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Cooperadio invites you on a journey through the fascinating world of global cooperation research. Each episode features voices, opinions and research that address the multitude of global challenges that we are dealing with as inhabitants of a deeply globalized world - from the climate emergency, the challenges of global migration, the multitude of old and new conflicts, all the way to the digital revolution. All these transboundary problems have one thing in common: They cannot be overcome by singular actors from nations states alone and therefore call for global cooperation!

Cooperadio - The Global Cooperation Podcast Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research

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Cooperadio invites you on a journey through the fascinating world of global cooperation research. Each episode features voices, opinions and research that address the multitude of global challenges that we are dealing with as inhabitants of a deeply globalized world - from the climate emergency, the challenges of global migration, the multitude of old and new conflicts, all the way to the digital revolution. All these transboundary problems have one thing in common: They cannot be overcome by singular actors from nations states alone and therefore call for global cooperation!

    COVID-19 and Migration: The Rocky Roads of Migration, with Hannah Pool

    COVID-19 and Migration: The Rocky Roads of Migration, with Hannah Pool

    Within the last years, migration trajectories have increasingly expanded as migrants from Afghanistan and other countries have taken the risky and uncertain route to Europe. Prolonged war and life-threatening environments have forced people to leave behind their homes and seek refuge in other countries. On their way, migrants face numerous challenges and hardships that either enable or hinder their movement between borders.



    Migrants are confronted with navigating their journey as they try to manage economic interactions and  social relationships in order to facilitate their endeavour despite undocumented migration trajectories. Without the necessary resources - both economic and social networks - undocumented migration is almost impossible and, for many, the reason why they are trapped in their unsafe homes.



    Our guest for this episode is Hannah Pool. Together, we talk about the challenges and prospects of refugees and their experiences on their journey to reach Europe and Germany. We follow the routes that people take to seek refuge and how they manage their journey despite everything they encounter. Hannah Pool is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. She received her PhD at the University of Cologne on migration trajectories of people coming from Afghanistan to Western Europe via Iran, Turkey, Greece, and the Balkan route. Previously, she was a doctoral student at the International Max-Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE) from 2017 to 2021. In her dissertation Hannah examined how social relations facilitate economic interactions among migrants, their families, smugglers and various other actors on the route from Afghanistan, Turkey, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Greece to Germany.



    Find her on Twitter: @hannahkpool



    For feedback or questions we welcome your comments directed at @GCR21 on Twitter under the hashtag #cooperadiopodcast or you can get in touch via e-mail: cooperadio@gcr21.uni-due.de.



    Further reading & sources:

    Pool, H. (2021). "Doing the Game": The Moral Economy of Coming to Europe. PhD Thesis, University of Cologne, Cologne. http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0009-7681-0

    Pool, H. (2021). Herkunft als Weg: Migrationsforschung nimmt zunehmend die Komplexität von Routen in den Blick. WZB-Mitteilungen, (173), 31-33. http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0009-5E64-E


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    Research Feature: A System with a Troubled Past - The Making of Contemporary Capitalism, Property Rights, and the Global Order, with Zsuzsanna Török

    Research Feature: A System with a Troubled Past - The Making of Contemporary Capitalism, Property Rights, and the Global Order, with Zsuzsanna Török

    On a global scale, private property rights function as the foundation of our current liberal world order. Laws and regulations provide safety and stability for nation-states and the individual, ensuring social order and free trade by creating accountability and liability. In this ever globalizing world, these pillars have become a reliant tool to turn to in case of fraudulent or unfair activities.



    At the same time, not all global citizens have benefited equally from the liberal property regime and legal protection set up during the 19th century. Vulnerable and marginalized parts of the global community are often held to different standards and exposed to unpredictable external dynamics. So the questions remain if first, this liberal legislative framework created in the 19th century is as stable and functioning as we may often think? And second, is it time for improvement and adjustment to create something more sustainable and fair for all?



