High-income countries

What would it look like to engage in fair international cooperation that does not uphold colonial structures? That is the question that participants considered at a BMZ event in Berlin. Many called for a new approach to improve partnerships.

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

German development cooperation benefits both the recipient countries and the German economy, as new scientific data show. Such arguments deserve more attention in the current discussion on the effectiveness of development cooperation.

Our correspondent in Manila spells out how Zionist brutality turned him from a fan of Israel into an anti-Zionist.

The story of the skull of the resistant Chief Mkwawa is an example of the arbitrariness with which the colonisers treated their subjects – even decades after their death.

One year ago, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier travelled to Tanzania to apologise for the atrocities committed by his country during its colonial rule. This was a first, but an apology alone is not enough.

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

Development scholar Henning Melber assesses in a new book how Germans dealt with their colonial history from the 19th century on.

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.