scholarly journals Bayeh, Jumana – Oleinikova, Olga (eds.): Democracy, Diaspora, Territory: Europe and Cross-Border Politics

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 111-116
Author(s):  
Veronika Anderle
Keyword(s):  
Power Sharing ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Territorial State ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Central Case ◽  
Border Politics ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Bounded Form

This volume offers a profoundly new interpretation of the impact of modern diasporas on democracy, challenging the orthodox understanding that ties these two concepts to a bounded form of territory. Considering democracy and diaspora through a deterritorialised lens, it takes the post-Euromaidan Ukraine as a central case study to show how modern diasporas are actively involved in shaping democracy from a distance, and through their political activity are becoming increasingly democratised themselves. An examination of how power-sharing democracies function beyond the territorial state, Democracy, Diaspora, Territory: Europe and Cross-Border Politics compels us to reassess what we mean by democracy and diaspora today, and why we need to focus on the deterritorialised dimensions of these phenomena if we are to adequately address the crises confronting numerous democracies. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and politics with interests in migration and diaspora, political theory, citizenship and democracy.

Exploring Subbordia – the impact of suburbanisation in cross-border metropolitan regions. The case study of Szczecin and its German hinterland

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Barthel ◽  
Ewelina Barthel
Keyword(s):  
Border Region ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Metropolitan Regions ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Planning Support ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Connected Area ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Local Narratives

Abstract This paper focuses on the largely unexamined phenomenon of the developing trans-national suburban area west of Szczecin. Sadly the local communities in this functionally connected area struggle with national planning policies that are unsuitable for the region. The paper examines the impact of those processes on the border region in general and on the localities in particular. The paper investigates the consequences for local narratives and the cohesive development of the Euroregion and what position Polish and German communities took to develop the region, even without the necessary planning support. The region has succeeded in establishing grass-roots planning mechanisms which have helped to create a metropolitan-region working from the bottom up.

scholarly journals Personal Income Tax and Social Security Coordination in Cross-Border Employment – a Case Study of the Czech Republic and Denmark

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Tepperová
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Social Security Contributions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

Neither personal income tax nor social security is harmonised within the EU. Social security systems are coordinated at EU level whereas personal income tax in cross-border situations is governed by respective double tax treaties. In most EU countries, personal income tax and social security contributions are relatively distinct payments. This article examines problems surrounding the interaction between personal income tax and social security contributions on a national and international level based on a case study of cross-border employment between the Czech Republic and Denmark. As the Czech and the Danish systems are designed very differently, the case study allows for clear illustration of the issue at-hand. The aim is to identify the elements influencing the impact of different coordination rules in personal income tax and social security contributions, illustrate and discuss the potential problems of such mismatches between the two payments. The impact on final payments differs, not only due to the different levels of coordination of the payments, but also due to the different designs of the two national systems. Thus, it would be very difficult to address all the scenarios with a one size fits all measure for all the EU Member States that would overcome the differences in this coordination.

A new criminal jurisdiction to combat cross-border money laundering

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanafi Amrani ◽  
Mahrus Ali
Keyword(s):  
Money Laundering ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Criminal Jurisdiction ◽  
Territorial State ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Territorial Jurisdiction ◽  
Extraterritorial Jurisdiction

Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyze the emergence of the changing face of criminal jurisdiction in dealing with cross-border money laundering that develops dynamically due to the development of globalization. Design/methodology/approach This research was a doctrinal legal research using conceptual approach concerning the very strict principle of territorial jurisdiction in criminal law. This study also used case approach related to the application of extraterritorial jurisdiction and long-arm jurisdiction in some cross-border money laundering cases. The collection of legal materials was carried out through literature as well as case study and was analyzed qualitatively based on data reduction, presentation and concluding. Findings This study revealed that territorial jurisdiction which was originally strictly enforced by state sovereignty over crimes that occurred in its territory then changed widely with multi-territorial perspective. Because of its condition, the state then expands its authority to deal with money laundering as a cross-border crime involving more than one territorial state, namely, by using extraterritorial jurisdiction and then developed into a long-arm jurisdiction trend that allows state authorities to prosecute foreigners outside its state boundaries. Originality/value The research finding can be used as one of the alternatives by countries to break the territorial jurisdiction in combating the cross-border money laundering.

scholarly journals Human Trafficking Interdiction with Decision Dependent Success

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
BARIS TEZCAN ◽  
Kayse Lee Maass
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Maximum Flow ◽  
Time Model ◽  
The Road ◽  
Repair Operation ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Problem Instances ◽  
The Impact

This paper presents a bi-level network interdiction model to increase the effectiveness of attempting to disrupt a human trafficking network under a resource constrained environment. To model the behavior of the trafficker, we present a new interpretation of the traditional maximum flow network problem in which the arc capacity parameter serves as a proxy for the trafficker's desirability to travel along segments of the network. The objective for the anti-human trafficking stakeholder is to invest resources in detection and intervention efforts throughout the network in a manner that minimizes the trafficker's expected maximum desirability of operating on the network. Interdictions are binary, and their effects are stochastic (i.e., there is a positive probability that a disruption attempt is unsuccessful). A multi-stage version of the model is presented, which incorporates the effect of interdictions becoming more or less successful over time. Model insights are presented using a case study of the road network in the Eastern Development Region of Nepal. Multiple problem instances are solved with a genetic algorithm that uses a pseudo-utility ratio for the repair operation. Observations regarding the impact of probabilistic interdiction success and the implications it has for optimal policies to disrupt a human trafficking network with limited resources are discussed.

