Peter Hagen
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Jordan’s Water Crisis
The problem of water scarcity puts an undeniable blight on the lives of millions of people, including in Jordan which has been ranked tenth out of the seventeen states in [...]
What Is Civil Society, Anyway?
Biscuit Theory was a flash in the pan. It erupted as an attempt to explain why and how civil society organisations (CSOs) work together, and disappeared just as quickly in [...]
9/11 Didn’t Change The World, Wars Did
The attacks of September 11th, 2001 did not result in an immediate substantive alteration to the lives of most people in the world. It is difficult to find something positive [...]
The Strange Case of Azerbaijan And Its Resource Blessing/Curse
Introduction: The SOFAZ Project “Oil is a major wealth of Azerbaijan which belongs not only to this generation, but also to future generations,” according to the former President [...]
Shared Global Governance: What The CIA Has Taught Us Not To Do
Peter Hagen asks what happens when the separate worlds of global politics and the work of Civil Society Organisations come together.
Why Middle Class Families Can Kill Assad
Syria is beset by an historic problem of weak state institutions, with the exception of those state and quasi-state forces through which the ruling Assad dynasty has exercised its power. [...]
