“A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab and can’t travel any way but sideways and backwards,” wrote American novelist Mark Twain. A patent formalises the right of the… [Read more]
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Ireland’s Hypocritical Immigration Policy
In just three hundred years, more than ten million people emigrated from Ireland, a figure that doubles the nation’s current population. For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, when Europe was marred by upheaval… [Read more]
Genuine Gratitude or False Advertising? Navigating the Nuances of Exporting Thanksgiving
Image: Based on photographs of Autumn Peltier addressing the United Nations. She is a Canadian water activist, who comes from Wikwemikong First Nation/Manitoulin Island and is from Ojibway/Odawa heritage. The Governance Post believes that cultural… [Read more]
Open Letter to the Hertie Administration: The COVID pandemic illuminates the need for a global understanding of policy
Dear Hertie Administration, In the 2019/20 academic year, several students requested course content cognisant of the policy approaches from Asia and Latin America — continents where Hertie draws more than 30% of its students from.… [Read more]
The Undoing of Bodily Autonomy: Abortion Laws in Poland
In 1930, writer and physician Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński referred to Poland as “Women’s Hell” in his titular essay, criticizing the country’s harsh laws when it came to women’s access to contraception and abortion. Ninety years have… [Read more]
Playing with Fire? Green Dreams of Eco-Authoritarianism
Raging forest fires, receding glaciers, or starving polar bears: scientists paint a bleak picture of our planet’s future that might challenge the survival of the human species. Despite this terrifying forecast, liberal democracies in particular… [Read more]
Coming closer to war
Since July 12, 2020 more than 12 people have been killed in what has been the worst fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan since April 2016. The region of Nagorno-Karabakh is a conflict region on the… [Read more]
Online Homeschooling and Civic Participation in Lockdown: Unpacking Europe’s Digital Divide
In this unprecedented time, substantial inequalities in the use of the internet are depriving the young and the elderly of their fundamental rights to education, access to information and participation. As the Coronavirus relocates most… [Read more]
India’s Citizenship Amendment Act – Part III: Legalisation of Constitutional Violations
This is the third of a three-part series about India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). In this article, we talk about the controversies surrounding the constitutionality of the CAA. The 2019 Citizenship Amendment Act constitutionally legalised… [Read more]
How Digital Giants Play Europe’s Tax Game: Why the European Union Needs a Unified Approach for Taxing the Digital Economy
Born-digitals, like Facebook and Google, are fooling Europe’s policymakers at their own game, as loopholes in the outdated European labyrinth of taxation have turned the hunters into the hunted. The century-old EU rules in place… [Read more]