Small and poor developing countries face well-known structural constraints and power asymmetries in their international economic relations Their limited economic weight often produces pessimism about the prospects for such countries to international trade negotiations. For many developing...

This paper argues that recent global health cooperation has been marked by two trends. First, there has been a highly successful proliferation of vertical funds to fight specific diseases. These are characterised by narrower problem-based mandates; multistakeholder governance; voluntary and...

This paper analyzes discourse in the workplace in order to explain puzzling patterns of precarity in twenty-first century capitalism. Tech workers' central role in digital transformation endows them with labor market power reflected by their high wages, but during economic downturns, when demand...

In this article, we will address current deficits of the study of power in IR by introducing a new concept of structural power. After briefly presenting existing concepts of relational power, of structural power as well as of conceptualizing power as the possession of resources...

Nach der Finanzmarktkrise geriet die angebotsorientierte Wirtschaftspolitik vorübergehend in die Defensive. Mittlerweile hat sich in Deutschland erneut das Paradigma einer "wachstumsorientierten Austeritätspolitik" als Leitlinie zur Überwindung von Krisen durchgesetzt. Dieser Beitrag zeichnet...

Zusammenfassung Aktuell ist zu beobachten, dass deutsche Familien für die Verrichtung häuslicher Pflegearbeit zunehmend auf Pflegekräfte aus Osteuropa zurückgreifen. Aufgrund der schwachen Regulierung und des Charakters der Arbeit sind die Pflegekräfte darauf verwiesen, ihre Arbeits- und...

We examine who benefits when there is a strong leader in place, and those who benefit when a situation lacks a proper leader. There are fractious terrorist groups who seek to serve the same people in common cause against a common enemy. The groups compete for rents obtained from the public by...

In this paper, the implicit and explicit conceptualizations of international organizations found in the three major theories of international relations are outlined and compared. It turns out that in a neorealist framework, international organizations can be explained; however, they exhibit no...