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Im Zuge der Corona-Pandemie hat "New Work" besondere Aufmerksamkeit erfahren. Unter diesem Stichwort lässt sich eine grundsätzliche Debatte darüber führen, wie die Zukunft der Arbeit aussehen kann.

Die Erderhitzung liegt in der wachstumsgetriebenen Wirtschaft begründet. Mit "Green New Deals" wollen Regierungen weltweit die Transformation von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft vorantreiben.

The beginning of the new school year in many countries of the former Soviet Union, including in Russia, is celebrated on September 1st and is known as "Knowledge Day". This year, September 1st will be unique as the new educational amendments enter into force in Russia and Russia-controlled territories. These amendments introduce controversial changes to the educational process, which raise serious concerns about children's rights and freedoms. These changes include new unified textbooks on history, the legalisation of children's forced labour, and the continuation of "Conversations about the important" lessons with an enhanced militaristic element.

Stellenausschreibung der Universität Freiburg, Schweiz. Deadline: 1. Dezember 2023

These are exciting times for Greek constitutionalists. In its capacity as electoral judge, the first section of the Greek Supreme Civil and Criminal Court (Areios Pagos) recently banned the participation of the neo-Nazi Hellenes National Party in the elections of 21 May. In order to accept the constitutionality of the legislative ban on Hellenes National Party, Areios Pagos had to provide not only a new interpretation of Greek constitutional provisions, but also a whole new vision of democracy, of the Greek and the European Constitution and of Greek constitutional politics. The brave new world of Areios Pagos is part of a new constitutionalist approach that is likely to affect the application of constitutional provisions in future cases, as the more recent decision concerning the elections of 25 June shows.

After a lengthy process of internal deliberation, the German government released its China strategy on July 13. The document signals a policy shift away from the business-focused approach taken by previous governments, and towards a "de-risking" of ties with China. It also reframes the relationship by stressing elements of competition and even rivalry, based on the perception that Chinese authoritarianism is becoming a threat to Germany and its role in the world. Instead of seeking to transform autocracies through engagement, the new approach is much more about shoring up Germany's own system.
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Pascal Abb



Dr. Pascal Abb ist Koordinator der Forschungsgruppe "Regimewettbewerb" und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der HSFK mit Schwerpunkt China. Er betreibt aktuell ein Forschungsprojekt zu den Auswirkungen der Belt-and-Road-Initiative auf Konfliktstaaten. // Dr Pascal Abb is Coordinator of the Research Group "Regime Competition" and Senior Researcher at PRIF with a focus on China. He is currently conducting a research project on the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on conflict states.

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Der Beitrag Germany's New China Strategy: A Defensive Shift erschien zuerst auf PRIF BLOG.

Stellenausschreibung der Fachhochschule Bern, Schweiz. Deadline: 9. Juni 2024

Kleine Drohne im Flug (Symbolbild) – CC-BY 2.0 Steffen VoßDie New Yorker Polizei setzt Drohnen ein, um sich ihre Arbeit zu erleichtern. Was die Polizei zunächst mit der besseren Überwachung von öffentlichen Straßenfesten begründete, kann auch zur Überwachung von privaten Gartenpartys eingesetzt werden. Daran wird Kritik laut.

Rezension zu "Hipsterism. A Paradigm for Modernity" von Tara Semple

Prof. Gisela Müller-Brandeck-Bocquet hat im Blog des Forum for International Cultural Relations einen Beitrag über die „Zeitenwende“ und ihre Bedeutung für die Sicherheitsarchitektur in Europa geschrieben. Hier können Sie den Beitrag lesen.
Der Beitrag The Watershed Era: A New Security Architecture for Europe? erschien zuerst auf mainEUropa.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation. Dedline: March 1, 2024

Over the last weeks, we were forced to realize that the way our – i.e. German – public opinion (and politicians) react to the ruthless assault of Hamas on 7 October differs markedly from the intuitions of the broad public in the Islamic world (and large parts of the ´Global South´ in general). Whereas our media (and speeches of politicians) are full of references to Israel´s right to self-defence, the sentiments voiced on the streets in the Middle East (and publicly stated by politicians such as Turkish President Erdogan) go in the opposite direction, stress the legitimate cause of the Palestinians and term the Hamas as a movement of national liberation. Clearly there is a legitimate cause in the fight of Palestinians against endless occupation. But do ends really justify means, at all price, as the praise for Hamas seems to suggest? A closer look to the normative underpinnings of current international law confirms the intuition that this is more than doubtful, as a thorough analysis of the (intensely debated) provisions on the status of movements of national liberation in IHL tells us.

Researchers and scientists coming to Germany as refugees have limited opportunities to deal with research topics or none at all. Besides the individual difficulties caused by such situation, it is also a loss of research capacity for the respective scientific field. The online platform www.chance-for-science.de aims at facilitating the access...

An emerging "new Cold War" appears to pit democracies, led by the US, against autocracies, led by Russia and China. But the analogy between today's regime competition and that of the "old" Cold War is deceptive. China and Russia today are much more closely intertwined with Western democracies than the Soviet Union ever was. These linkages will complicate the conflict considerably. There is already growing pressure to engage in "decoupling", that is, to break these interdependencies. Research on past instances of decoupling shows that such processes often exacerbate conflict. This research offers four lessons about the general dynamics of decoupling – and little cause for optimism about today's disengagement processes.
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Matthias Dembinski



Dr. Matthias Dembinski ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Programmbereich "Internationale Institutionen" und Projektleiter an der HSFK. Er forscht zu Fragen von Gerechtigkeit in den internationalen Beziehungen, regionalen Sicherheitsorganisationen und humanitären Interventionen. Sein regionaler Schwerpunkt ist Westeuropa. // Dr Matthias Dembinski is Senior Researcher in the research department "International Institutions" and project manager at PRIF. His research interests are questions of justice in international relations, regional security organisations and humanitarian interventions. His regional focus is Western Europe.

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Der Beitrag Decoupling and the "New Cold War": Cautionary Lessons from the Past erschien zuerst auf PRIF BLOG.

Nearly two weeks after the 100th-anniversary celebrations of the Republic, Turkey's constitutional order faced one of the most significant judicial crises in its history when the Court of Cassation, the highest court of ordinary jurisdiction, and the Turkish Constitutional Court (TCC) clashed over the fate of imprisoned opposition politician Can Atalay. How should we interpret this constitutional crisis? Is it the death of constitutionalism in Turkey? Is it an attempt to test the boundaries of legitimacy before establishing the rules of a new constitutional order?