Articles in English Back to www.boell-bw.de Underscored by the algorithm: AI's impacts on labour and environment Commentary What are the impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on human labour and the environment? How do legislative proposals for regulating AI in Europe and Brazil respond to these impacts beyond discussions on surveillance and automated decision-making bias? Misguided Balkans' policy - Dangerous appeasement Analysis For many years, Western players have been going all out to placate the populistic-nationalist players and their destructive ideologies: yet their questionable methods of appeasement and undemocratic interventions have ended up bolstering the very powers that have come to pose a threat to peace. The way for new excesses of violence has been paved. By supporting firebrands, Russia has been able to expand its influence further – this is the Kremlin’s second front for the destabilisation of Europe. By Marion Kraske Vjosa – a biodiversity gem threatened by shortsighted development Vjosa, in south Albania, is one of the most renowned rivers in Albania, in terms of the natural heritage and biodiversity values that it sustains. By Aleksandër Trajçe Consequences of the Anti-vaccination Movement in Croatia Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic This article was developed with the support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation Baden-Württemberg, as a part of a series of discussions on the anti-vaccine movement and its consequences for societies throughout Europe, including Croatia. “Women, Life, Freedom”: A German feminist foreign policy towards Iran Analysis In Iran, feminist foreign policy demands both short-term interventions to alleviate the suffering of the civilian population and a long-term approach to deal with the state’s structural violence against its own citizens. By Barbara Mittelhammer and Cornelius Adebahr
Underscored by the algorithm: AI's impacts on labour and environment Commentary What are the impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on human labour and the environment? How do legislative proposals for regulating AI in Europe and Brazil respond to these impacts beyond discussions on surveillance and automated decision-making bias?
Misguided Balkans' policy - Dangerous appeasement Analysis For many years, Western players have been going all out to placate the populistic-nationalist players and their destructive ideologies: yet their questionable methods of appeasement and undemocratic interventions have ended up bolstering the very powers that have come to pose a threat to peace. The way for new excesses of violence has been paved. By supporting firebrands, Russia has been able to expand its influence further – this is the Kremlin’s second front for the destabilisation of Europe. By Marion Kraske
Vjosa – a biodiversity gem threatened by shortsighted development Vjosa, in south Albania, is one of the most renowned rivers in Albania, in terms of the natural heritage and biodiversity values that it sustains. By Aleksandër Trajçe
Consequences of the Anti-vaccination Movement in Croatia Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic This article was developed with the support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation Baden-Württemberg, as a part of a series of discussions on the anti-vaccine movement and its consequences for societies throughout Europe, including Croatia.
“Women, Life, Freedom”: A German feminist foreign policy towards Iran Analysis In Iran, feminist foreign policy demands both short-term interventions to alleviate the suffering of the civilian population and a long-term approach to deal with the state’s structural violence against its own citizens. By Barbara Mittelhammer and Cornelius Adebahr