Issues

A Permanent Democratic Majority? | The International Financial Crisis and the United States of America | The Consequences of the International Financial Crisis in Various Regions | NATO's Future. Some Considerations on a New Era in the History of the Alliance | Barrack Obama and Latin America - Common Interests and Old Misunderstandings | Opting Out is Dangerous: Challenges Confronting the Incoming US President in Afghanistan

Russia´s Economy And Society Face New Challenges | Between Domestic-Policy Turbulences And the Lisbon Treaty. The Czech Republic Before its Presidency Of the EU Council In 2009 | The Journey To the Promised Land. Mexican Migration Movements | Democracies At Risk – The Carribean Under Venezuelan Influence | Conflict In the East Of the Democratic Republic Of Congo | International Hot Spots: From the Kosovo To Afghanistan. Books On International Politics

Angola´s Parliamentary Elections in 2008 | From the 2005 Paris Declaration to the 2008 High Level Forum | Results of the Accra Summit on the Efficiency of Development Cooperation | Abkhazia and South Ossetia – Russia’s Intervention in Georgia | The Parliamentary Elections in Canada on October 14

Networking Cities, Communities, and Regions in the Mediterranean Area | On the Situation of the Media in Rumania | Proceedings to ban the ruling Turkish Justice and Development Party (AKP) | The Social Challenge to Democracy in Latin America | The Parliamentary Elections in Malaysia in 2008: Change vs. Tradition. With unknown Variables

Not an Annus Mirabilis: 1968 in the USA | The Prague Spring: Then and Now, 40 Years later | May ´68 in France. The Myth and the Debate 40 Years later | ’The Long ’68’. Italy’s View of the Protest Movement of 40 Years ago | Social Cohesion in Europe and Latin America: The EU-LAC Summit in LIMA (May 15/16, 2008)

The Strategic Importance of Missile Defence - Russia´s Objections and its Threat Situation | Potential Stability - Poland after the End of the 4th | State of Emergency in Armenia - Political Crisis after the Presidential Elections of February 2008 | Spain and its Trauma - 40 Years of ETA Terrorism and the Powerlessness of Politics | In Focus: The Rise of Indigenous Movements in Latin America

Transformation and Civil Society in Poland. Civil Society and the Church as ’Allies’ | In the Fast Lane? TheTymoshenko Phenomenon: High Inflation and Economic Problems Have Hardly Damaged Her Popularity so far | ’Ideology’ or ’Unity’? Spain’s Future after the Parliamentary Elections of March 9, 2008 | Elections in Sri Lanka’s ’Liberated’ East: An Opportunity for a New Political Start?

Mexico: Reforms and Block-Heads | Guatemala: Hope is the last to die | Escalation and Spontaneous Fraternization in the Andes | The Peacemaker from Venezuela | Brazil´s Boom

On the Situation of Bulgaria’s Media | Searching for a Winner: Kenya after the Polls | Applying Germany’s Experience in the Middle Eastern/Mediterranean Region in European Foreign and Security Policy | The Khmer Rouge Tribunal – Cambodia in the Shadow of History | A Survey of Vietnam's Development in Recent Years

Dmitri Medvedev – President on Standby or Worthy Successor to Putin? | Russia – A Reliable Energy Partner for Europe? | Between Abundance and Bottlenecks: Brazil’s Energy Sector is on the Move | Business Transformation in Pakistan? | Dispersed Economic Power? Overseas Chinese between Discrimination and Success in