Publications
The Euro - Currency for Europe
Striking A Balance Of The Single Currency
The Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) lies at the heart of European integration. The EMU, with the euro as the single currency for 11 EU nations, was launched in 1999. The introduction of the euro then followed on in two stages. January 2012 more...
KAS INTERNATIONAL 3/2011
News from the Department of European and International Cooperation
Focus: Europe should shine again | Topics: EUROPEAN POLICY: Germany and France and a new beginning for Europe | POLITICAL DIALOGUE: A new international security architecture - European, Chinese and Mongolian Perspectives | ENVIRONMENT, CLIMATE AND ENERGY: Conference on European Energy Policy | RULE OF LAW: Protecting human rights and the rule of law as a cross-cutting challenge | ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL GOVERNANCE: G20 Conference in New Delhi | MEDIA: Focus on climate issues | Is media freedom in South East Europe waning? | DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT: Drum roll for three presidents KAS International, January 2012 more...
The Meaning of Adenauer
In his masterful biographical essay, Hans-Peter Schwarz, the leading expert on Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, investigates the personality and political accomplishments of this complex founding father of the Federal Republic of Germany. Hans-Peter Schwarz, August 2011 more...
KAS INTERNATIONAL 2/2011
News from the Department of European and International Cooperation
Focus: KAS observes changes in North Africa | Topics: EUROPEAN POLICY: Spain, Europe and the economy | MEDIA: E-Lection Bridge Africa in the starting blocks | RULE OF LAW: A new constitution for Egypt | ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL GOVERNANCE: German-Indian conference on intellectual property rights in New Delhi | POLITICAL DIALOGUE: KAS intensifies cooperation with christian democrats in Latin America | DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT: The Gulf States involved in Development Policy in Africa KAS International, July 2011 more...
The Formation and Implementation of the Social Market Economy by Alfred Müller-Armack and Ludwig Erhard
Incipiency and Actuality
In view of Germany’s coping with the current international financial and economic crises, once again the Social Market Economy as the Germany’s distinctive model of coordinated social and economic policy has received both considerable attention and general praise. In order to explain the relative robustness and associated continuing attractiveness of this variant of a neo-liberal socio-political and economic concept, it is important to recall the formation and definition of the Social Market Economy, which was developed and implemented in times of economic, political and societal crises. Christian L. Glossner, David Gregosz, June 2011 more...
KAS INTERNATIONAL 1/2011
Information from the Department of European and International Cooperation
Topics: European Policy: The Chairman of the KAS, Dr. Hans-Gert Pöttering, met in Cairo with the Secretary General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa | Free Media: A Pillar of Democracy | The fight for the Internet: Potential and Pitfalls | Freedom of Information in South East Europe | Rule of Law: Jurists' Training in Latin America | Political Dialogue: 5th NATO - India Dialogue | KAS builds Bridges between Kabul and Islamabad | Dialogue on Values and Religion: 11th Conversation on the Middle East | Freedom - A fundamental Value in Belarus KAS International, April 2011 more...
Islamic Economic Thought and the Social Market Economy
Berlin - Abu Dhabi - Ankara / September - October 2010
The global financial and economic crisis continues to impact the international economy. The battle over the effects of the crisis and how to address its causes is ongoing. The existing mechanisms of the financial world have come under repeated criticism and there have been many calls for change. In this context the question of common elements in the economic concepts of different cultural areas is raised. In a series of conferences the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung dealt with the commonalities of the principles of the Social Market Economy and those of an Islamic economic concept. February 2011 more...
Shaping Change in the Middle East
A position paper on political cooperation with the countries of the Middle East/North Africa Martin Beck, January 2011 more...
