“Super Election Year 2024: Implications and Outlook for the International Order”
Voters in more than 70 countries will go to the polls in 2024. This major electoral cycle will involve approximately half the world’s population, including the European Union in what promises to be a “transformative exercise in political participation”. The outcomes will have lasting global implications, especially in the United States, the European Union and India. They will affect major global conflicts and shape the future of democracies around the world – in particular those experiencing a resurgence of populism and the far right. Many actors, including Germany and Türkiye, will face difficult choices.
Against this background, the Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS) at SWP and the Ankara Institute are organising this year's German-Turkish Roundtable on International Affairs (GTRT) in Ankara on “Super Election Year 2024: Implications and Outlook for the International Order”. With the participation of experts, diplomats, politicians, and a few other stakeholders from both countries we will discuss how elections and its geopolitical implications are perceived in a number of EU capitals, Ankara & Brussels.
As the Chatham House Rule applies to all SWP meetings, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed. As a matter of confidentiality, photographs, video or audio recordings as well as all kinds of activities on social media are not allowed during our meetings. Participant lists are not to be circulated to third parties for reasons of data protection and confidentiality.
The Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS) at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) in Berlin is funded by Stiftung Mercator and the Federal Foreign Office. CATS is the curator of CATS Network, an international network of think tanks and research institutions working on Turkey.
Germany and Turkey have strong economic ties, including in trade, investment and tourism. Companies from both countries have a significant presence in various sectors, including those for manufacturing, textiles and automobiles. Yaşar Aydin, Jens Bastian and Maximiliane Schneider, with special thanks to Anton Delchmann, Daniel Kettner and Michael Westrich published on October 23, 2024 a new visualisation, arguing that bilateral political and economic cooperation has considerable upward potential due to growing trade and investment levels.
