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GIGA Working Papers

• No 224 Malte Gephart: Convergence, Divergence and a Complex Interplay: Chile and the International and Transnational Anti-Corruption Campaign, May 2013 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 798 kB])

• No 223 Stephan Rosiny: Power Sharing in Syria: Lessons from Lebanon's Experience, May 2013 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 685 kB])

• No 222 Alexander De Juan and André Bank: The Effects of Regime Cooptation on the Geographical Distribution of Violence: Evidence from the Syrian Civil War, May 2013 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 923 kB])

• No 221 Kerstin Nolte: Large-Scale Agricultural Investments under Poor Land Governance Systems: Actors and Institutions in the Case of Zambia, April 2013 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 841 kB])

• No 220 Almut Schilling-Vacaflor and Riccarda Flemmer: Why is Prior Consultation Not Yet an Effective Tool for Conflict Resolution? The Case of Peru, April 2013 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 668 kB])

• No 219 Hanspeter Mattes: Politische Transformation und Gewalt in Tunesien, Ägypten und Libyen seit 2011: Ein Forschungsaufriss, April 2013 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 747 kB])

• No 218 Claire Wright and Ana Soliz Landivar: From Military Instruments of Dictatorship to Political Instruments of Democracy: Regimes of Exception in Bolivia 2000–2010, March 2013 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 640 kB])
  

• No 217 Birte Pohl and Peter Mulder: Explaining the Diffusion of Renewable Energy Technology in Developing Countries, March 2013 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 1030 kB])

• No 216 Joachim Betz: The Reform of China's Energy Policies, February 2013 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 662 kB])

• No 215 André Bank, Thomas Richter and Anna Sunik: Long-Term Monarchical Survival in the Middle East: A Configurational Comparison, 1945–2012, February 2013 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 716 kB])

• No 214 Nele Noesselt: Microblogs in China: Bringing the State Back In, February 2013 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 554 kB])

• No 213 Pascal Abb: China's Foreign Policy Think Tanks: Changing Roles and Structural Conditions, January 2013 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 988 kB])

• No 212 Christian von Soest and Michael Wahman: Sanctions and Democratization in the Post-Cold War Era, January 2013 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 692 kB])

• No 211 Alexander De Juan: Mapping Political Violence – The Approaches and Conceptual Challenges of Subnational Geospatial Analyses of Intrastate Conflict, December 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 630 kB])

• No 210 Lena Giesbert: Subjective Risk and Participation in Micro Life Insurance in Ghana, December 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 725 kB])

• No 209 Georg Strüver: What Friends Are Made Of: Bilateral Linkages and Domestic Drivers of Foreign Policy Alignment with China, November 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 669 kB])

• No 208 Jörg Balsiger, Miriam Prys and Niko Steinhoff: The Nature and Role of Regional Agreements in International Environmental Politics: Mapping Agreements, Outlining Future Research, October 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 888 kB])

• No 207 Daniel Flemes and Leslie Wehner: Drivers of Strategic Contestation in South America, October 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 690 kB])

• No 206 Hannes Ebert, Daniel Flemes and Georg Strüver: The Politics of Contestation in Asia: How Japan and Pakistan Deal with their Rising Neighbors, September 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 690 kB])

• No 205 Carlo Koos and Matthias Basedau: Does Uranium Mining Increase Civil Conflict Risk? Evidence from a Spatiotemporal Analysis of Africa from 1945 to 2010, September 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 1.175 kB])

• No 204 André Bank and Roy Karadag: The Political Economy of Regional Power: Turkey under the AKP, September 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 577 kB])
  Published in: Third World Quarterly, 34, 2 ('The Ankara Moment': The Politics of Turkey's Regional Power in the Middle East, 2007-2011)
  

• No 203 Martin Beck and Simone Hüser: Political Change in the Middle East: An Attempt to Analyze the "Arab Spring", August 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 748 kB])

• No 202 Sandra Destradi and Johannes Vüllers: The Consequences of Failed Mediation in Civil Wars: Assessing the Sri Lankan Case, August 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 465 kB])

• No 201 David Shim: Seeing from Above: The Geopolitics of Satellite Vision and North Korea, August 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 666 kB])

• No 200 David Shim and Patrick Flamm: Rising South Korea: A Minor Player or a Regional Power?, July 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 580 kB])
  Forthcoming in: Outre-Terre (La Corée du Sud: puissance régional ou acteur mineur ?)

