Almut Rochowanski is an activist who has been supporting civil society in the former Soviet Union for 20 years, focusing on peace work and women’s rights. The time for hand-wringing and empty ...

Dr Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff is a diplomat who has been working in the field of EU external relations since 1992. He has served as the European Union’s official representative in various locations, ...

Ukraine and Moldova Programme Coordinator at Democracy Reporting International. He manages projects related to Ukraine’s legal alignment with the EU, including sector-specific reforms, and recently co ...

Contrary to the European trend, Germany wants to extend daily working hours. Here’s why the current debate is a step backwards.

Susan Javad is responsible for the topics of labour, qualification and co-determination in the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung's Political Advice and Impulses Department. She previously worked for the ...

Populists rarely win because they make better arguments. They often ride on the way their opponents react. Attacking populists only makes them stronger, not because of what is said, but because of the ...

Protests rise from Novi Sad to Belgrade. Eighty per cent support the students, yet power remains deaf to their voices Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić seems invincible. Over the past 13 years – ...

The freeze in funding for USAID from the new Donald Trump administration has sent a shockwave through international development. USAID was established by John F Kennedy, with programmes focused on ...

Grant Wyeth is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Asia-Pacific Development, Diplomacy & Defence Dialogue and a columnist for The Diplomat. He was previously a researcher at the Asia Institute at the ...

Vanessa Badré, a faculty fellow at American University, is a lawyer and art historian specialising in analysing works of art to explore broader social and economic themes and concepts.

What in the world is going on in the United States? Just a few days before the election, the race for the highest political office – the presidency – is wide open. This is despite the fact that ...

Tigran Grigoryan is a political scientist and head of the Regional Centre for Democracy and Security in Yerevan. He is also a columnist and political commentator at Civilnet.am. He served on the ...