Articles

Nigeria Stumbles on the Rocky Road to Democracy

On the Election of the Chief Executive in Hong Kong. Head of Government or Lieutenant of Beijing?

Regierungschef oder Statthalter Pekings?

Russia's Policy in the Southern Caucasus

Africa’s Expectations of Germany’s Chairing of the G8 and the EU in 2007

Editorial der Ausgabe: "Auslandsinformationen 4/2007"

European Neighbourhood Policy: Will It Become the Driving Force for Reforms in the Mediterranean Region?

Minimum Wages in the USA

Results of the Fifth Session of the 10th National People's Congress

The Pentecostal Movement in Brazil. Liberation of the Poor or Commercial Sham?

Aspects of Globalisation in the Successor States of the Soviet Union

Whenever people discuss the phenomenon of globalisation, they may be talking about numerous regions of the world but not about the successor states of the Soviet Union or some parts of Eastern Europe – a region which, since the fall of the UdSSR, has degenerated into an accumulation of chaotic societies in which the old leading elites, together with their train of favourites, have merely doffed their ideological shirt but not lost their power.