Because culture and politics are inextricably tied together and because (most) Hertie students are not exclusively obsessed over politics and statistics, we reveal our new ‘Hertie Recommends’ series. With this series, we aim to showcase the… [Read more]
Month: January 2017
Patience, Perseverance and Pressure: Christine Lüders on Equal Treatment Reform in Germany
The German General Equal Treatment Act (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz), which was enacted in 2006 and prohibits discrimination on the grounds of race, sex, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief and disability, transposes four pieces of EU equality… [Read more]
Hertie Recommends: Fred Kaplan’s ‘Dark Territory- The Secret History of Cyber War’
“The world is run by ones and zeros…There’s a war out there…It’s about who controls the information.” This line from the 1992 movie Sneakers inspired Mike McConnell, director of the National Security Agency (NSA)… [Read more]