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Zivilgesellschaft
Authoritarianism

Populism in the Middle Kingdom

Xi Jinping is centralising government power and reversing progress towards the rule of law in China

Mexico

Charisma is not enough

In Mexico, candidates on the right and left present themselves as men of the people

Editorial

Worthless promises

Populists deny the legitimacy of diverging interests

Egypt

An ancient land

In Egypt, different ideas of the nation have served different political

North Africa

Defining the nation

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s idea of the Egyptian nation does not include every Egyptian

Political foundations

Civil society’s shrinking space

Civil-society organisations are under pressure in many countries – and so are their international partners

Endangered pluralism

Damaged democracy

Assessing the meaning of populism and how the phenomenon relates to technocratic governance

African Union-European Union Summit

Give civil society more space

The results of the fifth EU-AU summit fell far short of expectations

Ebola vaccine proven effective in clinical trial

This public-health success was driven by international, multi-sector cooperation rather than by market forces

Weltwärts

Shared norms

Young Indian psychologist writes about her exposure to Germany as a weltwärts volunteer

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Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.