In den letzten drei Jahrzehnten haben weitreichende globale Transformationsprozesse den Gegenstandsbereich der Entwicklungsforschung grundlegend verändert und Entwicklungspolitik und -theorie vor neue Herausforderungen gestellt. Das PVS-Sonderheft 2013 nimmt eine Aufarbeitung der neueren...

"In the past ten to twenty years the global political economy picture has dramatically changed with the emergence of the economies of Brazil, Russia, India and, notably, China (BRICs) as big players and competitors of the advanced economies in the West and Eastern Asia. The book comparatively...

Modern economics has largely ignored the issue of outright conflict as an alternative way of allocating goods, assuming instead the existence of well-defined property rights enforced by an undefined third party. And yet even in ostensibly peaceful market transactions, conflict exists as an...