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Online symposium with Thomas Piketty: Another World is Possible

On 23 September 2026 (12:00–16:00, BST), the Wellbeing State network, in collaboration with CAPPE (University of Brighton) and the IPW, is organising a symposium featuring Thomas Piketty, as well as Sam Chambers and Prathama Banerjee as guest...

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Bitcoin as Legal Tender: El Salvador’s Crypto Experiment Revisited

The team from the research project "The Cultural Political Economy of Bitcoin in the Global South" (BITELSA) invites you to the project's closing event on 10 October 2026 (14:30-16:00) with a presentation of the results and a panel discussion.

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Mechanics of pandemics

A new article by Barbara Prainsack and Isabella Radhuber in the journal "eClinicalMedicine" brings together experts from different disciplines to identify fundamental mechanisms that can be used to describe the development of pandemics.

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Governance in action: the role of pediatricians in childhood immunization

A new article by Nora Hansl and Katharina T. Paul, published in the journal “Critical Policy Studies”, sheds light on the often informalized work through which pediatricians sustain vaccination governance.

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The EU's Digital Services Act: Not Walking the Talk

Gerda Falkner (EIF) shows in her new contribution to the "Journal of Common Market Studies" how important the right kind of regulation is for the safeguarding of democracy.

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The University of Vienna is granted observer status at the International Seabed Authority (ISA)

The Environmental Politics Research Group at the IPW has been monitoring the negotiations at the ISA for several years. With this status, researchers can now observe the negotiations on site and contribute their scientific work through statements.

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Towards geopolitical societal relationships with nature? The case of EU’s critical raw material policies

Focusing on critical raw materials and related policies, Gabriel Eyselein and Theresa Herdlitschka argue in the "Journal für Entwicklungspolitik" that recent developments signal and structure the emergence of a form of geopolitical relationship with...

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The renaissance of carbon capture and storage in Germany and the politics of conditionality

Alina Brad and colleagues investigate in a new article in the journal "Environmental Politics" why and how carbon capture and storage (CCS) has made a comeback in Germany.

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Solidarity or Segregation? ChatGPT Health and US Health Care Disparities

Barbara Prainsack and colleagues have published a new article in the "Journal of Medical Internet Research". In the article, they argue that ChatGPT Health risks widening what they call the solidarity gap in health care.

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Trust, infrastructure and sociopolitics in online drug markets: an exploratory socio-technical analysis of cryptomarket uptake in Europe and Latin America

In the journal "Trends in Organized Crime", Tobias Boos and colleagues examine why cryptomarkets have flourished in Europe while remaining marginal in the traditional drug-producing region of Latin America.

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Charisma without routinization, or how tech entrepreneurs turn into tech oligarchs

In a new article in the journal "Science as Culture", Dmitrii M. Zhikharevich and Vassily Pigounidès argue that tech oligarchy is not simply a matter of political influence or infrastructural power, but is the outcome of a broader process of...

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Uncertainty, (de)valuation, and the limits of legal calculability: litigating vaccine injury in American torts

In the journal "Transnational Legal Theory", Dmitrii M. Zhikharevich and Katharina T. Paul analyse vaccine injury litigation in the U.S. before the introduction of a federal compensation scheme in 1986. Using this case study, they show how law does...

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