsiveness, are a key concern of contemporary international policymakers. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt as well as John Dewey, it investigates the notion of democracy and modality of its promotions through the policy fields of conflict management, statebuilding and climate change. The central development, the book observes, is the reconceptualisation of democracy from the constituted sphere of the public to the lived relations of the social. The book argues that the novel rationality of democracy and its promotion offers a particular solution to governing impasses in a world perceived to be globalised and complex, which accounts for democracy's current but neglected centrality.--

Jessica Schmidt analysiert und vergleicht die allgemeinen Regeln zum Vertragsschluss in den drei ""großen"" europäischen Rechtsordnungen - dem deutschen, englischen und französischen Recht - sowie im Entwurf des Gemeinsamen Europäischen Kaufrechts (GEKR), dem Common European Sales Law (CESL). Im Fokus stehen zunächst das Grundprinzip des Konsensualvertrags und seine historische Entwicklung in den jeweiligen Rechtsordnungen, angefangen von den Wurzeln im römischen Recht bis hin zu den neuesten Reformen und Reformvorschlägen. Hieran anknüpfend erfolgt dann eine detaillierte und kritische Analyse

On 25 April 2015, the European Commission, as a part of its Company Law Package, presented a proposal for amending the Company Law Directive (CLD) as regards cross-border conversions, mergers and divisions (Mobility Directive Draft – MobilD-D). This article critically analyses the accomplishments and deficits of this proposal.

The article takes issue with available critiques of resilience as self-evidently in keeping with neoliberal governance. It complicates this contention by making three interventions. First, it highlights how key neoliberal thinkers invoked evolutionary rationalisations to challenge liberal forms. Second, in drawing on the work of Friedrich Hayek and Douglass North, it proposes that neoliberalism, rather than a success story, seems to be confronted with a central paradox as it shifts from apologia to governmentality. This paradox concerns the incommensurability between portraying the world as complex and non-linear in which cause-and-effect relations cannot be securely established, on the one hand, and understanding human agency primarily in terms of goal-oriented decision-making, on the other. Third, it suggests that it is early pragmatist theorisations, rather than neoliberal thought, that can help us comprehend resilience rationalities. While pragmatists shared the evolutionary-complex ontology with neoliberal thinkers, it is particularly its Deweyan version that offers a different conception of human agency and its relation to the world. Dewey's pragmatism redirects agency into the inner life of humans as the site where genuine change and transformation can be effected under conditions of complexity. The overall argument made is that resilience thus emerges as a mode of governance that should be understood as a response to the dilemma of neoliberal logics rather than a continuation of its system of rule.