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Photo: Cover of the publication "ThinkPeace #1", May 2025 Large central oval text: “Why Germany should bolster security beyond defense amidst Trump’s global impact.” Overall layout with bright green background.

Why Germany should bolster security beyond defense amidst Trump's global impact

Published: 9 May 2025
E-Paper
The incoming German government will have to navigate challenges that are existential to Germany, Europe. This publication applies a feminist perspective to the far-reaching impact of the second Trump administration on global peace and security.
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Publication Testing the fault lines

Testing the fault lines

Published: 14 March 2025
Study
Election-related disinformation is reshaping democracies across Africa. This study examines how fake content spread during elections in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, and Senegal fuels distrust, exploits divisions, and skews public perception.
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Intersectional Feminist Perspectives On Cybercrime Law

Published: 28 February 2025
Policy Brief
Cybercrime threatens not only digital security but also deepens social inequalities, affecting marginalized groups like women, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and human rights defenders. This policy briefing explores the risks of weaponized cyber laws and proposes a human rights-based approach.
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Climate Security Report

Published: 6 February 2025
Report
This report reviews climate security literature, identifies key players, and analyzes case studies. It highlights actors' needs in different contexts and offers recommendations for global, regional, and local engagement, with a focus on the global South.
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Cover: Emerging & disruptive technologies and nuclear weapons decision making

Emerging & disruptive technologies and nuclear weapons decision making

Published: 18 February 2022
Report
Nuclear weapons remain at the core of modern security strategies, and all great powers of the 21st century rely on nuclear deterrence to some extent. A workshop organized by the European Leadership Network (ELN) focused on the impact of new and disruptive technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Quantum Computing on nuclear decision-making. The major findings of the workshop are summarized in this report.
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Feministische Außenpolitik

Practicing Feminist Foreign Policy in the Everyday: A Toolkit

Published: 23 November 2021
Explainer
Feminist foreign policy is emerging as a new paradigm in international relations. The concept raises expectations of a more peaceful and just foreign policy, but its theoretical dimension and practical implementation are often not clearly defined. This toolkit tries to close this gap and clarify key terms of feminist foreign policy, as well as outline the practical application of the feminist approach to international diplomacy, to security, environmental, development, trade and migration policy.
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Cover: How Militarised is Germany’s Foreign Policy?

How Militarised is Germany’s Foreign Policy?

Published: 29 September 2021
Policy Brief
German foreign policy is often described as peace-oriented, moderate and scarcely militarized. But the image of Germany as a "civilian power" cannot be upheld against Berlin's record in defense spending and arms exports. There is little evidence that Germany prioritizes civilian instruments over military power in its foreign policy. A feminist critique by the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy and the German section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
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Between Hard and Soft Power

Published: 9 June 2021
E-Paper
Although political debates were for the most part overshadowed by the Corona crisis at the beginning of 2021, this E-Paper wants to address the question of how the European Union could find its place in a more competitive world. The buzzwords of this debate were the concepts of strategic autonomy and strategic sovereignty of the EU.
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The international arms trade is a feminist issue and what Germany can do about it

Published: 30 November 2020
Policy Paper
Feminist perspectives are gaining strength in foreign and security policy. This leads to new questions for the politically contested field of arms transfers. The authors of the policy paper analyse the phenomenon of gender-based violence, which can be exacerbated through the transfer of weaponry to certain regions, and call for a more gender-sensitive arms export policy.
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Radioactivity Under the Sand

Published: 8 July 2020
E-Paper
More than half a century ago, France tested its first atomic bombs in the Algerian desert. This E-Paper examines the environmental and political legacy of these tests: a story of post-colonial injustice and radiological irresponsibility.
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