Today, the notion of transnational, or sometimes transsystemic, law has progressed well beyond Jessup’s concept. It now includes the international law that Jessup generally dealt with – the (often) national law regulating actions or events that transcend national frontiers – but also now clearly extends to law that is transnational in origin, as opposed to application. The new transnational law...

Governments in many countries are pursuing higher environmental goals for agriculture. However, an interconnected world, the unilateral adoption of policies agriculture can reduce producers’ competitiveness and induce pollution leakage. This report analyses these challenges discusses policy solutions, focusing on two examples: climate change mitigation limiting impacts pesticides. The extent le...

The recently granted “independence” to Kosovo by the transnational elite, in flagrant violation of international law and the UN, has completed the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia. As I pointed out elsewhere the dismembering of Yugoslavia was an attempt by the transnational elite to fully integrate the area into the New Economic Order of the internationalised market economy. Thus, given ...

Reasoning and planning at di¤erent levels of abstraction is an important skill in the game of Go, for both human and computer players. Over the years, adversarial planning approaches have become increasingly popular for dealing with large search spaces of two player games such as Go. This article describes a di¤erent approach to adversarial planning, based on an analysis of human Go playing. Ab...

The present research examines the impact of achievement goals on task-related information exchange. Studies 1 and 2 reveal that relative to those with mastery goals or no goal, individuals pursuing performance goals were less open in their information giving to exchange partners. Study 2 further clarifies this effect of achievement goals by showing that performance goals generate an exploitatio...