Governance, development, and institutional change in times of globalization / Joachim Ahrens -- Samuel Huntington's clash of civilizations : a self-fulfilling prophecy? / Werner Ruf -- France and the Islamic world : exterior and interior aspects of an exceptional relationship / Gisela Müller-Brandeck-Bocquet -- The role of Turkey : secular statehood and Islam / Gülistan Gürbey -- The EU and the Middle East conflict : promoting peace and reform? / Isabel Schäfer -- The European Union's foreign policy : regional profile and global reach / Udo Diedrichs -- Small countries : useful lessons : governance in EU accession countries and in East Asia / Joachim Ahrens -- Successfully catching up : non-Orthodox economic and governance reforms in India and China / Christian Roland -- Africa : sad proof that institutions do matter / Janina Weingarth and Alfred Wiederer -- On the African development tragedy / Jörn Altmann -- The beginning of the end of the Western-dominated world order? : on the dynamics of the rise of China and India / Dirk Messner -- Globalization, social movement, and the labor market : a transatlantic perspective / Welf Werner -- Global governance and the private sector / Peter-Tobias Stoll -- Regions in the world economic triangle / Dirk Messner.