Generation Y is growing up. Young people born between 1985 and 2000 are taking on responsibilities in society, economy, culture and politics. They are seen as crisis-tested, pragmatic and flexible, and they have experienced political… [Read more]

Generation Y is growing up. Young people born between 1985 and 2000 are taking on responsibilities in society, economy, culture and politics. They are seen as crisis-tested, pragmatic and flexible, and they have experienced political… [Read more]
Hertie School students Jekaterina Grigorjeva (Latvia) and Kevin Müller (Germany) were selected as two of the three Junior Ambassadors for the 2016 Munich Security Conference (MSC), under the chairmanship of Hertie School Professor Wolfgang Ischinger.… [Read more]
Nina Hall, a post-doctoral fellow at Hertie School of Governance offers insight into the financial changes felt at the COP 21. As the world has met in Paris to discuss a more inclusive and accountable… [Read more]
Trade liberalisation has been a policy adopted by many developing countries since the 1990s. No country in recent decades has achieved economic success in terms of substantial increases to standards of living without being open… [Read more]
Global governance is expanding fast and in different directions, often without a clear or principled framework to guide institutional creation and change. Bilateral and multilateral treaties as well as international organizations have been growing in number and scope,… [Read more]
Along with the world economy, the Great Recession has shaken the ivory tower of the global intelligentsia and inflicted a serious blow to the reputation of an entire discipline: economics. In the aftermath of the crisis,… [Read more]
Four years after the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear accident and the subsequent shutdown of all nuclear plants in Japan, the Abe government announced earlier this year that it would gradually restart its nuclear energy production, sparking criticisms both… [Read more]
Gay men have feared contracting the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) for over thirty years. Many gay men, or men who have sex with men (MSM), have watched the virus devastate their communities.As HIV transmission rates… [Read more]
In 2013, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif unveiled the first of several Metrobus lines in the nation’s second largest city Lahore. Eponymously named the “Lahore Metrobus” the provincial government hailed the project as a vital… [Read more]
“How to topple a dictator” was the title of a TED talk given by Srdja Popovic (Popovic 2011). As one of the leaders of the nonviolent Serbian student movement that brought down Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, Popovic then proceeded to teach activists from… [Read more]