A short commentary...
July 16, 2008
Perspektiven US-amerikanischer Außenpolitik nach Bush Jr.
Böll Wahlserie 2/2008 von Sebastian Gräfe
Geben die außenpolitischen Aussagen der beiden Präsidentschaftskandidaten Barack Obama und John McCain berechtigten Anlass für Europas Hoffnung auf ein Ende des US-amerikanischen Alleingangs? Welche Positionen vertreten die beiden in für das transatlantische Verhältnis wichtigen Fragen wie dem Umgang mit den nuklearen Ambitionen Irans, der Zukunft des Iraks, dem Afghanistaneinsatz, dem Nahostkonflikt, der NATO-Erweiterung und den Beziehungen zu Russland? Welche Rolle spielen die Neokonservativen noch?
July 3, 2008
Welt ohne den Westen und Kampf um die Zweite Welt
Zwischenruf zur Aussenpolitik von Joscha Schmierer
Gibt es heute eine, zwei oder mehrere Weltmächte? Oder ist das Schema, die Staaten wie während des Kalten Krieges in klar getrennte Blöcke zu gliedern, in einer zunehmend globalisierten, vielschichtigen Welt überholt?
June 12, 2008
Politics can not ignore Soccer - Why Europeans are from Mars and Americans are from Venus
How different is European and American soccer? And what do people like German Ambassador Dr. Klaus Scharioth and DC United President & CEO Kevin Payne think about that?
June 10, 2008
Geschichte wird gemacht
Helga Flores Trejo über das Vermächtnis von George Bush und den Präsidentschaftswahlkampf in den USA
Vom 9. bis 16. Juni 2008 reist George Bush durch Europa. Es ist sein Abschiedsbesuch. Die Visite steht im Zusammenhang mit dem 60. Jahrestag des Marshallplans – und das passt. Den Präsidenten scheint dieser Tage die Geschichte sehr zu beschäftigen.
May 28, 2008
Die Türkei — Den USA näher als Europa
Kolumne von Michael Werz, Washington
Die Türkei ist kulturell ähnlich weit von den Vereinigten Staaten entfernt wie geographisch. Zur Zeit des Osmanischen Reiches, als hunderttausende Deutsche auswanderten, kamen nur rund zwanzig Türken pro Jahr in die USA, bis heute sind es nicht mehr als 120.000 unter 300 Millionen Amerikanern.
March 28, 2008
1968 and the Discovery of Politics
article by Ralf Fuecks
Nineteen-sixty-eight has become a political myth that will not go away. The debate on its interpretation continues and continues.
March 17, 2008
USA: Religiöser Fundamentalismus einmal anders
Artikel zur Integrationspolitik in den USA (auf Deutsch)
February 7, 2008
Vorwahlen am Super Tuesday – Und nun?
Hintergrundinformationen zum grossen Wahltag:
- Wer hat gewonnen? - Welche Faktoren werden zukuenftig eine Rolle spielen? - Und: Was ist eigentlich ein Konservativer?
January 28, 2008
US-Außenpolitik: Auf Konsens bauen, aber wie?
Zwischenruf zur Aussenpolitik von Joscha Schmierer
Wann, wenn nicht jetzt, ließe sich die Außenpolitik der USA neu konzipieren? In den amerikanischen Zeitschriften häufen sich die Grundsatzartikel. Wer immer ins Weiße Haus Einzug halten wird: Wenige Vorgänger sahen sich zu Beginn ihrer Amtszeit einer ähnlich schwierigen Situation gegenüber.
November 2, 2006
Agenda 2007– Expectations for the German Presidency of the Council in the European Union
A Preface by Ralf Fuecks, President of the Heinrich Boell Foundation
The EU tanker ship has gotten off course and is about to run aground. In just a few weeks Germany will be taking the helm of the six-month rotating pr...
June 12, 2006
Study Tour on European Integration Policies
From May 14th until May 20th 2006, the Heinrich Boell Foundation Washington, in cooperation with the Foundation’s headquarters in Berlin, organized...
June 8, 2006
Walling Yourself off is no Alternative - Problems of Transnational Migration in Europe
October 1, 2005
The New Green Group in the German Bundestag
link to the new Green Members of Parliament...
September 15, 2005
U.S. Policy Experts to Monitor Tight Race in German Elections - Press Release
September 2, 2008
Georgia -- A Warning?
By Ralf Fücks, Co-President of the Heinrich Böll Foundation
The war involving Georgia has changed the political landscape far beyond the Caucasus. In addition to its recognition of the separatist provinces, Russia is about to reinstate the principle of “limited sovereignty” for Georgia. And the West appears helpless: The United States is far away, its forces engaged elsewhere. And the European Union, although it has concluded a partnership agreement with Georgia, is not prepared for a geopolitical conflict.
