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Following the 2015 report of the High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa, chaired by the former South African President Thabo Mbeki, there has been much greater awareness across Africa of the magnitude of illicit financial flows and their implications. Now, more than ever,…

Back in September 2000, 192 states assembled at the United Nations to adopt the Millennium Declaration, a framework for accelerating the development and security of poorer countries. However, while the importance of human rights and good governance for development featured prominently in chapter V…

The transformation of the BRIC acronym from an investment term into a household name of international politics and, more recently, into a semi-institutionalized political outfit (called BRICS, with a capital ‘S’), is one of the defining developments in international politics in the past decade.…

It is not without irony that the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) decided an asylum case involving a former US army soldier with the surname “Shepherd” at the same time US pop culture celebrates a film built around a metaphor of protecting sheep. In Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper, we…

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. MH & JS: Akiko, you were personally involved in the UN climate change negotiations…

The increasingly prosperous, mighty and assertive China is arguably the most powerful country blocking democracy today. In addition to withholding democratic rights of one-fifth of the world's population, authoritarian China represents an alternative development model that has gained significant…

A new report published by the United States Institute of Peace sheds some light on the inner failings of one of the most critical security institutions in Yemen: Yemeni prisons. Although Yemen is often in the headlines because of security crises or threats emanating from its territory, less is known…

Thomas Thiel interviews Wolfgang Reinicke, GPPi president and founding dean of the School of Public Policy at Central European University. Mr. Reinicke, you recently started accepting applications for the Global Challenges Fellowship program (GCF) for non-Western researchers at Central European…

Angola Since the Civil War Based on three years of research in and extensive first-hand knowledge of Angola, Magnificent and Beggar Land is the definitive account of the fast-changing dynamics of this important yet misunderstood African state; a major exporter of oil, minerals and other raw…

2014 werde als das letzte Jahr in die Geschichte eingehen, in dem die USA den Status der weltgrößten Wirtschaftsmacht für sich beanspruchen konnten. Schon 2015 sei es China, das den Platz an der Sonne einnehme, schrieb der US-Ökonom und Nobelpreisträger Joseph Stiglitz im Januar unter Berufung auf…

An interview with Sergey Lagodinsky by Kersten Knipp of Deutsche Welle on the February 27 murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov. DW: Following the murder, various people have commented that Putin is at least indirectly responsible for it, because he created a political climate that…

When asked earlier this week to give advice to the every day internet user, respected computer security researcher Bruce Schneier suggested we look beyond technical solutions to build a legal framework in order to protect our data and privacy. Nonetheless, last year, Schneier claimed that over 700…

Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, South Sudan – these are just a few of the hotspots currently challenging the United Nations. In none of these cases can the UN claim anything close to success in its attempts to mediate or bring about peaceful solutions. Increasing geopolitical fissures have buried the liberal…