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Democracy, Visibility and Resistance

Duisburg, 06. February 2013

Käte Hamburger Lecture with Professor David Chandler. This renowned academic is one of the most vivid critics who are questioning the current debate on global democracy. As it seems, resistence to dominant political discourse and power tends to shift to the private sphere and Chandler will examine this assumed trend. Democracy, Visibility…

Cooperation for a Green Transformation

Cooperation for a Green Transformation Download Cooperation_for_a_Green_Transformation__06.2012_Report_ENG_01.pdf Cooperation_for_a_Green_Transformation__28.06.2012_Programme_ENG_01.pdf Contact/ Organisation Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research Schifferstr. 196 ● 47048 Duisburg ● Germany www.gcr21.org DESERTEC Foundation Ferdinandstr. 28-30 ● 20095 Hamburg ● Germany http://www.desertec.org/en/

Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research

Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research Download Kaete-Hamburger-Kolleg_Inauguration-Ceremony_30.10.2012_Programme_ENG.pdf Further Information events@gcr21.uni-due.de

2011

2011 Jump to: Archive 2011 December November October September August July June May April March February January Archive 2011 Jan. Feb. March April May June July Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. December Football and Politics in Africa: A Comment on The Rebel Attack on The Togolese National Team During Angola 2010 and Its Aftermath In his article DIE-researcher John Emeka Akude reviews the rebel attack on the Togolese national team during World Cup in Angola 2010 and its…

Elections, Violence and International Criminal Justice: The Case of Kenya

Bonn, 15. April 2013

The general elections in Kenya on 4 March 2013 have attracted much international attention. The victory of the Uhuru Kenyatta/William Ruto ticket on the first ballot, by the slimmest of majorities, took most observers by surprise. Though widespread violence did not break out this time, despite irregularities, the potential for conflict…

2010

2010 Jump to: Archive 2010 December November October September August July June May April March February January Archive 2010 Jan . Feb . Mar. April May June July Aug . Sept . Oct . Nov . Dec . December Arme werden ärmer Die internationale Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise hat auch die Länder des globalen Südens mit voller Wucht getroffen. Zwar konstatierte das Deutsche Institut für Entwicklungspolitik „Sie (die Staaten) haben sich als bemerkenswert widerstandsfähig…

DIE-Direktor Messner erneut in WBGU berufen

DIE-Direktor Messner erneut in WBGU berufen DIE-Direktor Messner erneut in WBGU berufen Pressemitteilung vom 10.05.2013 DIE-Direktor Dirk Messner ist zum dritten Mal in Folge in den Wissenschaftlichen Beirat der Bundesregierung für Globale Umweltveränderungen ( WBGU ) berufen worden. Das Bundeskabinett hat am 8. Mai 2013 auf Vorschlag von Bundesumweltminister Peter Altmaier und Forschungsministerin Johanna Wanka die Berufung der neuen Beiratsmitglieder beschlossen.…

Käte Hamburger Kolleg „Politische Kulturen der Weltgesellschaft“

Käte Hamburger Kolleg „Politische Kulturen der Weltgesellschaft“ Über das Käte Hamburger Kolleg http://www.bmbf.de/foerderungen/14076.php http://inef.uni-due.de/khk

World Financial Crisis and Civil Society

Duisburg, 05. June 2013

Finance lies at the heart of contemporary capitalism, and financial crises are one of the most disruptive and harmful developments in society today. Current operations of financial markets also raise profound questions about social inequality, ecological integrity, and declining democracy. With such vital issues at stake, one might expect…

Global Governance and the State of Nuclear Weapons

Berlin, 12. June 2013

The agenda on nuclear disarmament has come to a standstill. This was the sombre assessment of Professor Ramesh Thakur , as he opened the 5th Käte Hamburger Lecture on 12 June in Berlin. The number of nuclear weapons had indeed gone down over recent decades, he said, but there were still almost 18,000 of them in existence - 2,000 available…

Rethinking State Power and Governance in a World of Complexity

Duisburg, 27. June 2013

The regulation approach is a distinctive contribution to evolutionary and institutional political economy that was developed to explain, above all, the origins, relative stability, and later crises of the Atlantic Fordist mode of growth based on mass production and mass consumption in relatively closed national economies. It identified a…

Transcultural constructions of global legitimacy

Bonn, 25. July 2013

Jan-Aart Scholte eröffnete dieses Jahr die Managing Global Governance (MGG) Public Lectures. Er ist Professor am Department of Politics and International Studies der University of Warwick, Professorial Research Fellow am Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation sowie akademischer Leiter des Global Research Priorities in…

Towards a better understanding of complexity and scale and their relevance for global cooperation

Duisburg, 29. August 2013

The first Masterclass Retreat of the the Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research took place from 29 to 31 August 2013. The Masterclass is embedded in the attractive Ruhrtriennale – Festival of the Arts and was held in the Blowerhouse Complex in Duisburg. Together with renowned scholars who usually do not focus on…

Tolerance and Cooperation in Primate Society

Duisburg, 12. November 2013

Can monkeys be said to cooperate? And what does observation of them teach us about human social behaviour? Delivering the 7th Käte Hamburger Lecture, Professor Julia Fischer, Head of the Cognitive Ethology Laboratory at the German Primate Centre (DPZ) in Göttingen, outlined her current fieldwork. Citing some fascinating examples, she…

2013

2013 Jump to: Archive 2013 December November October September August July June May April March February January Archive 2013 Jan. Feb. March April May June July Aug. Sep . Oct. Nov. Dec. December Aid on the edge of chaos - reviewThe solutions Ben Ramalingam offers to the problems in the aid system are innovative ways of aligning aid with its complex environment and introduces 'exotic' new development terms, describe Heiner Janus and Sebastian Paulo in their review.…

New international cooperation approaches_Lessons from Climate Politics – a Chinese Perspective

Bonn, 10. February 2014

China’s 12th Five Years Plan, with its ambitions to turn China into a model of low-carbon growth, reflects the enormous and uncontested efforts in the recent domestic climate policy of China. Yet, at an international level, negotiations for a global deal on CO2-reductions are constantly at an impasse. Do we need a change of perspectives…

Wettstreit um Ressourcen: Konflikte um Klima, Wasser und Boden

Bonn, 18. February 2014

Globale und lokale Ressourcenkonflikte Klima, Wasser und Boden sind gleichermaßen unverzichtbare wie gefährdete Ressourcen der Menschheit. Was geschieht, wenn um ihre Nutzung ein Wettstreit auf globaler oder lokaler Ebene entbrennt? Welche Konflikte können daraus entstehen? Welche Möglichkeiten der Kooperation und der Konfliktbearbeitung…

We Are in There Together with Germany: Observations by a Canadian

Gal-Or, Noemi (2014)
The Current Column, 21. February 2014

To a Canadian, a bold speech such as the one recently delivered by the German President Joachim Gauck would not be expected from Canada’s Governor.

An African Perspective: Pointers for Germany’s Foreign Policy Direction in Africa

Abou Jeng (2014)
The Current Column, 26. February 2014

A debate has been emerging on the direction of Germany’s global engagement.

With new expectations: German Foreign Policy is too complex to be left only to political insiders

Andrew F. Cooper (2014)
The Current Column, 28. February 2014

The growing expectations for Germany to go beyond its built-in culture of limitations have been visibly on display.