August 11, 2008
South Caucasus: From Words to War
On the Escalation Between Georgia and South Ossetia, by Irakli Vacharadze, Tbilisi
The international community has to put pressure on Russian, the Georgian and South Ossetian parties to de-escalate the situation as soon as possible. Only this could avoid the recurrence of the bloody events of early 1990s in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
June 4, 2008
In welcher Welt sich wie bewegen?
Zwischenruf zur Aussenpolitik von Joscha Schmierer
Die Staaten und Gesellschaften der Welt beweisen Eigensinn. Wie sollen sich die USA in einer Welt verhalten, die sie nicht allein und nach ihrem Bild gestalten können. Die Zeit für eine transatlantische Diskussion der neuen internationalen Situation und der Möglichkeiten gemeinsamer Politik ist gekommen.
April 1, 2008
Climate Change Scenario Game: A New Global Agenda for the 21st Century
The Heinrich Boell Foundation is co-organizer of an international scenario game on climate change security aspects. The project is initiated by the Ce...
March 27, 2008
"Veraltete Weltordnung"
Daniel Cohn-Bendit über UN-Reform
Mehr Mulitlateralismus würde den Vereinten Nationen gut tun, meint Daniel Cohn-Bendit und fordert für Europa einen ständigen Sitz im Sicherheitsrat.
December 12, 2007
War, Refugee Misery and the Dismal Political Outlook in Somalia
This report from Dr. Alex Harneit-Sievers, Director of the Heinrich Boell Foundation East African Regional Office in Nairobi, calls for “a const...
September 28, 2007
Pleading for Military Engagement in Afghanistan
Commentary by Mariam Tutakhel und Manija Gardizi
The debate about military deployment of international and German troops in particular ignores one crucial point of view: The opinion of major parts of the Afghan society.
September 14, 2007
Keynote Speech of Ralf Fuecks at Annual Foreign Policy Conference
Western China-Policy: Partnership and Competition
March 27, 2007
“Turkey’s Future Course: A European Perspective”
Speech given by Claudia Roth, chairwoman of the German Green Party at the conference "The Evolution of U.S.-Turkish Relations in a Transatlantic Conte...
November 20, 2006
Press Release: Experts from Georgia and Abkhazia discuss Conflict in the U.S.
For...
October 16, 2006
The environmental impact of the 2006 Lebanon war
An assessment by the Heinrich Boell Foundation's Middle East office in Beirut....
July 25, 2006
Security in Our One World
by Ralf Fucks, President of the Heinrich Boell Foundation
“Securit...
July 7, 2006
Israel in NATO
The Transatlantic Alliance as Custodian for a Middle East Peace
Ralf Fuecks, member of the Executive Board of the Heinrich Boell Foundation, argues in this arti...
March 27, 2006
The New Human Rights Council at the UN and the Role of the United States in its Genesis
On March 15, 2006, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to create a new UN Human Rig...
November 29, 2005
Study Tour to Brussels, Tbilisi and Sukhumi
From November 14th-20th, representatives of different Think Tanks in Washington and New York visited Brussels, Tbilisi, and Sukhumi on a
visiting tou...
October 16, 2005
Rethinking the United Nations - Web Dossier
New website from the Heinrich Boell Foundation ...
July 2, 2008
A European Energy Community for the 21st Century
An article by Michaele Schreyer and Ralf Fuecks
The global energy system is undergoing a structural crisis. Climate change, rising demand for energy, limited resources - These combined challenges po...
June 2, 2008
4th German American Renewable Energy Conference
The German American Chamber of Commerce New York (GACC NY) is organizing the 4th German American Renewable Energy Conference on June 24, 2008 in Syracuse, NY. The Heinrich Boell Foundation will take part and present one of the latest publications, "The Missing Piece in Climate Policy: Renewable Heating and Cooling in Germany and the US".
May 23, 2008
Interview with Wilson Rickerson and Veit Buerger on Renewable Heating and Cooling Policies
Renewable Energy World interviews with Wilson Rickerson of Rickerson Energy Strategies on the topic of renewable heating and cooling in one of two great podcasts. The second podcast interviews Veit Buerger from the Institute of Applied Ecology in Freiburg, Germany on support schemes for promoting renewable heating and cooling in Germany. Mr. Rickerson and Mr. Buerger are two of the main authors of the latest HBF publication, "The Missing Piece in Climate Policy: Renewable Heating and Cooling in Germany and the US."
May 9, 2008
A Lukewarm Frontrunner? The EU Climate and Renewable Energy Package for 2020
By Arne Jungjohann
On January 23, 2008, the EU Commission proposed a major legislative package to promote renewable energies and tackle climate change. It includes propo...
March 6, 2008
Boell Wahl Serien 1/2008
Anlässlich der diesjährigen Präsidentschaftswahlen in den USA bietet das Büro der Heinrich Böll Stiftung in Washington, DC eine Analyseserie an, die sich mit thematischen Schwerpunkten und den Programmen und Kampagnen der Kandidaten beschäftigt. Das Ziel unserer Initaitive ist, ein genaueres Bild aktueller Themen, der politischen Konstellationen und neuerer Entwicklungen in den USA zu vermitteln. Wir werden darüber hinaus versuchen aufzuzeigen, welche Konsequenzen mit einer neuen Administration in Washington im kommenden Jahr für die transatlantischen Beziehungen zu erwarten sind.
