Studies (free of charge)

In this volume we are adding to the current debate about the future shape of relations between the EU and its eastern neighbours by publishing three policy papers which evaluate the EU and its policies from the vantage point of the South Caucasus.

Dear Reader, in February of 1977, Reinhard Mohn signed his name to the articles of incorporation that called the Bertelsmann Stiftung into being. The first sentence of that document gave his reason for doing so: his conviction that divergent economic and political systems...

Gradual processes of democratic and economic change are just as important as momentous events in the history of states and their citizens. Few events in international politics evoke as much euphoria and hopes for the future as the fall of an authoritarian regime or the...

Integration policies regarding third-country nationals (TCNs) in the European Union (EU) have been subject to multifaceted normative developments and policy processes since 1999. At that time, member states began transferring certain responsibilities for immigration policies...

Markets and environmental conditions are in a continual state of flux, put growing pressure on corporations, and forcing them to adapt. New technologies are being created, new markets are emerging, and large new corporations are being founded on almost a daily basis.

Over the past few years, “globalization” has become a catchword. It reflects a widening horizon, particularly in the business world. Transactions are taking on international dimensions, the networks of relationships in business, politics and society are growing ever more...

Young people in Germany are open to the idea of entrepreneurship. This positive result is revealed by the data on attitudes toward entrepreneurship collected for the first time by the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Youth Entrepreneurship Barometer (YEB).

The security of the Union and that of its friends and allies requires a holistic, strategic civil-military vision that combines achievable means and ends. Military defence is but a small part of the effort and military power is most certainly not an end in itself.

Throughout the world the Internet is impacting all areas of life – business and politics as well as the cultural and private spheres. For some time the dynamism of these seismic changes has also been felt in the public sector – in the activity of local authorities, the State...

As a result of National Socialist influences, citizens' rights to self-realization were very limited and clearly subordinate to the interests of the state in the years prior to the Second World War. With the demise of the Third Reich and its world view, a new orientation of...