This paper assesses the nexus between changes in governance structures - at national and cooperative international … highlights the importance of improved governance as an essential condition for effectively attaining an "Asian Economic Community …

How can we toughen up the state against the backdrop of the transformative challenges of climate change, planetary … politics and the "management" of public affairs. I argue that the state's ability to act is suffering from the withering away … of the antagonistic dimension of democratic politics. At the same time, the state itself often puts on too tight a corset …

This report systematically outlines the state of play in digital policy and Berlin’s current policy approach. It …

Member States of the European Union (EU) will distort competition and lead to state aid in a European carbon trading market … distortion and state aid issues are relevant from an equity perspective, because (ceteris paribus) an auctioned firm has less … grandfathering as state aid, but nevertheless exempted it by using not only legal and economic, but also political arguments. …

, energy and transport, has a long history and commands high level political support among heads of state. However, the …

-regulation, decentralisation and enlargement are increasing the heterogeneity of the EU and putting the present governance model under pressure. In … its 2001 White Paper, the Commission showed that it interprets governance to mean less central control and more network … European networks - and hence governance - require considerably more central steering than the White Paper suggests. …

state of the EU banking system (which, in the aggregate and compared with banking sectors in other major advanced economies …

show that a substantial share of firms is not implementing any state-of-the art digital technologies, has not invested to …