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The book provides a comprehensive approach to the assessment of the nature of exporting activity, combining well-established theoretical reasoning with empirical evidence, and also signalling important economic policy recommendations. It is suitable for a wide range of recipients ranging from scholars and students to policy-makers or local/regional authorities engaged in the process of designing/implementing regional policies.

Die Arbeitskosten eines Landes dienen oft als Erklärung für seine Wettbewerbsstärke, die Standortattraktivität und die Arbeitsmarktlage. Daher stoßen internationale Arbeitskostenvergleiche auf großes öffentliches Interesse. Es existiert jedoch keine eindeutige Definition des Begriffs "Arbeitskosten", und die verschiedenen Berechnungsmethoden werden für unterschiedliche, aber auch für gleiche Fragestellungen genutzt. Der Bericht geht anhand internationaler, nationaler und regionaler Vergleiche der Bedeutung dieser Berechnungsmethoden nach. Die Entwicklung der Arbeitskosten hängt insbesondere von der Berücksichtigung der Preiseffekte, der sektoralen Abgrenzung, der Arbeitsproduktivität und der Währungsbasis ab. Daher wird empfohlen, die Bewertung der Lohnpolitik anhand nominaler gesamtwirtschaftlicher Lohnstückkosten auf Nationalwährungsbasis vorzunehmen.

The article discusses the politicisation of international politics and its effects on the legitimacy of international institutions. It is argued that a more complex understanding of the interplay of institutional and non-institutional practices of resistance is needed and that one has to draw from theories of international relations as well as from approaches from democratic heory to better understand the developments and its effects on the legitimacy of international institutions. The article proceeds by, first, reconstructing how research in IR has responded to the emergence of civil society critique, focusing in particular on the debate about inclusion through liberal governance mechanisms and the discussion of the regulatory power of counter-hegemonic actors in critical theories; it then turns to democratic theoretical approaches, in which the concept of "opposition" becomes a cipher for legitimate critique, yet the value of opposition and its form is determined very differently in different lines of thought. Finally, it is shown that the debate on the politicisation of international relations would particularly benefit from a republican understanding of politics, since the analytical focus and normative impetus lies in the relation between the visibly controversial nature of order and the creation of sites for opinion formation in civil society.