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Green breakthrough: New models calculate our impact on nature and climate

Economists from the University of Copenhagen have developed green models to calculate environmental and climate effects in Denmark's entire economy.

Eggeling published a blogpost

Assistent Professor Kristin Anabel Eggeling posted a blogpost about article publication in Review of International Studies.

Modern arms technologies help autocratic rulers stay in power

Autocrats and dictators quickly acquire new arms technologies from abroad and often use them against their own citizens. Now a study shows that the spread of military technologies inhibits democratic reform.

Disasters, Climate Change and Law: Reflections from the NEEDS conference and COPE stay

Photo: Holly Faulkner at the NEEDS 2022 Conference | Text: Holly Faulkner As someone who is interested in the intersection between law and disasters – it is always exciting to find an event that caters to both. This…

Presentation of Ethnoplatform at Als Research consultancy

On Wednesday January 18th, PhD student Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard and Assistant Professor Kristoffer Albris gave an invited guest talk at the consultancy company Als Research, based in central Copenhagen. While Als Research…

CMS Researcher Cornelia Baciu publishes new article

CMS Researcher Cornelia Baciu has published a new article with the title ”Sinn von Sein. Foreign Policy, Memory and Changing Imaginaries and Practices of Neutrality in the Second Republic” in the journal Austrian Journa…

Golovchenko spoke at a NATO Stratcom seminar

Yevgeniy Golovchenko talked about the role of censorship in information warfare for a NATO StratCom seminar in Copenhagen.

Russia’s disinformation campaign in the US did not influence political attitudes or voting behavior

The Russian online disinformation effort during the 2016 US presidential election influenced neither attitudes nor voter behavior, new research shows.

What characterises emergency response to slowly developing crises and disasters?

An EU-funded project hosted at Roskilde University in collaboration with Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE) takes a closer look at the characteristics of attention and proactive response in the context of…

Featuring CERTIZENS at Copenhagen University

Read about the public seminar at the Centre of African Studies featuring the research of CERTIZENS Dr Kojo Opoku Aidoo, and Dr Godfrey Asiimwe

Guest PhD researcher, Nai Kalema, links up with CERTIZENS in Copenhagen

Read Nai Kalema’s responses to some key questions about herself, her doctoral research focus, and how she sees her research relating specifically to CERTIZENS.

Rohlfing and Wind: EU should use other democracy indices

New research article from CEP researchers finds that the Commission should stop using Freedom House. Comparing three democracy indices Rohlfing and Wind support the index critique raised by the Parliament.

The Power of Morality in Movements

Associate Professor Jonas Toubøl has edited the open access anthology ‘The Power of Morality in Movements – Civic Engagement in Climate Justice, Human Rights, and Democracy' in collaboration with Anders Sevelsted from…

Who are the people behind human trafficking?

With support from the EU, a new anthropological project will paint a more accurate picture of human traffickers through fieldwork in Romania and Portugal.

Multiple Perspectives, Cultivating Communities: Reflections on the NEEDS 2022 Conference

Disaster Studies is a growing multidisciplinary field that continues to produce diverse – and often competing or contrasting – perspectives on how disasters are conceptualized and addressed. The Northern European…

New ThinkChina Video: A World Safe for Autocracy?

New ThinkChina Video lecture by Professor Jessica Chen Weiss on what China wants and where the U.S.-China tensions are headed.

Politologist will bridge sciences to solve humanitarian crises

How can new technologies and design methods address global humanitarian crisis? This is the key question for Jonathan Austin, assistant professor at the Department of Political Science.

ThinkChina Video: A World Safe for Autocracy?

ThinkChina Video lecture by Professor Jessica Chen Weiss on what China wants and where the U.S.-China tensions are headed.

A new land reform can address climate challenges facing the agricultural sector, researchers argue

Rewetting low-lying organic soils that are currently under agricultural cultivation has a significant effect on greenhouse gas emissions, but can be a difficult, time-consuming process.

SAMF researcher contributes to court case against suspected pirate

In the trial against the suspected pirate Lucky Francis, the prosecutor has used senior researcher Katja Lindskov Jacobsen as a witness because of her expert knowledge of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.

Almost every other Dane is trying to cut back on meat

New sociological research shows that almost half of the Danish population is trying to reduce their meat consumption.

Psychology professor: Experiences in Virtual Reality can motivate us to climate action

Most people see the need for a green transition, but our actions do not always follow suit, says professor in psychology Guido Makransky.

SAMF student wins prestigious essay competition

Morten Hybschmann, who studies political science at the University of Copenhagen, has just won the Hoover Institution Director's Award.

Essay about Danish Flexicurity: Rights and Duties

Claus Thustrup Kreiner and Michael Svarer review the Danish flexicurity model in Journal of Economic Perspectives.