Germany should pay more attention to risks in procurement, manufacturing and sales in China. First, China's population has been shrinking since 2022 and is rapidly ageing; this will cause its economic strength as well as production and consumption opportuni-ties to decrease. Secondly, the threat...

This paper takes an in-depth look at the European great powers France, Germany and Britain and their foreign policy reactions vis-à-vis the Russo-Georgian War in August 2008. It explains the different reactions from a certain interplay between present and past geopolitics that shape the foreign...

This paper investigates the long-term trend and the underlying determinants of public sector centralization in Germany from 1871 until today. The institutional and the quantitative review of the German history provides no conclusive evidence for a continuous process of government centralization...

Der seit 1999 von der EU moderierte Dialog zur Konfliktschlichtung zwischen Regierung und Opposition galt mit dem endgültigen Abzug der EU-Vermittler Anfang Juni als gescheitert. Die größeren Oppositionsparteien boykottierten die vorgezogenen Parlamentswahlen im Oktober. Eyadéma versuchte...