Taiwan’s Political Landscape after the 2024 Elections On January 13, 2024, Taiwanese voters elected the island’s 8th president, William Lai Ching-te of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Securing just over 40 percent of votes, the DPP's victory marked the third consecutive presidency by a DPP candidate – much to the...

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How a ‘Model Democracy’ finds itself in the midst of Geopolitical Tensions – Taiwan & Cross-Strait Relations after the 2024 Elections

Taiwan’s Political Landscape after the 2024 Elections On January 13, 2024, Taiwanese voters elected the island’s 8th president, William Lai Ching-te of the Democratic Progressive...

A North Korean Revival: Aligning with Russia

For many decades, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has been regarded as a time capsule with an outdated totalitarian regime, carrying on the...

Forging a fresh way: Former rivals from history should form new friendships

Recently the Horn of Africa has seen an increase in geopolitical tensions, with Ethiopia and Somalia at the center of a growing conflict that...

Europe

A Fight for a Democratic Europe: Belarus in Captivity Between East and West

As the 2024 European Union (EU) elections approach, questions and aspirations arise about the future of the Union in the context of war in...

A Europe-First Defense

Since the end of the Second World War, Europe’s progress towards ever-closer integration has manifested itself in an ecosystem of multilateral organizations. The European...

Drowning in the Fifth Wave: the Connection Between Right-Wing Extremism and Organized Crime in Austria

The looming fifth wave of terror carries the potential for greater lethality, enhanced organization, and a larger scale than waves preceding it. The reason...

Economics

The AI Revolution

Polemics Coverage of the Dialogue of Continents Conference, organized by the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee, December 4-5, 2023. As part of the Dialogue of Continents...

An International Financial System for All? Climate, Security, Resilience, and the Changing Nature of Global Cooperation

Polemics Coverage of the Dialogue of Continents Conference, organized by the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee, December 4-5, 2023. The last panel of the conference was...

Derisking, Strategic Autonomy, and Economic Security

Polemics Coverage of the Dialogue of Continents Conference, organized by the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee, December 4-5, 2023. The second round table is introduced by...

Tech & Environment

Why We Need to Think About Gender in Climate Security: A Conversation with Maryruth Belsey-Priebe

What do climate and conflicts have to do with gender? Quite a lot actually, if we ask Maryruth Belsey-Priebe. Maryruth is a Harvard International...

Women: The key to food security – between sensational headline and effective solution

With the domain of agriculture being traditionally male dominated, early efforts of food security strategies have been developed on the basis of structures that...

Cementing it Green

Over the past few years, cement production has seen a significant increase. Due to this, the cement sector has emerged as the third-largest source...

French & German

La montée en puissance de Marine Le Pen : un défi pour Macron sur l’échiquier politique français

Trois jours après la démission d’Elisabeth Borne, Gabriel Attal est nommé Premier Ministre, devenant ainsi le premier Premier ministre ouvertement gay et le plus...

Dans l’ombre de Mitterrand: l’origine de la faiblesse de la gauche actuelle

La gauche française est aujourd’hui synonyme de désordre. Loin de son histoire populaire et glorieuse, sa position actuelle semble précaire, marquée par des conflits...

Anton Wein-Wislocki, Referatsleiter für Klima-, Umwelt- und Energiediplomatie im Außenministerium im Interview

Anfang November fand in der Wiener Hofburg das International Vienna Energy & Climate Forum 2023 (IVECF) statt. Das 2008 ins Leben gerufene Forum wird...

Opinion

Germany’s Democratic Dilemma: Navigating AfD’s Extremism Ahead of Regional Elections

The partially rightist-extremist party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in Germany is facing an unprecedented combination of scandals with crucial regional elections in Eastern Germany...

Born to Lose: Why the DNC is Condemning Itself to Irrelevancy

In a recent appearance on Jimmy Fallon’s late night show, Hillary Clinton expressed her strong disapproval of undecided voters in the upcoming election. In...

A Commentary on the Human Dimension of Conflicts

Outbreaks of conflict and wars, regardless of their scale, location or causes, invariably divert the bulk of the attention to the violence. I am...