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External Relations (external + relation)

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EU External Relations and Systems of Governance: The CFSP, Euro,Mediterranean Partnership and Migration , By P.J. Cardwell

JCMS: JOURNAL OF COMMON MARKET STUDIES, Issue 4 2010
BRUNO OLIVEIRA MARTINS
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

IN DEFENCE OF MAGICAL ERSATZISM

THE PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY, Issue 223 2006
David A. Denby
David Lewis' objection to a generic theory of modality which he calls ,magical ersatzism' is that its linchpin, a relation he calls ,selection', must be either an internal or an external relation, and that this is unintelligible either way. But the problem he points out with classifying selection as internal is really just an instance of the general problem of how we manage to grasp underdetermined predicates, is not peculiar to magical ersatzism, and is amenable to some familiar solutions. He provides no compelling grounds for thinking that classifying selection as external is unintelligible, and his argument has a false presupposition. I conclude that magical ersatzism is still a viable option in the metaphysics of modality. [source]

Horizontal Coherence and the External Competences of the European Union

EUROPEAN LAW JOURNAL, Issue 1 2004
Pascal Gauttier
First considered as a political requirement, its best expression is located in the Article 3 of the Treaty on the European Union. The practice of European foreign policy has demonstrated the importance of this requirement: the control of exports of dual-use goods as well as the adoption of sanctions, whether on the basis of Article 301 EC, or in application of international agreements with third states, have given the example of overlapping competences. Besides, this overlap has been reflected in the internal organisation of the institutions (allocation of portfolios in the European Commission, conflict between the Political Committee and the Committee of the Permanent Representatives in the Council of the EU). However, the answers to these problems have been far too timid: the adoption of an integrated approach (conflict prevention) as well as the institutional adaptations of the Treaty of Amsterdam do not compensate for the absence of a vision of the European foreign policy which would overcome the old cleavage between federalism and intergovernmentalism. Indeed, it seems to us that much more innovative solutions are needed, such as an evolution towards the binding character of the coherence requirement, which would pave the way to a coherent European foreign policy, comprising external relations and CFSP (including the defence dimension). [source]

Island Biocultural Assemblages , The Case of Kinmen Island

GEOGRAFISKA ANNALER SERIES B: HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, Issue 4 2003
Huei-Min Tsai
ABSTRACT A growing mass of research contributes to our understanding of how biological and cultural diversity are related in complex and important ways. This paper presents an assembling process of biodiversity and cultural diversity on an island, Kin-men (Quemoy), based on 1600 years of its environmental history. The study shows that the island's biocultural assemblages are a result both of external relations with the island's surrounding environment and internal relations within the island's changing human ecology. Distant political powers and economic forces are the two major external influences that have affected the flow of natural and cultural elements to and from the island, while ,screening effects' and ,isolation effects' are two factors that explain internal interactions. The island's biocultural assembling processes reveal that the openness of the island facilitates increase in the diversity of biocultural elements, while its less disturbed isolated condition fosters natural succession and co-evolution. The study suggests that biocultural assemblages and the associated processes of co-evolution and nature,society interactions are accomplished through the intermittent opportunities purposively provided by or inadvertently found in the openings and closures of boundaries, setting the scene for both boundary crossings and bounded shelter, by intent or chance. [source]

Institutional advancement and spectator sports: The importance of television

NEW DIRECTIONS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION, Issue 148 2009
Eric Anctil
Encouraging identification with institutions is the purpose of external relations, and televised athletics presents a useful tool. [source]

Saar and its external relations: new evidence for interaction between Bahrain and Gujarat during the early second millennium BC

ARABIAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND EPIGRAPHY, Issue 2 2001
R. A. CARTERArticle first published online: 7 JUL 200
First page of article [source]

Norfolk Island and Its Tax Haven

AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, Issue 2 2002
Anthony Van Fossen
The first Pacific Islands offshore financial centre was born in 1966 on Norfolk Island. This paper analyses the historical trajectory of Norfolk Island's tax haven in terms of its dialectical tensions with the Australian federal government , tensions between self-determination and subordination which emerge from Norfolk's anomalous status as a self-governing external territory of Australia. Promoters of Norfolk Island's tax haven have seen its potential to become a major global offshore financial centre blocked by the Australian federal government. Yet, at major critical junctures (in 1976, 1991 and 2000) the Australian federal campaigns that threatened Norfolk's residential tax haven disintegrated in the face of concerted local opposition, although the danger has never entirely disappeared. The island's political economy and external relations are likely to remain inextricably bound to its tax haven. [source]

Union Formation through Merger: The Case of Ver.di in Germany

BRITISH JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Issue 2 2005
Berndt Keller
This article is concerned with the recent merger of five German unions to form the new multi-industry union, ver.di. Its focus is on the effects of the merger and on developments in the post-merger phase. The article explores the various internal problems of the new union, concentrating on those that flow from the adoption of a matrix form of organisation. It deals also with the external relations of ver.di, with other unions and with the central organisation of German trade unions, the DGB. Central conclusions here are that the creation of ver.di is likely to exacerbate competition amongst German unions and further erode the position of the peak association. [source]