Northern Ireland at a crossroads?
23 March 2009 _ Stefan Wolff
For more than a decade, Northern Ireland had been spared from fatal attacks on security forces. Then, within two days, two soldiers and a policeman had been killed by terrorists. Why did it happen, and what does it mean for the future of Northern Ireland? mehr
Public interest information policy in Germany: challenges and opportunities
01 March 2009 _ Jonathan Gray
Terms such as 'knowledge economy' and 'information society' have become central in the political landscape of contemporary Europe. Advances in computing, telecommunications and media technologies have had profound and wide-ranging effects on the ways we live and work.
Growth in the production of knowledge and knowledge-based services has changed the socio-economic makeup of most European countries. mehr
Post-Crunch Corporate Ethics
13 February 2009 _ Melissa Lane
In 2005, Lehman Brothers won the Corporate Social Responsibility award of the Foreign Policy Association. CSR has penetrated boardrooms for a decade. But it didn’t stop Lehman Brothers from making the risky bets that brought it down and brought down workers and pensioners with it. mehr
Society and Civil Activism in Belarus
20. Oktober 2008 _ Nastia Matusevich
The existence of civil society in post-Soviet Belarus remains in question. The authoritarian regime creates the specific conditions for its existence, namely, the impossibility of civil activity by means of a large number of restrictive measures undertaken by the authorities. The handful of existing civil organizations are ineffective due to the biased public attitude towards them, and, generally, due to the pronounced unwillingness of citizens to participate. mehr
Helmut Schmidt at 90 - A great European statesman
13. September 2008 _ William E. Paterson
A clue to the measure of Helmut Schmidt’s greatness is that it cannot be captured by association with a single event or defined by a single quality. His stature and influence is multifaceted and rests on a range of human qualities which taken together give him a good claim to be the most impressive of Europe’s post-war leaders. mehr