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Ponto Policy Brief #2: Old squabbles over EU’s migration policy

19. March 2021

Old squabbles over EU’s migration policy What does the blockade of the EU migration reform by the Visegrád countries mean for the EU and how can it be overcome? by Niklas Hintermayer FULL ARTICLE – PDF Abstract: In September 2020, the European Commission proposed a long overdue reform of the EU migration and asylum system.…

Kann EU-Außengrenzschutz das Sterben im Mittelmeer verhindern?

17. March 2021

Marylia Hushcha

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Von Judith Kohlenberger ABSTRACT Der Schutz der Außengrenzen beherrscht ak- tuell die europäische Sicherheits- und Migra- tionspolitik. Effizientes Grenzmanagement und die Beseitigung mutmaßlicher Pullfakto- ren sollen helfen, die Zahl der gefährlichen Überfahrten zu senken und das Sterben im Mittelmeer zu beenden. Doch rezente For- schungsergebnisse legen nahe, dass eine restriktive Migrationspolitik durch Grenzkon- trollen,…

Policy Paper #2: Actions and Reactions: Political Crisis in Belarus as Seen From Brussels and Moscow

21. January 2021

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Policy Paper #2: Actions and Reactions: Political Crisis in Belarus as Seen From Brussels and Moscow Marylia Hushcha & Magda Stumvoll Abstract: Belarusians have taken to the streets of their cities and towns for over five months now, demanding free and fair elections after the presidential vote in August had been blatantly rigged. The longer…

Introducing the Purple Age: Crowdsourced recommendations for a Feminist Foreign Policy

10. December 2020

Marylia Hushcha

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This report presents the output of a transnational participatory process – Policy Kitchen – organized and implemented by the Open Think Tank Network and dedicated to the question: What should a feminist foreign policy look like in the 2020s? This bottom-up process with over 200 participants from five continents has generated a wealth of relevant…

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

8. November 2020

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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…

The new EU Cyber Sanctions Regime: Closing the Accountability Gap?

3. September 2020

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Several EU member states and hundreds of companies operating in the EU have been subject to cyber-attacks in the last years. Since 2004, 17 EU member states have been subject to election interference, in 2017, the ransomware WannaCry infected servers on an unprecedented scale in the EU and indicated some of the vulnerabilities of our…

Sudan: The Potential Price of Peace

23. July 2020

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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…

Warum sagen osteuropäische Staaten NEIN zur Istanbul-Konvention?

26. May 2020

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Der Slogan dieses Plakats einer bulgarischen Kampagne lautet: “Öffne deine Augen. Eine Kampagne gegen Gewalt an Frauen” Gemäß einer Umfrage der Organisation für Sicherheit und Zusammenarbeit in Europa (OSZE) aus dem Jahr 2018 sind ungefähr 16 Millionen Frauen aus der OSZE-Region Opfer von sexueller Gewalt. Dies zeigt, dass Gewalt gegen Frauen ein akutes Problem…

Preparing for the unprepared. A holistic approach for combating future health crises

27. April 2020

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Following our first digital event on global health and crisis management in April 2020 the following article further explores the lack of global preparedness to this pandemic and introduces a two-fold policy recommendation encompassing a top-down and bottom-up approach. COVID-19 is the first pandemic of this magnitude in our generation and is forcing nation states…

Policy Paper #1: Mogherini in Brussels and Strasbourg

22. January 2020

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Policy Paper #1: Mogherini in Brussels and Strasbourg. Executive-Legislative Relations between the High Representative and the European Parliament …