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This paper discusses prostitution policy changes in Germany, the involvement of the sex workers’ rights movement and shows how issues of morality, nationalism, and migration intersect with current debates on sex trafficking and prostitution in Europe ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper revisits the discussion about the interplay of trade and conflict and provides a detailed examination of trade patterns from 1931 to the end of World War II. Based upon a novel data set, I am able to establish that trade volumes rose before and during the war for all major European powers and the U.S., casting serious doubt both on the view that increased trade has pacifying effects and the widespread---yet still unproven---notion that trade levels fall during large-scale wars. In addition, I argue that an aggressor state's trade follows a unique pattern and test this view with monthly data on Nazi Germany's imports and exports. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Germany's relations with its neighbors has been complicated by both positive and negative memories. Current and future international relations in Europe and in general are viewed in light of history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Why does Germany support some aspects of a Europeanpension market, but not others? To encourage labor mobility, theEuropean Commission has recently launched several initiatives aimedat facilitating the movement of corporate pensions across borders.However, Germany torpedoed the first attempt to create a commonpension market in 1991, offered lukewarm support for a pension funddirective in 2003, and fiercely opposed a directive proposaladvocating pension portability in 2005. We argue that variation inthe German position can be explained by the role of on-balance sheetpensions in encouraging Germany's characteristically long-term laborrelations and patient capital flows. Such pensions are diametricallyopposed to labor mobility. Thus, support for European pensionpolicies depends on the congruence between the nature of the EUpolicy (whether it applies to off-balance or on-balance pensionschemes) and the institutional framework underpinning theoccupational pension sector. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]