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The European Union Regulatory State and the Global Political Economy of Energy Since 1992, the European Union has put liberalization at the core of its energy policy agenda. This aspiration was very much in line with an international political economy driven by the neo-liberal (Washington)…

In December 2013, Jan Eliasson, the United Nations deputy secretary-general, went on a selling spree. In a series of briefings, he presented a new initiative to UN member states and to the rest of the world. In his address to the General Assembly, Eliasson said, not mincing words: “In improving the…

It has been more than 20 months since Nigeria’s militant Islamist group, Boko Haram, abducted 276 girls from a high school in the town of Chibok, Nigeria. Today, more than 200 of these girls remain missing despite the global campaign to rescue them. This has exposed the Nigerian government’s…

The European Union uses a confidential, institutionalized Dialogue to raise human rights concerns with China, but little is publicly known about its set-up, its substance, its development over time and its impact. This book provides the first detailed reconstruction and assessment of the EU’s…

This opinion piece is part of the the Global Governance Futures 2025 program which brings together young professionals to look ahead and recommend ways to address global challenges. The United Nations (UN) is a picture of the world 70 years ago and is no longer suitable for or representative of…

The Human Rights up Front Initiative of the United Nations Too often has the United Nations system failed to mobilize all of its tools to protect populations from serious human rights violations. A notable example is the UN’s inadequate human rights response in Sri Lanka in 2009, during the…

Last Friday, the German parliament overwhelmingly voted in favor of opening negotiations with Greece over a third bailout package. Once concluded, it will bring German guarantees for Greece to more than 100 billion euros. Rather than getting minimum credit for this, Germany’s image across Europe and…

Letzten Freitag stimmte der Bundestag mit klarer Mehrheit für die Aufnahme von Verhandlungen mit Griechenland über ein neues Rettungspaket. Dieses würde die deutschen Garantien auf mehr als 100 Milliarden Euro bringen. Doch anstatt minimale Anerkennung dafür zu finden, befindet sich das…

In mid-June, the German parliament scrambled to repel the worst cyberattack in its history. Meanwhile, 800 IT security experts and members of Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) from around the world met just a few blocks away at the annual meeting of the Forum for Incident Response…

This interview was conducted by Mirko Hohmann and Joel Sandhu for the the Global Governance Futures 2025 program which brings together young professionals to look ahead and recommend ways to address global challenges. GGF: Parminder, you are working on e-governance for the Indian government. What…

This blog post was written ahead of the Third International Conference on Financing For Development (FFD3), which took place from July 13 to 16, 2015. With the Addis Ababa conference on Financing for Development in full swing, last minute suggestions on the right priorities are flooding in. However,…

As the Modi government crosses its one-year mark, pundits are singing its praises for prioritizing foreign policy. The revival of the partnership with the US is one of Modi’s proudest accomplishments so far. Particularly after Obama’s visit in January this year, many already saw the start of a new…

On July 9, the youngest country on Earth celebrated its birthday. Four years ago, South Sudan achieved its independence with broad international support. Since December 2013, however, a new civil war between the South Sudan president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, and his former deputy, Riek Machar, has…

Gerade erst hat das jüngste Land der Erde Geburtstag gefeiert. Vor vier Jahren beging der Südsudan mit breiter internationaler Unterstützung seine Unabhängigkeit. Seit Dezember 2013 verwüstet ein neuer Bürgerkrieg zwischen dem Präsidenten und seinem ehemaligen Stellvertreter die geschundene…

This week, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier will travel to Cuba. His visit will mark the end of a diplomatic ice age in the relations between Cuba and Germany since 2003. During the Cuban “Black Spring” that year, there were arrests of political activists, executions and other human…

Diese Woche wird Außenminister Frank-Walter Steinmeier nach Kuba reisen. Der Besuch markiert das Ende einer seit 2003 andauernden Eiszeit zwischen Kuba und Deutschland. Diese Eiszeit wurde ausgelöst durch Hinrichtungen, Festnahmen von politischen Aktivisten und weiteren Menschenrechtverletzungen im…