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Peace & Conflict Jan 14, 202114. January 2021
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US Support Essential to Save Colombia’s Unique Peace Agreement

by Raúl Carbajosa Niehoff

While the United States presidential election has attracted worldwide attention, the phenomenon itself must not distract from its vast foreign and domestic policy implications. One example is the historic Colombian Peace Agreement which urgently requires… [Read more]

Climate Crisis & Environment Dec 21, 202022. December 2020
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The Global Scramble for Groundwater: Why Europe should protect resource sovereignty

by Emma Louise Leahy

To avoid domestic food price spikes during COVID-19 lockdowns, major agricultural producers such as Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia temporarily capped exports of staple crops. The resulting market distortions underscored import-dependent countries’ vulnerabilities to food supply… [Read more]

Climate Crisis & Environment Dec 14, 202022. December 2020
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The Bike Vote: Cycling as Climate Justice + Economic Development

by Ally Tucker

As people around the world worked to stay safe through COVID-19 lockdowns, many took to two-wheels, biking around their cities. Demand for bikeshare programmes increased in cities across the globe from Wuhan, China to Chicago… [Read more]

Climate Crisis & Environment Dec 14, 202014. December 2020
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Seed Patenting and the Threat to Food Security: The losers of global seed market consolidation

by Francesca Ractliffe

“A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab and can’t travel any way but sideways and backwards,” wrote American novelist Mark Twain. A patent formalises the right of the… [Read more]

Peace & Conflict Dec 14, 202014. December 2020
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Ireland’s Hypocritical Immigration Policy

by Sinéad Barry

In just three hundred years, more than ten million people emigrated from Ireland, a figure that doubles the nation’s current population. For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, when Europe was marred by upheaval… [Read more]

General Nov 30, 20206. December 2020
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Genuine Gratitude or False Advertising? Navigating the Nuances of Exporting Thanksgiving

by Jessie Westell

Image: Based on photographs of Autumn Peltier addressing the United Nations. She is a Canadian water activist, who comes from Wikwemikong First Nation/Manitoulin Island and is from Ojibway/Odawa heritage. The Governance Post believes that cultural… [Read more]

General Nov 20, 20201. December 2020
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Open Letter to the Hertie Administration: The COVID pandemic illuminates the need for a global understanding of policy

Dear Hertie Administration, In the 2019/20 academic year, several students requested course content cognisant of the policy approaches from Asia and Latin America — continents where Hertie draws more than 30% of its students from.… [Read more]

Health, Labour & Social Policy Nov 9, 20204. January 2021
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The Undoing of Bodily Autonomy: Abortion Laws in Poland

by Katrin Hermann

In 1930, writer and physician Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński referred to Poland as “Women’s Hell” in his titular essay, criticizing the country’s harsh laws when it came to women’s access to contraception and abortion. Ninety years have… [Read more]

General Oct 6, 20208. October 2020
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Playing with Fire? Green Dreams of Eco-Authoritarianism

by Cosima Klatte and Dominik Rehbaum

Raging forest fires, receding glaciers, or starving polar bears: scientists paint a bleak picture of our planet’s future that might challenge the survival of the human species. Despite this terrifying forecast, liberal democracies in particular… [Read more]

Peace & Conflict Aug 28, 20206. October 2020
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Coming closer to war

by Tilman Leicht

Since July 12, 2020 more than 12 people have been killed in what has been the worst fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan since April 2016. The region of Nagorno-Karabakh is a conflict region on the… [Read more]

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