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With the major geopolitical powers squaring up to each other, tariffs on trade and political turmoil, is it time for economics to focus more on the consequences for the world economy of great power ri...

Whether a state emerges as a winner or loser from a military conflict is significantly determined by its financial resources. This has been shown for the first time in a new empirical analysis of the ...

We review the literature on geoeconomics, defined as the field of study that links economics and geopolitics (power rivalry). We describe what geoeconomics is and which questions it addresses, focusin...

Thank you for your interest in our survey. We are a team of researchers based at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, University of Bonn and University of Geneva. The goal of this survey is to map the ...

Thank you for your interest in our survey. We are a team of researchers based at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, University of Bonn and University of Geneva. The goal of this survey is to map the ...

Both unexpectedly high inflation and weak economic growth significantly boost the electoral performance of extremist and populist parties, according to a recent study by the Kiel Institute. The main r...

Wie bilden sich politische Eliten, wenn es keine Wahlen gibt? Dieser Frage geht eine neue Studie nach. Ein Blick in die deutsche Geschichte offenbart ein asymmetrisches Muster.