Learning the ropes
Gerd Junne, Vidya Marapin | February 09, 2025What are the best ways of creating sustainable economic development in post-conflict states? Gerd Junne and Vidya Marapin review five books in search of viable strategies.
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Designing peace
Gerd Junne | July 01, 2025Architecture has long served the powerful and prosperous. But it is in a unique position to help reconstruct post-conflict societies by building stability and uniting divided cities.
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Here to stay
Gerd Junne | April 01, 2025Expectations were high that authoritarian regimes would not survive the expansion of capitalism. However, in the Middle East there are strong currents that underpin authoritarianism. Trying to impose democracy from the outside will not help. Only...
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Demographers do not see a ‘clash of civilizations’
Gerd Junne | February 02, 2025Le rendez-vous des civilisations, by Youssef Courbage and Emmanuel Todd. Seuil, 2007.A review by Gerd Junne.
▶Gerd Junne
Gerd Junne (1947) is professor in International Relations at the University of Amsterdam. He studied political science and law in Berlin and Geneva and holds a PhD in economics. He worked as a consultant for the UN and other international agencies. He was the chairman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs advisory group on biotechnology and development. He has extensively dealt with changes in the international division of labour, the impact of new technologies on international relations and the changing role of multinational corporations. He is a member of the board of the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) in The Hague. His recent research concentrates on problems of post-conflict development.