    Our guest for this episode is Dr. Zsuzsanna Török who has been a senior research fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research and part of the research group “Legitimation and De-legitimation in Global Cooperation” from March 2021 until February 2022. At the Center, her research project focused on the Critique of the Liberal State, Private Property and Legal Reform: Late 19th Century Experiences and Their Legacies. Furthermore, she is a Post Doc at the University of Vienna at the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies. Zsuzsanna received her Master and PhD in History at the Central University in Budapest. She has extensively researched the history of nationalism, state-building, and the history of the Habsburg Monarchy in global contexts. Her research project focuses on the Habsburger Monarchy and liberal capitalist private property in the 19th century within a transnational framework.



    For feedback or questions we welcome your comments directed at @GCR21 on Twitter under the hashtag #cooperadiopodcast or you can get in touch via e-mail: cooperadio@gcr21.uni-due.de.



    Further reading & sources:

    https://www.gcr21.org/the-centre/news/year/current/they-constructed-an-idea-of-the-state-by-data-a-talk-with-borbala-zsuzsanna-toeroek

    https://www.gcr21.org/publications/gcr/gcr-quarterly-magazine/qm-2/2021-articles/qm-2-2021-toeroek-critique-of-the-liberal-state-private-property-and-legal-reform-late-19th-century-experiences-and-their-legacies

    Török, Zsuzsana B. (2021). Staatenkunde and State Building in the Habsburg Monarchy, ca. 1790–1880. Habilitation Manuscript, defended at the University of Vienna, 17.02.

    Török, Zsuzsana B. (2020). “Exploring the k.u.k. Province – Landeskunde and honismeret in nineteenth-century Transylvania,” in Jan Arend (ed.), Science and Empire in Eastern Europe. Imperial Russia and the Habsburg Monarchy in the 19th Century (Bad Wiesseer Tagungen des Collegium Carolinum, 38), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 187–203.


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    • 30 min
    Ukraine Special - Putin ad portas: The Future of Security in the Ukraine and Europe, with Tobias Debiel and Herbert Wulf

    Ukraine Special - Putin ad portas: The Future of Security in the Ukraine and Europe, with Tobias Debiel and Herbert Wulf

    On Monday, 7 March 2022, Cooperadio hosts Janine Herbert and Julia Fleck spoke with peace researchers Professors Tobias Debiel and Herbert Wulf, about their analysis of the causes and motivations behind the Russian invasion of Ukraine, how to get out of the spiral of escalation, what possible scenarios for an end of the war could look like, and the consequences of the current confrontation for the future of the European security architecture and the international system as a whole. 



    Contact us:   

    E-mail: podcast@gcr21.uni-due.de     

    Twitter: @gcr_21    #cooperadiopodcast



    Related Articles: 

    Debiel, Tobias (2022): "How to end the spiral of escalation" 

    Wulf, Herbert (2022): "Putin’s War in Ukraine: How To Get Out of the Catch-22 Situation?"



    Tobias Debiel is Deputy Director of the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) and Co-Director of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research, both at the University of Duisburg- Essen. There, he is also Professor for International Relations in the Department of Political Science since 2006. His research interests lie in the areas of state failure and global governance; state building and violent conflicts; and structures of violence and development chances in times of globalization.



    Herbert Wulf is a Professor of International Relations and former Director of the Bonn International Center for Conflict Studies (BICC). Between 2012 and 2013, he was Senior Expert Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/ Centre for Global Cooperation Research. He is presently a Senior Fellow at BICC, an Adjunct Senior Researcher at the Institute for Development and Peace, University of Duisburg/Essen, Germany, and a Research Affiliate at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand. He serves on the Scientific Boards of SIPRI, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, and the Centre for Conflict Studies of the University of Marburg, Germany.


