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The 2025 Paris AI Summit marked a shift from global to national AI strategies. This paper explores India’s and Singapore’s AI governance, offering insights for the EU, with a focus on Germany, on cooperating with these emerging AI powers to advance ethical, sustainable AI.

This chapter examines multi-platform and multi-discourse political messaging during the 2019 Indian General Elections by India's two largest political parties. It demonstrates how multi-platform partisan messaging enables certain discursive and leadership styles for voter outreach and mobilization.

Trotz ihrer Heterogenität sollte die Bedeutung der BRICS auch in sicherheitspolitischer Hinsicht nicht unterschätzt werden. Während interne Spannungen fortbestehen, gewinnt die Gruppe sowohl symbolisch als auch diskursiv an Einfluss – gerade im Globalen Süden.

This paper focuses on India’s multifaceted approach to its “China challenge” with and outside the climate regime. It examines whether this rivalry might lead to a breakdown of cooperation and an increased potential for conflict and weaponisation of seemingly disconnected issue-areas.

Die Rivalität zwischen Indien und China hat sich in den letzten Jahren zugespitzt, auch weil Grenzstreitigkeiten ungelöst blieben. GIGA-Wissenschaftler Dr. Johannes Plagemann diskutiert die Beziehungen der zwei bevölkerungsreichsten Staaten der Erde im ARD-Podcast Welt.Macht.China.

'In Focus' Interview with The Hindu on different forms of content moderation, factors that influence it, and comparing different legal frameworks across the world on regulating content moderation and how this impacts state-platform-civil society power dynamics and relations. Also available on Spotify.

Organiser: The London Story Dr. Sangeeta Mahapatra (Speaker)

Invited Speaker at the Panel organised by The London Story, as part of the Pakhuis De Zwijger event, to discuss how EU digital, especially AI policies shape and impact human rights and suggest solutions for fair and just AI and tech regulations.

Organiser: German Institute for Global and Area Studies Prof. Dr. Patrick Köllner (Organiser, Panelist, Chair)

At the 4th Indo-German Track 1.5 Strategic Dialogue, Patrick Köllner offered a German perspective on cooperation with India in the Indo-Pacific. The strategic dialogues are co-organised by the GIGA and the SWP on the German side and the ICWS and the RIS on the Indian side.