The Governance Post sat down with Hertie School of Governance students to weigh in on the results of the US election. Editor’s note: What we witnessed last night with the American election was not just… [Read more]
Peace & Conflict
This section is a platform for interdisciplinary discourse on global peace and conflict, united in the endeavour to discuss possible solutions to pressing security problems.
Vladimir Putin’s Trump Card
As Election day draws closer, MIA student Julian Lang weighs in on the historic shift in US-Russian relations since the DNC Email hack. While several European politicians and leaders have already sided with the Russian Federation in recent… [Read more]
Slippery Poles Apart
This year’s US Presidential Election continues to throw gender stereotypes and sexism onto the spotlight, not least because it’s the very first time that a female candidate has been put forward. Klara Marie Schröder, one of… [Read more]
The Social Media Game
Executive Editor Klara Marie Schroeder interviews Hertie School of Governance Professor Yannis Theocharis on the unprecedented role of social media in this year’s US Election. Social Media has played an unprecedented role in this year’s US election… [Read more]
Caught Between a Rock and a “Hard” Brexit
Mark Dawson is Professor of European law and governance at the Hertie School and has been watching the aftermath of the Brexit referendum unfold from Berlin. After the dust settled, Lisa Gow, one of the… [Read more]
Swing Low, Sweet Trumpio
Jonathan Rummel, a second-year Public Policy student currently on a Professional Year in the United States, offers a break-down of last night’s Presidential Debate from home. The trending hashtag #NOHANDSHAKE almost perfectly sums up the… [Read more]
Kiron Open Higher Education: Between Politics and Social Entrepreneurship
Founded in 2014, Kiron Open Higher Education assists refugees with free and fast access to higher education. Founders Markus Kressler and Vincent Zimmer on navigating the realm between politics and social entrepreneurship and how start-ups… [Read more]
The Story of a Name – Talking about Hertie’s Darker Past
Few Hertie students are aware that the name Hertie originated from the Jewish-German Tietz family, forced out of business in Nazi Germany. A former employee of the Tietz’, Georg Karg, profited greatly from their loss. His heirs later… [Read more]
Can Subsidiarity Save the Liberal International Order?
In their piece, Markus Jachtenfuchs and Nico Krisch depart from the observation that global governance consists of a multitude of international institutions. They problematize, however, the relationship between those institutions on the one hand, and… [Read more]
Let’s not Rationalise the Irrational
Taking European citizens’ concerns about ’the foreign’ seriously does not imply uncritically adopting them. Especially in times of change it is important to confront citizens’ fears with facts in order to establish a respectful dialogue… [Read more]