What are the sovereign rights of nations in an interdependent world, and to what extent do these rights stand in the way of achieving important international objectives? These two questions rest at the heart of contemporary debate over the role and design of international institutions as well as...

The Panama and Paradise Papers shocked the world by displaying the extent to which tax avoidance and evasion were running amok. That has led policymakers around the world to seek to standardize, harmonize, and globalize the tax system, at a domestic, bilateral, regional, and multilateral levels....

The emergence of self-employed workers' income inequality and poverty has started a huge debate about the need to expand the scope of the labor movement to the multifaceted universe of self-employment. This paper argues that self-employed collective action can take three different forms:...

In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the...

The principle of Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources (PSNR) is largely thought to be a counter-colonialism move to prevent great power exploitation of developing countries’ natural resources after independence, one rooted in the demand to decide on the use of their own resource for...

Scholarly literature and popular media outlets document the lack of racial and ethnic diversity and inclusion among technology sector employees, however; racial and ethnic disparities in technology entrepreneurship are not well documented or understood. The factors that contribute to a more...

The contribution explores the role of economic globalisation in the identity formation (‘constitution’) of the European Union at the interface of law, democracy, and social justice. It examines how the spatial, subjective and material dimensions of European sovereignty interact with economic...