Rarely in recent years has a violent ethnic conflict been so clearly foreseen by so many experts as in the case of Kosovo. The escalation of the conflict in early 1999 led to a specific combination of war, terror and genocide which was very different from traditional civil and international war....

Zusammenfassung In diesem Beitrag wird die Frage aufgeworfen, ob der Tourismus einen Effekt auf die europäische Identitätsentwicklung ausübt und ob dieser in der Wahlforschung weitgehend unberücksichtigte Faktor auch direkt oder indirekt die Wahlbeteiligung bei Europawahlen beeinflussen...

What characterizes the EU today is that it is not only a multi-level governance system, but also a multi-context system. The making of Europe does not just take place on different levels within the European political framework, executed by different groups of actors or institutions. Rather, it...

Abstract Treaty changes at the Amsterdam summit (1997) established employment policy as an official part of EU policy. European institutions not only gained influence in a policy area that formerly had been a national prerogative but, furthermore, the "open method of coordination" was introduced...

Attempts to explain the "rise of East Asia" often neglect transnational and regional aspects. After analyzing transnational political and economic processes in and beyond the region, the paper concludes that East Asia, in comparison with other conceptualizations of regions (Southeast Asia,...

This essay is a renewed effort to overcome the schisms between lawyers and political scientists in their conceptualisations of the European integration project. The first effort was my contribution Das Recht im Prozeá der Europischen Integration to Markus Jachtenfuchs/Beate Kohler-Koch (eds.),...

Werte sind eine Art Kompass, die unsere Haltung und unser Verhalten leiten. Jene Werte, die während der Kindheit und Jugend im Elternhaus erlernt werden, prägen unsere frühe Identitätsbildung und Berufsorientierung. In Unternehmerfamilien ist die Sozialisation der Nachkommen zusätzlich...