Contributions

States increasingly use economic coercion - from sanctions to politically driven tariffs - to shape foreign policy. Once the go-to response to security crises, sanctions now share the stage with trade tools, raising questions about how coercion is evolving in global politics today worldwide.

Die Verhaftung von Nicolás Maduro stellt die Machtverhältnisse zwischen China und den USA infrage. Sie wirft die Frage auf, ob und wie Peking seinen regionalen Einfluss in Lateinamerika festigen kann – und warum das Ereignis zugleich einen Realitätscheck für Chinas globale Machtambitionen darstellt.

China and Venezuela’s long-standing alliance faces its toughest test yet after Maduro’s arrest. From oil-for-loans deals to digital surveillance and military cooperation, Beijing now risks losing influence as Washington moves to assert dominance over Caracas.

GIGA and WANEP-Togo’s youth interreligious dialogue project features in ZIF’s new compendium of innovative local peacebuilding, prepared to inform Germany’s chairmanship of the UN Peacebuilding Commission. Read insights by Julia Köbrich, Theodora Benesch, and Seyram Adiakpo (p. 29).