The Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination supports a publication program that disseminates research conducted as part of Institute projects. The published output from LISD includes working papers, policy papers, occasional papers, policy briefs and papers, commentaries, edited volumes, and book-length policy reports as part of the Liechtenstein Colloquium Report series.
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August 2023Working Paper
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May 2023Policy Paper
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December 2022Policy Paper
Gender in the Global Community Student Fellows Research Day, December 2019. Credit: Barbara Buckinx
November 2021Occasional Paper
The new normal might not begin where we left off - certainly not in the next 12 months. We will head back to some basics, and to a different new normal, questioning aspects of globalization versus dependence on the professional, community, and national level. The age of supposed unconstrained access to supplies and markets has been proven illusionary, and demonstrates vulnerability.
It is not what the virus does to us, but what we make out of it. Let us hence not succumb to blame games, or even racist accusations, let us not give in to foster division. In this time of acute crisis, we have to stand together – all of us.
It is apparent that, all Koreans, regardless of whether they are in favor of reunification or not, do feel like one people. The South believes the North is separated and lives under an authoritarian regime, and new initiatives should eventually lead to a softening of the border, thus opening possible long-term perspectives of reunification.
The European Union has never witnessed its democracies and the EU itself under such attack and in vital danger—from inside and outside.