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21 April, 2023

Ottmar Edenhofer: Climate, War and Science. Practical Dilemmas, Theoretical Challenges and a New Era of Climate Policy

Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13 , 4th floor in Stockholm, and online REGISTER >Research seminar with Ottmar Edenhofer, who is Director and Chief Economist of the Potsdam InstAbstractStarting by stating the current status quo of climate change, the talk focuses on the practical dilemmas an ambitious climate policy is facing, also on the grounds of the theoretical challenges involved. The present geopolitical global situation is calling for a new era of climate policy. But how do we get there?

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17 August, 2018

Children and the right to vote

In: Gheaus, Anca, Calder, Gideon, and De Wispelaere, Jurgen, eds. The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children. Milton: Routledge. Introduction The history of democracy is stronglySixty years ago, no European democracy allowed 18-year-olds to vote; today, no European nation denies people aged 18 the vote. The tendency is to lower the age of voting further. Voting from the age of 16 is now allowed in several countries, including Austria, Argentina and Brazil. The general question raised by these developments concerns what the final destination should be: what is the appropriate voting-rights age in a democracy?

Type of publication: Chapters | Beckman, Ludvig
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07 June, 2024

Gabriel Söderberg

I am an Associate Professor in Economic History based at Uppsala University. Currently my research interests are in the intersection of digitalization of the monetary system and geopolitical tensions.

Associate Professor, Economic History
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02 June, 2023
Ottmar Edenhofer: A New Era of Climate Policy

Ottmar Edenhofer: A New Era of Climate Policy

Research seminar with Ottmar Edenhofer, who is Director and Chief Economist of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research as well as Director of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Common

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10 October, 2025
AI, power and politics

AI, power and politics

This project is part of a cluster housed by Umeå University, bringing together leading scholars from several disciplines to investigate how AI is affecting democracy.

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10 November, 2021

Where Does Europe End? Christian Democracy and the Expansion of Europe

Journal of Common Market Studies Abstract In this article, we argue that an analysis of the conflict around the nature and limits of European integration that arose between Catholic and Protestant Chris

Type of publication: Journal articles | Hien, Josef , & Fabio Wolkenstein
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28 May, 2025

Civil sector vulnerabilities and NATO's strategic role: The case for international governance

AI Policy Lab Abstract As AI becomes integral to critical civil sectors like healthcare, its governance can no longer be divorced from international security. This paper argues that NATO must play a str

Type of publication: Other | Tucker, Jason
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08 October, 2025
Future Barometer

Future Barometer: The concerns and expectations for the future in Sweden, Denmark, Poland and Ukraine

This project will aim to understand the public's future-oriented attitudes in different contexts in order to understand how to better strengthen societal resilience.

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05 November, 2025
Klaus Georg Hansen: Greenland – 300 years of colonisation

Klaus Georg Hansen: Greenland – 300 years of colonisation

Since the formal colonisation of Greenland in 1721 by the Norwegian-Danish missionary Hans Egede Greenland has experienced five 'constitutional' breaks. Thus, seven distinct colonial eras can be ident

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24 November, 2023
Kremlin influence and the destabilization of Swedish democracy

Kremlin influence and the destabilization of Swedish democracy

An analysis of geostrategic market offensives, Russian influence operations, Swedish partners, and the threat of oligarchic capitalism

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