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A Marriage Fraught with Heartache: Democracy and Climate Change
Written by Corina Murafa
“What we may be witnessing is […] the end of history as such: that is […] the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.” Decades after its publication, Francis Fukuyama’s proclamation of the unabashed triumph of democracy still produces uproar among readers and commentators. In […]
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The Power of Ideas
Written by Sebastian Christ
Afghanistan is an arena in which the global political conflicts of the 21st century are all written large. Does this benefit the country? Building a new state in Afghanistan is the first democratic state-building project undertaken by Europeans outside of their own continent. Former colonial powers such as Germany, France, […]
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Learning from China?
Written by Peter Walkenhorst
One of the most popular set phrases in political grandstanding is that education is a key resource for building the knowledge society of the 21st century shows Peter Walkenhorst. Education is a key factor in dealing with the impact of global megatrends. This is not the least of the reasons […]
