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The International Affairs centenary special issue, edited by GIGA President Prof. Narlikar and Prof. Drezner, is a ‘how not to’ guide for international relations. It brings together 14 experts examining historic failures and how policy practitioners and researchers can get it right together.

In this introductory article, GIGA President Prof. Narlikar and Prof. Drezner, guest editors of the International Affairs centenary special issue, outline this ‘how not to’ guide. They explore a Hippocratic oath for international affairs and suggest going beyond this minimum ‘do no harm’ requirement.

The WTO has become an almost perfect example of how not to negotiate. In this article, GIGA President Prof. Narlikar identifies three broad categories of bargaining failures and explores the impact of narratives on the course of events, giving us a clear list of dos and don’ts for international negotiation.

In this paper, Prof. Dr. Amrita Narlikar discusses the foreign policy of Germany and its European partners towards China. This article was republished in Global Policy Blog (4.4.2022) and is also available to read in Hindi.

As the Russia-Ukraine conflict unfolds, Germany has finally undertaken epochal decisions to uphold the values of the international order by supporting Ukraine.

In her latest book, published by Cambridge University Press, Amrita Narlikar argues that modern-day politics displays a surprising paradox: Poverty – and the powerlessness with which it is associated – has emerged as a political tool and a formidable weapon in international negotiation.

Prof. Amrita Narlikar and Dr. Cecilia Sottilotta discuss in this paper the responsibility of unvaccinated people for the sudden rise in Covid 19 cases in Europe. This article was republished in Global Policy Blog (24.11.2021) and translated into Hindi (8.12.2021).

In this policy paper, Prof. Amrita Narlikar, member of the World Economic Forum and the Global Future Council on Frontier Risks, outline three key areas of external threat that must be addressed to enable an agenda for democratic renewal.

Prof. Amrita Narlikar and Prof. Cecilia Sottilotta provide an insight into their research on narratives that governments developed to explain COVID-19 related policy responses. The full article is published in the Journal of European Public Policy as part of the special issue "Global Crisis: Policy Responses to COVID-19".

This article focuses on the World Trade Organization (WTO), the primary regulator of trade multilateralism, which assists in the seamless workings of global supply chains among its member countries, and which has been indirectly and directly embroiled in the politics of the pandemic. This article was republished with Observer Research Foundation (Special Report 141, June 2021).

As member of the WEF’s Global Future Council on Frontier Risks, GIGA President Amrita Narlikar contributed her expertise, and her work is referenced in the paper. It is the outcome of a set of international, multistakeholder dialogues identifying economic and social challenges from the COVID-19 crisis and exploring response options.

Prof. Amrita Narlikar explores in this policy paper the advantages and disadvantages of two competing narratives - to resuscitate and reinforce, or to restructure - on the future of multilateralism. This article was republished in Global Policy Blog (22.04.2021).

In this publication, Prof. Amrita Narlikar discusses the German and Indian relationship at a time when democracy is threatened globally by authoritarian diplomacy. This article was republished with Observer Research Foundation (8.4.2021).

GIGA President Prof. Amrita Narlikar contributed to “The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence” edited by Prof. Daniel Drezner, Prof. Henry Farrell, and Prof. Abraham Newman with her chapter “Must the Weak Suffer What They Must?”, focusing on the global south.