How Europe employs disguised regulatory protectionism to weaken American free enterprise *.
Abstract The European region regulates more than any single country in the world, and such over-regulation, along with higher taxes and labor and environmental standards, has increasingly caused European industry to lag behind its Asian and American competitors. As a result, a growing competitiveness and technology gap...

The world government two-step: regional arrangements such as the EU and the proposed FTAA supposedly promote free trade, but their real purpose is to gradually merge nations into a world government.
I hope that more regional communities will be created, following the example of the European Union, so that the UN can be transformed soon into a true World Union.... I recommend that the General Assembly of the UN place on its yearly agenda an item on existing regional communities...

Gulliver's travails: the U.S. in the post-Cold-War world.
Towards the close of the twentieth century a metaphor entered circulation that compared the United States to Lemuel Gulliver at the start of his visit to Lilliput. Gulliver in Swift's satire was, you recall, an English sea doctor who, having sunk exhausted on a foreign beach after his ship...

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EU LAW IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE.
Abstract This article deals with selected constitutional law aspects of the European integration. First, the variants of relation between acquis communautaire and the national legal orders of several Western and Central European countries are analyzed. The author takes notice that there is no need for a special...

Working for human rights around the world.
Among the many international organizations for justice, there are groups that focus on advocating universal human rights. Amnesty International Amnesty International is one of the most prominent international human rights organizations. It has about 1.8 million members and supporters from more than 150 countries. ...

Civil society, international courts and compliance bodies.
9067041866 Civil society, international courts and compliance bodies. Ed. by Tullio Treves et al. T.M.C. Asser Press 2005 317 pages $95.00 Hardcover KZ6275 The Universities of Milano, Brescia, and Verona; and...

The value of integration: a U.S. perspective.
The integration of humanitarian action into intervention operations, and particularly the inclusion of a military component, carries risks--but none so great as to be worth sacrificing integration on the altar of humanitarian purity. As in the case of Iraq in the first, emergency phase of an operation, humanitarian teams...

Darfur conflict move task of protecting civilians to the UN-rights bodies urge.
The recently signed Abuja Agreement between the government of Khartoum and elements of the armed opposition movements was highly applauded by Arab and African Human Rights Organisations who termed it as a bold move towards establishing lasting peace in the conflict-ridden Darfur. In a press statement delivered...

Governmentalizing the post-cold war international regime: the UN debate on democratization and good governance.
This article examines a range of "good governance" discourses and practices at the United Nations as elements of global governmentality. It explores the emergence of "good governance" as a political rational for the UN, the mechanisms of governmentality that have been promoted as a consequence, and some of their...

Multinational enterprises and workplace reproductive health: extending corporate social responsibility.
ABSTRACT Corporate social responsibility is a relatively new approach to the protection of human rights. While the human rights to whole-body health and workplace health are long-standing, the right to reproductive health is a new topic of discussion. This Note examines the right to reproductive health in...