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New Publications

GIGA Focus International Edition English
The Dragon in the Backyard: US Visions of China's Relations toward Latin America (Detlef Nolte)

Journal of Politics in Latin America, Vol 5, No 1 (2013)

Between Reform and Repression - Arab Monarchies in Spring (Dok-line Nahost, Gerda Hansen / Thomas Siebold 1/2013)

North Korea's nuclear weapons programmes and regional security – recent developments (Dok-line Asien, Sonja Majumder, 2/2013)

GIGA Working Papers
No 223: Power Sharing in Syria: Lessons from Lebanon's Experience (Stephan Rosiny)

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Research and Transfer of Knowledge

The Third Edititon of the ECPR Summer School on Latin American Politics "The Outcomes of Democratic Regimes" will take place at GIGA in Hamburg, 26 June - 5 July 2013

German Research Foundation supports project on civil society in autocracies. A new project at GIGA examing the role of civil society organisations in autocracies will get underway in the second half of 2013, courtesy of a generous grant of the German Research Foundation (DFG). The two-year project is entitled 'Civil society organisations as supporters of authoritarian rule? A cross-regional comparison of the cases of Vietnam, Algeria and Mozambique'.

GIGA Seminar in Socio-Economics: "A Recipe for Success? Randomized Free Distribution of Improved Cooking Stoves in Senegal". Dr. Jörg Peters (Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) will give a talk about his research on, 25st April 2013 at 1.30-2.30 p.m, GIGA, Neuer Jungfernstieg 21, 20354 Hamburg

On 16-17 March 2013, the GIGA and the China Foreign Affairs University (CFAU) are holding a joint workshop in Beijing on "Regional Order and Regionalism in Asia". The workshop is sponsored by the DFG.

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Bert Hoffmann, the acting director of the GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies, has been elected to the Advisory Committee of the Institut des Amériques (IdA) in Paris for the next four years. More...

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