Hans Dembowski

Looking back after 21 years at the helm of D+C/E+Z.

Unrestrained market dynamics favour oligarchs, but do not provide public goods as needed.

Democratic governance is increasingly under attack as elected policymakers struggle to keep up with fast changes in different spheres of society.

Stefan Dercon of Oxford University explains why low-income countries cannot develop without economic growth and in what kind of settings growth-oriented policies are implemented.

The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria shows that Islamist groups do not necessarily form any kind of united front.

Frank Schwabe, the commissioner for religious freedom of Germany’s federal government, elaborates why the rights of indigenous peoples deserve respect.

Religion can be used in politics in two fundamentally different ways, and only one serves global cooperation for a sustainably liveable planet.

Why Elon Musk and other titans of Silicon Valley and Wall Street supported Donald Trump

In a fascinating new book, an East German sociologist elaborates why German unification did not – and could not – result in a uniform German identity. It never will.

Britain’s East India Company ran a highly profitable, but brutally exploitative narco-state in the Gangetic plains and exported highly addictive opium to China.