"So schimpften Bush und Putin gemeinsam auf die damalige rot-grüne Regierung von Kanzler Gerhard Schröder und Joschka Fischer: zu soft gegenüber Iran. Die Mullahs seien »verrückt«. Sobald sie die Atombombe hätten, griffen sie erst Israel an, dann die USA, sagte Putin" www.spiegel.de/politik/wlad...

Zusammen mit #mindsofpeace, Dr. Sapir #Handelmann u @ssinijlawi.bsky.social haben wir an der @akademieloccum.bsky.social einen 🇵🇸-🇮🇱 Dialog begonnen. Wichtige Initiative u „nur“ der Kick-off für weitere Vorhaben – stay tuned! www.ndr.de/nachrichten/...

His PhD at LSE was on "THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE DEMOCRATISATION OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS" with a little help from consultancy Monitor. Particularly noteworthy was chapter 5.7: "The ‘3x3=3’ model as a system of multi-level governance". www.ft.com/content/8b70...

‘Yes, they would execute a child’: the film about a girl who has to bake a birthday cake for Saddam Hussein

Shoutout to the fact checkers and editors who made me remove references to Trump’s bottomless corruption when discussing why he liked Gulf states

Academic AI conferences flooded by AI generated papers and reviews..... www.ft.com/content/54e2...

Interesting comparison of urban warfare practices: "So, why did the Israeli military repeatedly accept levels of uncertainty and civilian risk that American commanders would not? One plausible explanation lies in how Palestinian civilian life was assigned value." warontherocks.com/2026/01/gaza...

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

What can possibly go wrong? www.ft.com/content/3eb8...

Maybe Greenland could invade us instead?

X/Twitter's rough full volume is around 500 total million posts every day, or 182 (and a half) billion posts per year. By contracts, we found 11.2 million research posts in all of 2025 on there. In other words, 0.000006% of Twitter appears to be sharing research. Basically zero.

Europe plays a limited role in Gulf investments & geopolitical considerations behind them. International mediation is urgently required in #Gaza & #Sudan. #Lebanon & #Syria are threatened by fragmentation. In our #GIGAFocus, we present 10 things to watch in #MENA: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publicati...

An analysis by #GIGA researchers Dima Abu Alkheir, @hagerali.bsky.social, André Bank, Ardahan Özkan Gedikli, @housseinalmalla.bsky.social, Diba Mirzaei, Elianne Shewring, @hakkitas.bsky.social, and @eckartwoertz.bsky.social.

So nice to see that our early piece (with Johannes Plagemann @giga-hamburg.de) on #populism and #foreignpolicy remains among the 5 most read and 5 most cited articles in Foreign Policy Analysis! @fpajrnl.bsky.social @ideopop.bsky.social @pwunifreiburg.bsky.social

‘Capital of capital’: how Abu Dhabi rose as a sovereign wealth power

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

For my analysis of a land grant agreement between the Ethiopian government and Saudi business man Al Amoudi: humanities-collections.exeter.ac.uk/dame/s/en/it...

Newly Published!: GLOBAL HISTORIES OF MENA IN THE 20TH CENTURY - A PRIMARY SOURCE COLLECTION humanities-collections.exeter.ac.uk/dame/s/en/it...

Reise nach #Damaskus: #GIGA-Experte André Bank war vor Ort in #Syrien. Wie er die Stadt ein Jahr nach dem Ende der Assad-Diktatur wahrgenommen hat, erzählt er im Video. ➡️ Für mehr Hintergründe: www.giga-hamburg.de/de/presse/re...

Wie ist es in #Syrien ein Jahr nach Ende der #Assad-Diktatur? #GIGA-Experte André Bank berichtet von seinen Eindrücken aus #Damaskus. Ein Gespräch über Alltag, Politik & Sicherheit, und darüber, was das Land jetzt am dringendsten braucht. ➡️ Zu den #GIGAInsights: www.giga-hamburg.de/de/presse/re...

We are pleased that this week, the inaugural lecture of @hanaattia.bsky.social took place at @leuphana.bsky.social. She has been jointly appointed as Junior Professor of #SecurityPolicy and #Peace at the university, and as a Research Fellow at the #GIGA. Warm congratulations, Hana! 💐

Very happy to share that my new book "Populism and Foreign Policy", co-authored with Johannes Plagemann, is now out as an e-book with Oxford University Press! We examine how populist governments reshape #foreignpolicy across the globe. More here: academic.oup.com/book/61646

Meinungsbild zu Gaza, Israel, Deutschlands Außenpolitik, zur Medienberichterstattung, zu pro-palästinensischen Parolen, zu Antisemitismus und zur Erinnerungskultur 👇 Mit @thomaserichter.bsky.social Veröffentlicht als @giga-hamburg.de Focus Nahost. www.giga-hamburg.de/de/publikati...

