So far, economic analyses of NATO enlargement have been restricted to aspects of regional security while political analyses focused on indirect peace-building effects on democracy in the first place. Our panel regressions for 25 post-communist countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 reveal...

Notes that macro‐economic policy faces the same challenges in both developing and post‐socialist economies: to reduce inflation while achieving or maintaining stable economic growth. Moreover, there are developing countries like Argentina which succeeded in overcoming a type of institutional...

Abstract Latin American countries could only avoid to fall further behind their East Asian competitors if they adopt neo-liberal reforms. This is because external help cannot substitute for internal reforms and because Latin American countries lack the basis for cooperative policy implementation...