Under the Bush administration, the US portrayed itself as a necessary Empire. 'Given its extraordinary power, the US has a special responsibility to intervene in world politics and can be exempted of the usual constraints put on such interventions.' The present Working Paper analyses the role of...

What explains the US dollar's role in the global economy and the tensions affecting its likely persistence? Most analyses start from Triffin's dilemma, which accurately captured specific but partial tensions of a global monetary system based on essentially fixed exchange rates, gold backing for...

Narratives of the future are a crucial source of the dynamics of capitalism (Beckert 2016). Since there are no future facts, assessments of the future necessarily need to rely on accounts that cannot be limited to the presentation of facts. This means they cannot be true or false, but they can...

Der vorliegende Beitrag gibt zunächst in Abschnitt 2 einen kursorischen Überblick über den aktuellen Stand der empirischen Forschung zum Einfluss der Medien auf Wahrnehmung und Verhalten. Dabei wird insbesondere auf den politischen Kontext fokussiert. Sodann werden einige Forschungsarbeiten...