There are a number of substantive fields in international law, namely the economic, environmental, criminal, humanitarian, security, human rights, and diplomatic fields (Evans, 2014). TheEuropean Union(EU), the
From this perspective, the United States (in the ninteenth century), the European Union, the North American Free Trade Area and the World Trade Organization are all examples of the same phenomenon. In all these cases, the removal of barriers to the free circulation of factors of production ...
As a public authority, the European Union is less than a state, but more than an international organization. "Entity", "geopolitical actor", "multi-level governance" are examples of inaccurate terms that have been used to capture the meaning of a political organization with a diffuse ...
national versus supranational regulatory systems, consequences of the Euro-zone financial crisis, the future of the euro, global monetary and fiscal stability, strategies to stop the immense increases in fiscal deficits and to regain fiscal stability, regulatory systems limiting world-wide contagion effec...
But in the end, tax competition tends to reward sensible countries and punish rapacious one. Hence the need for supranational quasi-governance from bodies like the OECD and the European Parliament—to prevent the Irelands of the world from treating their taxpayers a bit better. ...
A need for an increased role for the United Nations, the only supranational institution, that has a broad political legitimacy and an adequate representation of both middle-income countries and the least-developed countries to ensure the necessary and just regulations on key and complex issues has ...
sub-national and local level. It is quite difficult to investigate consequences of fiscal rules at the supranational level because there is hardly any variation across countries to be exploited. Fiscal rules at the supranational level, especially those in the EU are discussed in the scientific and...
Its versatility allows analyses to be carried out on any scale (from local and regional to national and supranational). Depending on the behavioural rules chosen, behaviour based on sectoral or technological activity can be introduced, as well as deterministic relationship rules on how entities ...
Both regulation and self-regulation are being fostered by supranational governments (e.g., the European Union's directives on misleading and comparative advertising), international organizations (e.g., the World Health Organization's development of a global treaty to control tobacco sales and advertisi...