Vergleichende und internationale Politikwissenschaft (828 Artikel)

Die Frage, wie man Kriege verhindern könnte, gehört zu den wichtigsten der Menschheit. In der Diskussion über 1914 wird auch immer wieder der Krieg gegen Jugoslawien zitiert. Es gibt dazu zwei verg...

This book, which combines the perspectives of academics, military officers, and officials from international and non-governmental organisations, resorts to different case studies to illustrate the ...

Time, Money, and Labor Productivity

This book explores the diverse consequences of Presidents Obama and Castro brokering a rapprochement between the United States and Cuba after more than half a century of estrangement. Economic, pol...

A Political Economy of Free Zones in Gulf Arab States

Der großflächige Abbau von natürlichen Rohstoffen ist für viele Länder der globalen Peripherie eine wesentliche Stütze der Ökonomien. Mithilfe qualitativer Fallstudien werden externe Faktoren unter...

A New Approach to Sustaining Peace in the 21st Century

The nature of borders is to change their functions, which are shaped by historical events, political powers, and social and cultural forces. Therefore, borders are continuously being negotiated. Th...

Werner Schäfer holds degrees in Social Studies from Harvard College and in International Affairs from the University of St. Gallen and the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris. He completed his Ph...

Beyond Summit Diplomacy: Cooperation with Africa in the Post-pandemic World

This book probes key issues pertaining to Africa's relations with global actors. It provides a comprehensive trajectory of Africa's relations with key bilateral and major multilateral actors, asses...

This book probes key issues pertaining to Africa's relations with global actors. It provides a comprehensive trajectory of Africa's relations with key bilateral and major multilateral actors, asses...

This book offers a range of perspectives on the Africa-China partnership in the context of the Forum on China and Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). Incorporating historical, political, social and cultura...

An engagement with African feminisms is helpful in providing a number of lenses, or simply questions, through which to readthe case studies. These case studies reveal the complex and organic ways i...

This book examines engagements with financial services in contexts of conflict. Using Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as case studies, it explores informal financial and business s...

This book examines engagements with financial services in contexts of conflict. Using Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as case studies, it explores informal financial and business s...

- It displays the importance of persistence, rationality, ingenuity and knowledge in furthering nuclear disarmament.

The Dilemmas of Primacy and Decline from the Founding to Trump

This book maintains that the theory of imperialism should incorporate the concept of an "operational code" of political elites to account for agencies' actions. This concept would explain the strat...

The book aims to explain the factors that brought about a high degree of similarity between American and Canadian foreign and security policies during the Afghanistan intervention. Specifically, it...

The articles in this collection are full of ideas on how to define a better way of securing and delivering the integration of south-east Europe into the EU. The EU needs to do much more to drive th...

The first three chapters of the book begin the discussion of the MCO.  The first chapter introduces the foundational concepts. The second chapter discusses modern conflict in detail. The third chap...

Die Untersuchung erörtert umfassend die völker- und kunstrechtlichen Aspekte der Aktivlegitimation indigener Völker im Hinblick auf Rückführungsansprüche rechtswidrig ausgeführten Kulturgutes. Ausg...

Global Health, Biodefense, and Developing Technologies

Global Health, Biodefense, and Developing Technologies

Lessons from Germany

Lessons from Germany

Die starke Zuwanderung von Geflüchteten in den letzten Jahren stellt die Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland vor bislang ungeahnte Herausforderungen. In der vorliegenden Studie wird auf der Grundlag...

This book examines the functions of conferences within Arctic governance, as a third dimension between sovereign states and formalized cooperative arrangements. It analyzes conferences against the ...

Evolution, Dynamics, and Trajectories

While defence industrial production is increasingly transnationalised, the control of arms exports still takes place almost exclusively on a national level. With the example of the German export co...

This book analyzes the relationship between art and politics in two contrasting modern dictatorships. Through a detailed look at the Chilean and Romanian dictatorships, it compares the different wa...

This book analyzes the relationship between art and politics in two contrasting modern dictatorships. Through a detailed look at the Chilean and Romanian dictatorships, it compares the different wa...

This book discusses the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) on post-COVID-19 international relations. With the decline and fall of U.S. global leadership and the emergence of new powerful ...

Der Band beleuchtet die zunehmend (geo-)politische Brisanz von Cyberkonflikten sowie die Bedeutung von Informationsasymmetrien darin. Die Autor:innen untersuchen konkret, welche Rolle solche Asymme...

Austerity is still a hotly debated topic that cannot be reduced to cuts in public spending. On the contrary, austerity is a complex terrain that stretches across economic, political and cultural di...

How did France and Australia develop a deep strategic partnership, when only about two decades ago, a group of Australians bombed the French consulate in Perth to protest against French nuclear tes...

This book takes on the challenge of conceptually thinking Paraguayan cultural history within the broader field of Latin American studies. It presents original contributions to the study of Paraguay...

Mit der fortschreitenden Automatisierung von Waffensystemen sowie der Nutzung von Cybertechnologie zu militärischen Zwecken wandeln sich herkömmliche Begrifflichkeiten, Strategien und das Verständn...

Anja Franke-Schwenk analysiert die Herrschaftsstrategien der kasachstanischen Präsidentschaft im Zeitraum von 1991-2011 vor dem besonderen Hintergrund des Ressourcenreichtums. Dabei arbeitet sie vi...

Sport, Künste, Wissenschaft und Personenaustausch stellen zentrale - aber viel zu wenig beachtete - Aspekte der Nationalstaatlichkeit und der internationalen Politik dar. Erstmals wird in diesem Bu...

Concepts, Risks & Models

This book presents a case study of human trafficking from Nigeria to the UK, with a focus on practical measures for ending this trafficking. The study addresses the many aspects of human traffickin...

This book focuses on the question of how national bilateral diplomacy is influenced and transformed by EU membership. It provides profound empirical evidence of the nature of this influence and the...

Im Dezember 2005 wurde Evo Morales mit 54 % zum ersten indigenen Präsidenten Boliviens gewählt; bei den letzten Wahlen im Dezember 2009 konnte er seinen Stimmenanteil sogar noch steigern. Der Autor...

This interdisciplinary anthology addresses the criticism that previous investigations of borders often lack complexity and, therefore, fall short. Instead, the authors assess the complex interplay ...

Transnational Threats and Security Policies of European States

Central Asia is characterised by state fragility and associated with drug traffic and instability. Social Orders and borders defining them have often changed in this region. What are the functions ...

This book discusses the social and economic problems currently faced by Brazil as one of the largest "emerging countries". It examines the prospects of Brazilian development from an interdisciplina...

Frontmatter -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- I. Teil: Die küstenländische Kultur der Polis -- II. Teil: Verfassungs- und Verwaltungsparallelen -- III. Teil: Die Bindemittel -- Backmatter