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    • 45 min
    COVID-19 and Migration: Compromised Mobility and Shaky Governance Frameworks, with Marion Panizzon

    COVID-19 and Migration: Compromised Mobility and Shaky Governance Frameworks, with Marion Panizzon

    Cooperadio Hosts Janine Herbert and Julia Fleck talk with Dr Marion Panizzon about the challenges and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic for migrants and refugees, how Covid has impacted the status quo of established asylum procedures and political responses to find ways to manage…



    Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “Everyone has the right to freedom of movement ... And the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country”. The Declaration set a common standard for all people and nations and has been widely recognized. Yet, these stipulations have been increasingly contested in times of crisis as governments worldwide have deviated from these norms in response to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Migrants and refugees have been exceptionally affected throughout this global health crisis. The course of the pandemic has disrupted mobility and compromised access to essential services for migrants and refugees. Moreover, they face a greater risk of contagion than other parts of society. Consequently, migrants and refugees ought to receive greater protection and care. Yet, while some countries do have adequate migration mechanisms, others do not. The question remains, how can standardized and fair migration governance be achieved in times of Covid-19? Our guest for this episode is Senior Researcher of the NCCR, Dr Marion Panizzon. 



    Together, we talk about the challenges and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic for migrants and refugees how Covid has impacted the status quo of established asylum procedures and political responses to find ways to manage. Marion is passionate about migration and global governance mechanisms which manage such movements. She has been active in the field for several years and worked for the World Bank, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, the Institut du Development Durable and the Migration Policy Institute. She has published extensively on topics related to international economic law and migration governance in EU and UN contexts. 



    Find her on Twitter: @marion_panizzon  



    For feedback or questions we welcome your comments directed at @GCR21 on Twitter under the hashtag#cooperadiopodcast or you can get in touch via e-mail: cooperadio@gcr21.uni-due.de. 



    Further reading & sources: 



    Hanke, Philip & Wieruszewski, Marek & Panizzon, Marion. (2018). The ‘spirit of the Schengen rules’, the humanitarian visa, and contested asylum governance in Europe – The Swiss case. Journal of Ethnic andMigration Studies. 45. 1-16. 10.1080/1369183X.2018.1441615. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1441615 



    Panizzon, Marion & van Riemsdijk, Micheline. (2018). Introduction to Special issue: ‘migration governance in an era oflarge movements: a multi-level approach’. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 44. 10.1080/1369183X.2018.1441600. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1441600


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    • 58 min
    Research Feature: Good refugees, bad refugees? Narratives and framing in refugee discourses, with Bidisha Biswas

    Research Feature: Good refugees, bad refugees? Narratives and framing in refugee discourses, with Bidisha Biswas

    “Everybody deserves dignity, a place to live and a nationality” - this is the normative approach of the UN Refugee Convention from 1954 as a response to the events of WWII. The convention has set global standards but, undoubtedly, a lot has changed since. According to our guest, Prof. Bidisha Biswas, the convention is not up to date. The valuable idea that there is a collective global responsibility for refugees is not adequate to a reality where the countries that have the most resources to take that responsibility are not the countries that are normally hosting the refugees.



    86% of refugees are hosted in developing countries and not in resource-rich countries. The question of who is responsible has to be solved first, otherwise the question of who is a refugee is rather futile. Are countries in the Global North silent about certain circumstances, because they are actually happy about countries in the global south taking refugees? What is influencing refugee and migration policies?



    Another weakness of the convention is that it does not include climate and economic refugees. Most people are not destined to be famous or become a surgeon — what do we do with “ordinary” refugees who want a better life for themselves and their families?



    And if we believe in human dignity also during a pandemic, how do we get vaccines in refugee camps? These and more questions will be addressed in our mini series on migration and the pandemic.



    This episode’s guest Bidisha Biswas joined the research group "Global Cooperation and Diverging Conceptions of World Order" as a Senior Research Fellow at the KHK/GCR21. In addition she is a Professor of Political Science at Western Washington University at the Department of Political Science. She was also a Franklin Fellow in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor at the United States Department of State. She holds a Doctorate in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland, College Park.



