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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…

The positive impact of trust on the willingness to cooperate has been widely recognised within social sciences. Trust, however, has not been adequately incorporated into the dominant paradigms on explaining international cooperation in international relations. This paper argues that in situations of…

This week got off to a rough start for the global super-rich. Leading newspapers around the world, including the Indian Express, Le Monde, Haaretz, the Guardian and the Financial Times, opened this Monday with the largest data leak in banking history. "Swiss Leaks" disclosed information about how…

The start of the 51st Munich Security Conference this Friday will mark the first anniversary of a new debate in Germany on its global responsibility to prevent atrocities. “He who fails to act bears responsibility too,” argued German President Joachim Gauck a year ago in Munich. It must be “natural…

Am Wochenende beginnt die Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz und markiert ein Jahr der Debatte über Deutschlands internationale Verantwortung. Auch wer nicht handelt, trägt Verantwortung, so Bundespräsident Gauck. Es müsse selbstverständlich sein, unsere Hilfe nicht einfach zu versagen, wenn Völkermord,…

Die „technologische Souveränität“ sei dabei, „zu den wichtigsten und umstrittensten Doktrinen des Jahres 2015 aufzusteigen“, schreibt Evgeny Morozov in der F.A.Z. vom 15. Januar. In der Tat: Die digitale Hegemonie der Vereinigten Staaten in Gestalt von Geheimdiensten, Militär und den übermächtigen…