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Dissertation
Spekulatives Kapital und chinesische Auslandsübernahmen
(2024)
Warum nahmen die Unternehmensübernahmen chinesischer Investoren in Deutschland und der EU ab 2011 zu und stiegen zwischen 2015 und 2017 besonders stark an? Diese Studie beantwortete diese Frage, indem sie empirisch die folgenden drei Themen untersuchte: die chinesischen Investoren, die zwischen 2011 und 2019 deutsche Unternehmen übernommen haben, die Entwicklung des chinesischen Finanzsektors zwischen 2009 und 2017 und die M&A-freundliche regulatorische Umgebung während der Amtszeit des 18. Zentralkomitees der ...
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Die extreme Rechte im langen Sommer der Migration
(2024)
Angesichts der Wahl- und Mobilisierungserfolge der extremen Rechten stellt sich die Frage, ob es der extremen Rechten gelungen ist, die Kräfteverhältnisse in Deutschland grundlegend zu verschieben. Da die Untersuchung von Kräfteverhältnissen notwendig mit dem Problem der Überkomplexität konfrontiert ist, nutzt diese Dissertation den Begriff des Hegemonieprojekts, der es erlaubt, die sonst unzähligen in das Kräfteverhältnis einfließenden Handlungen anhand ihrer strategischen Richtung zu bündeln. Der Frage nach dem ...
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Authoritarian escalation in Peru : Extractivism, racial discrimination and democracy
(2023-06-23)
• The current political crisis in Peru manifests long-standing social discontent over historical ethnic, class and environmentalinequalities that are largely created and supported by the extractivist model.
• Traditionally, extractivism has developed in the country in a localized authoritarian manner. Emergency decreessuspending fundamental rights and guarantees and opening spaces for the disproportionate use of public force happenedonly in particular zones of social conflict.
• Extractivism has imposed itself ...
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Brazilian Development at a Standstill? Perspectives and Challenges for the New Lula Government.
(2022-12)
• Brazil has a standstill development syndrome as its development path swayed from extractivism to industrialization and back to extractivism.
• The prioritization of environmental protection and indigenous rights is the most significant novelty for Lula in 2022 compared to his previous governments.
• Lula's third mandate will not be a left-wing government due to the broadness of the coalition.
• Lula aims to improve people's livelihoods and reduce poverty by promoting industrialization. Therefore, international ...
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Argentina in the context of the global socioenvironmental crisis
(2023-07-26)
• Agro-extractivism has shaped the productive matrix during the last four decades in Argentina.
• Agro-extractivism not only does not satisfy the population's food demand, but also deepens the socio-environmental crisis, generating environmental depredation, health problems, economic concentration, and social polarization.
• To overcome the crisis of agro-extractivism in Argentina, it is necessary to transform the patterns of production, consumption and accumulation, which will require democratizing access to land ...
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Colombia and the Coalition of the Pacto Histórico: From Extractivism to a Productive Economy?
(2022-07)
• The new Colombian president Gustavo Petro pushes for a transition from an extractivist to a productive economy.
• He needs to address the country’s enormous inequalities to achieve long-term peace.
• Agrarian reform and tax reform are urgent and part of the government’s plan.
• Mining will continue to be a strategic economic sector and a potential source of social conflicts that can weaken the action of
the new government if a dialogue with the affected groups is not established.
• With the new commodity boom ...
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Extractivism as an obstacle to innovation and technology transfer: The case of Algeria
(2023)
• The paper analyzes the lack of cooperation between universities and companies in Algeria.
• There is a lack of incentives for knowledge transfer between academia and industry.
• University research in Algeria is insufficiently focused on the needs of industry.
• Limited financial resources and infrastructure are barriers to research and innovation.
• Algeria needs to improve university-industry collaboration and strengthen the research landscape.
Dissertation
Community-Based Associations and Rural Development in Rwanda: A Local Perspective on the Contribution of Social Capital to Human Capabilities
(2022)
The post-World War II political discourse around development has stimulated academic debates in recent decades. While some of these debates simply aim to transform the development mainstream, many others among the post-colonial thinkers are more critical of and even reject mainstream development ideologies. Despite the valuable academic debates, most development practitioners seem to have remained unresponsive to some of the allegations. Their concept is incorporated in much of the contemporary political narratives ...
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¿Transformación o persistencia del modelo extractivista? Los desafíos del gobierno de Gabriel Boric
(2022-04)
• La transición energética influye en las decisiones políticas de Chile
• Presidente Boric busca transformar el sector minero y generar neutralidad climática
• Las materias primas de Chile son importantes para la industria europea y sus tecnologías sostenibles
• Tres posibles escenarios futuros del modelo extractivista esta analizado
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Der Kasseler ‚Pakt gegen Armut‘
(2023-10)
Der vorliegende Beitrag diskutiert am Beispiel der Stadt Kassel die Bedingungen für eine gute Netzwerkarbeit in der Kommune. Dazu wird zunächst die Rolle der Kommune in einer nachhaltig gedachten Sozialpolitik vor Ort aufgezeigt um anschließend den Realprozess der kommunalen Netzwerkarbeit nachzuzeichnen. Hier wird die armutspolitische Ausgangslage in Kassel als Ausgangspunkt für einen Netzwerkprozess nachgezeichnet, den Kassler Pakt gegen Armut. Es wird die Akteurskonstellation skizziert und anhand eigener Erhebungen, ...