This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This volume analyzes the economic, social, and political challenges that emerging states confront today. Notwithstanding the growing importance of the ‘emerging states’ in global affairs and governance, many problems requiring immediate...

Terutomo Ozawa examines Japan's once celebrated post-war economic success from a new perspective. He applies a 'flying geese' model of industrial upgrading in a country that is still catching-up, to explore the rise, fall and rebound of Japanese industry with its evolving institutions and policies

Im Mittelpunkt der Studie steht die Frage der wirtschaftlichen Integration zwischen Deutschland, der Tschechischen Republik und Polen. Von Interesse sind dabei insbesondere die sächsischen Grenzregionen sowie die Nachbarregionen in Polen und Tschechien. - In der Untersuchung werden zunächst...