Implications of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) for Investment Flows Between the European Union and the USA [PDF]
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a controversial subject, but at the same time it is perceived to be the most comprehensive international agreement on free trade and investment protection. Among the topics that evoke criticism
Witkowska, Janina
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Enduring Crises of the Nation‐State: How Spatial Imaginations Reshape Identity and Dis/Unity
ABSTRACT This article reframes the contemporary “crisis” of the nation‐state not as a simple erosion of sovereignty but as a problem of spatial misalignment: adaptive states remain strategically embedded in dense transnational regimes, yet domestic legitimacy falters when unitary national imaginaries confront heterogeneous, multi‐sited social realities.
Erdem Bekaroğlu, Suat Yazan
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The Path to Reform of ISDS: What Role for National Courts? [PDF]
AbstractThis chapter analyzes the possible role which national courts could play in the main reform scenarios which States are currently considering, i.e., if investment arbitration is (i) reformed through targeted adjustments, (ii) supplemented with an appellate mechanism, (iii) replaced by a multilateral investment court, or (iv) supplanted by inter ...
Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler +1 more
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Loopholes and the Incidence of Public Services: Evidence From Funding Career and Technical Education
ABSTRACT In 2015, Michigan increased its Career and Technical Education (CTE) funding and changed its funding formula to reimburse programs based on student progression through program curricula. Although this change nearly doubled program completion rates, student enrollment and persistence were unaffected; instead, administrators accelerated student ...
Thomas Goldring +3 more
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Radical Reform of the International Investment Treaty Regime: A Role for Climate Clubs?
ABSTRACT There is growing concern that provisions in international investment treaties are being used to delay the critically needed transition away from fossil fuels. Although various procedural and substantive reforms have been pursued in recent years, these reforms have thus far failed to tackle the fundamental problems with investment treaties and ...
Kyla Tienhaara +2 more
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Insiders and Outsiders: The Role of Human Agents and Networks in System Change
ABSTRACT This article focuses on the roles of insiders or outsiders in order to theorize the role that human agents play in systems change. It asks: (1) what strengths and weaknesses do insiders and outsiders have respectively as agents of change; and (2) what strategies are available to use these insights to increase, or to limit, the prospects of ...
Miranda Forsyth, Anthea Roberts
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A Response to the Criticism against ISDS by EFILA [PDF]
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Alvarez, Gloria Maria +8 more
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This paper examines Indigenous weather science through a workshop with Indigenous Knowledge Holders, documenting traditional weather prediction methods and their responses to climate change and severe weather. Using the bridging, braiding, and weaving framework, it highlights the complementary nature of Indigenous and Western science.
Keith Chaulk +7 more
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First‐in‐class inhibitors of SbnA reduce siderophore production in Staphylococcus aureus
The production of the iron‐chelating compound staphyloferrin B by the most invasive S. aureus strains is crucial for colonization, virulence, and survival in the host. Staphyloferrin B biosynthesis is carried out by eight enzymes, the Sbn system, that offer an appealing source of potential targets for the development of antimicrobials.
Sarah Hijazi +15 more
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The EU’s competence to conclude trade agreements: the EU-Singapore Opinion [PDF]
A definitive reassessment of the constitutional, economic, institutional and judicial dimensions of the EU internal market, including ...
Koutrakos, P.
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