With its outreach events, the GIGA both presents its latest research findings and discusses current developments in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, as well as globally.
India is an active BRICS member also deepening its ties with the West. With its strategy of “multi-alignment,” India claims to be a leader of the Global South. The GIGA’s team of India experts, Sharinee Jagtiani (German Marshall Fund), and Germany’s ambassador to India, Philipp Ackermann, debate the country’s geopolitical sweet spot.
Analysing over 2.8 million “tweets” from Chinese and Russian accounts, we find that Chinese accounts proactively shape narratives to reinforce internal stability, whereas Russian accounts exhibit reactive spikes during critical events, utilising divisive narratives to exacerbate polarisation in Western democracies.
Dr. Yasmine Zarhloule (Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center) explores how border closures in Morocco’s eastern regions have reshaped regional belonging, identity, and spatial politics, examining the dynamics between development narratives and collective memory in the borderland.
The panel analyses the characteristics, causes, and consequences of drug trafficking and drug policy in the Middle East, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, and West Africa. The discussion contextualises the challenges of transatlantic drug trafficking, teases out commonalities and differences, and provides comparative insights.
Experts from diverse fields gather to explore the evolving challenges of illicit drug trafficking from Latin America to Europe and beyond. With a focus on ports as strategic hubs, they examine underlying dynamics and emerging trends, available data and common misconceptions, community impacts and civil society’s role.