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...

Making sense of Saudi Arabia is crucially important today. The kingdom's western province contains the heart of Islam, and it is the United States' closest Arab ally and the largest producer of oil in the world. However, the country is undergoing rapid change: its aged leadership is ceding power...

Den Deutschen steigt das vermeintliche "neue Wirtschaftswunder" zu Kopf, so Olaf Gersemann, Ressortleiter Wirtschaft und Finanzen bei der Tageszeitung "Die Welt". Wir überschätzen unsere Kraft bei weitem und übersehen dabei unsere Anfälligkeit für neue Krisen. Selbstgefällig verklären wir...