Klappentext: Dieses umfassende Europa-Lexikon vermittelt einen Überblick über die historisch politischen Zusammenhänge und Entwicklungen in ganz Europa. In Überblicksartikeln macht es Ursprünge und Hintergründe der europäischen Einigungsidee deutlich. Dabei wird die Frage nach den Grenzen...

The most recent transformation of world order is often depicted as a shift from a Westphalian to a post-Westphalian era in which international organizations are becoming increasingly independent sites of authority. This internationalization of authority is often considered as an indication of...

We study the political economy of allocation decisions within a major state investment bank. Our focus is the European Investment Bank (EIB) - "The Bank of the EU" - which is the largest multilateral lending (and borrowing) institution in the world. We collect (and make available) information on...

The burgeoning literature on informal governance has shed new light on the workings of international organizations and the hidden rules of the game. The common thrust of these studies is that informal governance is the result of an implicit agreement among states that, in order to sustain...