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Policy brief 07 Apr 2015
Effective and Responsible Protection from Atrocity Crimes: Toward Global Action
Executive Summary A decade after the United Nations adopted the concept of a Responsibility to Protect (R2P) people from atrocity crimes, the world’s record of protection remains grim. But those who point to a global deadlock between “Western” interventionists and “non-Western” stalwarts of… -
Policy brief 07 Apr 2015
针对残暴犯罪 实施有效 负责任的保护: 走向全球行动
By Thorsten Benner, Philipp Rotmann, Erna Burai, C.S.R. Murthy, Christopher Daase, J. Madhan Mohan, Julian Junk, Xymena Kurowska, Liu Tiewa, Wolfgang Reinicke, Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, Matias Spektor, Oliver Stuenkel, Marcos Tourinho, Harry Verhoeven, Zhang Haibin概要 联合国修订保护的责任纲要已经十年,全球保护的责任的形势依旧严峻。有人认为:全球以“西方”干涉主义为一方,“非西方”主权捍卫者为另一方的争论,双方对核心问题认识的差异导致了在这个问题上乏善可陈。这些人忽视这场政治争论的实质;因此无法切实严肃面对针对暴行罪提供保护所必须面对的种种实际挑战。… -
Commentary 19 Mar 2015
Europe, the US and the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict
Twenty-five years ago, German reunification ushered in an era of expansion of Western institutions (NATO and the European Union) toward the East. The current Russia-Ukraine conflict marks the definitive end of this period. With its annexation of Crimea, the Russian government made clear that it will… -
Article 19 Feb 2015
Is UN Crisis Diplomacy Increasingly Helpless and Irrelevant?
Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, South Sudan – these are just a few of the hotspots currently challenging the United Nations. In none of these cases can the UN claim anything close to success in its attempts to mediate or bring about peaceful solutions. Increasing geopolitical fissures have buried the liberal… -
Commentary 18 Nov 2014
Den Dschihadisten nicht auf den Leim gehen
Am Sonntag veröffentliche die Terrorgruppe, die sich "Islamischer Staat" (IS) nennt, ein weiteres Enthauptungsvideo einer Geisel: dieses Mal eines US-amerikanischen Entwicklungshelfers. Binnen Minuten dominierte dies die westlichen Medien: Eilmeldung auf Sendern wie CNN und N24, Hauptmeldung von… -
Commentary 17 Nov 2014
How Not to Lose the Media War Against IS
On Sunday, the group that calls itself the "Islamic State" (IS) released another video of the beheading of a hostage, this time an American aid worker. Within minutes, Western media was all over the story. From CNN to N24, It was breaking news on all channels. From Deutsche Welle to the New York… -
Commentary 14 Mar 2014
The Normative War Around Crimea
The Group of 7 leaders did not mince words in a joint statement on Wednesday. They called the referendum in Crimea a "direct violation of the Constitution of Ukraine" and labeled Moscow's support for Crimea's bid to join the Russia Federation a "violation of international law" not covered by the… -
Commentary 19 Dec 2013
Common European Defense Policy Needs New Impetus
European security and defense policy "needs to become more efficient, more visible and more effective," German Chancellor Angela Merkel demanded Wednesday in her first speech as a head of the new coalition government. But when the EU summit on Thursday and Friday discusses the future of the common… -
Commentary 31 Oct 2013
United Kingdom of Surveillance
On the face of it, at their summit last week in Brussels, EU leaders presented a united front of controlled outrage against the revelations that the NSA had not just collected the data of millions of ordinary citizens but also spied on German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois… -
Commentary 21 Oct 2013
Pilloried Peacekeepers
In October 2010, a cholera outbreak started in Haiti. Until now, it has claimed almost 9000 lives in a country where no cases of the disease had been recorded for 150 years. Despite efforts to contain it, the epidemic still kills about 1000 people per year. Three years later, earlier this month, a… -
Commentary 28 Aug 2013
Germany’s Response to the Syria Conundrum
Berlin didn't mince words: A "taboo" has been broken and "a crime against civilization" has been committed. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle used the strongest possible terms to denounce the large-scale use of chemical weapons in Syria. Merkel's spokesperson… -
Commentary 19 Aug 2013
Vieira de Mello’s Lessons
Exactly ten years ago, on August 19 2003, a terrorist attack in Baghdad killed Sergio Vieira de Mello, then chief of the UN mission in Iraq. 21 UN colleagues and local staff from 11 countries died in the rubble of the Canal Hotel where the UN had set up shop after the US invasion. The attack sent… -
Book chapter 26 May 2013
Learning in International Organizations
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Working paper 31 Mar 2013
Brazil as a Norm Entrepeneur
On 21 September 2011, Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff declared in a speech to the UN General Assembly: “Much is said about the responsibility to protect; yet we hear little about responsibility in protecting. These are concepts that we must develop together.” In the following months, the Brazilian… -
Book chapter 14 Oct 2012
Statebuilding and the Political Economy of the Extractive Industries in Post-Conflict States
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Article 01 Apr 2012
Responsibility to Protect
Libyen, Elfenbeinküste, Südsudan – in diesen Fällen berief sich der UN-Sicherheitsrat 2011 in seinen Resolutionen auf die Schutzverantwortung (R2P). Doch in Syrien und im Sudan geht das Morden bis heute weiter, die internationale Gemeinschaft kann sich nicht auf ein gemeinsames Vorgehen einigen. Was… -
Study 31 Oct 2011
The Evolution of Organizational Learning in the UN Peace Operations Bureaucracy
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Journal article 28 Sep 2011
Heart of Darkness
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Commentary 07 Sep 2011
NATO’s Libya Mission Could Cause a Political Backlash
The Libya intervention presents an unsettling paradox, says Thorsten Benner. While it was the right decision to prevent a massacre in Benghazi, NATO's subsequent actions could harm future efforts to protect civilians. We are witnessing the heyday of the Libya intervention triumphalists. Presented… -
Commentary 08 Jul 2011
Berlin Should Lead by Example to Help South Sudan
On Saturday South Sudan declares its independence marking the break-up of Africa's largest country. On Wednesday next week German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle will preside over the UN Security Council session that will recommend the new nation for admission as the UN's 193rd member.…