Today FDR's New Deal is regarded as the democratic ideal, the positive American response to the economic crisis that propelled Germany and Italy toward Fascism. Yet in the 1930s, these regimes were hardly considered antithetical. Cultural historian Schivelbusch investigates their shared elements...

Der Journalist Reichhart bietet hier einige kurze und hochaktuelle Einblicke in das moderne China. Der Autor lebt seit Jahren in diesem Land und hat viel von seinen beruflichen Erfahrungen einfliessen lassen. Ein kurzer Überblick über die Lage in diesem immer wichtiger werdenden Land....

1. Crises and their consequences in Latin America : Mexico in 1982 and 1994 and Venezuela in 1994 / George Philip -- 2. "Everybody out," "We are fantastic" : the politics of financial crises in Argentina and Uruguay 2001-2003 / Francisco Panizza -- 3. After neoliberal constitutionalism :...