Paul Mason’s PostCapitalism: A Guide to our Future (2015) is a multi-disciplinary work with a highly ambitious aim. Drawing together strands of economics, politics, history, climatology and technology, the author explains not only the economic… [Read more]
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Post-Action Report: the Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge 2016
“Dear Mr President, We are a team of cyber security professionals from the National Cyber Security Directorate who are asked to brief you on the current unfolding situation of a major cyber-attack on the United… [Read more]
Hertie Recommends: A Listening Tour
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]
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]
Monetary Policy and Inequality: Is Quantitive Easing Furthering the Gap between the Rich and Poor?
As Quantitative Easing is increasingly questioned both in the U.S and in the Eurozone with regards to bond, stock, and currency markets, MPP student Patrick Sullivan invites us to look at the effects of QE… [Read more]
Handelsblatt’s “Person of the Year 2016”
Once again, Hertie School students were also asked to elect the “Person of the Year” in a school-wide online vote, which was organized by the online student magazine The Governance Post. Their choice: Canan Cokun, a… [Read more]
Interview with His Excellency Mr. Gurjit Singh, Ambassador of India to Germany
Last month, as the International Relations Club organised the first event of its Ambassador Series, Executive Editor Nathan Appleman sat down with His Excellency Mr. Gurjit Singh to discuss politics, energy, and structural domestic reforms in India.… [Read more]
All It Takes is a “Yes”? Italy’s Referendum on Historic Constitutional Reform
As the Italian referendum is drawing near, Hertie student Valentina Caracci weighs in on the direct and indirect implications and consequences of Sunday’s vote, whichever the result may be, on political institutions and good governance in… [Read more]
Caste Politics are Keeping India’s Divisions Alive
India made government job and educational quotas for marginalized castes a constitutional right in 1949, but bitter divisions over who-gets-what remain persistent across many states. Are these protests intrinsically related to caste hierarchy, or do… [Read more]