Seeking to build on related successes in other information technology sectors, the government of India has signaled its intent to transform the country’s performance in microelectronics. Facing a young and expanding population, India needs to create manufacturing jobs in promising industries,...

Despite the fragility of authoritative governing institutions at the international level, the political capacity to deal with global risks is developing. The sense of legitimacy that will ultimately derive from a deeply transnational sense of shared fate continues to lag, but even in that regard...

The very phrase "League of Nations" is a metaphor for international organizational failure. In the wake of the war it was designated to prevent, the League became the example to be avoided in building new multilateral institutions. Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that our textbooks on...

The cross-border financial crisis that began in the United States in the summer of 2007 tested a 30-year experiment in international integration. In the background were expanding macroeconomic imbalances that leading states had neglected to address. Spawned by imprudence and regulatory failures,...

Liberal and critical theorists alike claim that the world political economy is becoming globalized. If they are right, leading corporations should gradually be losing their national characters and converging in their fundamental strategies and operations. Multinational corporations (MNCs) should...

Financial and capital market integration in Europe is now well-advanced, but it confronts a serious challenge in the design of workable arrangements for crisis prevention, management and resolution. The expansion of large, complex financial intermediaries exposes the limits of a supervisory...

Die Beratung von Unternehmen gilt als eine hochqualifizierte Expertentätigkeit, derenNachfrage seit den 80er Jahren erheblich zugenommen hat. Dies spiegelt sich nichtzuletzt in einem deutlichen Anstieg des Umsatzvolumens und der Beschäftigungwieder. Trotz ihrer ökonomischen Bedeutung verfügt...

Im Hinblick auf die vieldiskutierte „Sandwich-Position“ Ostdeutschlands – zwischen dentraditionellen Automobilzentren des Westens und den neuen Wachstumszonen undNiedriglohn-Standorten in Mittel- und Osteuropa – befindet sich die ostdeutsche Automobilindustrieweiterhin in einer prekären...