Martin Breul
Biographic Data
| ID | 460739 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Breul |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Breul |
| SIGNATURE | BREUL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cologne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0322-0987 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Towards studying the developmental consequences of regional industrial path development
A major reason for the great interest in regional industrial path development (RIPD) is the associated hopes for positive regional development outcomes. However, up to now we know surprisingly little about the often mixed economic, social and ecological effects of RIPD for regions. Existing studies on RIPD tend not to link to these outcomes. This special collection aims to improve our understanding of the conditions under which RIPD contributes t…
Human Consciousness and the 'Anthropological Turn: Theological Perspectives on Evolutionary Anthropology
Recent discussions between evolutionary and theological anthropology have intensified, particularly through the work of Michael Tomasello. As a key figure in evolutionary anthropology, Tomasello synthesizes extensive empirical research into an accessible 'natural history' of core human abilities. He posits that a unique human trait distinguishing us from our closest relatives is the capacity for "collective intentionality", a concept he adapts fr…
(Un)linking industrial path development and development outcomes through asset mobilisation: The decline of the territorial embeddedness of labour in mining regions
New industrial paths do not necessarily translate into regional economic development. This article investigates how the nature of asset mobilisation for path development affects the way new industries generate developmental outcomes. We analyse how a changing human capital mobilisation in the mining service supplier industry in Antofagasta (Chile) affected regional development opportunities. The declining territorial embeddedness of mining-relate…
Zwischen Lebensform und Weltanschauung: Religio¿Se Gru¿Nde in der O¿Ffentlichkeit
Unpacking smart specialization strategies: How collective policy-making processes shape the direction of regional strategies
Regional strategies, such as smart specialization strategies, can set the course for future diversification. Despite its importance, surprisingly little is known about how the underlying policy-making process affects the direction of regional strategies, i.e., the priority areas that regions aim to promote. This article proposes a framework that allows to unpack the policy- making process of regional strategy development and link it to the policy…
Beyond offshoring: Tradable services and regional markets in the Global South
Trade in services has grown more rapidly than trade in manufactured goods in recent decades. Countries from the Global South are chiefly responsible for this shift. The research note draws attention to service investment that originates in Southern economies and is directed at markets of the same (sub)continent. Such dynamics have been neglected by academic debates focussed on global value chains and offshored, largely generic services. The autho…
The Philosophical and Theological Relevance of Evolutionary Anthropology: Engagements with Michael Tomasello
Der Glaube und seine Gründe: Beiträge zur Religiösen Epistemologie
Lassen sich religiöse Überzeugungen mit Vernunft rechtfertigen? Unterscheidet sich die Rechtfertigung religiöser von der Rechtfertigung anderer, nicht-religiöser Überzeugungen? Welche Kriterien sind für die Rechtfertigung religiöser Überzeugungen geeignet? Fragen wie diese beschäftigen die religiöse Epistemologie. Die Autorinnen und Autoren des vorliegenden Bandes stecken sich das Ziel, eine Kartographierung der wichtigsten gegenwärtigen Modelle …
Lies, Bullshit, or Propaganda: Hannah Arendt, Deliberative Democracy, and the Fight against Post-Truth Politics
The notion of ‘Post-truth Politics’ and of the ‘Post-Factual’ are notoriously blurry. In this article, I distinguish the concepts of lies, bullshit, and propaganda. I argue that the post-factual displays elements of all three concepts, so that it can be either understood to be in continuity with using lies and bullshit as means of political discourse; or to discontinue the basic commitments of democracy by attacking the epistemic foundations. In …
Applying Evolutionary Economic Geography beyond case studies in the Global North: Regional diversification in Vietnam
Hitherto, the path‐dependent understanding of regional diversification in Evolutionary Economic Geography (EEG) has drawn largely on insights into industrialized countries. However, in the past few decades several regions in the Global South have undergone rapid structural transformations despite starting out with unfavourable regional asset bases. This raises the question as to whether the strong emphasis on endogenous capabilities in EEG also p…
Extractive industries and regional diversification: A multidimensional framework for diversification in mining regions
Setting the course for future diversification: The development of a regional transformation strategy in a German lignite mining region
Regions throughout the world are confronted with the challenge of restructuring their economies when existing growth paths decline. In regional strategies, directions are defined into which their economies shall be developed, thereby constituting a crucial moment for setting the course for future diversification. While considerable progress has been made in retrospectively understanding regional industrial path developments once these have emerge…
Advanced Introduction to Global Production Networks: By Neil M. Coe Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2021
