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The author shows the strong relation between political developments, frontiers and their graphical representation on maps. Human rights, economic globalisation and the European integration process do change national policy and erode classical border lines. Still today, maps with lines and colours as their main graphic elements represent the world of the 19th century with separate national states in atlases, schoolbooks and electronic media. The main argument of the article insists on stressing the political character of maps and showing the contradiction between the cartographic picture of the world and the recent international transformations. The author concludes with the question of whether maps can reproduce these new developments at all.
The border between Germany and Poland today is undisputed and definite, and thought to promote great co-operation and a culture of good-neighbourliness. Relations between the two governments are progressing nicely. But public opinion and behaviour are still lagging behind. The author describes how thought and emotions on the Polish side are still influenced by memories of the past, especially of the German occupation during the Second World War, and the slow pace of progress in overcoming that memory. He shows that the "shadows of history" have strongly influenced Polish politics in the context of German reunification. Special emphasis is given to the role of the Catholic Church in the controversial debate on the relations towards Germany in the 1950s and 1960s.
Considering the problems of retirement security systems leads one to look beyond the border in order to get a glimpse of the way things work in other societies. Contrary to formal public pension schemes in South American and East European industrial countries, the predominant pension system in Asia is of an informal nature, based upon the extended family structure. The rise of the city-state of Singapore has been accompanied by the development of a comprehensive social security system within the framework of the Central Provident Fund (CPF). The CPF is based on a symbiosis of Western social concepts and Eastern pragmatism. The article gives an insight into the development of this system, and the way it works underpresent political and economic conditions.
During the 1990s the relations between Russia and China developed intensivly. At the highest level, between 1992 and 1998, six summits took place. Both countries declared a "strategic cooperative partnership", designed to contribute to a "multipolar world" and a "well-balanced international political order". Both Russia and China endaveour to use their alliance to raise the importance of their respective places compared against the USA, EU and Japan. Policy changes in Russia have been especially instrumental in solving former conflicts between the two countries, and in developing a new quality to the bilateral relationship. Both countries have shown a strong interest in political and territorial integrity, both expect much from the markets, they need each other as partners in developing new weapon systems and both expect many advantages by normalising the situation along their joint borderline. Though future prospects of a Russian-Chinese partnership are reasonably foreseeable, it is clear that differences will remain. A complete balance of interests may not be seen.
Ghana’s local government system has been subject to various reform attempts which all involved some sort of decentralisation. This article tries to link decentralisation to changing national policy frames and the various governments’ need to maintain political control. Consequently, decentralisation becomes a dependent variable of the so called bureaucratic development state. After a brief discussion of the colonial and post-colonial local government system in Ghana, emphasis is placed on the crisis of the post colonial state and the emergence of a new local government system in 1988 - which was successfully transformed into the administrative system of Ghana’s 4th republic after 1992. Local participation has been substantially improved an sustained by the introduction of the District Assemblies Common Fund in 1993 which transfers 5% of the national tax income to the districts.
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(1999)
Rezensiertes Werk: Nutz, Manfred: Stadtentwicklung in Umbruchsituationen : Wiederaufbau und Wiedervereinigung als Stressfaktor der Entwicklung ostdeutscher Mittelstädte ; ein Raum-Zeit-Vergleich mit Westdeutschland ; mit 7 Tabellen / Manfred Nutz. - Stuttgart : Steiner, 1998. - 242 S. : graph. Darst., Kt. - (Erdkundliches Wissen ; 124) Zugl.: Köln, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1997 ISBN 3-515-07202-0
Rezensiertes Werk: Auf dem Weg zu einer neuen regionalen Organisation? : Vorträge eines Symposiums in Frankfurt am Main am 20. November 1998 / hrsg. von Klaus Wolf und Elke Tharun. - Frankfurt am Main : Rhein-Mainische Forschung des Inst. für Kulturgeographie, Stadt- und Regionalforschung und des Inst. für Physische Geographie der Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Univ., 1999. - 117 S. : graph. Darst., Kt. - (Rhein-Mainische Forschungen ; H. 116 ; Veröffentlichungen der Gesellschaft für Regionalwissenschaftliche Forschung Rhein-Main e.V. ; H. 11) ISBN 3-923184-22-0
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(1999)
Rezensiertes Werk: Zillinger, Sylvia: Regionalwirtschaftlicher Strukturwandel und individuelle Arbeitsplatzproblematik : untersucht am Beispiel der Region Heinsberg und der Zeche Sophia-Jacoba / vorgelegt von Sylvia Zillinger, geb. Peters. - Aachen : Maas-Rhein-Inst. für Angewandte Geographie, 1997. - XII, 382 S. : graph. Darst., Kt. (Informationen und Materialien zur Geographie der Euregio Maas, Rhein : Beiheft ; 7) Zugl.: Aachen, Univ., Diss., 1997
Rezensiertes Werk: Weck, Sabine: Neue Kooperationsformen in Stadtregionen : eine regulationstheoretische Einordnung ; das Beispiel München / Sabine Weck. [Hrsg.: Institut für Raumplanung (IRPUD), Fakultät Raumplanung, Universität Dortmund]. - Dortmund : IRPUD; Dortmund : Informationskreis für Raumplanung (IfR), 1995. - 122 S. : Kt. (Dortmunder Beiträge zur Raumplanung : Blaue Reihe ; 74) ISBN 3-88211-093-7
Rezensiertes Werk: Wiegandt, Claus-Christian: An den Grenzen des Wachstums : Eindrücke zur amerikanischen Stadtentwicklung Mitte der 90er Jahre ; Abschlußbericht zur Forschungsreise durch die USA vom 16. Oktober bis zum 8. Dezember 1995 / Claus-C. Wiegandt. Bundesforschungsanstalt für Landeskunde und Raumordnung. - Bonn : Bundesforschungsanst. für Landeskunde und Raumordnung, 1997. - 32 S. : Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. - (Arbeitspapiere / Bundesforschungsanstalt für Landeskunde und Raumordnung ; 1997,3)