englischThe year 2020 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Moscow Treaty and the thirtieth anniversary of the Two Plus Four Treaty. These anniversaries provide an occasion to dedicate the main focus of the Yearbook on Liberalism Research to the topic ‘Freedom, Security and De-escalation—Liberalism [...]

englischPrecarious working conditions are spreading among highly qualified workers. The Chilean civil service employs many university graduates, the honorarios, on a temporary basis. Torres explores the question of what follows objectively and subjectively from this special status of non-recognition [...]

Dieser Band der Reihe GIDS Analysis des German Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies (GIDS) präsentiert preisgekrönte Studien zu Militär, Strategie, Wirtschaft und Politik.Pierre-Louis Josselin untersucht den Begriff der Seemacht für das 21. Jahrhundert, Jens Wegener widmet sich den außen- und [...]

englischWho are the most important actors in the peacebuilding process in post-war Liberia? How do they interact in specific institutions on the ground and what are the factors behind the slow pace of the post-war reform process? This book, designed as a qualitative case study with a strong [...]

englischThe political scientist and former Bavarian Minister of Culture Hans Maier has created a historically profound, theologically educated, literarily and musically highly sensitive, politically mature body of work, with which he has inscribed himself in the (intellectual) history of the Federal [...]

englischThis volume researches concepts of direct, participatory and deliberative democracy, their structures and procedures, and the role of actors. On the one hand, the volume focuses on questions of institutionalisation and the context sensitivity of participation-centred procedures in European [...]