Roderick Kefferpütz is senior analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) and a freelance strategist and writer. Prior to that he worked for Germany’s only Green-led regional government as deputy head of unit for policy and strategy in the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg. He was previously head of office for MEP Reinhard Bütikofer.
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Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck’s leadership of the Green Party have much to teach us about power-sharing in German politics.
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Read moreWhy climate change is the ultimate international security threat.
Read moreWe examine the changing German political landscape and if the Greens and the Liberals can work together in coalition.
Read morePavel Latushka, a key figure in Belarus’s opposition, discusses the movement for democracy with Roderick Kefferpütz.
Read moreFrom their democratic traditions to shared interests in technological development, Europe and India have much in common and to gain from cooperation.
Read moreWith three candidates in the running for the chancellery, the electoral race is still open and polls could begin to shift as lockdowns are lifted.
Read moreThe Bruegel director speaks about Europe’s economic prospects, the recovery fund, and Europe’s ecological and digital transformation.
Read moreAs China uses the crisis to extend its influence, Europe needs ambitious policies for economic recovery if it wants to be a relevant global player.
Read moreA selection mapping some of the major currents that have shaped political ecology in recent years and which continue to do so.
Read moreThe European Green Deal is being pursued as an economic matter. In a geopolitical world, it needs to be geopoliticised.
Read moreWith the Greens polling at a record high while the traditional parties seemingly run out of road, what are the factors underpinning the recent success of political ecology in Germany?
Read moreChinese foreign policy expert Yan Xuetong's new book opens the question of how morality as an instrument of power could reshape today's world order.
Read moreUCL assistant professor Brian Klaas discusses the West's role in global democratic decline and what should be done to reverse this trend.
Read moreThe world economy has become a battleground for geopolitical hegemony. To stay in the game, the EU needs a new strategy.
Read moreWith authoritarian populism on the rise, liberal democracy in Europe is facing an existential crisis. In this interview, Yascha Mounk, author of The People vs. Democracy, hashes out the conundrum facing democracies old and new.
Read moreAn interview with co-leader and climate minister from the New Zealand Greens on their successes in government so far and the challenges that lie ahead.
Read moreAs digitalisation turns the world of work upside down, Reiner Hoffmann discusses the situation of employees in the future labour market, and the role of the EU and trade unions.
Read moreA shared republican understanding of democracy could offer a way out from the dead ends of ethnic nationalism and identity politics.
Read moreThe automotive industry is in store for drastic change in the next ten years as the car is practically being reinvented and Germany and China compete to develop electric car technology.
Read moreWhy the Jamaica coalitions talks with Merkel failed and where things will go from here.
Read moreLast November, we spoke with German MEP Reinhard Bütikofer on the Jamaica coalition talks.
Read moreWe talked strategy & political reality with Robert Habeck, leader of the German Greens in their strongest state result this year.
Read moreForeign investment into the EU often have political, as well as economic, motivations. Should the EU act on this?
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