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“Europe,” Emmanuel Macron said last month, “isn’t a supermarket.” The French president was referring to the recent illiberal actions of some central and eastern European states, which he argued had come to rely on the bloc to “dispens[e] credit” in the form of budgetary assistance “without…

Ladies and gentlemen, we need you! We need your critical questions, your experience, your ideas and your suggestions. We should talk openly about what we are already doing well, and how we can become even better and more efficient. With these remarks at an event on 5 July 2016, then-Foreign Minister…

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has identified one overarching priority for his work: the prevention of human suffering. Specifically, Guterres envisions that the concept of prevention, and the mechanisms it entails, will be able to cut across and strengthen the UN’s three pillars: peace and…

Germans are worried about the future of their partnership with the United States and about their new role on the world scene. Throughout much of Europe, leaders have lost confidence that the US presidency under Donald Trump will make the right decisions in international affairs, and Germany is no…

Meine Damen und Herren, wir brauchen Sie! Ihre kritischen Fragen. Ihre Erfahrungen, Ihre Einwürfe und Ihre Anregungen. Wir wollen offen diskutieren, wo wir bereits gut arbeiten und wo und wie wir noch besser und effizienter werden können. Mit diesen Worten eröffnete der damalige Außenminister Frank-…

Transatlantic Digital Debates Fellows Discuss the Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz On June 30, the German Bundestag passed the network enforcement law (Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz, or NetzDG), requiring that social media companies with more than 2 million registered German users delete unlawful content,…

On Friday, the German parliament will pass the gloriously named and woefully misguided Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz, or “network enforcement law,” to combat hate speech on social media platforms. Its parliamentary godfathers simply call it the “Facebook law” and commend it as “epochal” and…

A band of Neo-Nazi officers allegedly conspiring to commit a false-flag terrorist attack was only the most bizarre of the scandals that has rattled Germany’s military in the past year. Other allegations include sadistic practices in training, sexual harassment, and revelations about World War II…

U.S. tech firms have always found the European market a tricky one to navigate. They struggled with a public backlash following Edward Snowden’s disclosures and have had to cope with what they perceive to be awkward court decisions, like the right to be forgotten. Now, they face an entirely new…

On Tuesday, U.S. forces shot down an armed Iranian drone in southern Syria, a few days after a similarly justified strike on a Syrian aircraft that dropped a bomb near a U.S. training outpost. Combined with the U.S. decision to ramp up support to Syrian Kurds seeking to retake Raqqa, these actions…

Here, 2017 is shaping up to be an unexpectedly good year for those invested in the European project. The real existing populism of Trump and the disastrous British management of Brexit have had a deterrent effect on electorates. The political center is re-energized and has even taken to the streets…

Executive Summary In the last decade and a half since September 11, armed conflict has been marked by new patterns of warfare. Non-international conflict – conflict between a state(s) and non-state actors – is more likely than direct conflict with other state parties, and is often characterized by…

The Grand Bargain aims to reduce the humanitarian financing gap – estimated at US$ 15 billion – by improving the delivery and efficiency of aid. 52 donors and aid organisations, which account for the lion’s share of the international humanitarian response, have endorsed the Grand Bargain. One year…

Background As more agencies are using cash transfer programs in humanitarian contexts, the need for coordination has grown. Currently, the cash working groups established by aid organizations in emergency settings vary in their leadership and institutional setups. This ad hoc approach has helped…

Executive Summary In post-industrial societies, data, as well as data-driven technologies, are seeping into many aspects of life – involving a complex group of individuals, organizations, and governments who manage and own the technologies that create, use, alter, and destroy this data. Recognizing…

Executive Summary Since the turn of the century, a series of pandemics have incited global concern: disrupting trade, bringing travel from some regions to a standstill, and spreading panic through affected and unaffected populations alike. These outbreaks – including Severe Acute Respiratory…

Executive Summary In recent years, technological advancements, globalization, attacks carried out on home soil by foreign fighters and lone wolves, and the rise of transnational takfiri terror organizations, such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), have forced policymakers around the…

Wie kann Deutschland dem Anspruch genügen, „früher, entschiedener und substantieller“ Gewalt vorzubeugen? Es reicht nicht, das Völkerrecht, den Internationalen Strafgerichtshof, das Völkerstrafgesetzbuch und die Schutzverantwortung zu beschwören, denn deren Normen breiten sich mitnichten aus, im…