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The article wants to bridge the gap between Comparative Politics and International Relations by recourse to the nearly forgotten Latin-American dependency theories. To do this, first of all the deficits of Western democratization research with respect to external factors of autocratization and democratization processes will be highlighted. Then, linking the structural analysis of dependency theory with the neorealist approach in International Relations, the article develops an interference model that will be used to analyse the political developments in postcolonial areas since the Second World War. As a result, the article presents an explanation of the wave-like character of autocratization and democratization as an alternative to Western research into political transformation.

Seit den Zeiten des Booms um den magischen Realismus in den 1960er und 70er Jahren, wie ist es den lateinamerikanisch-deutschen Kulturtransfers mit Bezug auf die Literatur ergangen? Was gilt eigentlich als Weltliteratur, und ist die von Goethe geprägte Idee einer Literatur der Welt heute noch aktuell? Und wenn ja, wie genau? Aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln, denen von Literaturwissenschaftler(inne)n diesseits und jenseits des Atlantiks, von einer Lektorin und einem Übersetzer sowie verschiedenen Autoren, wird der Status Quo des literarischen Austausches in dem Sammelband Verlag Macht Weltliteratur. Lateinamerikanisch-deutsche Kulturtransfers zwischen internationalem Literaturbetrieb und Übersetzungspolitik kundig und detailliert beschrieben. Es wird deutlich, dass für einen wirklichen Dialog jenseits der Klischees und eingefahrenen Konsum- und Lesegewohnheiten viel zu tun bleibt. ; Since the boom period of magical realism during the 1960s and 70s, what has happened to the Latin American-German cultural transfers regarding literature? How is world literature defined, is Goethe's idea of a literature of the world still relevant, and if yes, how exactly is that? From different angles – those of literary scholars on this and the other side of the Atlantic – by an editor and a literary translator as well as by several authors, the status quo of the literary exchange is described skillfully and thoroughly in the present publication to be reviewed here. It becomes clear that for a real dialogue to happen, beyond clichés and deep-rooted consumerism or reading habits, there remains a lot to do.

Amenity-oriented migration of mainly retired North Americans to destinations in Latin America is a relatively new but rapidly expanding mobility that, amongst others, induces an interesting array of political claims and practices. Unlike economic migrants, the predominantly wealthy and often economically successful amenity migrants possess resources to participate in local and regional development; additionally, they have the know-how to initiate and activate political networks. The article discusses recent trends of lifestyle-oriented mobilities to Latin America and aims at developing a conceptual framework to analyse the role foreigners can play in the negotiation of strategies for local and regional development. Regime analysis, a particular way to conceive governance, is used as a tool to consider the possibilities and problems arising from lifestyle mobilities to Latin America, as specified through the empirical debate regarding planning conflicts in a recently established retirement destination in northern Costa Rica. ; Peer reviewed