Academic work from Atlantic Community members broadens the scope of the policy marketplace. Research and policy analysis are not just the work of experts; such work is done daily by students around the world, but needs to find its way to a larger audience. With this feature we hope to empower an up and coming generation of students, think tankers and other young professionals and involve them in the policy forming process. You can upload your thesis, paper or article here.
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Susan Aaronson: This article takes a closer look at the Bush administration's policy concerning trade and human rights; a policy area that has, in recent years, been inconsistent. As the Olympics approach, how the US responds to China's human rights violations with respect to trade negotiations could set a very important precedent.
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Andrew Bishop: If U.S. and European leaders are going to protect their respective homelands together, they need to understand each other's current strengths and weaknesses. This paper addresses them.
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Andreas Thomas Kern: This research note by Christian Fahrholz and myself depicts arguments for lending boom-bust cycles in emerging market and transition economies.
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Dominik Bertram: This paper is looking at the new role the European Union has to play on a global level, by applying Joseph Nye's Model of a "three dimensional chessboard", and the "TIT FOR TAT" strategy, put forward by Robert Axeldrod.
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Maximilian Müngersdorff: Resource-based growth poses a risk to the broader economy. With oil prices hitting record highs, Russia, the world’s largest fossil-fuel exporter, has seen rapid growth. The question is, whether this growth is used to transform Russia into a diversified and sustainable economy.
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Tobias Bock: This paper aims at assessing the civil society within Iraqi Kurdistan, the region of the conflict torn country that is often perceived as ‘the other Iraq’ or at least tries to convey this impression to the outside world.
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Benjamin Lucas Schoo: We have entered an era of political science where traditional security studies have been challenged by a much broader concept, which has come to be known as Human Security, examining the role of non-traditional threats on the security of individuals.
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Benjamin Lucas Schoo: Does Chávez succeed in breaking the resource-curse for Venezuela? Can he keep his promise to spark off a revolution on behalf of Venezuela’s poor? And what are the long-term consequences of an oil-based policy for the freedom and security in a country such as Venezuela?
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Viktor Friedmann: This paper provides a summary of a V4 conference with young researchers which identified the type of information which could be transferred from the Visegrad civil sector to the neighboring countries who would also like to be members of the EU.
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