Global Issues

Trust does not belong, within the contemporary economic and institutional order, to the realm of aspirational values language, reputation management, or administrative desirability, but rather to the category of conditions without which markets, institutions, supervisory frameworks, and contractual relationships lose their actual capacity to function. In economic terms, trust serves…

In the context of contemporary transition-related challenges, polarization must be understood as a deeply structuring social mechanism that fundamentally alters the conditions under which institutions function, markets operate, norms are enforced, and risks are perceived. The phenomenon is no longer confined to the existence of opposing viewpoints or the hardening…

Age is still too often reduced, in policy, economic, and legal analysis, to a merely descriptive demographic category, even though its actual significance extends far beyond the observation that societies are aging, that youth unemployment is increasing, or that the financing of collective provisions is under pressure. Once age is…

Disruption has emerged as a central analytical concept for understanding how contemporary transition processes place pressure on the stability of economic ordering, the effectiveness of regulatory frameworks, and the resilience of institutional control structures. In this context, the concept denotes more than a sudden technological breakthrough, an abrupt market correction,…

Asymmetry ranks among the most fundamental explanatory mechanisms for understanding how economic transitions affect the vulnerability of markets, institutions, and cross-border value chains to financial and economic crime. In this context, the concept refers not merely to unequal access to capital, market power, or political influence, but to a far…