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Gesine Schwan elected new Co-Chair of SDSN Germany

Gesine Schwan elected new Co-Chair of SDSN Germany Gesine Schwan elected new Co-Chair of SDSN Germany Press Release, 5 November 2015 Berlin/Bonn, 05/11/2015 . The newly-elected Leadership Council of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network Germany ( SDSN Germany ) appointed its two Co-Chairs in a statutory meeting on 5 November: Gesine Schwan , former President of the European University Viadrina and President of the HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA Governance Platform , was…

UN summit on housing and sustainable urban development: what is at stake?

Dick, Eva / Maria-Theres Haase (2016)
The Current Column, 17. October 2016

At the third UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) in Quito, Ecuador, central decisions will be made on the urban and global development of the next decades.

The challenges of “drought migration”

Adaawen, Stephen / Benjamin Schraven (2019)
The Current Column, 17. June 2019

Will droughts and advancing desertification send a new wave of refugees towards Europe? And what do researchers have to say about the correlation between drought, desertification and human mobility? How should policy-makers address this “drought migration”?

An Italian researcher is tortured to death in Cairo – sombre cause to reconsider the way we work with Egypt

Loewe, Markus / Tilman Altenburg / Bernhard Trautner / Georgeta Vidican (2016)
The Current Column, 17. March 2016

In January Giulio Regeni, who spent last summer as a visiting researcher at our institute, was killed in Cairo. His gruesome death leaves us worried about future cooperation with Egypt.

The G8 and G20 Summits at the end of June 2010 in Canada: learning from the disadvantages of the G8

Gronau, Jennifer (2010)

Cooperation is the mother of all things: what is stopping us from solving globalisation problems?

Guarín, Alejandro / Dirk Messner / Silke Weinlich (2012)
The Current Column, 04. June 2012

Incentives and rules for fair supply chains

Müngersdorff, Maximilian / Tim Stoffel (2020)
The Current Column, 14. May 2020

The corona crisis is intensifying social ills in many global supply chains. The negative consequences are hitting workers in the producer countries of the global South particularly hard.

Global development goals need to be financed – but how?

Janus, Heiner / Stephan Klingebiel (2013)
The Current Column, 08. April 2013

The ambiguous partner: Mexico and the European Green Deal

Ruano, Lorena (2021)
External Publications

Research Cluster “Conflict, displacement and fragility”

Researchers at IDOS develop analysis of strategies for promoting peace and democracy in order to build and maintain peace.

What Putin’s war means for international cooperation

Grävingholt, Jörn (2022)
The Current Column, 23. March 2022

24 February 2022, or “2/24”, could go down in history as a new turning point. There is a real risk of the world being divided up into a new geopolitical order.

Paradigm shifts in public procurement

Stoffel, Tim / Maximilian Müngersdorff (2019)
The Current Column, 23. September 2019

Procurement in public institutions is becoming more professional and is increasingly being seen as a strategic policy instrument. This also helps in implementing social and environmental criteria in public tenders.

Climate change and migration: a call for International cooperation

Ekoh, Susan S. (2025)
External Publications

Susan S. Ekoh argues that strengthening, rather than diminishing, international cooperation on migration offers important benefits to migrants, sending countries and receiving countries like Germany, particularly in the context of climate change.

Mario Negre

Mario Negre is Economist and former Senior Researcher of the Research Programme "Transformation of Economic and Social Systems".

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2022 Jump to: Dezember 2022 November 2022 Oktober 2022 September 2022 August 2022 Juli 2022 Juni 2022 Mai 2022 April 2022 März 2022 Februar 2022 Januar 2022 Dezember 2022 Die Ampel und die Religion: Weniger Interesse am R-Faktor Eigentlich will die Bundesregierung den Bereich „Religion und Außenpolitik“ stärken. Auch im Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) hat das Interesse am R-Faktor nachgelassen. Zwar gehe die Kooperation mit…

The EU summit on energy: Europe must show the way to a sustainable global energy policy – who else?

Ruchser, Matthias (2011)
The Current Column, 31. January 2011

Cooperation for future

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina (2024)
External Publications

If the international community splinters into multiple orders, we will lose the race against climate change, social polarisation and biodiversity loss. Today’s policymaking will decide whether constructive cooperation stays possible in a multipolar world.

The Conservation Revolution

Online, 19. May 2020

Conservation needs a revolution. This is the only way it can contribute to the drastic transformations needed to come to a truly sustainable model of development. The good news is that conservation is ready for revolution. Heated debates about the rise of the Anthropocene and the current ‘sixth extinction’ crisis demonstrate an urgent…

Measuring green growth: why standardisation is (sometimes) not desirable

Stepping, Katharina M. K. / Jana Stoever (2014)
Briefing Paper 17/2014

Opinion: As the rules of global cooperation shift, here is plan B

Ishmael, Len / Stephan Klingebiel / Andy Sumner (2025)
External Publications

Like-minded internationalism is emerging as an alternative to the post-1945 multilateral cooperation model.