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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 in 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 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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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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18 March, 2025
Commission: The global politics of AI and healthcare

Commission: The global politics of AI and healthcare

This is a commission to write a discussion piece for policy makers on how to navigate the changing global politics of AI and healthcare. It is part of the Global (Dis)order Policy Program lead by the British Academy and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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19 July, 2024

Erez Maggor: Bidenomics, Industrial Policy, and the Twenty-First Century American Developmental State

Venue: Holländargatan 13, Stockholm Research seminar with Erez Maggor, Assistant Professor at Ben-Gurion University. He studies the political economy of industrial policy and innovation. Register here &

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17 February, 2015

Rethinking society for the 21st century

A couple of weeks ago it was decided that the Institute for Futures Studies will support the project International Panel on Social Progress. It is a large project with high ambitions that mobilizes se

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09 March, 2016

The implications of learning across perceptually and strategically distinct situations

Synthese, 1-18. Abstract Game theory is a formal approach to behavior that focuses on the strategic aspect of situations. The game theoretic approach originates in economics but has been embraced by sch

Type of publication: Journal articles | Strimling, Pontus , , Cownden, D Eriksson, Kimmo , , Cownden, D
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