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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe moral triangle: Germans, Israelis and Palestinians in Berlin
An Interview with Sa′ed Atshan and Katharina Galor about the difficult, complex relationship of these three communities.
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Published in: HomeDemocracyWatch: COVID-19 ushers in a new era of surveillance apps
Around the world, governments are using the crisis to roll back democracy and human rights – and to monitor citizens...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Covid19: a checkmate of the West?
This is a radical challenge. The West is certainly going to lose if its politicians, academics and civil servants...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Making migrants visible to COVID-19 counting: the dilemma
While most forms of data management of populations are problematic, the COVID-19 pandemic requires reconsidering the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIn Turkey, Erdogan’s crackdown on Kurds takes no coronavirus break
It is clear that Turkey’s Kurds can expect no respite during the coronavirus public health crisis.
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Published in: HomeAs the world washes its hands of the stateless, they risk facing COVID-19 alone
“They are invisible (as opposed to we are blind), they live on the margins (as opposed to we’ve pushed them to the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Applying principles of cooperation and comprehensive security to the coronavirus crisis
"Our first goal should be to bring about an immediate end to all armed conflicts."
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Published in: HomeBuilding the post-coronial world: a vision from Germany
Let’s revive belief in a future that improves on the present: what role could Germany and Europe play?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaUS sanctions: collective punishment in the time of COVID-19
The coronavirus outbreak exposes the fundamental inhumanity of US foreign policy in the Middle East.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The COVID-19 pandemic: multilateralism and parliaments
To prevent international relations from sliding back to a “state of anarchy”, international organizations have a...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFor Iran and the US, public health is a political weapon
With or without the US sanctions, the Iranian regime is neither capable nor interested in prioritizing the...
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Published in: HomeThe West is winning: Pompeo's address to the Munich Security Conference 2020
"Pompeo rejects the practised, diplomatic language in which the MSC report frames its analysis... It's an angry...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCoerced innovation: Gaza makes its own tools to fight against COVID-19
Gaza’s engineers have been forced to confront the COVID-19 pandemic with ingenuity: building ventilators from scratch.
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Published in: HomeDemocracyWatch: global pandemic power grabs
Rights and freedoms cut in the name of coronavirus this week
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPalestinians in East Jerusalem: living under a deadly virus and a violent occupation
The coronavirus pandemic is revealing the ugly realities and the injustice of occupation which can no longer be ignored.
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Published in: openMovementsDivided we stand – the pandemic in the US
The account of the pandemic could equally be labelled an account of the current politics, economies, and unequal...
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Published in: HomeHow the tiny coronavirus makes the world’s mightiest navy pointless
Warships are a hotbed of infection. And in the pandemic, even healthy military can do little. Will it make us...
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Published in: HomeThe Easter bombings in Sri Lanka – a reflection one year after
What we owe the victims of Easter 2019 is an end to elitist power politics and a governance that is rooted in the...
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Published in: HomeGenocide is not an Essential Service
"We are doing this to save humanity…. If we destroy the Earth, the Earth will recover; … we won’t. The Earth doesn’t...
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Published in: HomeWe need to develop our empathy muscles in these troubled times
" I have lived with my partner for over forty years and as a psychotherapist I am embarrassed to say that my empathy...