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German troops fighting the Taliban in the Hindu Kush; EU judges sitting in courts in the Balkans; UN viceroys governing parts of Oceania; American occupation of the Middle East. Amid the myriad political experiences of the post-Cold War era, the historians of the future are likely to pay particular…

Despite an emerging literature on global energy governance, there so far is no extensive intellectual rationale for it. This article seeks to fill this gap by putting forward a public policy framework to analyze global energy. With that lens, energy security relates to problems of market failure at…

Executive Summary The Protection Capacity Standby Project (ProCap) and the Gender Capacity Standby Project (GenCap) are inter-agency resources to strengthen the humanitarian system’s capacity in protection and gender. The projects maintain rosters of senior experts deployed to countries in…

Contemporary Kosovo is a post-conflict society. As such, most of the country’s current problems - be they economic, social, or political in nature - can be traced back to the Serb-Albanian conflict that arose during the collapse of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the 1980s. It…

The study of the EU's security and defense policy has until now lacked a comprehensive yet thorough and accessible volume on theoretical debates in the field. This timely volume addresses this and is an engaging assessment of the discussions about the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy. It…

Seit der Vergabe des Friedensnobelpreises an den chinesischen Demokratieaktivisten Liu Xiaobo am 8. Oktober 2010 ist ein Jahr vergangen. Es war kein gutes Jahr für die Menschenrechte in China. Liu sitzt weiterhin für seine Mitautorschaft der Charta 08, einer politischen Reformagenda, in Haft. Und er…