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Debate: the conflict between climate change and democratization
Written by Steven Watson
The interrelationship between climate protection and political systems continues to gain more and more attention in the public arena. The Boell Foundation started a debate on it, based on a paper by Peter Burnell. read more
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Why Middle Class Families Can Kill Assad
Written by Peter Hagen
Syria is beset by an historic problem of weak state institutions, with the exception of those state and quasi-state forces through which the ruling Assad dynasty has exercised its power. The account offered by Seth Kaplan in A New U.S. Policy For Syria: Fostering Political Change in a Divided State offers […]
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Article: Global Civil Society. Myth or Reality?
Written by Corina Murafa
Join FutureChallenges.org for a video interview on global civil society with Prof. Helmut Anheier, PhD, Professor of Sociology and Dean at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin. Does global civil society really exist or is it more like a cosmopolitan myth? What are its strengths and weaknesses? What global challenges […]
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Syria – An Outcry for Democracy
Written by Ulrike Reinhard
The situation in Syria is escalating. Many Syrians have been killed or tortured by the regime but still people go out and demonstrate. They’d rather die than continue to live under the Assad family.
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Two steps forward, one step back for Arab civil society
Written by Tom Fries
James Traub, writing in Foreign Policy, discusses the failed effort of the Arab “Forum for the Future” to incorporate civil society, and its ramifications: “A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum”. Read more
