Es gibt in den neun nuklear bewaffneten Staaten immer noch fast 18.000 Atomwaffen (Tabelle 1), von denen knapp 2.000 kurzfristig einsatzbereit sind. Mit Glück bleiben wir von ihrem erneuten Einsatz weitere sechs bis sieben Jahrzehnte verschont. Wahrscheinlicher ist jedoch, dass die Zahl der...

The agricultural trade issue in the Uruguay Round highlights the trend towards fragmentation among LDCs: the fundamental underlying differences between the interests of agricultural exporters and food importers are hard to reconcile. These differences are analysed in the following article.

The Group of Twenty (G-20) deserves credit for opening up of the "top table" of global governance to a wider representation of countries on a geographic basis in general and Asia in particular. As both a crisis committee in terms of the reverberations from the 2008 financial crisis and a...

In this paper, Ramesh Thakur examines the implications of the Iraq War for the UN, shows how the goals being pursued in Iraq have been undermined by the means, and argues that the liberation of the people from Saddam Hussein's brutal regime was a collateral benefit amidst much damage to...

Continuing CIGI's BRICSAM research, this paper questions whether size (economic or population) of emerging economies alone is enough to warrant accommodation in the rules and structures of the global system. The global realignment of states following the resulting power vacuum brought on by the...

This paper examines both the strengths and weaknesses of the Group of Twenty (G-20) from the perspective of input and output legitimacy. Notwithstanding some initial successes the constraints with respect to 'output' have become more acute. Moreover, the 'input' legitimacy of the G-20 has been...

The agricultural trade issue in the Uruguay Round highlights the trend towards fragmentation among LDCs: the fundamental underlying differences between the interests of agricultural exporters and food importers are hard to reconcile. These differences are analysed in the following article.

The Group of Twenty (G-20) deserves credit for opening up of the "top table" of global governance to a wider representation of countries on a geographic basis in general and Asia in particular. As both a crisis committee in terms of the reverberations from the 2008 financial crisis and a...

The ongoing power shift within the global economy calls into question the established structures of multilateral decision-making. Mainly two factors are responsible for the growing governance gap in international affairs. As the emerging powers of the South gain new prominence, the G7/G8 summit...

Die anhaltenden Verschiebungen in den weltwirtschaftlichen Machtverhältnissen setzen die traditionellen Formen der multilateralen Entscheidungsfindung unter erheblichen Anpassungsdruck. Vor allem zwei Faktoren sind für das zunehmende Steuerungsdefizit in der globalen Politik verantwortlich:...