"Advanced Introduction to Global Production Networks." Economic Geography, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
An unexpected gateway: The particularities of Mauritius as a hub in oil and gas GPNs
The periphery of the world economy is integrated into global production networks (GPNs) by ‘gateways’. These are intermediary places from where transnational corporations organise their business activities in close cooperation with corporate service providers. Gateways may also serve as logistics nodes as well as sites of industrial processing and knowledge generation. While some claim that gateways are engines of growth, others argue that they p…
The impact of extractive industries on regional diversification – evidence from Vietnam
Diversity in brokerage: How do gateway cities interlink their hinterlands
The article invites readers to rethink cities in economic networks against the backdrop of the many ways in which ‘gateway cities’, serving as brokers, interlink their respective hinterlands globally. It adds logistics, industrial processing and knowledge transmission to the more established gateway dimensions of corporate control and related service provision. This open heuristic is applied to Buenos Aires (Argentina), Cape Town (South Africa) a…
Path Formation and Reformation: Studying the Variegated Consequences of Path Creation for Regional Development
The emergence of new regional paths is a key topic in economic geography. While new paths are largely associated with positive regional economic outcomes, little is known about how the formation of a new industry affects other parts of the regional economy. By linking recent conceptual advancements on early path formation and interpath relationships, this article develops a framework for studying how path creation, as a result of diverse resource…
A magic formula for economic development? Global market integration and spatial polarization in extractive industries
The World Bank, World Trade Organization and others promote integration into global markets as a certain path towards economic development. Some researchers share this optimism, arguing that development is the record of how one thing leads to another, once peripheral locations have plugged into global networks. Comparing resource peripheries in South America, Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa with regard to the upstream oil and gas sector, we…
Revisiting gateway cities: Connecting hubs in global networks to their hinterlands
Gateway cities have received much attention from urban geographers. In spite of outstanding contributions being made, we think that the concept needs to be revisited with regard to regional development implications. Bringing together research on global production networks (GPNs) and world cities, this article shows that gateway cities are critical for development in networks, generating impulses for peripheral locations by engaging them in proces…
Cities in ‘multiple globalizations: Insights from the upstream oil and gas World City Network
The role of cities in the global economy has been studied extensively for the specific case of advanced producer services. Only recently, studies started to broaden the analytical lens and explore the role of cities in ‘multiple globalizations’ by adding insights from other industries. Apart from showing that different World City Networks (WCNs) are characterized by differing spatial configurations, these studies are incapable of explaining why c…
Filtering strategic coupling: Territorial intermediaries in oil and gas global production networks in Southeast Asia
The Global Production Network (GPN) approach has not yet considered the importance of territorial intermediaries for strategic coupling. This article demonstrates how the prospects of strategic coupling for the case of Vietnam and Indonesia with the oil and gas GPN are affected by the gateway role of Singapore. Based on interviews, the analysis reveals how Singapore influences regional economic development along the GPN through different filterin…
An intermediate step to resource peripheries: The strategic coupling of gateway cities in the upstream oil and gas GPN
Religion in der politischen Öffentlichkeit: Zum Verhältnis von religiösen Überzeugungen und öffentlicher Rechtfertigung
Ist es legitim, im öffentlichen Diskurs religiös zu argumentieren, oder ist Religion Privatsache? Das vorliegende Buch untersucht, welche Chancen religiöse Argumente im öffentlichen Diskurs einer (post-)säkularen Gesellschaft bieten, aber auch, welche Risiken mit ihnen einhergehen. Das leitende Ziel ist dabei, ein zeit- und vernunftgemäßes Verhältnis von politischer Öffentlichkeit, religiösen Überzeugungen und demokratischer Legitimität zu bestim…
Zwischen Entgrenzung und Re-Nationalisierung. Die Ambivalenz religiöser Überzeugungen in der postsäkularen Öffentlichkeit europäischer Gesellschaften
This text analyses the potentials and dangers ofapublicly present religion inapostsecular society. On the one hand, religions offer essential resources of motivation to engage in public policy and are critical voices in public discourse. On the other hand, they are at constant risk of becoming instruments of exclusion and of collapsing into a nationalistic insularity. This ambivalence of religion can be overcome by identifying a narrowpolitical s…
Zwischen Entgrenzung und Re-Nationalisierung. Die Ambivalenz religiöser Überzeugungen in der postsäkularen Öffentlichkeit europäischer Gesellschaften
This text analyses the potentials and dangers of apublicly present religioninapostsecular society.Onthe one hand, religions offer essential resources of motivation to engage in public policyand are critical voices in public discourse.Onthe otherh and,they are at constant risk of becoming instruments of exclusion and of collapsinginto anationalistic insularity.This ambivalenceofreligion can be overcome by identifying anarrowpolitical sphere,inwhic…
