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A new transfer of power has taken place in the EU's Eastern neighborhood that raises vigilant hopes for the future of the Eastern Partnership. This is a chance for Moldova to address its democratic deficit and rebuild its international reputation after vested interests captured its state institutions. The new government, however, needs the support of EU partners. While this pro-reformist executive brings big opportunities – including for the EU – it also poses risks that need to be cautiously considered.

In the wake of the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump, globalization has found itself increasingly under the microscope. An active international discussion is underway, and the ideological viewpoint that the reversal of globalization and a return to protectionism and isolation will cure the world's ills is touted by many. In the midst of the growing prominence of international interconnectivity and contradicting attention attained by skewed misinformation about global impact, 'Global Business' is a straightforward commentary on mega trends in globalization. With insights and observations from academics, practitioners, and practical thinkers from around the world Global Business demystifies the economic, social, and cultural impacts of globalism and globalization, and presents a balanced explanation of what is happening and how it affects everyone.

Neo-Gramscians have made invaluable contributions to expanding traditional IR/IPE theory. Nevertheless, as the following article indicates, the ontological, epistemological, and methodological positions they adopt results in a rather one-sided interpretation of Antonio Gramsci and a partial, at times erroneous, account of the nature of the current global system. In highlighting these oversights, the neo neo-Gramscian approach presented here – rooted in a critical realist philosophy of science, specifically 'emergentist materialism', and involving a more complete reading of Gramsci – seeks to lay the basis for the elaboration of a more convincing theoretical and conceptual framework to analyse the changing dynamics of contemporary world order, without which the Coxian critical theory dream of engendering social emancipation cannot be fully realised.

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Der Beitrag betrachtet die Rolle Chinas auf dem Parkett der internationalen Beziehungen, wobei die Ausführungen folgende Aspekte der Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik berücksichtigen: (1) Chinas Reform- und Öffnungsprozess, (2) die Wandlung hinsichtlich der Teilnahme an internationalen Interventionen seit den 1950er Jahren bis 2006, (3) die neuen Sicherheitsinteressen des Landes geprägt von einer aktiveren Sicherheitspolitik, (4) den Klimawandel und die Umweltprobleme sowie (5) Chinas Rolle in der internationalen Gemeinschaft. Entgegen seiner Rhetorik hat sich Peking nach Einschätzung des Autors in letzter Zeit intensiv an Aktionen der internationalen Gemeinschaft beteiligt. Dennoch gilt es als Quelle vieler Weltprobleme. Die Chinesen empfinden dies als ungerecht - zumal die Weltordnung noch immer keine universale, sondern eine vom Westen dominierte ist. Reformbedarf besteht somit auf beiden Seiten. (ICG2)

Der Verfasser betrachtet den bisherigen Verlauf der GUS- Integration unter dem Aspekt der Integrationsprozessen generell zugrunde liegenden Prämissen der Minimierung der Transaktionsverluste und der Optimierung der Wirtschaftsorganisation und kommt zu negativen Schlußfolgerungen im Hinblick auf die Rationalität und Effizienz der GUS-Integration. Die Gründe dafür werden näher beleuchtet. (BIOst-Mrk)

Future development of the Commonwealth can take a number of differing paths. The author takes the opportunity of the High Level Review Group to consider the possibilities & their consequences. A panel of special advisors specializing in a range of practical topics (omitting issues related to political or moral ethics) could be appointed by the Commonwealth Secretariat to offer guidance to the High Level Review Group. Adapted from the source document.

On security / Ronnie D. Lipschutz. -- The value of security: Hobbes, Marx, Nietsche, and Baudrillard / James Der Derian. -- Securitization and desecuritization / Ole Waever. -- Political fission: State structure, civil society, and nuclear weapons in the United States / Daniel Deudney. -- Grassroots statecraft and citizens' challenges to U.S. National security policy / Pearl-Alice Marsh. -- Hawks, doves, but no owls: International economic interdependence and construction of the new security dilemma / Beverly Crawford. -- Security, the state, the "New World Order" and beyond / Barry Buzan. -- Negotiating the boundaries of difference and security at millennium's end / Ronnie D. Lipschutz

De Brouwer, Gordon: East Asian financial markets. Current status and future development. Ogawa, Eiji: The Japanese Yen as an international currency. Park Yoon-shik: Development of Asian bond markets. Goldstein, Morris: Strengthening the international financial architecture. Where do we stand? Lamberte, Mario B.: Reforming the international financial architecture. The East Asian view. Chung Chae-shick; Yang Doo Yong: Appropriate exchange rate regimes in developing countries. Case of Korea. Vichyanond, Pakorn: Do we need a regional lender of last resort? Kim Tae-joon; Ryou Jai-won; Wang Yunjong: A proposal for Asian arrangements to borrow. Yu Yongding: China and Asian monetary cooperation. Tan Khee Giap; Chen Kang: Financial cooperation and coordination in East Asia. An ASEAN perspective

This book examines the direction of the BRICS association. Beginning with historical analyses of the broader Global South and the fundamental composition of the BRICS countries and then moving on to present trends, The BRICS Order evaluates the variables that will influence the association's future. While the BRICS as a forum emerged as a result of the visible fragmentation of the post-1945 world order, it itself remains dogged by issues emanating from internal divergences among member states and from external factors. The contributors interrogate the extent to which this formation of "emerging economies" is indicative of a challenge to the West, or in fact a complimentary relation. Integral to these studies - which encompass examinations of such diverse areas as governance systems, issues in bilateral relations, security threats, multilateral institution building, the transnational creation and dissemination of knowledge, and technological innovation – are patterns of convergence and divergence which render the countries not a formal alliance, but as signifiers of a multilateral future in which the West is itself to become more heterogeneous and thus become occasionally complemented depending on the vacillating consensus within the BRICS association and on the interests of the BRICS countries at different points in time.