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Issues for the year 2005

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Vol. 1, No. 03/2005

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GR international 3/2005

The “case study” Germany offers valuable insights into the process of how two territorial entities - over decades separated by an impenetrable iron curtain – can be integrated, both spatially and socially. 15 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a geographical perspective on achievements and failures, on restructurings and state interventions allows conclusions about the state of German unification. There are lessons to be learned: How has the territorial “re-arrangement” in the heart of Europe changed regional advantages and disadvantages? How can high levels of social standards be maintained without risking a loss of global competitiveness? What relevance has regional planning in providing “equal opportunities” to residents of rural and urban areas alike? Those questions become even more fascinating when the European integration project, including the latest enlargement of the EU in 2004, is taken into consideration. ...more


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Vol. 1, No. 04/2005

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GR international 4/2005

Optimistic scenarios of globalisation benefiting everyone everywhere have been substituted by a much more differentiated analysis. While there are winners, there are losers as well - individuals, regions, societies, states. The news is: most of them will never ever be integrated fully into main stream globalisation. Their position at the edge is cemented as their resources, their skills or their place isn’t needed. Migrants, forced to settle on volatile islands in the midst of the giant Brahmaputra river, for example, will stay vulnerable. Desertification adds to the woes of a political unstable country such as Uzbekistan, exposing it’s citizens to displacement and deprivation of their livelihoods. And the poppy farmers of Afghanistan do nothing else than to participate in the world market, though with a most unwelcomed commodity. Very often seemingly objective economic patterns are deformed by (geo)political power games. ...more