An intermediate step to resource peripheries: The strategic coupling of gateway cities in the upstream oil and gas GPN
Filtering strategic coupling: Territorial intermediaries in oil and gas global production networks in Southeast Asia
The Global Production Network (GPN) approach has not yet considered the importance of territorial intermediaries for strategic coupling. This article demonstrates how the prospects of strategic coupling for the case of Vietnam and Indonesia with the oil and gas GPN are affected by the gateway role of Singapore. Based on interviews, the analysis reveals how Singapore influences regional economic development along the GPN through different filterin…
Revisiting gateway cities: Connecting hubs in global networks to their hinterlands
Gateway cities have received much attention from urban geographers. In spite of outstanding contributions being made, we think that the concept needs to be revisited with regard to regional development implications. Bringing together research on global production networks (GPNs) and world cities, this article shows that gateway cities are critical for development in networks, generating impulses for peripheral locations by engaging them in proces…
Cities in ‘multiple globalizations: Insights from the upstream oil and gas World City Network
The role of cities in the global economy has been studied extensively for the specific case of advanced producer services. Only recently, studies started to broaden the analytical lens and explore the role of cities in ‘multiple globalizations’ by adding insights from other industries. Apart from showing that different World City Networks (WCNs) are characterized by differing spatial configurations, these studies are incapable of explaining why c…
Path Formation and Reformation: Studying the Variegated Consequences of Path Creation for Regional Development
The emergence of new regional paths is a key topic in economic geography. While new paths are largely associated with positive regional economic outcomes, little is known about how the formation of a new industry affects other parts of the regional economy. By linking recent conceptual advancements on early path formation and interpath relationships, this article develops a framework for studying how path creation, as a result of diverse resource…
The impact of extractive industries on regional diversification – evidence from Vietnam
(Un)linking industrial path development and development outcomes through asset mobilisation: The decline of the territorial embeddedness of labour in mining regions
New industrial paths do not necessarily translate into regional economic development. This article investigates how the nature of asset mobilisation for path development affects the way new industries generate developmental outcomes. We analyse how a changing human capital mobilisation in the mining service supplier industry in Antofagasta (Chile) affected regional development opportunities. The declining territorial embeddedness of mining-relate…
Setting the course for future diversification: The development of a regional transformation strategy in a German lignite mining region
Regions throughout the world are confronted with the challenge of restructuring their economies when existing growth paths decline. In regional strategies, directions are defined into which their economies shall be developed, thereby constituting a crucial moment for setting the course for future diversification. While considerable progress has been made in retrospectively understanding regional industrial path developments once these have emerge…
Extractive industries and regional diversification: A multidimensional framework for diversification in mining regions
Diversity in brokerage: How do gateway cities interlink their hinterlands
The article invites readers to rethink cities in economic networks against the backdrop of the many ways in which ‘gateway cities’, serving as brokers, interlink their respective hinterlands globally. It adds logistics, industrial processing and knowledge transmission to the more established gateway dimensions of corporate control and related service provision. This open heuristic is applied to Buenos Aires (Argentina), Cape Town (South Africa) a…
A magic formula for economic development? Global market integration and spatial polarization in extractive industries
The World Bank, World Trade Organization and others promote integration into global markets as a certain path towards economic development. Some researchers share this optimism, arguing that development is the record of how one thing leads to another, once peripheral locations have plugged into global networks. Comparing resource peripheries in South America, Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa with regard to the upstream oil and gas sector, we…
Towards studying the developmental consequences of regional industrial path development
A major reason for the great interest in regional industrial path development (RIPD) is the associated hopes for positive regional development outcomes. However, up to now we know surprisingly little about the often mixed economic, social and ecological effects of RIPD for regions. Existing studies on RIPD tend not to link to these outcomes. This special collection aims to improve our understanding of the conditions under which RIPD contributes t…
The Philosophical and Theological Relevance of Evolutionary Anthropology: Engagements with Michael Tomasello
Religion in der politischen Öffentlichkeit: Zum Verhältnis von religiösen Überzeugungen und öffentlicher Rechtfertigung
