03.11.2023
The Czech Republic Needs a Green Velvet Revolution

In the heavily industrialised communist Czechoslovakia, the democratic revolution of 1989 was also an environmental one, which produced important results in the 1990s. In today’s Czech Republic, that green momentum has run out: the country is among the most carbon-intensive in the EU, and fossil oligarchs control most of the media. But change may come when least expected.

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25.04.2023
Objects of Political Desire IV: Democratise, Develop, Decolonise

49 years later, Portugal’s Carnation Revolution still teaches a vital lesson to today’s democratic politics.

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01.03.2015
Wars Will Never End Wars – Thoughts on the Kurds’ Fight Against ISIS

The Kurds have conducted a remarkable democratic experiment in the north of Syria: Their “Canton-based Democratic Autonomy” is a pursuit of freedom, justice, dignity and democracy led by principles of equality and environmental sustainability. Nevertheless, protecting this area with weapons and the blood of martyrs shouldn’t be applauded.

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01.03.2015
“There Is Still a Long Way to Go” – Civil Society Involvement in Foreign Policy

An interview with Isabelle Durant. Great upheavals have occurred and are still occurring in the Middle East: the successive revolutions and counter-revolutions of the Arab spring, the lightning emergence of ISIS, the agonies of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the stagnating civil war in Syria. How do the Greens analyse the situation?

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