Publications
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Reinvigorating Peace: A Critical Look at the UN’s New Agenda for Peace
This Policy Brief analyses how the global landscape has shifted from post-Cold War optimism to current fragmentation, requiring changes in the approach of the United Nations to sustaining peace. It examines the priorities and limitations of…
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Great Power Competition, Stillborn Democracies and the Rise of Neo-Authoritarians: The Case of India
This Policy Brief considers the case of India, which is instructive in understanding how a state-oriented world organisation can fuel geopolitical competition, impede the goal of achieving substantive democracy, and facilitate the rise of neo-authoritarians. Over the course of the last century…
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Why Parliaments?
This Policy Brief charts the history of the parliament of representatives, born more than eight centuries ago in northern Spain. This new instrument of government was among the most precious gifts to the world of modern…
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What is Democratic Resilience and How Can We Strengthen It?
This Policy Brief explores the concept of resilience which has risen to become a key concept in science and society. As a scientific concept, resilience is, on the one hand, an analytical category that seeks to grasp empirically “what is”…
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The Rule of Law: Undermined and Under Attack – Questioning the State Monopoly on the Legitimate Use of Physical Force
This policy brief examines contemporary challenges to the legitimate state monopoly on the use of force and its possible future. The rule of law is being undermined and attacked…
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