SANCTIONING BELARUS: YES, NO, OR DOES IT MATTER?

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By Marylia Hushcha A month ago, a Ryanair civilian plane flying from Athens to Vilnius was forced to land in Minsk when it was flying through Belarus’ airspace. Belarusian authorities arrested two passengers who were on board of the plane: Raman Pratasevich – a blogger and opposition activist and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega. The incident…

Kann EU-Außengrenzschutz das Sterben im Mittelmeer verhindern?

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Von Judith Kohlenberger   ABSTRACT Der Schutz der Außengrenzen beherrscht ak- tuell die europäische Sicherheits- und Migra- tionspolitik. Effizientes Grenzmanagement und die Beseitigung mutmaßlicher Pullfakto- ren sollen helfen, die Zahl der gefährlichen Überfahrten zu senken und das Sterben im Mittelmeer zu beenden. Doch rezente For- schungsergebnisse legen nahe, dass eine restriktive Migrationspolitik durch Grenzkon- trollen,…

Russianization of Turkish Foreign Policy? The Bigger Question Behind Nagorno-Karabakh

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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?

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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

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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?

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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…
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