Let me say at the outset how pleased I am to have the honour of visiting your beautiful state and of speaking with you tonight. I come, as you know, from an organization created through the vision of American leaders like Franklin Roosevelt -an organization, however, that has recently been widely caricatured as a giant paper factory and a talk shop -a huge, sprawling bureaucracy, totally out of...

This paper studies the impact of cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) on Carbon Dioxide emissions. Carbon Dioxide is the main anthropogenic greenhouse gas. A global problem that requires a multilateral solution. To take this into account we introduce an institutional variable, which captures the degree of international commitment to decrease and control the degradation of the environmen...

Technology has changed the underlying structure of the world economy, increasing the cost of autonomy and making devolution unlikely. On the other hand, the increasing number of players, a multipolar world system and the rise of non-liberal powers make multilateral agreements increasingly problematic. Thus, there is an asymmetry between the MNC’s market environment (an integrated international ...

Abstract On 27 February 2022, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz addressed the Bundestag and announced a watershed moment (Zeitenwende) for Germany's conduct of foreign affairs. Against backdrop historical pillars policy, this article reviews core implications Zeitenwende doctrine. It analyses how new policy continued or transformed traditional notions underpinning external relations: Westbindung (i...