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Mit Umschuldungsabkommen kann die Schuldenkrise nicht beigelegt werden. Vielmehr sind politische Maßnahmen zu setzen, die zur Wiederherstellung der Kreditwürdigkeit der Schuldnerländer führen und die zur Gewährleistung eines ausreichenden Netto-Kapitalzuflusses beitragen. Außerdem sind Vorkehrungen zur Vermeidung künftiger Schuldenkrisen zu treffen. Ein Patentrezept dafür gibt es allerdings nicht. Die politische Lösung der Schuldenkrise ist ein mühsamer Prozeß, der eine Vielzahl von Einzelmaßnahmen aller Akteure erfordert. Angesichts der Auswirkungen der Krise muß dieser Prozeß rasch einsetzen. (KM)

Aus Sicht der DDR

Contents -- Chart -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Africa's International Relations -- Chapter One: The Times They Are(n't) A-changing: American Policies in Africa -- Chapter Two: Of Spin and Mirrors: Britain and New Labour's Policies toward Africa -- Chapter Three: Effronterie Magnifique: Between La Rupture and Realpolitik in Franco-African Relations -- Chapter Four: Back to the Future? The Rising Chinese Relationship with Africa -- Chapter Five: Hands across the Water: Indian Engagement in Africa -- Chapter Six: The Empire(s) Strike Back? The European Union and Africa -- Chapter Seven: Why Do We Need Political Scientists? Africa and the International Financial InstitutionsChapter Eight: Oil and Its Impact on Africa's International Relations -- Bibliography -- Index.

"In recent years, international actors have taken significant strides in attempting to develop strategies and instruments that effectively address the problem of weak and failing states. On the one hand, the intensified focus on state failure has to do with general, fundamental shifts in the international security environment since the end of the Cold War. On the other hand, however, the sharpened concern with fragile states arises from the specific challenges, experiences, and interests of key international actors - particularly the United Nations, the United States, and the European Union. This paper provides a brief overview of current efforts to improve and expand the 'toolbox' of state-building instruments and strategies. These include (a) the refinement of existing instruments through greater policy coherence in the fields of conflict prevention, post-conflict reconstruction, and development assistance, as well as (b) theoretical elaborations and practical advances regarding a set of more innovative, targeted, and sometimes controversial strategies, including 'shared' or 'conditional' sovereignty, 'security first' approaches, the potential recognition of new states, and regional solutions. While constructive steps have been taken to improve strategies and policies directed toward fragile states, it is not clear how long the international community and its publics will be willing to bear the material and human costs of long-term, comprehensive post-conflict reconstruction projects and 'big pushes' in foreign aid. As a result, more targeted instruments deserve closer consideration from policymakers seeking to make good policy decisions with scarce resources. Regardless of whether the selected instruments are comprehensive or targeted in nature, the way forward must be characterized by enhanced coordination and coherence among national, regional, and international actors." (author's abstract)

Beurteilung der aktuellen Probleme der internationalen Beziehungen.

Themen: Einschätzung der führenden Wirtschaftsmacht und der größten
Militärmacht; Vertrauen in die Problemlösungsfähigkeit der Großmächte
bezüglich weltpolitischer Probleme; Grad der Interessenübereinstimmung
zwischen der BRD und den USA sowie der Sowjetunion und China;
Einschätzung der zukünftigen Bedrohung der BRD durch China; Einstellung
zu den geplanten Besuchen von Präsident Nixon in China und in der
Sowjetunion; Einstellung zu den Entspannungsbemühungen; Bewertung der
Friedensbemühungen verschiedener Länder; Vertrauen in die
Verteidigungsbereitschaft verbündeter Staaten; Bewertung des
US-Engagements in Europa; Religiosität.

Demographie: Alter (klassiert); Geschlecht; Familienstand; Konfession;
Schulbildung; Beruf; Haushaltseinkommen; Bundesland.

Interviewerrating: Kooperationsbereitschaft des Befragten; Anwesenheit
anderer Personen; Schwierigkeitsgrad des Interviews; Anzahl der
Kontaktversuche; Interviewdauer; Ortsgröße; Intervieweridentifikation.

"Academic spin-offs have received increasing attention in discussions about science and innovation policy and in research. Most of the attention has been focused on determining the conditions for fostering spin-offs, but this paper shifts the focus back to the potential repercussions for academic institutions. These may result from the involvement of researchers in spin-off processes and from incentives aimed at supporting spin-off activities. In a first step, the paper develops a conceptual framework with which to analyse repercussions that result from the interaction between policy measures for supporting spin-offs and structural features of national science systems. Policy measures and structural aspects of the science systems influence the ways spin-offs and their parent institutions interact. As patterns of linkages differ, so too may their impacts on academic institutions. Secondly, based on secondary analysis of comparative studies, we develop a number of hypotheses as to which repercussions on academic institutions may be expected in a number of European countries. The paper concludes by proposing implications for policy as well as for further research." (author's abstract)

Metaphors constitute a fundamental way in which humans understand the world around them. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of metaphors in theories of international relations. Until recently, conscious attention to metaphors in theories of international relations has been haphazard and sporadic. This book examines the metaphors that inform the major paradigms in international relations theory.

The imagination is at the heart of what it means to be human. For this reason, it has been the subject of close examination across time and locale. Yet, while international relations (IR) researchers often mobilize the term rhetorically, its character and operations remain underconceptualized in the discipline and disconnected from the rich literatures that explore this vital faculty. This article identifies a commonsense account of the imagination in IR's most pervasive discourse on order and anarchy. Taking its cues from the Hobbesian tradition, here a distinctly monological imagination is fearful and pessimistic, rooted in the overriding dread of a sudden and violent death. We draw out its underlying assumptions by foregrounding the deliberate, systematic, and sustained construction of the imagination in Hobbes' Leviathan, where it acts as a crucial and animating impetus for the Hobbesian subject, including in the oft-analogized "state of nature" scenario. We argue that this Hobbesian imagination has been superseded by a multidisciplinary contemporary scholarship that presents a markedly different view. Anyone thinking seriously about the imagination today should disagree with the Hobbesian account, reconsider theories of international relations predicated on it, and explore the political possibilities entailed in other approaches.