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Accountability for Crimes Committed by ISIL – Why Austria should join Germany in the support of the UN Missions to Iraq

21. December 2021

On the 30th November 2021, a former ISIL Fighter and his wife were convicted by a Frankfurt court in Germany for genocide and crimes against humanity under the German “Völkerstrafgesetzbuch” (German International Criminal Code) in a landmark trial based on universal jurisdiction. A significant part of the indictment in the Taha al-J. – case focused…

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…

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 …

Repatriating Foreign Fighters: Could the EU and Central Asia find Common Solutions?

11. January 2020

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As tensions grow between the European Union (EU) and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan over lack of support for Turkey to handle refugees, the country’s president has also changed his stance on another issue: During the first half of November, Erdogan released formerly incarcerated former fighters of the Islamic State (IS). The captives are EU citizens…

Lesen für den guten Zweck: Kann zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement die Integration der Staatenlosen in Kuwait fördern?

2. January 2020

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In dem kleinen Golfstaat Kuwait, der als liberalster in der Region gilt, erhielt ein Teil der Bevölkerung im Zuge der Nationsbildung niemals die kuwaitische Staatsbürgerschaft. Zivilgesellschaftliche Initiativen setzen sich dafür ein, Staatenlosen die Teilhabe am gemeinschaftlichen Leben zu erleichtern. Anfang November kündigte der Sprecher der kuwaitischen Nationalversammlung, Marzouq al-Ghanim, ein neues Gesetz an, das zu einer Lösung für…