Neue Bucher zur internationalen Politik

In: Internationale Politik: das Magazin für globales Denken, Band 56, Heft 7, S. 62-64

Abstract

Patrick Kollner takes a critical look at Ronald Dore's Stock Market Capitalism: Welfare Capitalism. Japan and Germany versus the Anglo-Saxons (Oxford: Oxford U Press, 2000), which explores the increasing commonalities in industrialized nations with regard to production style & economic organization, & whether convergence of economic systems is imminent. Dore argues that changes effected by neoliberalism promote inequality & competition & undermine cooperation; & that the attentiveness to the stock market & such issues as shareholder value has dangerously adverse effects. Martin Manzke reviews Neue deutsche Aussen- und Sicherheitspolitik? Eine friedenswissenschaftliche Bilanz zwei Jahre nach dem rot-grunen Regierungswechsel ([New German Foreign and Security Policy? A Scientific Peace Balance Two Years after the Red-Green Government Change] Vol. 27, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2001), a collection of studies edited by Christian Lammers & Lutz Schrader examining & evaluating the changes wrought by the new administration, notes few positives. The administration's failures include issues such as nuclear weapons & NATO, the peace movement, &, on the international front of the EU, an inclination toward the Germanization of Europe rather than a Europeanization of Germany. C. Houle