The transnationalisation of law raises the question whether the power of nation states is declining and withit the monopoly of legislation on the nation state. The transnationalisation of law means the restructuring, rather than reducing of the existing governmental system. The elements of the global rule of law are related to the existing legal practice.

The existence and functioning of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has provoked debates almost since its foundation, which implies that international law and its institutions exist at the mercy of power politics and the balance of forces.

Table of contents

1. Fenyő D. György, Kertész Ákos, Kállai R. Gábor, Tverdota György, Szívós Mihály, Agárdi Péter, Mező Ferenc : Attila Jozsef 2003
2. Max Fraad-Wolff, Richard D. Wolff : Flexible economy tough reality
3. Endreffy Zoltán : Neoliberalism and globalisation
4. Stephen Eric Bonner : US filed study, or lies, fear and forcing democracy
5. Wiener György : Contribution to the state socialsm debate
6. Ana Bazac : Anti-stalinist dissidents and the “vox intelligent(s)iae”
7. André Tosel : The old Lukacs and the Budapest School
8. Malise Ruthven : Edward W. Said (1935-2003) and his Orientalizm
9. Edward W. Said : Humanism is the only protection against barbarism
10. Farkas Miklós : Malthus after 200 years
11. Kertész Ákos : Magic words (swears – shocking the public – literature)
12. Bereti Gábor : State of affairs and vision on future, Social Forum in Miskolc 5-6 April 2003
13. Shalini Randeria : Parable about the neem tree – The transnationalisation of law and the role of NGO actors
14. Ravi Arvand Palat : Is India part of Asia?
15. Roland Pierre Paringaux : Food self-provision is in threat. Will the Indian agriculture survive the WTO test?
16. Kumkum Sangari : Ways of violence
17. Kammunist Kranti : A ballad against work

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1. Tamás Pál : Retorical traps. The “New World Order” and the global structure
2. Valki László : The fate of the United Nations and the international law
3. Bárdos-Féltoronyi Miklós : I have not heard about the birth of a new world order in the Spring of 2003
4. Immanuel Wallerstein : Does the Western world still exist?
5. Andre Mommen : The world after the war against Iraq
6. Elmar Altvater : From the competition of currencies to the war of currencies. What happens if the oil trade will be conducted in euros instead of dollars in the future?
7. Eric J. Hobsbawm : Where is the American Empire heading?
8. Mészáros István : Militarism and the future wars
9. Stanley Aronowitz : Class rule: utopia on hold
10. Konok Péter : On Gabriel Kolko: Another Century of War
11. Susan Zimmermann : On Hannes Hofbauer: Osterweiterung. Vom Drang nach Osten zur peripheren EU-Integration.
12. Dorothee Bohle : Neo-liberal stuctural change and transnational capital in the deepening of European integration and in the enlargement of the EU
13. Morva Tamás : European integration and the Eastern enlargement of the EU
14. Szalai Erzsébet : The Socialism that existed – and its lessons
15. Sándor György : Reflections on the critique of the books on János Kádár
16. V. I. Lenin : Lenin on Béla Kun – what is left of the Lenin-heritage
17. Karácsony Mihály : On the Hungarian co-operative movement
18. Lévai Katalin, Gazsó Ferenc, Ferge Zsuzsa, Ágh Attila, Csányi Vilmos, Varga Erzsébet : Responsibility, justice and solidarity

The Reader may not know these two documents from Lenin, since they were only published a few years ago in a volume of documents, which contains the writings and speeches of Lenin blacklisted in the Soviet era.