Early Warnings Commentary In the battle against climate change the Global South has a lot to teach and give. Yet its voices and contributions are significantly underrepresented and consistently ignored by the dominating Global North in imperialist fashion. By Jamina Vesta Jugo
Acting Straight: A Message for My Kind Essay In an excerpt from his essay “I, ,the fag'”, Syrian author Raeef al-Shalabi reflects on an inner struggle that helped to position himself as a gay man and ultimately to think about human rights in a new way. By Raeef al-Shalabi
Winning the Marathon and the Sprint: Achieving long-term economic policy objectives in an era of short-term responses Paper This article wants to provide food for thought on what a long-term economic policy could look like. In the context of the climate crisis, increasing inequality, the loss of biodiversity and financial instability, the challenge is to craft a strategic approach that can set the course for long-term success. By Jonathan Barth, Jakob Hafele and Prof. Dr. Adam Tooze
Reframing Reproduction Online discussion series The freedom to decide over one’s own body and reproduction is still a privilege in today’s world. Whether or not to have children and how to raise them is a very personal choice, but also a choice with political implications: Who is encouraged or forced to have children? Who has access to resources and the means to have children? Whose parenthood is the subject of reappraisal or prevention? How do laws, policies, and public health programmes influence people’s access to reproductive self-determination?
Julia Schulze Wessel Managing Director of anDemos - Institute for Applied Democracy and Social Research
