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Allison Dollimore & Kohei Watanabe (eds.)

The Classification of Exonyms

Proceedings of the 21st UNGEGN Working Group on Exonyms Meeting, Riga [Rīga], 24–26 September 2018

Name & Place – Contributions to Toponymic Literature and Research

Exonyms involve the adaptation of geographical names from a donor language into a receiver language, and they reflect the fascinating movement and interaction of peoples around the world. The Working Group on Exonyms of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) was established by resolution VIII/4 of the 8th UN […]

Ioana Andreea Tiriteu

The EU Member States` Iraq Policy of 2002-3 at the United Nations Security Council

Schriften zur internationalen Politik

To what extent was the European Union Common Foreign and Security Policy affected by the member states’ approaches to the Iraq disarmament at the United Nations Security Council, and how have the EU states’ positions on the matter impacted on the authority enjoyed by the UNSC? This research topic opens the door to an in-depth analysis of the […]

Dominic John Patrick Porta

The UCC’s “perfect tender rule” and cancellation of contracts in the CISG

Studien zum Internationalen Privat- und Zivilprozessrecht sowie zum UN-Kaufrecht

The importance of international trade has increased immensely within the last decades and will not decrease in the future. With developing markets around the world, such as those of the European Union, Asia or Latin America, new trade opportunities are emerging. This development is not least due to the new technologies available to us, which […]

Andreas Hauser

The Invocation of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Doctrine à la Libya With Regard to Syria

Was it a Realistic Scenario?

Völkerrecht, Europarecht, Vergleichendes Öffentliches Recht

Die Responsibility to Protect (R2P; im deutschen Sprachgebrauch als Schutzverantwortung bekannt) ist ein relativ neues Geschöpf auf der internationalen Bühne. Es handelt sich dabei um ein Konzept, das eine hybride Struktur innehat: R2P weist sowohl rein politische als auch völkerrechtlich bindende Komponenten auf. [...]

Peter Jordan / Paul Woodman (eds.)

Confirmation of the Definitions

Proceedings of the 16th UNGEGN Working Group on Exonyms Meeting, Hermagor, 5–7 June 2014

Name & Place – Contributions to Toponymic Literature and Research

The term exonym was first used by the British toponymist Marcel AUROUSSEAU (1957) and – interestingly enough – the term endonym was coined only later (1975), by the Austrian Slavist Otto KRONSTEINER, even though endonym is the basic and primary concept, and endonyms prevail by far in number. [...]

Allison Dollimore & Peter Jordan (eds.)

Place Names and Migration

Proceedings of the Symposium in Vienna, 6–8 November 2019

Name & Place – Contributions to Toponymic Literature and Research

Under the auspices of the Joint ICA/IGU Commission on Toponymy a symposium took place in Vienna resulting in these proceedings.

The topic of the symposium and this book, place names in the context of migration, was approached in two ways: synchronically, i.e. with reference to modern migration situations, and diachronically, i.e. in […]

Robert Pfeffer

Location and Strategy – Analyzing the Effect of the Local Environment on a Portfolio of Strategy-Performance-Relationships of Bavarian Key-Tech SMEs

Strategisches Management

„Economic activity is distributed unequally across space [...]“ (Ketels, 2013). This insight is not new. It dates back at least to the nineteenth century, when Alfred Marshalls Principles of Economics (1890) offered a first-of-its-kind analysis of the agglomeration of people and economic activity in geographic space. [...]

Peter Jordan, Irena Švehlová & Paul Woodman (eds.)

A Survey of Exonym Use

Proceedings of the 19th UNGEGN Working Group on Exonyms Meeting, Prague [Praha], 6-8 April 2017

Name & Place – Contributions to Toponymic Literature and Research

The Working Group (WG) on Exonyms of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names was established in 2002. The papers in this volume of Name & Place, marking the 19^th Meeting of the WG in Prague in 2017, represent a cross-section of the knowledge acquired after 15 years of collective activities, in which the WG has […]

Nicasia Picciano

The European Union State-Building in Kosovo

Challenges and Lessons Learned: An Assessment of EULEX

Studien zum Völker- und Europarecht

This is the first research ever on an encompassing overview of EU conflict management in Kosovo. It analyses the European Union Rule of Law Mission (EULEX) commitment in the judicial field in the youngest Balkan ‘State‘, since its inception up today, by comparing its deeds and missed actions with those of its predecessor (United Nations Interim […]

Peter Jordan / Paul Woodman (eds.)

Criteria for the Use of Exonyms

Proceedings of the 17th UNGEGN Working Group on Exonyms Meeting, Zagreb, 14–16 May 2015

Name & Place – Contributions to Toponymic Literature and Research

Authors and editors of maps, atlases and all kinds of text publications, including articles in newspapers, as well as journalists of the electronic media, frequently face the problem of which name to use for a geographical feature outside their own country or linguistic community. If a choice of names is available, should they choose a name […]