How may we best understand the effects of the ongoing rise of China on the future of liberal democracy in East Asia? Scholars who stress hegemony tend to predict a less democratic region, while those who stress diffusion tend to predict more democracy. This paper does not attempt to resolve the...

European Studies used to be dominated by legal and political science approaches which hailed the progress of European integration and its reliance on law. The recent set of crises which struck the EU have highlighted fundamental problems in the ways and means by which European integration...

This paper links the main issues of the project "Contested World Order" (WZB, GIGA, HSFK) to the policy field of global health: the authority of the institutional setting, and the preferences and strategies of rising powers and non-state actors (NStAs) - the assumed protagonists of recent power...

Institutional crises have been continuously embeded in weak accountability. In Latin America, human rights' violations catalyze the outcomes of such crises. In the aim of understanding the housing crisis, this research evidenced a vicious cycle in Brazil and Chile: despite the creation of...

Die Internationale Arbeitsorganisation (International Labour Organization, ILO), älteste Sonderorganisation der Vereinten Nationen (UN), feiert in diesem Jahr ihren 100. Geburtstag. Und das mitten in der vermutlich größten Krise des Multilateralismus seit dem Ende des Kalten Krieges. Doch...

Die Internationale Arbeitsorganisation (International Labour Organization, ILO), älteste Sonderorganisation der Vereinten Nationen (UN), feiert in diesem Jahr ihren 100. Geburtstag. Und das mitten in der vermutlich größten Krise des Multilateralismus seit dem Ende des Kalten Krieges. Doch...