Internationale und Europäische Politik und Globalisierung

The trade-routes connecting Europe and East Asia have fascinated scholars, traders, and adventurers throughout the centuries. Although its modern incarnation may lack the romantic aura of the fabled »Silk Road«, the recent and rapid growth of private trade and commodity exchange has contributed significantly to a revival of the Silk-Road-trade. This takes the form of long-distance petty trade across the newly established borders of states that were formerly part of the Soviet Union as well as into other neighboring countries – including Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and China – but also India, Korea, Thailand, and Malaysia. A far-flung network of trading connections has been established and, at the time of the fieldwork, thousands of petty traders were carrying their goods with them in trucks, buses, and planes, traveling once more along the routes of the old Silk Road, largely unrecognized by governments and unnoticed by foreign economic advisors. The traders, however, transport patterns of consumerism, lifestyles, knowledge, beliefs, political visions, and so on with their material goods, and in this way transsocietation along the trading networks transforms local societies.
Like the old »Silk Road,« the modern version is an agglomeration of different routes with different starting points, running through Central Asia and connecting Asia and Europe; manifest evidence of the continuity in trading patterns on the Eurasian continent.

Against the backdrop of global power shifts, this book reveals increasing challenges of social movements to push for human rights accountability of Multilateral Development Banks.

Deutsch-französische Perspektiven aus der Zeitgeschichte, den Politikwissenschaften und der Soziologie in einer vertieften Analyse der aktuellen Situation Frankreichs vereint.

On the decisive role of European regions in the EU's future: trendsetters on European integration in a turbulent EU?

This volume explores the impact of challenges like rising populism or social fragmentation on democratic citizenship.

Eigen- und Fremdbilder in europäischen Gesellschaften – (neu) formierte Identitäten in »Ost« und »West«.

Europa als Nation – mit dem Prozess der Europäischen Integration über die Europäische Union hinausgedacht.

Postkoloniale Perspektiven auf Sicherheit und Verlaufsperspektiven auf Statebuilding am Beispiel Kamerun.

In Zeiten des Umbruchs benötigt »Europa« eine realistische Vision für das 21. Jahrhundert, welche irreführende Mythen und Wunschbilder entzaubert und Europas Einzigartigkeit betont.

Das kritische Handbuch gibt einen Überblick über die aktuelle Debatte um global zunehmende Land- und Rohstoffkonflikte und definiert zentrale Begriffe.