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Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer will replace Angela Merkel as the leader of Germany's most successful political party. She has a tough road ahead.…

The transitory movement of refugees is a major point of contention between EU borders states and those that function as final destinations. How are Afghan asylum seekers affected by these migration policies? …

It is only a matter of time before the Chinese state tries to replace human rights with an alternative normative idea. This should worry all those who value individual freedoms.…

The UN Global Migration Pact is a hotchpotch of declarations of good intent that are important but currently unworkable. It must be disentangled to lay out concrete, practical steps – or it will remain a paper tiger.…

Huawei has strong ties to the Chinese government. That Germany might let it build the country's 5G infrastructure anyway is dangerously misguided.…

Deutsche Behörden und die Telekom vertrauen beim Aufbau des 5G-Mobilfunks dem chinesischen Netzwerkausrüster Huawei. Das ist ein Fehler – 5G ist kritische Infrastruktur.…

This podcast delves into the use of facial recognition technology in law enforcement and commercial spaces. We discuss the interplay between private security and consumer-facing companies, and the place of citizens in this landscape of surveillance.…

Limiting the impact of the US-China trade war will have to involve upholding the unique status of Hong Kong.…

The authoritarian and illiberal advance is ­unlikely to be linear. More importantly: it can be averted. To do so, Germany and other democracies must develop new approaches to promoting human rights.…

Up to one million citizens belonging to the predominantly Muslim Uighur minority are currently detained in “reeducation camps” in China’s Xinjiang province. The Chinese party state defends the camps as anti-terror measures, but international pressure is mounting.…

In this episode, Joel Sandhu from the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) sits down with Matthieu Tardis to discuss his recent study,European Union Partnerships with African countries on Migration: Common Issues and Conflicting Interests.…

The Iraqi case demonstrates the impediments to transitional justice efforts in fragile, post-conflict environments. This article outlines how Germany can best support transitional justice efforts.…

Wie das offizielle China die Unterdrückung der Uiguren verteidigt und dabei zunehmend unter Druck gerät.…

Der UN-Migrationspakt ist ein Sammelsurium an Absichtserklärungen, die politisch wichtig, aber in ihrer jetzigen Form nicht umsetzbar sind. Um dem Papiertiger Zähne zu verleihen, muss die Umsetzung in machbare Schritte aufgeschlüsselt werden.…

This study outlines the German government's political ambition when it comes to an SSR strategy, the reality of SSR-related programming, and the practice of implementation.…

Countries, their citizens and politics, seem more and more polarized by the day. Across Europe, far-right political parties proclaiming nationalist rhetoric are on the rise. We are grappling to understand the rise of an Us versus Them narrative, as well as the normalization of this narrative in…

Merkel and Maas have announced ambitious goals for “Europeanizing” the German seat on the UN Security Council. To avoid disappointing its closest partners, Berlin needs to find more inclusive ways of leading and possibly sacrifice some of its own priorities.…

Brazilian democracy faces its greatest test since the end of the military dictatorship in 1985. And while Bolsonaro's focus is domestic, Brazil’s partners will be faced with a very different foreign policy.…

Nationalist und Diktaturverherrlicher: Der neue Präsident Bolsonaro steht für einen Kurswechsel der viertgrößten Demokratie.…

In the current wave of renewed interest in conflict prevention, we argue that key lessons from 20 years of practice and research have not been learned yet. Official documents and parts of the literature are too often confined to a technocratic understanding of conflict prevention drawing on…