Dr Angelo Vito Panaro is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Political Science at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg. He is involved in the “Academic Freedom Index” (AFI) research project which measures and compares academic freedom worldwide once a year. In this interview, he explains how the negative trend in Germany’s AFI values is to be understood, why there are so much more countries with declining than increasing AFI values and what can be learned from the developments in Argentina, Poland and the United States.
Anuja Desai is a Senior Soft Power Analyst at the British Council. She oversees the British Council’s commissioned research on soft power in relation to development, peace, and security. In this interview, we talk to her about the concerns, needs and hopes of young people…
