EU security and defence: the cost of inaction

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The European Union finds itself in an increasingly threatening international arena while its Common Security and Defence Policy continues to have serious deficiencies. Surmounting its weaknesses must be a top priority to gain strategic autonomy in handling security threats. But underinvestment and lack of coordination are difficult challenges to overcome. The Russian invasion of Ukraine…

The Military-Industrial Complex pressured by the Climate Crisis

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Since the general public first became aware of the effect of human consumption on the planet, individuals have been asked to reduce, reuse, and recycle in order to turn the trend of a warming planet around. Governments and the private sector alike have claimed that they are joining the masses in contributing to the reduction…

Accountability for Crimes Committed by ISIL – Why Austria should join Germany in the support of the UN Missions to Iraq

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On the 30th November 2021, a former ISIL Fighter and his wife were convicted by a Frankfurt court in Germany for genocide and crimes against humanity under the German “Völkerstrafgesetzbuch” (German International Criminal Code) in a landmark trial based on universal jurisdiction. A significant part of the indictment in the Taha al-J. – case focused…

Russianization of Turkish Foreign Policy? The Bigger Question Behind Nagorno-Karabakh

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Best Frenemies? Russian President Putin and Turkish President Erdoğan Erdoğan’s increasingly assertive foreign policy seems to align more and more with Putin’s grand strategy. So far, the two internationally dissatisfied powers did not face each other directly with diametrical interests. Nagorno-Karabakh could become the game changer. Huntington Revisited “The most obvious and prototypical torn country…

Sudan: The Potential Price of Peace

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  Der Grosse Soukh in Omdurman © Jan Pospisil   Fifteen months after the revolution that ousted long-term dictator Omar al-Bashir in April 2019, it becomes increasingly evident that Sudan’s two parallel transitional processes of democratisation and peacemaking contradict one another and follow different political logics. The second year after the removal of the Bashir-regime…

Lesen für den guten Zweck: Kann zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement die Integration der Staatenlosen in Kuwait fördern?

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In dem kleinen Golfstaat Kuwait, der als liberalster in der Region gilt, erhielt ein Teil der Bevölkerung im Zuge der Nationsbildung niemals die kuwaitische Staatsbürgerschaft. Zivilgesellschaftliche Initiativen setzen sich dafür ein, Staatenlosen die Teilhabe am gemeinschaftlichen Leben zu erleichtern. Anfang November kündigte der Sprecher der kuwaitischen Nationalversammlung, Marzouq al-Ghanim, ein neues Gesetz an, das zu einer Lösung für…

Mit allen meinen wir alle: Libanon im Ausnahmezustand

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Seit 17. Oktober 2019 demonstriert die libanesische Bevölkerung landesweit gegen die verschlechterten Lebensbedingungen und Aussichtslosigkeit. Ein sonst durch religiöse Konflikte gespaltenes Volk erhebt sich gegen die führende Elite, die das Land seit dem Bürgerkrieg vor 29 Jahren aufgrund von Korruption und politischer Fehlentscheidungen nahezu in den Bankrott geführt hat. von Michael Jabbour „Mit allen meinen…
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