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• Nasty and fired from under.

The sharp increase in the number of light armoured and Mrap-like vehicles now operating downrange has generated a need to equip them with light self-d...

• Armada International
• Vol. 34 Num. 4, Août 2010

• Helicopter self-protection under fire.

Rotary-wing aircraft have matured extensively from the fragile machines of the war in Indochina to the 'flying tanks' and workhorses of the current op...

• Armada International
• Vol. 34 Num. 3, Juin 2010

• Requisite Elements Of Arbitration Agreement Under Swiss Law

Introduction The Swiss Supreme Court confirmed recently its practice of constructive interpretation of pathological or ambiguous arbitration clause...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Switzerland Law Articles in English

• Fired from under.

There was a time in the mid-1980s, when the main battle tank was still 'King of the Battlefield', when the 'unmanned' turret (remote controlled weapon...

• Armada International
• Vol. 29 Num. 4, Août 2005

• Trading Under Duress

Poverty and severely limited means of generating income force many internally displaced women into abusive trades such as prostitution and trafficking. In internally displaced people camps in Uganda, for example, many girls and women engage in survival sex to obtain food or "transactional sex" in exchange for spending money or small objects. These women are given no opportunities to further their education, engage in businesses or develop self-respect. Women for Women International works to help women recover from the ravages of war and become active citizens by offering them direct aid, job training and microcredit loans. Ugandan-American Amber Chand is doing her bit to put war-affected women back to work and start their own businesses. She runs the US-based Amber Chand Collection, an ...

• International Trade Forum
• Num. 3-4/2008, Juillet 2008

• Sneaking in on or under the waves.

The utility of naval special operations forces was dramatically demonstrated following the seizure of Captain Richard Philips, skipper of the MV Maers...

• Armada International
• Vol. 33 Num. 6, Décembre 2009

• UBS: nowhere to go but up? UBS seemed invincible in its very recent heyday, It was vast, powerful and confident, Risky investments on the back of an economic downfall, however, ripped the carpet from under its feet, What does the future hold: a return to its former glory or a new, more modest existence?

Hardly a day seems to pass without the newspapers carrying grim announcements from or for UBS: job cuts, further write-downs or a slew of weak economi...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2009, Janvier 2009

• The Case for Tariff Compensation in Wto Dispute Settlement

There is nearly unanimous consent among WTO practitioners and scholars that the remedy of tariff compensation is legally superior, economically more efficient and socially more beneficial than retaliatory suspension of tariff concessions (tariff retaliation). This article argues in favour of a revitalization of tariff compensation. However, under the current regime compensation is a thoroughly unattractive policy instrument for decision makers having to temporarily opt out of a WTO Agreement in reaction to domestic shocks. Hence, tariff compensation is vastly underused. We examine reasons for the relative unattractiveness of this policy instrument and propose a substantial reform agenda of the WTO agreements and the dispute settlement system, so as to make compensation a policy tool of ...

• Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen
• Vol. 60 Num. 4, Décembre 2005

• HULC under biomech tests.

Lockheed Martin's exoskeleton Hulc has entered biomedical testing at the US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center in Natick...

• Armada International
• Vol. 35 Num. 4, Août 2011

• Secret service under scrutiny.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A parliamentary watchdog has revealed fundamental procedural flaws within the Swiss secret service. Echoing a scandal that ro...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2010, Février 2010