Global Issues
The Global Issues Division examines the diverse thematic fields of global governance and the underlying conflict lines and actor constellations at the governmental, intergovernmental, and non-state level; the common point of reference are the preconditions, potentials and limits of rule-based and efficient global cooperation.
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- Cyber-security
- Digital Policy and Cyber
- Internet Governance
- Technology policy
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Staff
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- Environmental policy
- Non-governmental organizations
- Sustainability governance
- United Nations
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- Climate policy
- Foresight
- Sustainability governance
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- Australia / New Zealand
- China
- India
- Indo-Pacific
- International financial system
- Principles of European integration
- Regional cooperation and alliances
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- Climate policy
- EU climate policy
- Energy policy
- Environmental policy
- Risk governance
- United Nations
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- Development cooperation
- Migration
- Migration policy
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- EU, Europe
- Migration, development cooperation
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- Development cooperation
- Migration
- Migration policy
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Research Support
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- Digitalisation, cyber, technology
SWP Publications
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EU-Klimapolitik bis 2040: erste Weichenstellungen bei Flexibilisierung und Lastenteilung
SWP-Aktuell 2026/A 46, 02.10.2026, 7 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2026A46
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Indien: Diasporapolitik zwischen Mobilisierung und Fragmentierung
in: Diasporapolitik im Zeitalter der AutokratisierungBeitrag zu einer Sammelstudie 2026/S 13, 29.09.2026, 58 Pages, pp. 25–31
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Rückkehrzentren in der europäischen Migrationspolitik
Ein begrenztes Instrument mit systemischen Risiken
SWP-Aktuell 2026/A 42, 04.09.2026, 8 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2026A42
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Return Hubs in European Migration Policy
A Residual Instrument with Systemic Risks
SWP Comment 2026/C 36, 28.08.2026, 8 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2026C36
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Migration Routes in Focus
Route-based Approaches between Protection and Control
SWP Comment 2026/C 32, 13.08.2026, 8 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2026C32
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Der Konflikt um die Straße von Hormus
Seerechtliche Statusfragen, Seekriegsrecht und Selbstverteidigung
SWP-Studie 2026/S 12, 13.08.2026, 32 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2026S12
External publications
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An HLPF 2.0 for a decisive push towards SDG implementation? Peer learning, partnerships and political leadership
in: The Elgar Companion to Global Governance and the Sustainable Development Goals, 16.06.2026, pp. 33-46doi:10.4337/9781035320851.00012
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A Research Strategy for Ocean-based Carbon Dioxide Removal and Sequestration
Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, September 2026 (among the authors, as part of NASEM's Marine CDR Standing Committee, Miranda Böttcher)doi:10.17226/29342
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Challenges and priorities for Germany’s climate diplomacy
in: Kopernikus-Projekt Ariadne (eds.), Ariadne-Dossier, September 2026doi:10.48485/pik.2026.29
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Varieties of decarbonization: Comparing state narratives of Germany, India, and Mexico
in: Energy Policy, Volume 220, 115598, January 2027doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115598
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Geopolitik und Energie: drei mögliche Zukunftsbilder geopolitischer Fragmentierung
in: Weltenergierat (Hrsg.), Energie für Deutschland: Fakten, Perspektiven und Positionen im globalen Kontext, Berlin, 2026, S. 7-46 -
Nachrichtendienste im Recht der internationalen Beziehungen
in: Jan-Hendrik Dietrich/Klaus Ferdinand Gärditz (Hg.), Handbuch des Rechts der Nachrichtendienste, 2. Aufl., Stuttgart u.a. 2026, S. 159–208