Saudi Arabia's bet on Lithium: theintlstrat.substack.com/p/saudi-arab...

Finde Kritik an Staatsäson wichtig. ABER: Staatsäson hat(te) mit Fachcommunity nichts zu tun. Welches Fach wäre es denn? Die Erinnerungsforscher*innen oder die Holocaustforscher*innen. Staatsräson war ein polit, Programm, undemokratisch in Szene gesetzt. Dazu: thediasporist.de/de/zweierlei...

Conference Enslaved Muslims and Muslim Enslavers: Islam, Politics and Slavery 6-7 July, 2027 @dependencybonn.de @eckartwoertz.bsky.social unescobrockproject.ca/events/confe...

Über die aktuelle Lage im Nahen Osten und Hintergründe zum Konflikt zwischen Israel und Palästinensern spricht #GIGA-Experte @eckartwoertz.bsky.social in der @ndr.de-Sendung "DAS! rote Sofa". ➡️ Zum Beitrag: www.ardmediathek.de/video/das-ro...

🎓 #GIGA at #ecprgc25! From 26–29 Aug, leading political scientists from around the world gather at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki for the ‪General Conference @ecpr.bsky.social‬. #GIGA researchers are leading key discussions. Explore our contributions: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/press/ecp...

Super happy to share that my article "When and How Do Presidents Terminate Sanctions? The Effect of Domestic Factors on US Sanctions Policy" has been published in Foreign Policy Analysis. (1/7)

Trotz des durch die USA verkündeten Waffenstillstands bleibt die Lage in #Israel und #Iran angespannt. ➡️ Lesen Sie Einschätzungen von @eckartwoertz.bsky.social, Diba Mirzaei und André Bank zur Lage in der Region und zum iranischen Atomprogramm im #GIGAInsight: www.giga-hamburg.de/de/presse/zu...

Why did #Ghana’s democracy consolidate while #Tunisia’s collapsed? In this #MECAM paper, Youssef Cherif explores how history, leadership, regional dynamics & economic crises shaped two very different democratic outcomes. ➡️ Read here: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publicati...

📢 Call for Papers: “Entangled Histories”, held on 16–17 July 2026 at the #GIGA & @uni-hamburg.de explores slavery and its legacies in the Indian Ocean, Mediterranean & Middle East. Please submit your paper by 30 September 2025. More info: www.giga-hamburg.de/de/presse/ca...

We @eckartwoertz.bsky.social are organizing a conference on slavery. See the following website for more information #slavery #africa #africandiaspora #middleeast #indianOcean unescobrockproject.ca

#Captagon bleibt – auch ohne #Assad. Warum der Sturz Assads in #Syrien nicht das Ende des Captagon-Handels bedeutet, analysieren André Bank und Johannes Haupt im neuen #GIGAFocus. ➡️ Hier lesen: www.giga-hamburg.de/de/publikati...

www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israe... "Unlike other war crimes codified in the aftermath of the two world wars, the use of starvation as a weapon of armed conflict was not formally prohibited in international law until 1977."

#Bundesregierung nach der Wahl: Wie positioniert sich #Deutschland außenpolitisch gegenüber dem Globalen Süden? #GIGA-Expert:innen diskutieren beim #GIGAForum. ➡️ Jetzt anmelden, um online am 9. April teilzunehmen: www.giga-hamburg.de/de/veranstal...

#India’s #ForeignPolicy has evolved to multi-alignment, engaging with multiple powers without formal alliances. Join Happymon Jacob (JNU) as he explores this shift in India’s diplomacy at his #WONAGO lecture. ➡️ Register for 7 April, @uni-hamburg.de & online: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/co...

As conflicts reshape the #MENA region, the new German government must balance diplomacy, security & economics. @housseinalmalla.bsky.social explores Germany’s strategic options in the #GIGAFocus #MiddleEast issue of our series on German foreign policy to come: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publicati...

Will Germany stay relevant in the Middle East? In our latest GIGA Focus piece, I unpack Berlin’s options—from green hydrogen in the Gulf to governance-linked aid in Syria & Lebanon. Full piece below 👇🏼

on.ft.com/4bVccLT How America weaponised the world’s economy

This is very interesting !!

www.ft.com/content/8aa8... “Sharaa had no problem spilling blood,” said one allied fighter, who was formerly a rival, “as long as other solutions were attempted first.”