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18. Dezember 2020 | EDP Wire | Rebecca Wagner
Kyrgyzstan Before the Presidential Elections
Kyrgyz citizens will vote for a new President on 10 January 2021. Protests have caused the annulation of the parliamentary elections of 04 October 2020 which resulted in a series of high-ranked officials’ resignations and the third ouster of a President in the country’s recent history. Since then, the political landscape is changing quickly. Recent developments, including an initiated constitutional reform process, cast doubts on the future democratic path of Kyrgyzstan.
weiter lesen »26. Oktober 2020 | EDP Wire | Annika Elena Poppe
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: US Democracy Promotion after the 2020 Presidential Election
The external promotion of democracy has come under unprecedented trouble under the Trump administration. What will U.S. democracy promotion policy likely look like under a second Trump administration, and what would it be under a President Biden? In neither scenario, a return to the status quo ante is likely.
weiter lesen »17. Oktober 2020 | EDP Wire | Jonas Wolff, Felix S. Bethke
COVID-19 and shrinking civic spaces: Findings from a preliminary assessment
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a majority of countries worldwide have introduced severe limitations on public life and individual freedoms. Although generally considered necessary to save lives and protect health care systems from overburdening, these restrictions pose the risk of government overreach, thereby potentially boosting the global trend of shrinking spaces for civil society actors.
weiter lesen »29. September 2020 | EDP Wire | Julia Leininger, Karina Mross, Daniel Nowack
We Need Democracy Protection to Counter Autocratisation
This EDP Wire is part of the German Development Institute’s weekly column discussing the most recent topics of international development politics. The authors discuss the need for international democracy protection against rising autocratic tendencies.
weiter lesen »27. Mai 2020 | EDP Wire | Jonas Wolff, Felix Bethke, Sophia Birchinger, Ben Christian, Melanie Coni-Zimmer, Julian Junk, Anton Peez, Simone Schnabel, Jens Stappenbeck, Antonia Witt
Developing Peace: Impulses for German and International Development Cooperation
This EDP Wire summarizes the results of the study „Peace and Development 2020: An Analysis of Current Experiences and Findings“, which was conducted at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) and funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
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