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As Congress decides whether to grant trade promotion authority (TPA), which would formally allow US President Barack Obama to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the surrounding debate reveals much about attitudes toward economic globalization and, in particular, toward China’s rising…

Since 2004, when an EU directive called the Qualification Directive established criteria to determine refugee status, EU member states can no longer restrict refugee status to people fleeing harm caused by nation-states. However, when escaping harm caused by non-state actors, asylum seekers will be…

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi was recently welcomed in Berlin amidst the most serious human rights crisis in Egypt’s modern history. Many, especially in Egypt, read the fact that Germany rolled out the red carpet for the army general-turned-autocrat as an all-out success for al-Sisi. But…

Does the experience of living in the United States lead Chinese people to believe that China should pursue democracy? Our study produced mixed results, as we found that overseas study resulted in significant attitude changes by various means. Education in social sciences and consumption of foreign…

In January 2015, The Guardian reported that female peacekeepers comprise 2 percent of the world’s largest peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, reflecting how little has changed since 2000, when the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1325, which stressed the important role…

Oil prices plunged more than 50 percent between mid-2014 and mid-2015. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was widely expected to cut production in an effort to arrest the price decline. And yet OPEC did no such thing. As it left production levels unchanged and prices fell…

Deutsche Polizistinnen und Polizisten leisten nicht nur in Deutschland, sondern auch im Ausland einen Beitrag zur Sicherheit deutscher Bürgerinnen und Bürger. Wo es europäischen Nachbarländern wie Kosovo oder der Ukraine, aber auch fernen Ländern wie Afghanistan, Libyen oder Mali an Fähigkeiten und…

Executive Summary This evaluation assessed the contribution of the Preparedness and Response Enhancement Programme (PREP) to improving the World Food Programme's capability to respond effectively and efficiently to large-scale emergencies. The evaluation is part of a series of strategic evaluations…

Wenn die Waffen ruhen und mehr oder weniger wirksame politische Lösungen – oft abgesichert durch Blauhelme der Vereinten Nationen – den Weg aus dem (Bürger-)Krieg weisen, ist damit noch lange nicht für die Sicherheit derjenigen gesorgt, die keine Uniform tragen. Der Großteil der Bevölkerung – Frauen…

An interview with Andreas Goldthau on his recent publication about the challenges that Gazprom has to counter nowadays.…

Background Two forms of business engagement exist in the context of humanitarian response and disaster risk management: commercial engagement, in which companies are paid for their products and services, and non-commercial engagement in which companies partner with humanitarian organizations for…