Peer-Reviewed Articles

Diagnostic capacity played a crucial role in confronting the COVID-19 pandemic. Analyzing the experience of Latin America, the article shows that success depends on supra-national cooperation of which the existent influenza or dengue networks in the region are prime examples.

Do war economies thwart postwar transformations and peacebuilding? This paper reveals a complex relationship shaped by political regimes and state capacities. It suggests that postwar countries can strengthen democratic institutions and state presence, rather than being inherently doomed by their war economies.

This article examines Australia’s ‘Pacific Step-up’, a signature foreign policy initiative of the Scott Morrison government (2018‒2022), from a signalling perspective. It also explains why Solomon Islands signed a security agreement with China in 2022 despite Australia’s wooing of Pacific Island countries.

Current consumption patterns in the Global North are unsustainable on environmental, social, and economic levels. An experimental study involving 2,161 German consumers examines whether emotionally primed information about sustainability aspects of cocoa production influences their willingness to pay for sustainable products.