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8. Februar 2024 | EDP Wire | Benjamin Schütze, Elia El Khazen, Charlotte Mueller, Philipp Wagner
Facilitating energy flows, containing humans – Authoritarian energy transitions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region
Portrayed as a ‘green revolution’, European investments in renewables are extracting energy and profits, while bypassing local communities, strengthening authoritarian governments, increasing indebtedness and privatising economies – an essay by Benjamin Schütze and others. This EDP Wire is a repost …
weiter lesen »4. Dezember 2023 | EDP Wire | Julia Leininger
No Sellout of Democracy
The G20 summit showcased that democracies and autocracies need to cooperate with each other. „Standing up for democracy and cooperating with autocrats – is that possible?“ asks Julia Leininger in the Current Column. This EDP Wire is a repost from …
weiter lesen »22. September 2023 | EDP Wire | Pascal Abb, Hanna Pfeifer, Irene Weipert-Fenner, Jonas Wolff
An Audible Silence: The Role of Autocracy and Democracy in Germany’s National Security Strategy
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine revived the narrative of a global competition between democracies and autocracies, which had already gained importance in the wake of China’s rise to power. In March 2022, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock had also spoken of …
weiter lesen »26. Juni 2023 | EDP Wire | Rebecca Wagner
The Republic of Kyrgyzstan in a Process of Autocratization: Steinmeier’s Visit to Central Asia in the Context of National Processes and the German National Security Strategy
Federal President Frank Walter Steinmeier is on a official trip through Central Asia, where he is not only visiting Kazakhstan but also the Republic of Kyrgyzstan. Against the backdrop of far-reaching restrictions against civil society and human rights activists, this …
weiter lesen »24. Oktober 2022 | EDP Wire | Jonas Wolff, Lukas Harth, Florian Kriener
Responding to Foreign Interference in the EU: Beware of Unintended Consequences
The EU’s emerging response to foreign interference, as it is currently debated in the EU Parliament, contains striking similarities to arguments put forth by some governments around the world seeking to justify harsh restrictions on foreign funding and „foreign agents.“ …
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