• No 199 Sabine Kurtenbach: Postwar Youth Violence: A Mirror of the Relationship between Youth and Adult Society, July 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 637 kB])

• No 198 Jann Lay, Janosch Ondraczek and Jana Stoever: Renewables in the Energy Transition: Evidence on Solar Home Systems and Lighting-Fuel Choice in Kenya, July 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 712 kB])

• No 197 Alexander Stroh, Sebastian Elischer and Gero Erdmann: Origins and Outcomes of Electoral Institutions in African Hybrid Regimes: A Comparative Perspective, June 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 752 kB])

• No 196 Daniel Neff, Kunal Sen and Veronika Kling: The Puzzling Decline in Rural Women's Labor Force Participation in India: A Reexamination, May 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 782 kB])
  Published in: Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 55, 3, 408-429 ( The Puzzling Decline in Rural Women's Labour Force Participation in India: A Re-examination)
  

• No 195 Alexander De Juan: Institutional Conflict Settlement in Divided Societies: The Role of Subgroup Identities in Self-Government Arrangements, May 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 576 kB])
  Forthcoming in: Civil Wars (Devolving Ethnic Conflicts - The Role of Subgroup Identities for Institutional Intergroup Settlements)

• No 194 Karsten Giese and Alena Thiel: When Voicelessness Meets Speechlessness – Struggling for Equity in Chinese-Ghanaian Employment Relations, May 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 667 kB])

• No 193 Nele Noesselt: Chinese Perspectives on International Power Shifts and Sino-EU Relations (2008–2011), April 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 520 kB])

• No 192 Patrick Köllner: "Informelle Politik" und "informelle Institutionen": Konzeptionelle Grundlagen, analytische Zugänge und Herausforderungen für das Studium autoritärer und anderer politischer Herrschaftssysteme, April 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 598 kB])
  Forthcoming in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Sonderheft 47 (Informelle Institutionen in Autokratien: Konzeptionell-analytische Grundlagen und der Fall der Kommunistischen Partei Chinas)
  

• No 191 Malte Gephart: Contested Meanings of Corruption: International and Local Narratives in the Case of Paraguay, April 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 597 kB])

• No 190 Joachim Betz: India's Turn in Climate Policy: Assessing the Interplay of Domestic and International Policy Change, March 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 550 kB])

• No 189 Claudia Simons and Franzisca Zanker: Finding the Cases that Fit: Methodological Challenges in Peace Research, March 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 580 kB])

• No 188 Nele Noesselt: Is There a "Chinese School" of IR?, March 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 622 kB])
  Published in: Internationale Politik, 2, 102-107 (Full text) (Pekings Ideengeber)
  

• No 187 Maria Bondes and Sandra Heep: Frames We Can Believe In: Official Framing and Ideology in the CCP's Quest for Legitimacy, February 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 797 kB])

• No 186 Hanspeter Mattes: Domestic Security in the Maghreb: Deficits and Counter-Measures, January 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 623 kB])

• No 185 Michael Grimm, Simon Lange and Jann Lay: Credit-constrained in Risky Activities? The Determinants of the Capital Stocks of Micro and Small Firms in Western Africa, January 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 1058 kB])

• No 184 Almut Schilling-Vacaflor: Democratizing Resource Governance through Prior Consultations? Lessons from Bolivia's Hydrocarbon Sector, January 2012 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 580 kB])

• No 183 Lena Giesbert and Susan Steiner: Perceptions of (Micro)Insurance in Southern Ghana: The Role of Information and Peer Effects, December 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 630 kB])

• No 182 Bert Hoffmann: The International Dimensions of Authoritarian Legitimation: The Impact of Regime Evolution, December 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 647 kB])

• No 181 Sabine Kurtenbach: State-Building, War and Violence: Evidence from Latin America, November 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 616 kB])

• No 180 Laurence Marfaing and Alena Thiel: Chinese Commodity Imports in Ghana and Senegal: Demystifying Chinese Business Strength in Urban West Africa, November 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 617 kB])

• No 179 Hugo Dobson: The G20: Engine of Asian Regionalism?, November 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 511 kB])

• No 178 Johannes Vüllers: Fighting for a Kingdom of God? The Role of Religion in the Ivorian Crisis, October 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 561 kB])

• No 177 Marco Bünte: Burma's Transition to "Disciplined Democracy": Abdication or Institutionalization of Military Rule?, August 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 915 kB])

• No 176 Anna Barrera: Turning Legal Pluralism into State-Sanctioned Law: Assessing the Implications of the New Constitutions and Laws in Bolivia and Ecuador, August 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 971 kB])
  Published in: Detlef Nolte und Almut Schilling-Vacaflor (eds.), New Constitutionalism in Latin America: Promises and Practices, Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 371-390 (Turning Legal Pluralism into State-Sanctioned Law: Assessing the Implications of the New Constitutions and Laws in Bolivia and Ecuador)
  

• No 175 Matthias Basedau, Annegret Mähler and Miriam Shabafrouz: Revisiting the Resource–Conflict Link: A Systematic Comparative Test of Causal Mechanisms in Four Major Oil-Exporting Countries, August 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 1016 kB])

• No 174 Babette Never: Who Drives Change? Comparing the Evolution of Domestic Climate Governance in India and South Africa, July 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 535 kB])
  Published in: Journal of Environment and Development, 21, 3, 362-387, DOI: 10.1177/1070496512449821 (Who Drives Change? Comparing the Evolution of Domestic Climate Governance in India and South Africa) (Full text)
  

