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The “Arab Spring” at the crossroads: where is Morocco heading to?

Bonn, 09. July 2013

In his lecture "The Arab Spring at the crossroads: where is Morocco heading to?" Aboubakr Jamai, Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Foundation, talked about Morocco´s way to democracy and the related obstacles and dynamics. Although there have been peaceful uprisings in the past the government did not change drastically…

Shifting to the digital: a case study of the Managing Global Governance (MGG) academy as a digital learning format

Fiselier, Evelien (2021)
External Publications

Who should the next federal government co-operate with on sustainability?

Grimm, Sven / Wulf Reiners (2021)
The Current Column, 10. June 2021

Germany is not the only country faced with managing course-setting issues concerning the future: the manner in which we do business, consume and are mobile needs to take planetary limits into account.

Unravelling hidden factors explaining competition for and overuse of groundwater in Azraq, Jordan: Digging deeper into a network of action situations

Oberhauser, Daniel / Ramona Hägele / Ines Dombrowsky (2023)
External Publications

World Food Day 2009: never have so many people suffered from hunger

Neubert, Susanne (2009)
The Current Column, 12. October 2009

2008

2008 Jump to: Archive 2008 December November October September August July June May April March February January Archive 2008 Jan. Feb. March April May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. December Article Weathering the American Contagion DIE-economist Ulrich Volz analyses the impact of the world-wide financial and economic crisis on China and discusses what China might add to solve the international crisis. Far Eastern Economic Review 28 December 2008 Climate…

Visibility vis-à-vis effectiveness of aid: looking for the third way

Vollmer, Frank (2012)
Briefing Paper 4/2012

Embracing universality: toward the future of United Nations development work

Baumann, Max-Otto / Haug, Sebastian (2024)
External Publications

World Water Day on Water and Energy: The Nexus and beyond

Bonn, 20. March 2014

At this Water Lecture, a panel of high-level experts from International Organizations, Policy think tanks and the academia discussed the various links between water and energy as well as potential challenges and opportunities of the interface between water and energy at different levels and settings. The emphasis of this panel discussion…

Peace tech: the liminal spaces of digital technology in peacebuilding

Firchow, Pamina / Charles Martin-Shields / Roger Mac Ginty / Atalia Omer (2017)
External Publications

Online Platform Presents Policy Proposals to G20

How can the G20 ensure sustained progress on climate protection? How can governments leverage the opportunities of digitalization and mitigate the risks? How can migration and asylum policy challenges be overcome? Leading think tanks from the G20 countries have been grappling with these and other key poli-cy issues facing the 20 largest industrialized and emerging economies (G20) and are now presenting their recommendations to the G20 via the G20-Insights.org internet platform.

Green hydrogen – support for the just transition?

Altenburg, Tilman / Andreas Stamm / Rita Strohmaier (2023)
The Current Column, 13. March 2023

The energy transition will only be widely accepted if it is a socially responsible, i.e. a just, transition. This is possible, but it requires adapting the German approach to hydrogen policy.

US Africa Command one year later: from “Pentagonization” to an integrated approach in US Africa policy?

Gänzle, Stefan (2009)
The Current Column, 21. September 2009

Accountability keywords

Online, 03. February 2022

In our fourth virtual DGSG-DIE research-in-progress seminar on Thursday, 3 February, 16:00-17:15 CET (7:00-8:15 AM PST / 10:00-11:15AM EST), we are going to discuss a research and policy advisory project by Professor Jonathan Fox , one of the most cited scholars of accountability worldwide and Director of the Accountability Research…

Stories of disaster as sites of mitigation: knowledge production and affective engagement in the narrativization of nuclear incidents in different media

Butler, Martin / Sina Farzin / Michael Fuchs / Anna-Katharina Hornidge / Uwe Schimank (2025)
External Publications

Offsetting Justice?

Bonn, 03. December 2025

Despite mounting evidence of their limited effectiveness in reducing emissions or halting biodiversity decline, techno-managerial and market-based approaches—such as carbon markets, biodiversity offsets, green bonds and protected areas—remain widely used. These approaches continue to dominate responses to environmental crises. The global…

Why it is worth to support and protect democracy worldwide

Special “Democracy Support and Protection”: Findings from democratization research and advice, what constitutes democracy and why it's worth promoting democratization.

Climate-smart agriculture as a possible solution to mitigate climate change impact on food security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Akinsemolu, Adenike A. / Helen N. Onyeaka / Phemelo Tamasiga (2024)
External Publications

Researchers must improve the working conditions for local collaborators

Chakraborty, Ananya / Lennart Kaplan (2020)
The Current Column, 06. May 2020

There has been a spurt in research to design appropriate policy solutions for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the Global South. Ironically, such research projects often build upon existing power hierarchies, which may result in unsafe and dangerous working conditions and undermine the Sustainable Development Goal for decent work (SDG 8).

The availability of trade finance: a challenge for global economic governance

Brandi, Clara / Birgit Schmitz / Caroline Hambloch (2014)
Briefing Paper 1/2014

Trade finance is the backbone of international trade. There is currently intense debate regarding the extent to which international banking regulation, and especially the reform package Basel III, could inhibit trade finance and therefore undermine international trade flows.