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Why developing countries are facing a renewed debt crisis

Berensmann, Kathrin (2019)
The Current Column, 11. February 2019

The current debt crisis in low-income countries differs from previous crises. Kathrin Berensmann explains which measures can be taken.

Dealing with autocracies: do sustainable development goals help?

Striebinger, Kai / Julia Leininger (2016)
The Current Column, 19. September 2016

Transformation through rapprochement or rejection? Sanctions or dialogue? The recent events in Turkey and the general stagnation of democratisation processes worldwide raise a highly-charged question: how should European and German foreign, development and security policy react to autocratically-governed states?

Development Policy for a Just Globalisation

Hilbrich, Sören (2018)
The Current Column, 17. September 2018

That justice also plays a role in the global area is increasingly recognized. But what does justice demand in relation to the global political and economic system?

Fair enough? Equity is key to next year’s climate agreement

Bauer, Steffen / Pieter Pauw (2014)
The Current Column, 02. June 2014

2 June 2014. The next round of international climate negotiations taking place in Bonn this week may be one of the last opportunities to advance a meaningful ‘global deal’.

Migration and the Racialisation of Space

Jaji, Rose (2024)
The Current Column, 18. March 2024

The ahistorical, binary, and reductionist conceptualisation of human mobility is spawned by a disconnect between the anti-immigration racialisation of space and the historical and contemporary realities of migration.

Multilateralism needs action, not celebrations

Hendra, John / Silke Weinlich (2020)
The Current Column, 21. September 2020

On the occasion of their 75th anniversary, the United Nations will today adopt a political declaration including the telling sentence “We are not here to celebrate. We are here to take action.” 3d

Time is ripe for a global democracy summit

Leininger, Julia / Staffan I. Lindberg (2021)
The Current Column, 19. January 2021

We must turn around current autocratization trends and shield democracy. Learning from the past is then essential for making a global initiative for democracy protection successful.

Undoing “America First” at the UN

Hendra, John / Silke Weinlich (2021)
The Current Column, 18. January 2021

Biden has announced that “America is back”. To repair some of the damage at the UN, Biden already pledged to re-join the Paris climate change agreement and preserve American membership in, and financing to, the World Health Organisation (WHO)

Security policy is not development policy

Leininger, Julia / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2024)
The Current Column, 19. February 2024

In order to ensure human security and integrity, we need both development policy for viable global cooperation to shape sustainable futures and security policy alliances against aggressors where cooperation reaches its limits.

Food speculation: the unacceptable “normal”

Bordon, Ingo / Ulrich Volz (2013)
The Current Column, 15. April 2013

Who will provide leadership at CBD?

Richerzhagen, Carmen / Sachin Chaturvedi (2009)
The Current Column, 18. May 2009

Two years on from the start of the “Arab Spring” and many key questions of international cooperation remain unanswered

Houdret, Annabelle /Markus Loewe (2013)

Energy subsidies: more honesty, please

Ruchser, Matthias (2013)
The Current Column, 23. October 2013

The EU development policy consultations process: less talk, more action?

Koch, Svea / Davina Makhan / Mark Furness (2011)
The Current Column, 14. February 2011

Finance that empowers, that motivates and that provides global public goods

Klingebiel, Stephan (2013)
The Current Column, 14. November 2013

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) had one key function that has often been overlooked.

WTO post Bali – new hope for multilateralism?

Brandi, Clara (2013)
The Current Column, 09. December 2013

The World Trade Organization (WTO) reached a crossroads in Bali last week, with the credibility of the global trade system hanging in the balance.

Why so nervous?

Fischer, Doris (2011)
The Current Column, 09. May 2011

EU development policy: ambitious agenda for change or the same old story?

Koch, Svea / Mikaela Gavas / Mark Furness (2011)
The Current Column, 24. October 2011

The United Nations, national sovereignty and the “responsibility to protect”

Mortimer, Edward / Axel Berger (2010)
The Current Column, 22. March 2010

Europe is reorganising its external relations: and development policy?

Grimm, Sven (2009)
The Current Column, 02. November 2009