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Commentary 25 Feb 2018
The Dark Arts of Foreign Influence-Peddling
These days, it’s never good news for Paul Manafort. On Friday, special counsel Robert Mueller released his latest indictment against President Donald Trump’s one-time campaign chairman. It charged that Manafort “secretly retained” a small group of former European leaders to “act informally and… -
Commentary 19 Feb 2018
Europe Needs to Step Up Vigilance on China’s Influence
By Thorsten Benner, Kristin Shi-KupferMike Pompeo, the director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, said last month that Beijing’s efforts to exert influence in liberal democracies are just as concerning as those of Moscow, citing China’s “much bigger footprint”. Indeed, China’s rapidly increasing political influencing efforts and… -
Commentary 19 Jan 2018
Die Unschärfe der scharfen Macht
Chinas zunehmende Bemühungen, auf westliche Demokratien Einfluss zu nehmen, geraten immer stärker in den Fokus der öffentlichen Diskussion. Ende letzten Jahres widmete der Economist dem Thema eine Titelgeschichte mit der Überschrift „Scharfe Macht“ (sharp power). Damit greift das Magazin einen von… -
Commentary 15 Sep 2017
An Era of Authoritarian Influence?
For two decades after the end of the Cold War, the direction of international influence was clear: it radiated from liberal democracies outward, as the West sought to spread its model of governance around the world. With the help of Western-led democracy promotion, the thinking went, authoritarian… -
Podcast 05 Dec 2016
How Emerging Powers are Remaking Global Order – A Talk with Oliver Stuenkel
With emerging powers like China, India and Brazil playing a growing role in international affairs, the global balance of power is shifting. What does this mean for the future of the international order? Will China dominate the twenty-first century? Will the BRICS grouping prove to be a disruptive… -
Commentary 12 Jul 2016
Merkels China-Illusion
China beschäftigt die Europäer. An diesem Mittwoch empfängt Premier Li in Peking EU-Ratspräsident Donald Tusk und Kommissionspräsident Jean-Claude Juncker zum jährlichen EU-China-Gipfel. Bereits im Juni war Kanzlerin Angela Merkel mit fünf Ministern und zahlreichen Firmenchefs nach Peking gereist… -
Commentary 01 Jul 2016
Angela Merkel Needs China Reality Check
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has often called the German-China relationship a win-win for both countries. During a recent visit to Beijing last month – Merkel’s ninth – German ministers and CEOs publicly signed €2.7 billion worth of agreements. But business rewards are no longer sufficient to… -
Commentary 22 Sep 2015
Beyond the “Responsible Stakeholder” Illusion
Exactly 10 years ago today, Robert Zoellick, US Deputy Secretary of State at the time, urged China to become a “responsible stakeholder.” He argued that “China has a responsibility to strengthen the international system that has enabled its success.” From Zoellick’s perspective, China’s “national… -
Commentary 10 Jun 2015
No Return to a G8 with Russia. Ever.
As the G7 leaders prepare to gather at the Elmau mountain retreat on Sunday, Russia's absence is fueling debate. Eckhard Cordes, chairman of the German business association representing companies with significant investments in Russia, recently said that barring Russia from the summit was a missed… -
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… -
Study 07 Apr 2015
Proteção Efetiva e Responsável contra Crimes de Atrocidade: A Caminho de uma Ação Global
Sumário Executivo Uma década após as Nações Unidas adotarem o princípio da Responsabilidade de Proteger pessoas contra crimes de atrocidade (R2P), os resultados das iniciativas mundiais de proteção de indivíduos continuam trágicos. Entretanto, aqueles que identificam como causa desta falta de… -
Commentary 05 Jan 2015
Blinded By Rage Against US Digital Hegemony: What Morozov Gets Wrong About “Technological Sovereignty”
“US tech hegemony is making ‘technological sovereignty’ one of the top geopolitical issues of 2015.” So goes Evgeny Morozov’s prediction for the new year. And true to form, the serial provocateur serves up an op-ed to trigger a debate on the topic. Unfortunately, Morozov is so in love with his own… -
Commentary 06 Jun 2014
Para globalizar o marco da internet
"A internet que queremos só é possível num cenário de respeito aos direitos humanos, em particular à privacidade e à liberdade de expressão". Foi com essas palavras que a presidente Dilma Rousseff abriu o encontro global NETMundial sobre o futuro da governança da internet, em São Paulo, no final de… -
Commentary 28 Apr 2014
Brazil and Germany Must Lead on Free Internet
When President Dilma Rousseff signed Brazil's landmark 'Marco Civil Da Internet', a comprehensive new law that safeguards citizens' digital rights on key fronts and the result of a broad participatory process, it marked the decisive coming out of Brazil as a progressive player on digital rights on… -
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… -
Article 09 Dec 2012
Brasilien als Normunternehmer. Die “Responsibility While Protecting”
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Commentary 02 Dec 2012
The Dinosaurs’ Last Hurrah?
"You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather." In 1996, John Perry Barlow, the apostle of the Independence of Cyberspace, famously disinvited governments from dealing with the business of the Internet. Now that cyberspace has developed from a hangout for the nerdy fringes… -
Article 07 Jul 2011
Gegen den Strich: Global Governance
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Commentary 18 May 2011
Why the New IMF Head Can’t Be European
Dominique Strauss-Kahn is in jail, and the debate over his successor as IMF head has already begun. German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to see another European get the job. But that would be a fatal signal to emerging powers such as China and India. It seemed as if they had the best of intentions.… -
Commentary 16 May 2011
Warum der neue IWF-Chef kein Europäer sein darf