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France and Germany have played a pivotal role in European politics and integration. Shaping Europe systematically investigates the interrelated reality of Franco-German bilateralism and multilateral European integration from the Elysée Treaty into the Twenty-first Century.
Ulrich Krotz's 'Flying Tiger' takes a relatively obscure episode - the joint Franco-German production of a very expensive military helicopter, the Tiger helicopter - to make a groundbreaking theoretical contribution to international relations scholarship.
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In this work a process simulation model identifies the most profitable German biogas plant types and sizes. Small manure and large-scale biowaste plants are currently the most economically attractive installations whereas the valorization of energy crops turns out to be unprofitable. Future developments are assessed with the help of a regional optimization model under constraints. Capacity expansion concerns small-scale manure and biowaste installations rather than plants based on energy crops.
Financial Crises and the Limits of Bank Reform examines the responses that were implemented in France and Germany, two comparable European economies, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis from 2007/2008 with respect to the future economic role of the banks. While France pushed for greater independence from the banks by strengthening financial disintermediation and non-bank intermediation, Germany supported classic bank intermediation. Analysing the reasons for this puzzling difference, this book shows that the main lessons drawn from the crisis were the consequence of differing patterns of social learning, leading to changes in widely shared beliefs of specific aspects of banking. ...
Dies Buch versammelt Beiträge von Wissenschaftlern, Politikern und Publi zisten, die seit längerem qua Beruf und Neigung nachdenken über die kon struktiven Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten der deutsch-französischen Beziehun gen. Das Buch erscheint aus Anlaß des fünfzigjährigen Bestehens des Deutsch-Französischen Instituts in Ludwigsburg. Es ist bewußt nicht als Festschrift angelegt, sondern als Sachbuch zu den Themen, die im Mittel punkt der Tätigkeit des Deutsch-Französischen Instituts stehen. Es darf aber sicherlich auch für eine Hommage der Autoren an das Ludwigsburger Institut als zentralen Ort der Frankreichforschung genommen werden. Das Buchpro jekt erwies sich in seiner Verwirkl...