The new form of international terrorism shows complex relations to the capitalist globalisation process. It is argued that the present international system - despite of the absolute economic and military dominance of the 'strong states' under US-leadership - is marked by a fundamental lack of...

The development of regulatory instruments and regulatory groups during the last three decades is discussed. The increasing complexity of financial markets was answered by an extension of formal and informal approaches to their political regulation but still there are a lot of unsolved...

In the current debate on globalisation the concept of "re-embedding" plays a prominent role. The authors criticise this term - which derives from Karl Polanyi - and confront it with the approach of "regulation theory". Regulation theory offers a more precise way of analysing the actual...

Globalization processes are emphatically changing the coordinate system of politics. The "epoch of the nation state" is drawing to its end. Dirk Messner discusses four core elements involved in the change of the architecture of politics in the "era of globalism": (1) the rapidly growing...