    Her project at the Centre is focused on the Global Refugee Regime, looking at how refugees are framed in different countries focusing on the South-Asian region, specifically India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, who have not signed the UN refugee convention, but are all sending and receiving refugees to various degrees. She is investigating the conditions under which refugees are seen as being deserving and not deserving of refuge and how that shapes national policies. Since South Asia has no regional framework or any kind of mechanisms for refugees (like Europe, Africa and South America have) she is looking at continental responsibilities, India's leadership in migration policy and regional power shifts.

    Bidisha’s recent works include:

    Biswas, B. (2021). Hindu Radicalization and Implications for India. In: Raymond Izarali, M. & Ahlawat, D. (eds.). Terrorism, Security and Development in South Asia: National, Regional and Global Implications (1st ed.), New York: Routledge, 177-192.

    Bhattacharya, S. & Biswas, B. (2020). International Norms of Asylum and Burden-Sharing: A Case Study of Bangladesh and the Rohingya Refugee Population, Journal of Refugee Studies.

    Biswas, B. & Deylami, S. (2019). Radicalizing Female Empowerment: Gender, Agency, and Affective Appeals in Islamic State Propaganda, Small Wars & Insurgencies 30(6-7), 1193-1213.

    Bidisha Biswas' website and twitter account: @Bee_the_Wonk


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    • 38 min
    Research Feature: Internet Governance - Between Net Neutrality and Necessary Boundaries; with Nathalia Sautchuk Patrício

    Research Feature: Internet Governance - Between Net Neutrality and Necessary Boundaries; with Nathalia Sautchuk Patrício

    Online election campaigns, online shopping, working from home, and video conferences with people from all over the world - whether we like it or not, since the start of the pandemic, the internet determines our lives more than ever before, both online and offline. States and international organizations are increasingly confronted with the question of who actually regulates the internet, whether it even can be regulated (and how), and what role companies like Amazon and Facebook play in this.



    Our guest for this episode is German Chancellor Fellow Nathalia Sautchuk Patrício, who is doing comparative research about the German and the Brazilian experience with promoting and protecting the open internet through net neutrality and the fight against illegal online content. With her, we talk about the hopes and burdens of net neutrality, which responsibilities internet companies like Facebook should have, and how Brazil can pose as a good example for Germany in terms of internet governance. 



    Nathalia has a passion for technology and using it to improve peoples' lives. She has been working in the field of internet governance for 7 years, for the DiploFoundation or LACNIC (Latin America and Caribbean Network Information Centre), and she has given lectures at institutes including the Universidade Presbeteriana Mackenzie, the Virtual University of State of São Paulo, and the Senac University, among others. She has published extensively on topics related to Internet Governance Initiatives and internet usage mainly in Latin America.



    Find Nathalia on Twitter: @nathysautchuk



    For feedback or questions we welcome you comments directed at @GCR21 on Twitter under the hashtag #cooperadiopodcast or you can get in touch via e-mail: cooperadio@gcr21.uni-due.de.



    Further readings:



    Sautchuk-Patricio, Nathalia (2021). Learning From the German Experience of Promoting and Protecting the Open Internet: The Cases of Network Neutrality and the Fight Against Illicit Online Content; In: Quarterly Magazine, July 2021. 



    Aguerre, C. and Canabarro, D. (2021). Borders and Boundaries in Internet Governance. Rethinking Scholarship and Policies. In: Quarterly Magazine, July 2021.



    Aguerre, C.; Canabarro, D. R.; Callegari, A.; Hurel, L. M.; Patrício, N. S. (2018). Mapping National Internet Governance Initiatives in Latin America. Internet Policy Observatory at the Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania: April.



    Haggart, B.; Tusikov, N. and Scholte, J. A. (eds.) (2021). Power and Authority in Internet Governance. Return of the State? Routledge: London.


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