These days the news are often frightening: tariffs, embargo, war, various forms of violence amongst people, violence against nature as form of self-destruction and not least increasing material deprivation of large groups of the population especially in many rich countries and extreme inequality. Obviously it does not only sound frightening but it is in actual … Read more
There are good reasons for suggesting that the 3rd of January 2026 is a key date for a new era of politics: Seizing Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores violently by invading the private quarters of the President of Venezuela. Such invasion is remarkable as the reasons for doing so are remarkable. As today’s … Read more
November 25th, a special day for the Human Rights debate: The United Nations General Assembly has designated November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (Resolution 54/134). The ongoing importance of this day must be highlighted at least in this brief note. In addition to the general relevance one area that requires special attention is the … Read more
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1 Avoid bad binaries! The ‘West vs. the Rest’ (or, with a different choice of compass location, ‘Global North vs. Global South’) are impossibly elastic terms, resulting in categories for those terms with widely – even ‘wildly’ – divergent features in each. 2 Avoid lumping! Whatever about ‘the Rest’ , certainly ‘Western’ (scholarly) thinking is … Read more
Climate Change is arguably the most important challenge facing the 21st century humanity that is unprecedented and will affect the planet as a whole, rather than individual areas or geographical locations. Despite all the counterpoints suggesting that climate change is only due to natural causes and has no human contributions, the current scientific consensus is … Read more
The detention of Ekrem İmamoğlu in March 2025 has plunged Türkiye into one of its deepest political and legal crises in years, sparking mass protests and leading many to ask: Is this the very end of a – despite all the ups and downs – democratic and secular instutituonalization process having started after the announcement … Read more
Congratulations to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences is (the so-called Nobel Prize for Economics) had been awarded to these three scholars. A very brief outline of their work: As Antonio Navas contends that this year’s prize is also a warning about the consequences of damaging … Read more
invitation to the next Public Discussion. Organised by the Group Human Rights – Universal, Global Hosted by the Human Rights Centre, School of Law, Central South University, Changsha, PRC “ The challenge of Human rights in an age of climate change” Presentation by Tunahan Ali Usta, master student at Middle East Technical University, followed by … Read more
Audacity is success — not guaranteed but if you don’t try it you lost already. The current US-president is following this line and now claims the nobel prize for peace. Ridiculous, bold, naive … — there are many possible interpretations. However, one that is frequently employed is completely missing the point: that there is just … Read more