Winfried Wolf ist Mitglied des Bundestages, Journalist und Autor u.a der Bücher "Bombengeschäfte" (1999) und "Fusionsfieber" (2000), in denen er die Militarisierung der Politik und die Entwicklung des militärisch-industriellen Komplexes verfolgt. Er ist zur Zeit verantwortlicher Redakteur der...

It is often claimed that the participation of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) can mitigate the democratic deficit of the European Union. This claim rests on the assumption that civil society organizations channel citizens' concerns to the European institutions, a view which is also shared by...

For many years women tended to vote more conservative than men (the 'old' gender vote gap), but since the 1980s this gap in many countries has shifted direction: now women in many countries are more likely to support left parties than men of the same age, in the same income bracket, and at the...

This book is the result of a series of discussions initiated by an FP6 project carried out during the year 2007 and which focused on issues of Science and Technology (S & T) governance and ethics in Europe and Asia. The discussions not only in increased mutual understanding between the two...