Rückgreifend auf einen analytischen Rahmen, der von Barbara Koremenos, Charles Lipson und Duncan Snidal im "Rational Design" Projekt entworfen wurde, werden die institutionell stark unterschiedlichen Methoden der internationale Handelsdisputlösung für Privatparteien untersucht. Diese Methoden...

The article provides a theoretical framework of international unions in the form of two two-stage games with discounting and one simultaneous game aimed at generating insights into the conflict between widening and deepening in the integration process. Each country (player) has a preference for...

Drawing on the analytical framework developed by Barbara Koremenos, Charles Lipson, and Duncan Snidal in the Rational Design project, I seek to shed light on the striking institutional differences among the various methods of international commercial dispute resolution for private parties. These...

Most of the literature has treated EU enlargement and the transition of Central and Eastern Europe, two of the most memorable events in recent history, as separate events. We argue that such separation is not warranted; it obfuscates an important fact, namely that the reform process in many...