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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?
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?
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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