Showcasing data from all areas of the ILC program and other sources, Charting International Labor Comparisons is a gateway to explore how key labor market and other national economic measurements compare across countries. There are links to previous editions of the Chartbook of International...

This paper reviews the current status of marginal cost-based road pricing in theUnited States and examines some of the characteristics of successful andunsuccessful projects, including their marketing aspects...

Die Gemeinsame Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik (GASP)und die Europäische Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik(ESVP) gehören heute zu den dynamischsten undmeist diskutierten Politikbereichen der EuropäischenUnion (EU). Laut Javier Solana, dem Hohen Vertreterder GASP, bildet die ESVP das...

The Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) andthe European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) aretoday among the most dynamic and most frequentlydiscussed policy topics within the EuropeanUnion. Developing a European profile in foreign andsecurity policy has become one of the key...

The current landscape of Global History literature appears dominated by a rather asymmetrical dichotomy between Eurocentric analyses of the cumulative emergence of the West and global history which reduces the significance of this transition by blending it into very long-term perspectives. This...

Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der außenpolitischen Performanz der EU und stützt sich dabei auf drei verschiedene Betrachtungsweisen: den Realismus und die Theorien der EU als imperiale bzw. der EU als normative Macht. Mit Hilfe eines auf Basis dieser drei Theorien entwickelten...

A striking and unexpected feature of the financial crisis has been the sharpappreciation of the US dollar against virtually all currencies globally. The paper findsthat negative US-specific macroeconomic shocks during the crisis have triggered asignificant strengthening of the US dollar, rather...