2015

Is Mass Migration from Africa Endangering Peace and Stability in Europe?

16/12/2015 12:01
    In the last two and half years I visited professionally three sub-Saharan countries, besides a brief visit to South Africa: Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda and now again privately Tanzania. In spite of the private character of this last visit I had time and interest to consider the...

Peace In the Middle East

15/12/2015 10:21
Peace in Europe depends strongly on war and peace in the Middle East. This has never been more clear and visible than after the terrorist attacks in Paris this November. Irrespective and independently from the recent refugee stream from Iraq and Syria we have to recognize the new level of...

Esther Mujawayo: Surviving the Genocide in Rwanda

25/11/2015 13:15
Esther Mujawayo: Surviving the Genocide in Rwanda   ‘Genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other parts of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African...

Terror and Europe's Reaction

24/11/2015 09:49
No country can accept these attacks and must strike back. And all our sympathies are with the killed, the other victims and their families and certainly not with the killers. But at the same time we have to look at the root causes of these dreadful deeds in order to prevent further...

40 Years after Helsinki - How to Continue

19/11/2015 14:33
40 years after Helsinki - how to continue   The S&D group in the European Parliament organized recently a conference on "Helsinki 40 years after" - after the Helsinki conference of 1975. EU and Russian representatives and experts had an open exchange about the way or better ways forward....

How are the Balkans?

12/11/2015 19:00
Hannes Swoboda on the actual situation of the Balkans in the context of an expert workshop which was followed by a public debate in Vienna organised by the Ustinov Institute, the OIIP (Austrian Institute for International Affairs), the IIP, the BMI (Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights), the Renner...

Europe and its Contribution to European and Global Security

14/10/2015 13:30
Beitrag von Hannes Swoboda bei der Konferenz in Havanna zum Thema "La Transición Geopolítica del Poder Global: Entre La Cooperación y el Conflicto"   Europe and its contribution to European and Global Security   Introduction   The Cuban "Centro de Investigacion sober Politica...

Neutrality an outdated Concept?

02/10/2015 14:00
Beitrag von Hannes Swoboda auf der International Conference:      NEUTRALITY FROM THE COLD WAR TO ENGAGED NEUTRALITY in der Landesverteidigungsakademie   In the past, especially after some neutral/non-aligned countries joined the EU and especially after the breakdown of the...

Stability and Security in Europe: Back to Power Games

11/06/2015 15:56
Beitrag von Hannes Swoboda /Konferenz in Varna/Bulgarien   Europe: values instead of power   The European Union wanted to decrease the influence of mere power and increase the role of values internally and in international relations. Not everybody was happy about the European Charter of...

Erwin Lanc: Herrschaftssysteme des Globalkapitalismus

20/05/2015 19:00
Vortrag im Rahmen des   Symposiums aus Anlass des 85. Geburtstags von Bundesminister a.D. Erwin Lanc "HERRSCHAFTSINSTRUMENTE DES GLOBALKAPITALISMUS"   organisiert von der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für wissenschaftliche Wirtschaftspolitik (WIWIPOL)   Ich unterscheide zwischen natürlich...