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Europe's Double Standards in the Face of International Law

El-Haddad, Amirah / Aboushady, Nora (2025)
The Current Column, 24. June 2025

Rather than affirming violations of international law, Germany should end arms sales that fuel ongoing wars.

A social contract for low carbon and sustainable development: reflections on non-linear dynamics of social realignments and technological innovations in transformation processes

Messner, Dirk (2015)
External Publications

International organizations and differentiated universality: reinvigorating assessed contributions in United Nations funding

Haug, Sebastian / Nilima Gulrajani / Silke Weinlich (2022)
External Publications

Why democracy needs a narrative on political liberalism

Nowack, Daniel (2025)
The Current Column, 05. May 2025

“For the protection and continued existence of democracy in general and throughout the world, it is important to revive a narrative on what constitutes a liberal democracy.

Is Democracy in Decline?

Diamond, Larry (2015)
The Current Column, 23. February 2015

Why have freedom and democracy been regressing in many countries? The most important and pervasive answer is bad governance.

Time for a paradigm shift in policy on Syria and the Middle East?

Trautner, Bernhard (2015)
The Current Column, 31. March 2015

With the Syrian conflict in its fifth year, is it time for a paradigm shift in Western policy on the Middle East?

What does the Paris climate agreement mean for water policy?

Dombrowsky, Ines / Steffen Bauer / Waltina Scheumann (2016)
The Current Column, 22. March 2016

The frayed state

Christian von Haldenwang (2014)
The Current Column, 11. July 2014

The debate regarding the post-2015 agenda, i.e. the goals of global development after 2015, places obligations on states including the states of the northern hemisphere.

Feeling the heat: climate risks and the cost of sovereign borrowing

Beirne, John / Nuobu Renzhi / Ulrich Volz (2021)
External Publications

Aid reporting: creative bookkeeping is not acceptable

Keijzer, Niels / Adam Moe Fejerskov (2016)
External Publications

Climate change and sovereign risk

Volz, Ulrich / John Beirne / Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme / Adrian Fenton / Emilie Mazzacurati / Nuobu Renzhi / Jeanne Stampe (2020)
External Publications

African developments: competing institutional arrangements for climate policy: the case of Nigeria

Koblowsky, Peter / Chinwe Ifejika-Speranza (2012)
Briefing Paper 7/2012

IDOS@COP27

Sharm El-Sheikh, 06. November 2022

At the Conference of the Parties to the 27th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27), countries come together to take action towards achieving the world’s collective climate goals as agreed under the Paris Agreement and the Convention. Building on the outcomes and…

Fact sheet: assessing smallholder farmers and forest dynamics in the Peruvian Amazon

Guarín, Alejandro / Hannes Hotz (2014)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

Boletín informativo: evaluación de los pequeños agricultores y la dinámica de los bosques en la Amazonía peruana

Guarín, Alejandro / Hannes Hotz (2014)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

Climate impact auctions: an underused tool for green subsidies in the Global South

Matthey, Max Alexander / Aidan Hollis / Clara Brandi / Georg Kobiela / Benjamin Roth / Magdalene Silberberger (2025)
External Publications

What needs to be done post Copenhagen? Is it now the citizens who are called on to stop climate change?

Wiemann, Jürgen (2010)
The Current Column, 25. January 2010

Can supply chain initiatives reduce deforestation? A comparative analysis of cases from Brazil and Indonesia

Meijer, Karen (2014)
Discussion Paper 36/2014

Upcoming elections in Burma: no end to authoritarian rule in sight

Bader, Julia (2010)
The Current Column, 02. November 2010

Desertification and efforts to combat it: are things not bad enough as it is?

Neubert, Susanne (2009)
The Current Column, 22. June 2009