Twenty years after the war in Kosovo, there is now a whole generation of youngsters who have little or no memory of the war or had not even been born at the time of conflict. This generation, making Kosovo the country with
10 years after the launch of the Eastern Partnership (EaP), the EU finds itself in a strategic dilemma: On the one hand the ‘European aspirations’ of many of the Eastern partners are the driving force behind their domestic democratic reform process;
With the continuation of the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine, it appears that unfortunately negotiations are no longer the bright prospect they once were. On February 12, 2019, the UN’s Assistant Secretary-General for Europe,
Seit Anfang Dezember 2018 kommt es im Sudan zu regelmäßigen Protesten gegen das islamistische Regime der National Congress Party (NCP) unter Führung des vom Internationalen Strafgerichtshof (IStGh) angeklagten Präsidenten Omer Al-Bashir.
On February 28, 2019, the second Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi ended without an agreement between both sides. Once more, the crux proved to be diverging interpretations of what the “denuclearisation” of North Korea meant, and what steps on this path would be enough to lift the international sanctions on the …
China’s increasing engagement with conflict and post-conflict societies has already attracted significant attention from international observers, particularly as it emerged as a major contributor to peacekeeping missions in the 00s (covered, for example, in this Saferworld report and a special issue of International Peacekeeping). One of the earliest patterns established by Chinese PKO …
A Nation on the Brink The world’s deadliest and direst humanitarian crisis in recent history has not been unfolding in Syria, but in the Middle East’s poorest country now caught in the crosshairs of a brutal civil war: Yemen. As recently reported by the UN, 22 million Yemenis are in …
Im Kontext zeitgenössischer Debatten um westliche Demokratien gehört Chantal Mouffe zu den wohl profiliertesten Denker*innen. Doch wie steht es um die Anwendungsmöglichkeit bzw. das Erklärungspotential ihrer Theorie? Der folgende Beitrag betrachtet die politische Strategie des 2008 gestorbenen, österreichischen FPÖ-Politikers Jörg Haider sowie den Erfolg der FPÖ bei der Nationalratswahl 2017 …
In Western and Middle Eastern relations, Egypt has long played a vital role as a mediator between the two worlds. When the wave of revolutions started in 2011, liberalism and democracy set the focus for future political developments. However, it is often forgotten that both concepts were established under Western …
Jürgen Pirker erforscht das Wechselspiel von Historie, kollektiven Identitäten und Erinnerung. Im Interview erläutert er die Auswirkungen von Narrativen in der zivilen Konfliktbearbeitung. Er nimmt auch Bezug auf seine jüngste Publikation, “Geschichte(n) im Konflikt: Zu Wechselwirkungen von Geschichten, Recht und Politik”, die sich mit dem Streit um zweisprachige Ortstafeln in der Kärntner Volksgruppenfrage befasst.