Ist es legitim, im öffentlichen Diskurs religiös zu argumentieren, oder ist Religion Privatsache? Das vorliegende Buch untersucht, welche Chancen religiöse Argumente im öffentlichen Diskurs einer (post-)säkularen Gesellschaft bieten, aber auch, welche Risiken mit ihnen einhergehen. Das leitende Ziel ist dabei, ein zeit- und vernunftgemäßes Verhältnis von politischer Öffentlichkeit, religiösen Überzeugungen und demokratischer Legitimität zu bestim…
Zwischen Entgrenzung und Re-Nationalisierung. Die Ambivalenz religiöser Überzeugungen in der postsäkularen Öffentlichkeit europäischer Gesellschaften
This text analyses the potentials and dangers ofapublicly present religion inapostsecular society. On the one hand, religions offer essential resources of motivation to engage in public policy and are critical voices in public discourse. On the other hand, they are at constant risk of becoming instruments of exclusion and of collapsing into a nationalistic insularity. This ambivalence of religion can be overcome by identifying a narrowpolitical s…
Zwischen Entgrenzung und Re-Nationalisierung. Die Ambivalenz religiöser Überzeugungen in der postsäkularen Öffentlichkeit europäischer Gesellschaften
This text analyses the potentials and dangers of apublicly present religioninapostsecular society.Onthe one hand, religions offer essential resources of motivation to engage in public policyand are critical voices in public discourse.Onthe otherh and,they are at constant risk of becoming instruments of exclusion and of collapsinginto anationalistic insularity.This ambivalenceofreligion can be overcome by identifying anarrowpolitical sphere,inwhic…
Filtering strategic coupling: Territorial intermediaries in oil and gas global production networks in Southeast Asia
The Global Production Network (GPN) approach has not yet considered the importance of territorial intermediaries for strategic coupling. This article demonstrates how the prospects of strategic coupling for the case of Vietnam and Indonesia with the oil and gas GPN are affected by the gateway role of Singapore. Based on interviews, the analysis reveals how Singapore influences regional economic development along the GPN through different filterin…
An intermediate step to resource peripheries: The strategic coupling of gateway cities in the upstream oil and gas GPN
Revisiting gateway cities: Connecting hubs in global networks to their hinterlands
Gateway cities have received much attention from urban geographers. In spite of outstanding contributions being made, we think that the concept needs to be revisited with regard to regional development implications. Bringing together research on global production networks (GPNs) and world cities, this article shows that gateway cities are critical for development in networks, generating impulses for peripheral locations by engaging them in proces…
Cities in ‘multiple globalizations: Insights from the upstream oil and gas World City Network
The role of cities in the global economy has been studied extensively for the specific case of advanced producer services. Only recently, studies started to broaden the analytical lens and explore the role of cities in ‘multiple globalizations’ by adding insights from other industries. Apart from showing that different World City Networks (WCNs) are characterized by differing spatial configurations, these studies are incapable of explaining why c…
A magic formula for economic development? Global market integration and spatial polarization in extractive industries
The World Bank, World Trade Organization and others promote integration into global markets as a certain path towards economic development. Some researchers share this optimism, arguing that development is the record of how one thing leads to another, once peripheral locations have plugged into global networks. Comparing resource peripheries in South America, Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa with regard to the upstream oil and gas sector, we…
An unexpected gateway: The particularities of Mauritius as a hub in oil and gas GPNs
The periphery of the world economy is integrated into global production networks (GPNs) by ‘gateways’. These are intermediary places from where transnational corporations organise their business activities in close cooperation with corporate service providers. Gateways may also serve as logistics nodes as well as sites of industrial processing and knowledge generation. While some claim that gateways are engines of growth, others argue that they p…
The impact of extractive industries on regional diversification – evidence from Vietnam
Diversity in brokerage: How do gateway cities interlink their hinterlands
The article invites readers to rethink cities in economic networks against the backdrop of the many ways in which ‘gateway cities’, serving as brokers, interlink their respective hinterlands globally. It adds logistics, industrial processing and knowledge transmission to the more established gateway dimensions of corporate control and related service provision. This open heuristic is applied to Buenos Aires (Argentina), Cape Town (South Africa) a…
Path Formation and Reformation: Studying the Variegated Consequences of Path Creation for Regional Development
The emergence of new regional paths is a key topic in economic geography. While new paths are largely associated with positive regional economic outcomes, little is known about how the formation of a new industry affects other parts of the regional economy. By linking recent conceptual advancements on early path formation and interpath relationships, this article develops a framework for studying how path creation, as a result of diverse resource…
Der Glaube und seine Gründe: Beiträge zur Religiösen Epistemologie
