This piece is part of a novel collaboration between The Governance Post and The Paris Globalist, the international affairs magazine by students at Sciences Po in Paris, France. “When violence against NGOs broke out in… [Read more]

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This piece is part of a novel collaboration between The Governance Post and The Paris Globalist, the international affairs magazine by students at Sciences Po in Paris, France. “When violence against NGOs broke out in… [Read more]
Vergangenheitsbewältigung refers to the struggle to overcome one’s dark past. The Hertie School has recently been criticized by students and the media for its lack of action on accounting for its historical ties to the Nazi regime. Fabian Zubicky argues that… [Read more]
Content Warning: Sexual Violence The word ‘asylum,’ like many others, entered the English language from Greece. Its origin, ‘asylos’ means inviolable, or literally, an inviolable place. Useful and broad, the word evolved to describe different… [Read more]
While the United States presidential election has attracted worldwide attention, the phenomenon itself must not distract from its vast foreign and domestic policy implications. One example is the historic Colombian Peace Agreement which urgently requires… [Read more]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of The Governance Post editors or the Hertie School. This first part of a two-part series about the Israeli… [Read more]