This paper links the main issues of the project "Contested World Order" (WZB, GIGA, HSFK) to the policy field of global health: the authority of the institutional setting, and the preferences and strategies of rising powers and non-state actors (NStAs) - the assumed protagonists of recent power...

This paper analyses the impact of new institutional structures in global health governance on the realization of social rights in poor countries. Meanwhile, health is broadly seen as an import precondition for social and economic development. This leads to an integration of the "diseases of the...

The present article illustrates how the main actors in global health governance (GHG) - governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), intergovernmental organizations (IOs), and transnational pharmaceutical companies (TNPCs) - have been interacting and, as a result, modifying the global...

Die Karriere von Andreas Predöhl ist typisch für viele prominente deutsche Wissenschaftler der Nachkriegszeit, die zuvor während der Herrschaft des Nationalsozialismus diesem Regime gedient hatten. Von 1934 bis 1945 war Predöhl Direktor des Kieler Instituts für Weltwirtschaft, von 1949 bis...