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42: The EU's Foreign Policy after the Fifth Enlargement: Any Change in Its Taiwan Policy?

Guenter Schucher

41: Securing Household Income among Small-scale Farmers in Kakamega District: Possibilities and Limitations of Diversification

Henriette Dose

40: Problems of Categorizing and Explaining Party Systems in Africa

Gero Erdmann and Matthias Basedau

39: The Emergence of a New 'Socialist' Market Labour Regime in China

Jutta Hebel and Guenter Schucher

38: Regional Monetary Integration among Developing Countries: New Opportunities for Macroeconomic Stability beyond the Theory of Optimum Currency Areas?

Barbara Fritz and Laurissa Mühlich

37: Political Parties in Post-Suharto Indonesia: Between politik aliran and 'Philippinisation'

Andreas Ufen

36: Ten Years after: Achievements and Challenges of the Euro-Mediterranean Economic and Financial Partnership

Juliane Brach

35: Measuring the Capability to Raise Revenue: Process and Output Dimensions and Their Application to the Zambia Revenue Authority

Christian von Soest

34: Construyendo Inseguridades. Aproximaciones a la violencia en Centroamérica desde el análisis del discurso (Constructed insecurities. Discourse analysis and the understanding of violence in Central America)

Sebastian Huhn, Anika Oettler and Peter Peetz

33: Exploding Crime? Topic Management in Central American Newspapers

Sebastian Huhn, Anika Oettler and Peter Peetz

32: How Does Neopatrimonialism Affect the African State? The Case of Tax Collection in Zambia

Christian von Soest

31: Decentralisation in Uganda: Exploring the Constraints for Poverty Reduction

Susan Steiner

30: Potencias regionales en la política internacional: conceptos y enfoques de análisis (Regional Powers in International Relations: Analytical Concepts and Research Approaches)

Detlef Nolte

29: Macht und Machthierarchien in den internationalen Beziehungen: Ein Analysekonzept für die Forschung über regionale Führungsmächte (Power and Power Hierarchies in International Relations: Towards an Analytical Concept for the Study of Regional Powers)

Detlef Nolte

28: Cuban Exceptionalism Revisited

Bert Hoffmann and Laurence Whitehead

27: Political Discourse in Football Coverage – The Cases of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana

Andreas Mehler

26: Probleme des Rentierstaats-Ansatzes in vergleichender Perspektive (Problems of the Rentier State Approach in Comparative Perspective)

Martin Beck

25: Cultures of Innovation of the African Poor. Common Roots, Shared Traits, Joint Prospects? On the Articulation of Multiple Modernities in African Societies and Black Diasporas in Latin America

Dirk Kohnert

24: Multiple Interfaces of Big Pharma and the Change of Global Health Governance in the Face of HIV/AIDS

Jan Peter Wogart

23: Brazil's Nuclear Policy. From Technological Dependence to Civil Nuclear Power

Daniel Flemes

22: The Politics of Senatorial Confirmations: A Comparative Study of Argentina and Brazil

Leany Barreiro Lemos and Mariana Llanos

21: A Paradox of Plenty? Rent Distribution and Political Stability in Oil States

Matthias Basedau and Wolfram Lacher

20: Economic Growth and Poverty: Does Formalisation of Informal Enterprises Matter?

Esther K. Ishengoma and Robert Kappel

19: Guatemala in the 1980s: A Genocide Turned into Ethnocide?

Anika Oettler

18: Ideological Reform and Political Legitimacy in China: Challenges in the Post-Jiang Era

Heike Holbig

17: Towards a Dynamic Model of the Interplay Between International Institutions

Howard Loewen

16: Neopatrimonialism Revisited - Beyond a Catch-All Concept

Gero Erdmann and Ulf Engel

15: Modernisierung und Demokratisierung: Das Erklärungspotenzial neuer differenzierungstheoretischer Ansätze am Fallbeispiel Südkoreas (Modernization and Democratization: The Explanatory Potential of New Differentiation Theoretical Approaches on the Case of South Korea)

Thomas Kern

14: Challenging Party Hegemony: Identity Work in China's Emerging Virreal Places

Karsten Giese

13: Creating a Regional Security Community in Southern Latin America: The Institutionalisation of the Regional Defence and Security Policies

Daniel Flemes

12: Factionalism in Political Parties: An Analytical Framework for Comparative Studies

Patrick Köllner and Matthias Basedau

11: Representing Different Constituencies: Electoral Rules in Bicameral Systems in Latin America and Their Impact on Political Representation

Detlef Nolte and Francisco Sánchez

10: Die Institutionalisierung von Parteien und die Konsolidierung des Parteiensystems in Indien. Kriterien, Befund und Ursachen dauerhafter Defizite (The Institutionalisation of Parties and the Consolidation of the Party System in India. Criteria, State and Causes of Persistent Defects)

Joachim Betz

9: Culture and Collective Action – Japan, Germany and the United States after September 11, 2001

Dirk Nabers

8: The LDP at 50: The Rise, Power Resources, and Perspectives of Japan's Dominant Party

Patrick Köllner

7: Global Health Governance: Conflicts on Global Social Rights

Wolfgang Hein and Lars Kohlmorgen

6: Formale und informelle Politik aus institutioneller Perspektive: Ein Analyseansatz für die vergleichenden Area Studies (Formal and informal politics from an institutional perspective: An analytical approach for comparative area studies)

Patrick Köllner

5: ¿Hacia una comunidad regional de seguridad? Las Fuerzas Armadas en la percepción de las elites parlamentarias en Argentina, Chile, Brasil, Uruguay y Paraguay (Moving towards a regional security community? The Armed Forces in the Perception of Parliamentary Elites in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay y Paraguay)

Ruth Fuchs

4: Major Flaws in Conflict Prevention Policies towards Africa. The Conceptual Deficits of International Actors' Approaches and How to Overcome Them

Andreas Mehler

3: Decentralisation and Poverty Reduction: A Conceptual Framework for the Economic Impact

Susan Steiner

2: Emigration and Regime Stability: Explaining the Persistence of Cuban Socialism

Bert Hoffmann

1: Context Matters – Rethinking the Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa

Matthias Basedau