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Ein Frau mit schwarzen Haaren, die zu einem Zopf geflochten sind, ist von hinten zu sehen.

Germany's Feminist Foreign and Development Policy: Need for Changes in Relations with the South Caucasus

The German government is in the process of spelling out a feminist foreign and development policy. This article, aimed at contributing to policy changes based on the new paradigm, suggests how Germany’s policy towards Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, whose political relevance has increased for Berlin due to Russia’s war in Ukraine, could become feminist.

By Dr. Sonja Katharina Schiffers

Foto: Ehrengarde des Innenministeriums der Republika Srpska, Flaggenzug während der Parade zum Tag der Republik 9. Januar (Verfassungsungswidriger Feiertag) Banja Luka, 2019

Misguided Balkans policy. Dangerous appeasement

Analysis

For many years, Western players have been going all out to placate the populistic-nationalist players and their destructive ideologies: yet their questionable methods of appeasement and undemocratic interventions have ended up bolstering the very powers that have come to pose a threat to peace.

By Marion Kraske

"Immediately after that seminal year of 2000, it was the writers who started creating bonds"

Interview

In this far-ranging interview, our office director, Nino Lejava talks to NIN Award winning author and director of the KROKODIL independent cultural center, Vladimir Arsenijević, about the historical and political foundations of Serbia's current geopolitical as well as cultural position with regard to its immediate neighbors, as well as Europe.

By Nino Lejava

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Dossiers

Kitchen table, Martuni, Nagorno-Karabakh, on October 1, 2020.

A painful peace in Nagorno-Karabakh

Elections in South Caucasus

Kapitän Wakusch (Captain Wakusch) - a documentary by Kerstin Nickig - Kerstin Nickig

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Publications

Position Paper On WB6

policy brief

Recommendations and expectations for German and European policy.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has direct and significant implications for the Western Balkans. The lack of a consistent and convincing EU perspective and U.S. engagement in the region opened up space for other actors and scenarios aimed at recomposing the Western Balkans as well as promoted regressive tendencies throughout the region.

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Perspectives Southeastern Europe #10: Green transition and social (in)justice

Magazine

The analytical commentaries of this issue discuss the prospects for a just green transition in the Western Balkan countries and their particular contexts of structural injustices in the societies and transition legacies. The fundamental economic and technological changes for a decarbonisation of the widely coal dependent economies in the region need to be accompanied not only by another attitude to nature and biodiversity but also by a new set of social relationships and innovations in governance and civic participation.

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