The lost honor of Gerhard Schröder.

It's not just Kremlin connection. Same fatal interplay of ego, ideology & profit turned Schröder into an apologist of 🇨🇳party-state. One of many in 🇩🇪elite.

My congratulations on Schröder's 80th.
AgendaPública EL PAÍS.

agendapublica.es/noticia/19155/…

The 1st step toward better global governance: a pretty website?

Probably not. But big news: the ENSURED web hub is now live! 🎉

The website will house our research, policy briefs, blogs & events.

Already, there's a lot of exciting updates...
👉 ensuredeurope.eu

📽️ For global institutions to make better decisions, civil society needs a seat at the table, says ENSURED's Inés Pousadela (CIVICUS).

How can global governance do better at including civil society voices?

Some ideas 👇

📢 30 years after the atrocities, the study 'German Foreign Policy and the Rwandan Genocide' is now available in 🇬🇧. Sarah Brockmeier-Large & Anton (Anjo) Peez took a look at the archival records of the Foreign Ministry in 2021. Thanks to GPPi for the cooperation. boell.de/en/2021/03/29/…

“No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all of your knowledge is about the past and all of your decisions are about the future.”(Ian Wilson)
GPPi's new strategic #foresight portfolio is now live:
gppi.net/issue-area/str…

When 🇷🇺’s war against 🇺🇦 eventually comes to an end, there will need to be a new order for peace in the region.

Julia Friedrich and other experts will discuss how that could look at this Petra-Kelly-Stiftung event.

📆 March 20, 18:30 CET
📍 Online

Register 👇 petrakellystiftung.de/de/afar/event%…

📽️ Good migration policy means moving beyond short-term crisis responses & toward sustainable co-development, says ENSURED's Lilian Tsourdi (@MaastrichtU).

In ENSURED, we'll examine the state-of-play in 🌍 migration & human rights governance and offer action points for the future.

📅 🌍 Don't miss our panel on strategic early warning and foresight in global security with Sarah Bressan, GilMurciano, Marie Wagner & Julian Wucherpfennig!

🕒 Wed, 13.03.2024 | 6-7:30pm | On-Site

Register now! ⬇️

hertie-school.org/en/events/even…

Why much of the German elite reaction to the one-sided focus of Berlinale speakers on Palestinian suffering was overblown & counterproductive (to put it mildly).
A few points for Alex Marshall The New York Times

nytimes.com/2024/02/27/mov…

🗞️📨 Our latest newsletter just dropped!

In this issue:
✅a review of Afghanistan reviews;
✅what Berlin can learn from Ukrainians;
✅debating the future of humanitarianism;
✅two new Horizon Europe projects;
✅everything else we’ve been up to recently.

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Enjoyed comparing attempts to improve shared working in the UK and Germany.

In both cases: if political leaders decide that the only way to succeed is jointly and they agree that success really matters then joint working is successful. If not, it’s not.

For anyone in Prague (or online!) keen to learn about global governance, its challenges and the ENSURED consortium. 👇

For our blog this week Abi Watson and Philipp Rotmann from GPPi have compared the pursuit of joint working in the UK and Germany.

Read below👇👇

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New project REUNIR Horizon Europe Project GPPi:
Anticipating authoritarian foreign influencing in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and making EU foreign policy fit to respond. #forecasting #foresight #enlargement #neighborhood
gppi.net/project/reunir

What if the US really abandons Ukraine – and Europe along with it?

Countries like 🇵🇱 and the Baltic states have ramped up their military spending, but Thorsten Benner tells The Wall Street Journal that unless 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪 follow suit, fear will continue to spread.

wsj.com/world/will-the…

Exciting 2 days in Brussels kicking off REUNIR Horizon Europe Project on making #EU 's enlargement&eastern neighborhood policies fit for purpose in context of Russian & other threats.
Public discussion focuses on most urgent question: how to keep momentum for enlargement in a world in turmoil?

Today, German parliament discusses its Study Commission's 332-page report on lessons from #Afghanistan . Tina Blohm, Florian Weigand & I just studied what US, UK, Dutch and many others already identified as lessons, and what we can learn from that. gppi.net/2024/02/22/nev…

Since 🇧🇷 police launched an investigation into Jair Bolsonaro's attempt to overturn the 2022 elections, it's become clear that a coup was potentially in the cards.

In Foreign Policy, GPPi fellow Oliver Stuenkel 🇧🇷 tracks how 🇺🇸 pressure helped avert it: foreignpolicy.com/2024/02/20/bra…