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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.

African developments: political trends in recent elections in Sub-Saharan Africa

Vorrath, Judith (2011)
Briefing Paper 18/2011

Operationalizing ocean health: toward integrated research on ocean health and recovery to achieve ocean sustainability

Franke, Andrea / Thorsten Blenckner / [...] / Jonas Hein et al. (2020)
External Publications

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.

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.

What is the potential for a climate, forest and community friendly REDD+ in Paris?

Hein, Jonas / Karen Meijer / Jean Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco (2015)
Briefing Paper 3/2015

How can we mitigate climate change, protect the shrinking tropical forest and support local communities? This paper assesses different prospects for REDD+ within a post-2015 Paris agreement and suggests a middle road based on regulatory measures and result-based finance.

Reshaping global Development: will Europe lead? An argument and a call for action

Berman, Thijs / Bengt Braun / Margret Jay / Filip Kacmarek / Louka Katseli / Simon Maxwell / Dirk Messner / Ana Palacio / Laurence Tubiana / Kevin Watkins (2014)
External Publications

Fact sheet: estimating the economic value of Peru's forest sector: beyond conventional wisdom

Guarín, Alejandro / Hannes Hotz (2014)
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Boletín informativo: estimación del valor económico del sector forestal peruano - más allá de las ideas convencionales

Guarín, Alejandro / Hannes Hotz (2014)
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kursWECHSELN – Wie kommen wir zu einer nachhaltigen Weltwirtschaft?

Bonn, 16. September 2010

Global Economic Governance – Globalisierung – Entwicklung – Nachhaltigkeit – Wachstum – Kooperation Am 16. September waren fünf „Alternative Nobelpreisträger“ zu Gast beim Deutschen Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE). Die Veranstaltung „kursWECHSELN – Wie kommen wir zu einer nachhaltigen Weltwirtschaft?“ brachte Preisträger des Right…

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

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

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

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

Global commission calls for urgent action on climate adaptation

Bauer, Steffen / Mariya Aleksandrova (2019)
The Current Column, 11. September 2019

A report launched this week by the Global Commission on Adaptation calls for governments and business leaders to get their heads around the adaptation challenge, and quickly.

South Sudanese independence: no ‘final walk to freedom’, but the beginning of a long, hard road

Furness, Mark (2011)
The Current Column, 17. January 2011

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

Guarín, Alejandro / Hannes Hotz (2014)
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