Volume 78 (2025), Edition 3

The article outlines the new geopolitical tensions, particularly between the USA and the People’s Republic of China, and explains them as a consequence of capitalist competition. The central thesis is that the competitive principle of capitalism...

The article analyses China’s integration into the global economy and asks what impact it has on global economic regulation. Focusing on China’s new role in global trade and financial relations, the author argues that this has not radically...

The climate crisis requires global solutions that promote the adaptation to the consequences of climate change through comprehensive policy measures and investments. The Ukraine war has highlighted the geopolitical role of fossil fuels and the need...

The article analyses the causes of the current debt crisis of post-colonial states in their geopolitical and geo-economic contexts. It shows that the handling of the first major debt crisis in the Global South in the 1980s set the course for...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a key technology that is quickly and widely adopted. This article discusses the importance of data and computing power as well as trends in economic concentration, which have structural influence on the...

This study examines how the particular labour regimes in the ports of Antwerp and Hamburg, which were established after the Second World War, have developed under the pressure of flexibilisation requirements. These labour regimes included the...