Europe’s next steps in successfully shaping the process of digitisation

Time to act – and fast!

Europe has crossed the threshold to the digital age. Today, digitisation pervades all areas of society and has brought about processes of profound change. Future advances in key digital technologies will accelerate these processes of change still more. The positive potentials of the digital transformation of Europe and the world are enormous. If Europe wants to fully exploit the potentials of the emergent digital age and hold its own against international competition, it cannot rest on its laurels. Rather, Europe must actively shape the process of digital transformation, purposefully mobilise its own potentials and determinedly push ahead with the necessary changes. Against this background the following paper presents specific policy recommendations for successfully shaping the process of digitisation.

Tiempos de Travesía. Análisis de la elecciones de 2018 en Costa Rica

Compilación de artículos de análisis política de distintas características de la campaña electoral de 2018.

Umweltmigration: Eine sicherheitspolitische Herausforderung

Umweltmigration bringt sicherheitspolitische Herausforderungen mit sich, die weltweite Auswirkungen – direkter oder indirekter Art – haben können. Wanderungsbewegungen infolge des globalen Klimawandels können zu politischer, gesellschaftlicher oder wirtschaftlicher Destabilisierung der Ursprungsländer führen. Im Falle grenzüberschreitender Migration kann sie sich auf Nachbarländer bzw. -regionen übertragen. Nachbarregionen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Europäischen Union wie Nordafrika und Subsahara-Afrika sowie der Nahe Osten sind hinsichtlich der Folgen des Klimawandels besonders gefährdet. Was können Deutschland, die EU und die direkt betroffenen Staaten tun, um die akuten Auswirkungen von Umweltmigration und die Ursachen zu bekämpfen sowie die Resilienz zu stärken?

Anatomía de una Fractura: Desintegración social y elecciones del 2018 en Costa Rica

Colaboración entre la Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) y la Fundación Konrad Adenauer (KAS)

Este libro es un abordaje y un análisis metodológico que toma como principal objeto de estudio los acontecimientos de las pasadas elecciones en el 2018 en Costa Rica. Se analizan los escenarios y las diferentes posturas políticas que caracterizaron el proceso, a partir de una importante división social.

Automation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Is the Future of Work at Risk?

Automation is leading to a profound transformation of the economies of industrial, emerging and developing countries alike. What are the factors that are driving or inhibiting the automation revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa? Is automation a threat to the countries’ workforces? The “in short” analyses the potential impact of automation on Sub-Saharan African economies and provides a basis to frame future debates on the topic.

Environmental Migration: A Challenge for Security Policy (Online version)

Flight and migration as a result of armed conflicts of any kind, or a lack of economic perspectives have been omnipresent reasons for migration movements in the minds of political and public stakeholders over recent years. But what about droughts, water shortages, and the impact of rising sea levels on islands and coastal areas? From a security policy perspective, it is advisable to take a closer look at migra­tion movements that are directly or indirectly linked to climate change, the effects of which can be observed worldwide. Because if the expected dimensions actually occur, and the international community does not create a binding framework for dealing with the affected group of persons – both with a view to the legal dimension as well as the institutional, political, socio-economic and infrastructural conditions in those regions concerned – they have the potential to exacerbate current instabilities and to destabilise other countries and regions.

Environmental Migration: A Challenge for Security Policy

It is generally well known that people may be forced to leave their homes due to violent conflict or a lack of economic prospects. But what about droughts, water shortages, and the impact of rising sea levels on islands and coastal areas? From a security policy perspective, it is advisable to take a closer look at migration movements that are directly or indirectly linked to climate change, the effects of which can be observed worldwide. After all, these effects have the potential to exacerbate current instabilities and to destabilise other countries and regions.

Global Value Chains, Global Responsibility?

Sustainability in global value chains

Global value chains are important target areas for promoting sustainable development. This study shows how we can achieve better standards for sustainable global value chains.

Japan vor dem G20-Gipfel in Osaka

Premier Shinzo Abe will sein Land als Anker für die liberale Weltordnung präsentieren

Am 28. und 29. Juni sind die Staats- und Regierungschefs der G20-Staaten erstmals zu einem Gipfel in Japan geladen. Für den japanischen Premierminister Shinzo Abe und sein Kabinett ist das Gipfeltreffen zweifelsohne das außenpolitisch wichtigste Ereignis des Jahres. Der Zeitpunkt der G20-Präsidentschaft ist gut gewählt, um sich international als verantwortungsbewusster Partner zu präsentieren, aber ebenso für die Förderung lange verfolgter innenpolitischer Ziele.

THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA’S 2019 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS HANDBOOK - Second updated edition

The handbook gives an overview about the Presidential Elections 2019 as well as about the history of the Presidential Elections in the country, the electoral system, the candidates, the results, the campaign and findings about the elections.