Conferences and Workshops

Once the dominant form of government around the world, ruling monarchies have nearly gone extinct, with most surviving examples in the Middle East. However exceptional they seem, Middle East monarchies present remarkable global lessons about authoritarian politics that transcend their category.

You want to learn more about Chinese foreign policy and the role experts can exert on it? In This GIGA China talk, we will discuss with Sabine Mokry how the role of Chinese experts has changed under Xi Jinping and how, despite centralization of political power, scholars and think tankers can still exert influence on foreign policy.

For nearly 30 years, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has endured violent conflicts fuelled by the illegal exploitation of natural resources. This panel will examine why peace processes have faltered and explore pathways to lasting peace. This seminar is organised by KAS scholarship holders in cooperation with the GIGA.

The consequences of the US administration’s military intervention in Venezuela to capture former president Nicolás Maduro, and Trump’s pledge to “run” the country indefinitely via interim president Delcy Rodríguez while the US secures the country’s oil resources, are reverberating regionally and globally. This roundtable brings together GIGA experts on Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East to discuss these events, their drivers, as well as their worldwide implications.