This chapter is a revised version of a keynote addressing an international gathering of scholars. It was convened to provoke a broad and sincere exchange on new dimensions of state activism as seen through sectoral and country experiences, basically anchored in empirical analyses. What we do in...

Fifteen years ago it counted as received wisdom that accession to the European Union implies arrival to a safe haven concluding the ups and downs of post-communist transformation. Quantitative assessment (Papi et al. in JAMA 60(2): 271-290, 2018) indicates a considerable degree of convergence,...

Die Diskussion um die Europäische Währungsunion hat die Tatsache verdrängt, daß die Europäische Union (EU) vor schwierigen konstitutionellen Entscheidungen steht: Die wirtschaftliche Integration im Zuge des Binnenmarktprogramms, die Erhöhung der Mobilität von Arbeit und Kapital durch die...