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Rural vulnerability to environmental change in the irrigated lowlands of Central Asia and options for policy-makers: a review

Aleksandrova, Mariya / John P.A. Lamers / Christopher Martius / Bernhard Tischbein (2014)
External Publications

The Rise of Informal Summitry: Implications for Global Governance

Duisburg, 15. April 2014

In the 8th Käte Hamburger Lecture, Andrew Cooper examined the rise of pivotal informal summitry/organisations, above all the G20 and the BRICS, and the implications of this phenomenon for global governance. At a basic level informal organisations differ from the formal institutions such as the UN and the IMF in a number of key ways:…

The reflection of African concerns in the G-20 financial regulation and financial development agenda

Wolff, Peter (2014)
External Publications

Approaches for supporting smallholders in the Global South: contentious issues, experiences, syntheses

Rauch, Theo / Michael Brüntrup (2021)
Briefing Paper 1/2021

The support of smallholder farmers is indispensable for reaching many SDGs in the Global South. HOW to achieve that is subject to decade-old debates. The text sketches major positions, reflects them in light of smallholder realities, and tries a synthesis.

Rescaling conflictive access and property relations in the context of REDD+ in Jambi, Indonesia

Hein, Jonas (2016)
Books

How to design and implement transformative capacity development trainings

Reiber, Tatjana (2022)
External Publications

Embedding spillover effects in the German Sustainable Development Strategy

Droste, Leonie / Linda Lütkes / Tabea Waltenberg (2023)
The Current Column, 22. May 2023

Germany’s goal has to be to avoid negative spillover effects in order to work together with other countries to implement the 2030 Agenda at global level rather than hindering these countries’ own efforts. Such spillover effects and the establishment of binding structures must therefore be clearly addressed in the German Sustainable Development Strategy.

Gender and migration: trends, gaps and urgent action

Bauloz, Celine / Margaret Walton-Roberts / Rose Jaji / Taehoon Lee (2024)
External Publications

State Fragility

Special State Fragility: Our new online research tool allows to distinguish six Constellations of State Fragility – and to analyse data for 171 states and ten indicators in three dimensions.

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

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

Art, culture and the 2030 Agenda

Sturm, Janina / Ronja Fitz (2018)
The Current Column, 02. July 2018

What role can art and culture play in the transformation to sustainable development? Creating a livelihood for all and maintaining this sustainably is the key concern of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The European Union’s governance approach to tackling disinformation – protection of democracy, foreign influence, and the quest for digital sovereignty

Kachelmann, Matthias / Wulf Reiners (2023)
External Publications

Envisioning the future negotiating public space in Hanoi and Singapore

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Sandra Kurfürst (2011)
External Publications

Socially inclusive fourth industrial revolution: fostering youth employment in the Middle East and North Africa

Sinanoğlu, Semuhi (2018)
External Publications

Universal, inclusive, sustainable - Shaping the EU's contribution to a global public policy in the Post-2015 world

Bruxelles, 06. March 2014

In 2014, negotiations for a Post-2015 global agenda will gain momentum. The Intergovernmental Open Working Group (OWG) established by the UN in 2013 will start elaborating a proposal which integrates work on the Sustainable Development Goals as decided by the UN Conference on Sustainable Develop­ment in Rio de Janeiro in 2012 and…

Same table, different menus? A comparison of UN and EU mediation practice in the Kosovo-Serbia conflict

Bergmann, Julian (2018)
External Publications

How Open Science can revolutionize global knowledge cooperation

Stewart, Benjamin / Wulf Reiners (2022)
The Current Column, 04. November 2022

Investments in digital infrastructure must ensure that “open” means always openly accessible.

To grow or not to grow? Revisiting economic growth as a Sustainable Development Goal in light of the degrowth debate

Malerba, Daniele / Yannik Oswald (2022)
External Publications

The trade regime complex and megaregionals: an exploration from the perspective of international domination

Brandi, Clara (2017)
External Publications

Courts and Tribunals in International Relations

Berlin, 24. November 2016

A century ago, a primary reason for international courts and tribunals was the avoidance of war. Today the discussion of ‘function’ has been renewed and is multifaceted. The Lecture examined this question distinguishing between the functions that courts and tribunals play in international relations and the tasks that the judges are asked…