In this collection, 17 leading scholars based in Solomon Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and China analyse key dimensions of the changing relationship between China and the Pacific Islands and explore the strategic, economic and diplomatic...

We study fiscal spending by supranational unions, where participation is voluntary and countries bargain over contributions to and the allocation of a central budget. We establish and explore the link between the budget's allocation and nations' contributions that occurs since bargaining power...

Diese Ausgabe der Publikation "Österreichische Entwicklungspolitik" widmet sich dem Schwerpunktthema "Staat & Entwicklung". In der Broschüre thematisieren verschiedene AutorInnen aus verschiedenen Perspektiven und Disziplinen die Frage nach der Rolle des Staates als Akteur innerhalb von...

Die EWU-Schuldenkrise macht gemeinsame Aktionen der Gläubigerstaaten zur Rettung der Schuldnerstaaten erforderlich. Dies war von einigen Ökonomen schon bei der Einführung des Euro befürchtet worden. Einen Keil zwischen die Mitgliedsländer treibt das auf die einzelne Nation gerichtete Denken...

Seit einigen Jahren wird diskutiert, wie Europas Souveränität gestärkt werden kann. Dieses Papier bringt drei Punkte in die Debatte ein. Erstens: Es gibt einen guten Grund, weswegen diese Absicht seit 2017 intensiv debattiert wird. Europas jüngere politische Ordnung, die Maastricht-EU,...

The member states of the European Union have given up sovereignty in quite a number of policy areas and subjected themselves to joint decisionmaking at the European level. Policy instruments are no longer available nationally in many policy areas, including monetary policy, trade policy, the...

This paper provides an analysis of Keynes's original Bancor proposal as well as more recent proposals for fixed exchange rates. We argue that these schemes fail to pay due attention to the importance of capital movements in today's economy, and that they implicitly adopt an unsatisfactory notion...

At the centre of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness is the idea of country ownership. It is meant to change the situation in many aid dependent African countries where donors dominate decision-making over which policies are adopted, how aid is spent, and what conditions are attached to...

This article examines American conceptions of sovereignty — as they appear in the writings of US scholars of international law, and those US international relations scholars who deal with international law. At first glance, the US literature is dominated by two distinct conceptions of...