Face-to-face diplomacy has long been the lynchpin of world politics, yet it is largely
dismissed by scholars of International Relations as unimportant. Marcus Holmes argues that …

In Creating Cooperation, Pepper D. Culpepper explains the successes and failures of
human capital reforms adopted by the French and German governments in the 1990s …

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of The German Polity provides a
comprehensive introduction to contemporary German politics, focusing especially on the …

We use the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to show that personal relationships which
individuals maintain for noneconomic reasons can be an important determinant of regional …

On the Korean peninsula one of the greatest success stories of the postwar era confronts a
famine-ridden—and possibly nuclear-armed—totalitarian state. The stakes are …

North Korea is one of the most closed and secretive societies in the world. Despite a high
level of interest from the outside world, we have very little detailed information about how the …

Is the celebrated German skills system in peril? Western German employers have cut
apprenticeship places since the 1980s, while the institutional supports of the'high-skill …

Abstract Like other Eastern Europeancountries, East Germany experienced a rapiddecline
in period fertility rates after thefall of communism. This decline has beendiscussed along the …

We extend in this analysis an approach introduced by Patterson and suggested by Möller
and Tassinopoulos. Our approach uses a generalization of an econometric analogue of the …

The Political Economy of Integration in the European Union has gained a well-deserved
reputation as the key textbook in the area of European studies, economics and politics. This …