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Between Aspiration and Reality: European Diplomacy towards the Indo-Pacific

Ministerial Meeting of EU-ASEAN and EU-Indo-Pacific Forum in Brussels

While the public was captivated by the Special European Council on 1st February, important meetings between representatives of the Indo-Pacific and the EU took place almost simultaneously: Following a 'Pacific Day' in the European Parliament, representatives of the 27 EU member states met with their counterparts from the region on the morning of 2nd February as part of the ministerial meeting of the EU-Indo-Pacific Forum. Approximately 70 delegations from the eastern and southern coasts of Africa, across the Arabian Peninsula and Asia, to the island states of the Pacific Ocean participated in the negotiations.

Jonas Nitschke, Dr. Olaf Wientzek
February 6, 2024
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Democracy and Climate Change: Lessons Learned from 3 “Flawed Democracies’’

India, Indonesia, and South Africa

What are the challenges in flawed democracies, and what approaches work? What are the practical lessons for climate actors in these and similar countries? A study for the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and the European Network of Political Foundations.

February 6, 2024
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"Global Gateway" slowly gathers momentum

The Global Gateway Forum on October 25 and 26 in Brussels brought together high-level representatives from over 40 countries.

The meeting gave the EU the opportunity to publicly promote the Global Gateway infrastructure strategy, which was launched at the end of 2021, and to announce concrete project completions.

Dr. Olaf Wientzek, Jonas Nitschke, Louis Bout
October 30, 2023
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Japan’s new national security strategy: a platform for further cooperation with the EU?

By Alessandro De Cicco

In this study, Alessandro De Cicco pinpoints the main policy changes in the security architecture of Japan, a pacifist nation which constitutionally renounces war. But as Japan’s recently-adopted strategy testifies, the international community is facing challenges “defining an era”. This policy paper draws conclusions on the topical relevance of the EU-Japan partnership in the security field.

July 1, 2023
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Adaptation and Mitigation Financing Solutions

By Jayant Sinha & Vedant Monger

The GCA Collaborative is an independent research effort to evaluate how Global South countries can best ally with Global North countries to accelerate climate action. Over the past two years, several academic institutions and think tanks have been collaborating on these issues and pooling their individual research efforts. The first version of this GCA handbook was launched at COP'27. With revisions and updates, the second version was released during the Think20 Inception Conference. The white paper series details the theoretical and empirical work behind the handbooks.

June 29, 2023
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Driving Transformational Pathways

By Vedant Monger

The GCA Collaborative is an independent research effort to evaluate how Global South countries can best ally with Global North countries to accelerate climate action. Over the past two years, several academic institutions and think tanks have been collaborating on these issues and pooling their individual research efforts. The first version of this GCA handbook was launched at COP'27. With revisions and updates, the second version was released during the Think20 Inception Conference. The white paper series details the theoretical and empirical work behind the handbooks.

June 29, 2023
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Foundational Structures of The GCA: Membership, Incentives, and Institutions

By Karin Jancykova, Ritika Jajoo, and Vedant Monger

The GCA Collaborative is an independent research effort to evaluate how Global South countries can best ally with Global North countries to accelerate climate action. Over the past two years, several academic institutions and think tanks have been collaborating on these issues and pooling their individual research efforts. The first version of this GCA handbook was launched at COP'27. With revisions and updates, the second version was released during the Think20 Inception Conference. The white paper series details the theoretical and empirical work behind the handbooks.

June 29, 2023
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History of Climate Agreements and the Need for a Global Climate Alliance

By Ritika Jajoo

The GCA Collaborative is an independent research effort to evaluate how Global South countries can best ally with Global North countries to accelerate climate action. Over the past two years, several academic institutions and think tanks have been collaborating on these issues and pooling their individual research efforts. The first version of this GCA handbook was launched at COP'27. With revisions and updates, the second version was released during the Think20 Inception Conference. The white paper series details the theoretical and empirical work behind the handbooks.

June 29, 2023
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Net Zero Pathways – India Case Study

By Deepthi Swamy, Ulka Kelkar, and Varun Agarwal

The GCA Collaborative is an independent research effort to evaluate how Global South countries can best ally with Global North countries to accelerate climate action. Over the past two years, several academic institutions and think tanks have been collaborating on these issues and pooling their individual research efforts. The first version of this GCA handbook was launched at COP'27. With revisions and updates, the second version was released during the Think20 Inception Conference. The white paper series details the theoretical and empirical work behind the handbooks.

June 29, 2023
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Money Talks: Mapping EU’s Financial Engagement to Afghanistan Pre- and Post-Taliban Takeover

Widya Puspitasari

The short study provides an overview and comparison of EU’s financial engagement to Afghanistan by examining EU’s past and current funding instruments to Afghanistan pre- and post-Taliban takeover in August 2021.

June 22, 2023
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Country Reports

Short political reports of the KAS offices abroad

The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung is a political foundation. Our offices abroad are in charge of over 200 projects in more than 120 countries. The country reports offer current analyses, exclusive evaluations, background information and forecasts - provided by our international staff.

Event Reports

The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, its educational institutions, centres and foreign offices, offer several thousand events on various subjects each year. We provide up to date and exclusive reports on selected conferences, events and symposia at www.kas.de. In addition to a summary of the contents, you can also find additional material such as pictures, speeches, videos or audio clips.

European Union Climate and Energy

Prospects of Cooperation with (Re)emerging Powers

“European Union Climate and Energy” is a section with a series of reports and other publications designed to provide insight into the EU’s ambitions in the field of climate and energy policy development. Each publication in this series focuses on the EU’s global engagement in a clean transition or on how partner countries’ climate and energy ambitions relate to the EU. This series aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the EU’s engagement strategies in the field of sustainable energy cooperation, climate change adaptation and mitigation as well as its partnership policies in the field of climate and energy.

Global Europe Illustrated

Spotlights on the EU´s engagement with the world

“Global Europe Illustrated” is a section with a series of published maps designed to provide an insight into the EU's foreign policy ambitions in various regions. Each thematic map in the series focuses on the EU's global engagement in the context of EU election observation missions, global gateway projects and bilateral and multilateral EU summits and ministerial meetings with participating partner countries. In addition, each map is accompanied by a brief political analysis that provides nuanced views on what the map says about the EU's foreign policy objectives in the respective region and how these efforts are perceived. This combination of visual representation and analytical commentary provides a comprehensive understanding of the EU's engagement strategies and their impact on regional political realities.

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