Jessica Schmidt – författare

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This book traces and conceptualises the changing notion of democracy and demonstrates how democracy promotion finds itself at the heart of contemporary international discourses and policies.Democracy promotion is widely considered to constitute a hypocritical and failed ‘grand international narrative’ of the 1990s and has allegedly been replaced by other, more pressing and academically more captivating concerns, such as conflict management, statebuilding and climate change. This book challenges this position and argues that the core notions of democracy promotion, such as empowerment, inclusion and responsiveness, are a key concern of contemporary international policymakers. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt as well as John Dewey, it investigates the notion of democracy and modality of its promotions through the policy fields of conflict management, statebuilding and climate change. The central development, the book observes, is the reconceptualisation of democracy from the constituted sphere of the public to the lived relations of the social. The book argues that the novel rationality of democracy and its promotion offers a particular solution to governing impasses in a world perceived to be globalised and complex, which accounts for democracy’s current but neglected centrality.This book will be of much interest to students of democracy, intervention, statebuilding, global governance and IR in general.

Jessica Schmidt analysiert und vergleicht die allgemeinen Regeln zum Vertragsschluss in den drei "großen" europäischen Rechtsordnungen - dem deutschen, englischen und französischen Recht - sowie im Entwurf des Gemeinsamen Europäischen Kaufrechts (GEKR), dem Common European Sales Law (CESL). Im Fokus stehen zunächst das Grundprinzip des Konsensualvertrags und seine historische Entwicklung in den jeweiligen Rechtsordnungen, angefangen von den Wurzeln im römischen Recht bis hin zu den neuesten Reformen und Reformvorschlägen. Hieran anknüpfend erfolgt dann eine detaillierte und kritische Analyse der wichtigsten Probleme und Einzelfragen zu Angebot und Annahme, unter anderem zu Definition und Rechtsnatur; Abgrenzung zu Äußerungen ohne Rechtsbindungswille; Bestimmtheit; Kommunikation; Zeitpunkt und Ort der Wirksamkeit; Bindungswirkung, Widerruf und Erlöschen des Angebots; Problematik kollidierender AGB.