Progress on regional cooperation in Southeast Asia is often punctuated by decades rather than years. The exposure of the wider Asia-Pacific to natural hazards renders it the world’s most disaster prone. Since the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami in 2004, there have been three significant...

Die Regionalisierungstendenzen des Lateinamerikahandels haben seit Beginn der 90er Jahre neuen Auftrieb bekommen. In Amerika gibt es derzeit vier Wirtschaftsräume: NAFTA (North American Free Trade Association; Nordamerika, Mexiko), MERCOSUR (Mercado Comun en el Cono Sur; Argentinien, Brasilien,...

While the DPRK (North Korea) is on its way ahead to reform the socialist based economic system, since a few years the Republic of Korea (South Korea) is integrating into East Asian economic structures like "ASEAN plus 3". In this way a possible reunification of Korea as well as a single...

The Korean separation and possible unification remains at the centre of the South Korean political agenda and is influencing International Relations on a global scale as well. Consequentially, the debate focuses mainly on security issues from an IR perspective. The question, however, how a...