Binational cooperation in higher education: Vietnamese-German University
12. May 2019Over 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
8. April 2019Prior 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?
7. April 2019The 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.
7. April 2019International 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?
16. March 2019With 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
9. March 2019For 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
1. January 2019One 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
17. February 2018On 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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Dr. Steffen MurauExecutive Board, Impact Groups
Dr. Steffen Murau
Executive Board, Impact Groups
Dr Steffen Murau is an executive board member and responsible for IFAIR’s Impact Groups.
He currently works as a postdoctoral fellow at Global Development Policy Center of Boston University. In the academic year 2017-18, he was a fellow at Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Steffen completed his PhD in International Political Economy at City, University of London in November 2017. From 2013 to 2017, he has been teaching political economy, international relations and economics at City, University of London, University College London (UCL) and Columbia University, New York. Until 2012, he studied political science, philosophy, economics and international law at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He interned at Deutsche Bundesbank and the German Institute for Security and International Affairs, and implemented a development project in Cameroon with a German NGO. Steffen speaks German, English, French and Arabic.
Website: https://steffenmurau.com/
Contact: steffen.murau@ifair.eu
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