Against the background of intensifying globalisation driven by increasing international trade, which necessitates intercultural cooperation and negotiations, this study presents the findings of a research project that set out to explore the role of intercultural competence in international trade...

Climate change, the loss of biodiversity, increasing pollution, and the constant consumption of natural resources are just some of the many challenges our world is currently facing. Digitalisation has entered almost all areas of our lives. It supports us every day and simplifies our lives. At...

Sustainability can be seen as one of the most important issues of the 21st century and has increasingly moved into the spotlight in Germany, becoming the main topic of discussion today. The growing interest in sustainable food is not only pushing the German food industry to expand its supply of...

Currently the European Union (EU) consists of a group of nation states that exhibit an array of constitutional systems, ranging from the unitary to the fully federal. Among the EU member states, the United Kingdom (UK) has traditionally been regarded as an example par excellence of a unitary...

Based on studies of the reform of the European Union's (EU's) structural funding programmes, some scholars consider the EU to be a disordered, complex and multi-layered polity. According to such a perspective, shifting and contested power relationships in the EU, resulting in the dispersal of...

Environmental decisions made by individuals, civil society and the state involve questions of economic efficiency, environmental effectiveness, equity and political legitimacy. These four criteria are constitutive of economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development, which...