Within just a short span of time, what started out as a local housing crisis in the US has grown into the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. However, the global slowdown in economic growth as well as the destruction of capital and prosperity worldwide have...

Hopes of fresh momentum in the international climate negotiations were high when Barack Obama was elected president of the United States on November 4, 2008. Even during the election campaign, he had announced plans to reduce US greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050, to increase the...

For a decade we have been living through a period of great turbulence in the commodity markets. Rising and sometimes highly volatile prices, strong geological and market concentration, and state intervention in the commodity markets all stoke fears of future supply bottlenecks and an expectation...

The global economic and financial crisis was an enormous challenge for national economic policy-making and a vivid illustration of how important it is to have a well-functioning system of global economic governance. The newly founded G20, representing the world's major economies, assumed a key...

Am 11. und 12. Juli 2008 fand unter der Leitung von Saskia Hieber und Wolfgang Quaisser, Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing, sowie Stefan A. Schirm, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, die Tagung »Global Economic Governance – das Management der Weltwirtschaft ein Jahr nach dem G-8-Gipfel von...

Henrik Enderlein, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, befürchtet, dass die Erwartungen, die mit der Wahl Barack Obamas zum neuen US-Präsidenten verknüpft sind, zu hoch seien. Obama erbe mit seinem Amtsantritt eine kaum zu bewältigende ökonomische Herausforderung, so dass die...

When the European Union and the United States agreed on the Framework for Advancing Transatlantic Economic Integration at the EU-US Summit on 30 April 2007, creating the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC), they praised themselves for opening a new era in transatlantic regulatory cooperation....