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Uncertainty, insecurity and conflict are constitutive features of globalisation. 9/11 has been viewed as the symbolic unleashing of a new Age of Terror, in which traditional conceptions of national security are shattered and a new kind of global vulnerability emerges. This interdisciplinary...

Grid dependent sectors play an important role in the provision of competitive market struc­tures in particular in the enlarged EU and on globalised markets. Recent developments show various differences between national regulatory frameworks in transport, energy and tele­communications with...

Research themes: 1. A pan-European database 2. European growth from the mid-nineteenth century 3. European growth in the very long run 4. The history of European integration 5. Europe's changing position in the world [gemäß den Informationen des Anbieters - according to site editor's...

Four principal areas of focus have been identified for conference panels and papers: · Conceptualising the interrelationship between regionalisation and globalisation · Regionalisation and global governance (1): economic, political, social, environmental and legal issues · Regionalisation and...

The 2005 OXONIA Inaugural Lecture is organised in cooperation with the Economics Department, University of Oxford. Martin Wolf is associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 for services to financial...

This year looks set to be an eventful one for the water industry. Companies will be implementing their investment programmes as agreed during PR04, and the need for effective business plans will be essential in seeing them through the coming years. On the agenda as well is the Water Framework...

Papers may address any aspect of the social, cultural, economic, technological, ecological and political history of transport, traffic and mobility. However, preference will generally be given to those focussing on the historical relationship between tourism and transport, traffic and mobility.

- Efficiency of and challenges for regional policy at supranational, national and sub-national level (investment mix, equity versus efficiency, macroeconomic impact assessments) - Regional growth differentials: growth centres versus dispersion - Regional convergence and catching-up, new...

IBC Global Conferences is pleased to announce an important two day event designed to bring together traders, producers and bankers and to examine new, Basel II friendly, ways of structuring transactions. If you are involved in structured commodity and trade finance, this is a must attend event...