For almost two centuries substantial research in Sociology, Political Science, History and Anthropology has focused on the state, the nation, nationalism, and national identity. Despite a very remarkable amount of knowledge and intelligent theorizing a number of questions need revisiting and...

Der Diskussionsbeitrag ermittelt anhand verschiedener Indikatoren den aus neoklassischer Sicht vorhandenen Bedarf der südamerikanischen Staaten für Mindestlohnreformen und stellt ihn den tatsächlich in die Praxis umgesetzten Reformen gegenüber. Das erste Ergebnis des Papieres ist, dass mit...

The main argument of this paper is that initiatives for regional cooperation - particularly related to short-term external financing: reserve sharing and trade-related payments systems - are promising avenues for policy efforts, in face of an international financial situation marked by...

Given the importance of the assertion or prevention of regional leadership for the future global order, this paper examines the strategies and resources being used to assert regional leadership as well as the reactions of other states within and outside the respective regions. Secondary powers...

South America's security agenda demands the simultaneous management of domestic crises, interstate conflicts and transnational threats. Though located at different systemic levels (national, international, transnational), the three conflict clusters are often interrelated and tend to overlap in...

There is a general consensus that trade between East Asia and South America is becoming increasingly important. However, we know little about the actual dynamic development of this inter-regional trade. This paper examines whether the trend of East Asia–South America trade is a general...

This article is on the activities of British money doctors in South America between the 1890s and the 1930s, hitherto overlooked in the literature. It focuses on Sir Otto Niemeyer’s missions to Brazil and Argentina in the early 1930s compared to his earlier report on New Zealand and Professor...

The politics of contestation on the part of secondary regional powers such as Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela towards Brazil as the regional leader oscillate between competition and cooperation, inasmuch as the South American region has one regional power and is a zone of negative peace...

Seit der Jahrtausendwende ist eine Veränderung in den jahrzehntelang bestehenden Wanderungsstrukturen feststellbar. Die Wanderungsgewinne konzentrieren sich immer stärker auf die Zentren im Land, während die Umlandgemeinden tendenziell stärker werdend Bevölkerung verlieren. Dies wird...

Analysen der Zu- und Fortzüge nach Wanderungsdistanz und -richtung in Baden-Württemberg zeigen, dass es die Reurbanisierung im Sinne eines Zurück der Suburbanisierer in die Stadt nicht gibt. Sehr wohl aber einen verstärkten Zuzug ganz spezifischer Altersgruppen in die Oberzentren. Es sind...