Itinerant nationalisms and fracturing narratives: Incorporating regional dimensions of memory into peacebuilding

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1183-1199
Author(s):  
Andrea Purdeková
Keyword(s):  
Nation Building ◽  
Great Lakes Region ◽  
National Context ◽  
Dynamic Approach ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Operational Action ◽  
The Impact

While conflict is often understood across multiple levels, including its regional dimension, peacebuilding and memory work are rarely put in conversation at this level. The article explores regional dimensions of memory and argues that these open a novel and analytically productive lens on the nature and legacy of cross-border conflict and can bolster peacebuilding approaches. Taking the key case study of the Great Lakes Region of Africa, and specifically the regionalizing dimensions of the Rwandan genocide, the article investigates the impact of two very different regional dimensions of memory on social cohesion. First, the article considers the more intuitive ways in which grievances that extend across borders and fractured regional memories continue to fuel conflict. Second, and pushing beyond this, the article considers the ways in which returning diaspora deploys memory born in the wider region in attempts at nation-building. The article thus deploys a dynamic approach to memory, exploring mobile memories and the ways in which regional experiences are carried and deployed back in a national context. Overall, the article urges us to extend regional lens beyond the study of conflict roots and operational action to the study of postconflict peacebuilding and commemoration.

scholarly journals EU Equality Law

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elise Muir
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Central Case ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

In the early days, a choice was made not to entrust the EU with competences allowing it to protect against violations of fundamental rights per se. This task was placed in the hands of the Council of Europe. Although this choice has not been called into question, the EU has developed a broad range of instruments to respond to the impact of its activities on fundamental rights and a mechanism for surveillance of compliance with the rule of law. One trend that has been subject to little attention, and to which this book is devoted, is the exercise by the EU of a new generation of competences that allow for the development of tools explicitly designed to flesh out as well as to promote selected fundamental rights. The exercise of such competences, of which EU equality law as it has blossomed since the late 1990s is the most ancient example and therefore the central case study, triggers a number of constitutional questions. The sophisticated and powerful infrastructure of the EU legal order is thereby used to promote a given conception of a fundamental right, to define how it relates to others, and also to elaborate mechanisms for these approaches to permeate domestic legal cultures. This monograph explores the implications of this very symbolic and equally sensitive form of law-making. Particular attention is devoted to the complex relationship between primary and secondary law as well as to the importance of stimulating reflection on fundamental rights within the domestic sphere.

scholarly journals International investment and colonial control: a new interpretation

1994 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 559-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffry A. Frieden
Keyword(s):  
Raw Materials ◽  
International Investment ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Relational Contracts ◽  
Agricultural Investment ◽  
Conflict And Cooperation ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
The Impact

The impact of economic factors on colonial imperialism in the late nineteenth century has long been a topic of debate. This article examines the expected relationship between different forms of international investment and different patterns of political ties between developed and developing countries. Drawing on the literature on relational contracts and collective action, it argues that direct colonial control was likely to be associated with cross-border investments whose rents were particularly easy to seize or protect, and whose protection did not require multilateral action. Where such rents were difficult to seize or protect unilaterally, colonialism is expected to be less likely. The most common example of the former sort of investment is primary (raw-materials or agricultural) investment; of the latter, multinational manufacturing affiliates. The argument is weighed against both a survey of the qualitative evidence and some simple quantitative evaluations. The approach also has potential applications to more general problems of international conflict and cooperation.

scholarly journals Based on COVID-19, Analysis of The Strategic Model of E-commerce Enterprises – a Case Study of Xiaohongshu (RED)

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 250-257
Author(s):  
Chuyue Chen ◽  
Haitao Ouyang ◽  
Jiaqi Tan ◽  
Fan Wu ◽  
Yuqian Zhan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Strategic Model ◽  
Operating Strategies ◽  
The Impact

Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, e-commerce and social media pervade people’s daily life, while offline businesses suffer from loss from traffic. In this paper the SWOT analysis method is employed to examine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for RED, which, as one of the top content social e-commerce platforms in China, achieves outstanding performance under the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper tackles RED’s unique marketing and operating strategies, as well as its weaknesses that relate to operation and costs, and threats that relate to competitors and commercialization. Beside these disadvantages, profitable opportunities also arise from internal and external environment. At the end, the paper provides suggestions for capturing profitable opportunities under the pandemic and Chinese new regulations on cross-border e-commerce.

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