Binational cooperation in higher education: Vietnamese-German University
Over the last two decades, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has added a new dimension to its foreign relations in pursuit of development policy. As […]
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Why are some developmental states more effective than others? The case of South Korea and Indonesia
Prior to the publication of The East Asian Miracle (1993), a World Bank report on development outcomes, South-East Asian countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia and […]
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This time I’m voting and you?
The European Parliament elections, which have been held every five years since 1979, give citizens in all member states the opportunity to elect their members […]
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National reforms regulating prostitution to combat human trafficking.
International human trafficking is a flourishing, however often overlooked problem. In order to talk about current legal reforms, IFAIR in cooperation with the Association of Humboldt University initiated a […]
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Human Rights Abuses in Kashmir: The Ultimate Impasse to an EU-India Free Trade Agreement?
With an ever-assertive China in the East and Trump’s America in the West, a strong EU-India relationship could prove to be fruitful and mutually beneficial. […]
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Historic cooperation: France and Germany to share their presidencies in the UN Security Council
For the first time in the history of the United Nations (UN), two states share their presidencies in the Security Council. As France will take […]
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The difference between the US and EU sanctions policy and the updated EU Blocking Regulation
One of the main characteristics of EU sanctions is that the goals of the sanctions and the steps the receiving country must take with which […]
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The Failure of Schengen: A Report
On June 15th, 1985, five European states, including Germany, France and Belgium, signed the so-called Schengen Agreement. In it, they agreed to coordinate their judicial […]
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The European Payments Union: Back to the Future
Among monetary experts, there is a widespread consensus that the Eurozone in its current form is not sustainable. The key argument is that introducing the […]
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The EU as a Global Development Actor – Three Challenges
In 2015, the international community agreed on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a new framework for global development. Against this background, the EU is currently revising its own development […]
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