Lassen sich religiöse Überzeugungen mit Vernunft rechtfertigen? Unterscheidet sich die Rechtfertigung religiöser von der Rechtfertigung anderer, nicht-religiöser Überzeugungen? Welche Kriterien sind für die Rechtfertigung religiöser Überzeugungen geeignet? Fragen wie diese beschäftigen die religiöse Epistemologie. Die Autorinnen und Autoren des vorliegenden Bandes stecken sich das Ziel, eine Kartographierung der wichtigsten gegenwärtigen Modelle …
Lies, Bullshit, or Propaganda: Hannah Arendt, Deliberative Democracy, and the Fight against Post-Truth Politics
The notion of ‘Post-truth Politics’ and of the ‘Post-Factual’ are notoriously blurry. In this article, I distinguish the concepts of lies, bullshit, and propaganda. I argue that the post-factual displays elements of all three concepts, so that it can be either understood to be in continuity with using lies and bullshit as means of political discourse; or to discontinue the basic commitments of democracy by attacking the epistemic foundations. In …
Applying Evolutionary Economic Geography beyond case studies in the Global North: Regional diversification in Vietnam
Hitherto, the path‐dependent understanding of regional diversification in Evolutionary Economic Geography (EEG) has drawn largely on insights into industrialized countries. However, in the past few decades several regions in the Global South have undergone rapid structural transformations despite starting out with unfavourable regional asset bases. This raises the question as to whether the strong emphasis on endogenous capabilities in EEG also p…
Extractive industries and regional diversification: A multidimensional framework for diversification in mining regions
Setting the course for future diversification: The development of a regional transformation strategy in a German lignite mining region
Regions throughout the world are confronted with the challenge of restructuring their economies when existing growth paths decline. In regional strategies, directions are defined into which their economies shall be developed, thereby constituting a crucial moment for setting the course for future diversification. While considerable progress has been made in retrospectively understanding regional industrial path developments once these have emerge…
Advanced Introduction to Global Production Networks: By Neil M. Coe Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2021
"Advanced Introduction to Global Production Networks." Economic Geography, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Unpacking smart specialization strategies: How collective policy-making processes shape the direction of regional strategies
Regional strategies, such as smart specialization strategies, can set the course for future diversification. Despite its importance, surprisingly little is known about how the underlying policy-making process affects the direction of regional strategies, i.e., the priority areas that regions aim to promote. This article proposes a framework that allows to unpack the policy- making process of regional strategy development and link it to the policy…
Beyond offshoring: Tradable services and regional markets in the Global South
Trade in services has grown more rapidly than trade in manufactured goods in recent decades. Countries from the Global South are chiefly responsible for this shift. The research note draws attention to service investment that originates in Southern economies and is directed at markets of the same (sub)continent. Such dynamics have been neglected by academic debates focussed on global value chains and offshored, largely generic services. The autho…
The Philosophical and Theological Relevance of Evolutionary Anthropology: Engagements with Michael Tomasello
(Un)linking industrial path development and development outcomes through asset mobilisation: The decline of the territorial embeddedness of labour in mining regions
New industrial paths do not necessarily translate into regional economic development. This article investigates how the nature of asset mobilisation for path development affects the way new industries generate developmental outcomes. We analyse how a changing human capital mobilisation in the mining service supplier industry in Antofagasta (Chile) affected regional development opportunities. The declining territorial embeddedness of mining-relate…
Zwischen Lebensform und Weltanschauung: Religio¿Se Gru¿Nde in der O¿Ffentlichkeit
Towards studying the developmental consequences of regional industrial path development
A major reason for the great interest in regional industrial path development (RIPD) is the associated hopes for positive regional development outcomes. However, up to now we know surprisingly little about the often mixed economic, social and ecological effects of RIPD for regions. Existing studies on RIPD tend not to link to these outcomes. This special collection aims to improve our understanding of the conditions under which RIPD contributes t…
Human Consciousness and the 'Anthropological Turn: Theological Perspectives on Evolutionary Anthropology
Recent discussions between evolutionary and theological anthropology have intensified, particularly through the work of Michael Tomasello. As a key figure in evolutionary anthropology, Tomasello synthesizes extensive empirical research into an accessible 'natural history' of core human abilities. He posits that a unique human trait distinguishing us from our closest relatives is the capacity for "collective intentionality", a concept he adapts fr…
Economics (15 works) · Business (14 works) · Economic geography (14 works) · Geography (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Marketing (9 works) · Regional science (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (7 works)