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August 22, 2014
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In a piece published on Project Syndicate, SPP Dean Wolfgang Reinicke and Senior Advisor Thorsten Benner call Europe to action to address Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s crackdown on civil liberties and political freedoms in Hungary. “The only way to stop him – and to protect the EU’s fundamental values, not to mention its self-respect – is to offer him a clear choice: act like a democratic statesman or become a pariah,” urge Reinicke and Benner.

May 30, 2014
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In a globalized world, are there optimal limits to diversity in a society? What is the cost benefit analysis of migration? These were questions that Paul Collier tackled in his third and final SPP lecture on migration policy.

May 14, 2014
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The Responsibility to Protect principle has suffered a number of setbacks in recent years, but this is nothing that it can’t recover from, believes a still optimistic Gareth Evans.
April 30, 2014
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Voting in the 2014 Indian elections are running from April 7. What will these elections mean for the world's largest democracy?