1. Frank Nullmeier, Delia González de Reufels and Herbert ObingerInternational interdependencies and the impact on social policies

Part I: Violence and Welfare

2. Herbert Obinger and Carina SchmittIntroduction: Violence and welfare

3. Herbert Obinger, Carina Schmitt and Laura SeelkopfMass warfare and the development of the modern welfare state - an analysis of the Western World, 1914-1950

4. Andreas HeinrichThe emergence of the socialist healthcare model after the First World War

5. Klaus Petersen, Michele Mioni and Herbert ObingerThe Cold War and the welfare state in Western Europe

6. Delia González de ReufelsThe coalition between medical doctors and the military: On the establishment of public health in Chile, 1870-1939

7. Amanda ShriwiseSocial policy and Britain's 1929 Colonial Development Act

8. Elsada Diana Cassells, Gabriela de Carvalho and Lorraine Frisina DoetterThe colonial legacy and the Jamaican healthcare system

9. Aline GrünewaldBetween aspiration and reality: The effect of the French colonial legacy on old-age pension coverage in Africa

10. Anna WolkenhauerThe colonial legacies of copper dependence: Inequality and bifurcated social protection in Zambia

11. Alex VeitClass-based communities: The postcolonial reform of school education in South Africa

Part II: International Organisations and Transnational Diffusion

12. Kerstin Martens and Dennis NiemannIntroduction: International organisations and transnational diffusion

13. Fabian Besche-Truthe, Helen Seitzer and Michael WindzioGlobal "cultural spheres" and the introduction of compulsory schooling around the world

14. Jenny HahsThe ILO beyond Philadelphia

15. Dennis Niemann, David Krogmann and Kerstin MartensBetween economics and education: How international organisations changed the view on education

16. Naho SugitaThe role of the United Nations in promoting the policy debate on child allowance issues in 1960s Japan

17. Gabriela de Carvalho and Lorraine Frisina DoetterThe Washington Consensus and the push for neoliberal social policies in Latin America: The impact of international organisations on Colombian healthcare reform

18. Ertila DrugaWorld Bank intervention and introduction of Social Health Insurance in Albania

19. Sarah Kassim de Camargo PenteadoSocial protection in Mozambique from the 1990s to the 2000s

20. Irene Dingeldey and Jean-Yves GerlitzLabour market segmentation, regulation of non-standard employment, and the influence of the EU

21. Tobias Böger, Sonja Drobnič and Johannes HuininkPathways to family policy in half a century of population control - international paradigms and national programmes

22. Heiko PleinesOpposition to the Washington Consensus: The IMF and social policy reforms in post-Soviet Russia

Part III: Globalisation, Economic Interdependencies and Economic Crise