Den Auftakt unserer Analysen bildet der Schwerpunkt Klimapolitik. Das erste Policy Paper aus unserem Büro trägt den Titel ,,Die Rolle der Klimapolitik in den Präsientschaftswahlen 2008“ und das zweite ,,US-Wahlen 2008 - Beginn einer neuen Ära in der US-Klimapolitik?“.
November 8, 2007
How a Changing Climate Impacts Women
Report of a Highlevel Roundtable in New York on the Eve of the UN Special Summit on Climate Change
The Council of Women World Leaders (CW...
April 23, 2007
Climate Change and International Development: Impacts and Responses
The Millennium Development Goals -- Are They Contributing to Sustainable Development?
By Barbara Unmüßig
In this article, Barbara Unmüßig, member of the Executive Board of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, analyzes why and how the MDGs fall short in supportin...
October 18, 2006
An appeal for a new realism in environmental policy
The Greens will only be needed if they consistently make preserving creation the starting point of their policies.
August 1, 2006
Foreign Policy Implications of China's Energy Policy
Clean Energy as a Cure for China's Energy Quest
China is increasingly forming its foreign policy and international engagement along its economic interests and energy needs. Its impressive growth is ...
March 24, 2006
4/26 and Europe - How Chernobyl changed a World over Night
In the context of the Environmental Film Festival and in Cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Washington DC and Nuclear Information and Resource Se...
October 15, 2005
KyotoPlus - Web Dossier on Climate Change
New website from the Heinrich Boell Foundation...
October 14, 2005
Making it happen: Investing in Renewable Energy to Save the Climate
Workshop from the Heinrich Böll Foundation and Clean Energy Group on sub-national strategies for clean energy investment, technology deployment and se...
April 23, 2007
The Wolfowitz Affair One Week After: World Bank President Remains in Limbo
By Liane Schalatek, Associate Director, Heinrich Boell Foundation Washington
The agenda for the Development Committee, the highest ranking...
March 23, 2007
Biofuels and Tortillas -- An US-Mexican Tale of Chances and Challenges
A few weeks ago, hundreds of thousands of Mexicans were taking to the street to protest rising prices for tortillas, a food staple especially for t...
September 10, 2006
IMF Reform: Half-heartedly wooing emerging economies
Barbara Unmuessig and Liane Schalatek look at the prospect of IMF reform
December 20, 2005
Boell-Blog at the WTO Hongkong
Impressions and negotiations snippets from Boell participants in Hong Kong. Entries are in German and English. Look out for the ones from Helga Flores-Trejo and Liane Schalatek.
July 3, 2008
Liberation of Ingrid Betancourt, Petra Kelly Laureate of the Heinrich Böll Foundation
comments from hbf's regional office
Ingrid Betancourt, Trägerin des Petra-Kelly-Preises, ist frei. In einer von langer Hand geplanten Operation befreiten die kolumbianischen Streitkräfte die seit über sechs Jahren von der FARC-Guerilla gefangen gehaltene grüne Politikerin und ehemalige Präsidentschaftskandidatin.
November 3, 2006
The United Nations Human Rights Council vis-à-vis Civil Society and the United States.
An Update, October 2006
Aki Kachi in this 10-page analysis looks at the results of the first two work sessions, which the new Humanr Rights Council completed this fall. ...
April 21, 2006
The Recent Reform of U.S. AID: Diplomacy, Defense, Democracy - and Development?
Liane Schalatek describes the recent changes to US development policy,including a stronger role for the US Department of State, an...
April 24, 2007
Who Remains to Defend Women’s Rights at the UN? UN Reform is hitting the Commission on the Status of Women
A Report on the CSW 51, by Franziska Brantner
The fifty-first session of the Co...
March 1, 2006
UN Reform: What's in it for Women?
a parallel event at the 50th UN Commission on the Status of Women session
Women are special stakeholders in the UN system. A comprehensive UN reform will have a profound effect on women....
October 31, 2006
A Green Future for Europe
A Memorandum on the Future of the European Union by the European Green Party
On October 14, 2006, the European Green Party adopted its new vision for a united Europe at the European Greens party convention in Geneva, Switzerlan...
February 22, 2006
Beyond the Valley of the Wolves
CONTROVERSY OVER TURKISH MOVIE
February 17, 2006
Discussion about 'Mohammed Cartoons' received great attention
Although the panel was very diverse,...
November 29, 2005
Welcome Address by Ralf Fuecks, President of the Heinrich Boell Foundation
At the Annual Reception of the Washington Office.
March 5, 2008
Transatlantic Climate Policy Group
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