• No 173 Maria Bondes: Negotiating Political Spaces: Social and Environmental Activism in the Chinese Countryside, July 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 558 kB])

• No 172 Christian von Soest, Karsten Bechle and Nina Korte: How Neopatrimonialism Affects Tax Administration: A Comparative Study of Three World Regions, July 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 560 kB])
  Published in: Third World Quartely, Vol. 32, Issue 7, pp. 1307-1329 ( How Neopatrimonialism Affects Tax Administration: a comparative study of three world regions, Flyer)

• No 171 Matthias Basedau: Managing Ethnic Conflict: The Menu of Institutional Engineering, June 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 675 kB])

• No 170 Nicola Nymalm: The End of the “Liberal Theory of History”? Dissecting the U.S. Congress’ Discourse on China’s Currency Policy, June 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 640 kB])
  Forthcoming in: International Political Sociology, 7, 4 (The End of the 'Liberal Theory of History'? Dissecting the US Congress' Discourse on China's Currency)
  

• No 169 Matías Dewey: Fragile States, Robust Structures: Illegal Police Protection in Buenos Aires, June 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 624 kB])

• No 168 Matthias Basedau, Georg Strüver, Johannes Vüllers and Tim Wegenast: Do Religious Factors Impact Armed Conflict? Empirical Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa, June 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 665 kB])
  Published in: Terrorism and Political Violence, Volume 23, Issue 5, 752-779 (Do Religious Factors Impact Armed Conflict? Empirical Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa)

• No 167 Nina Korte: It’s Not Only Rents: Explaining the Persistence and Change of Neopatrimonialism in Indonesia, May 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 823 kB])

• No 166 Gero Erdmann, Sebastian Elischer and Alexander Stroh: Can Historical Institutionalism be Applied to Political Regime Development in Africa?, May 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 669 kB])

• No 165 Birte Pohl: Spillover and Competition Effects: Evidence from the Sub-Saharan African Banking Sector, April 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 1,9 MB])

• No 164 David Shim and Dirk Nabers: North Korea and the Politics of Visual Representation, April 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 2,4 MB])
  Forthcoming in: International Studies Perspectives (Imaging North Korea: Exploring its Visual Representations in International Politics)

• No 163 Erich Gundlach and Matthias Opfinger: Religiosity as a determinant of happiness, April 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 645 kB])

• No 162 Georg Strüver and Tim Wegenast: Ex oleo bellare? The Impact of Oil on the Outbreak of Militarized Interstate Disputes, April 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 665 kB])

• No 161 Erdmann Gero: Transition from Democracy. Loss of Quality, Hybridisation and Breakdown of Democracy, March 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 785 kB])
  Published in: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft. Comparative Governance and Politics, Special Issue 1, 2011, 21-58 (Decline of Democracy: Loss of Quality, Hybridisation and Breakdown of Democracy)

• No 160 Daniel Flemes and Alcides Costa Vaz: Security Policies of India, Brazil and South Africa – Regional Security Contexts as Constraints for a Common Agenda, February 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 600 kB])

• No 159 Matthias Basedau, Georg Strüver and Johannes Vüllers: Cutting Bread or Cutting Throats? – Findings from a New Database on Religion, Violence and Peace in Sub‐Saharan Africa, 1990 to 2008, February 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 690 kB])
  Published in: Roland Czada, Thomas Held and Markus Weingardt (eds.), Religions and World Peace. Religious Capacities for Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 161-183 (A Mixed Blessing: Religion, Violence and Peace in Sub-Saharan Africa)
  

• No 158 Annegret Mähler, Miriam Shabafrouz and Georg Strüver: Conflict Prevention through Natural Resource Management? A Comparative Study, January 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 716 kB])

• No 157 Matthias Basedau and Thomas Richter: Why Do Some Oil Exporters Experience Civil War But Others Do Not? – A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Net Oil-Exporting Countries, January 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 720 kB])

• No 156 Bert Hoffmann: Civil Society 2.0?: How the Internet Changes State-Society Relations in Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Cuba, January 2011 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 444 kB])
  Published in: Francesco Cavatorta (ed.), Civil Society Activism under Authoritarian Rule. A comparative perspective, London/New York: Routledge, 219-244 (Civil society in the digital age: how the Internet changes state-society relations in authoritarian regimes. The case of Cuba)
  

• No 155 Juliane Brach: Technological Readiness in the Middle East and North Africa – Implications for Egypt, December 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 635 kB])

• No154 Sandra Destradi: India and the Civil War in Sri Lanka: On the Failures of Regional Conflict Management in South Asia, December 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 691 kB])
  Published in: Asian Survey, 52, 3, 595-616 (India and Sri Lanka's Civil War: The Failure of Regional Conflict Management in South Asia)
  

• No 153 Karsten Bechle: Neopatrimonialism in Latin America: Prospects and Promises of a Neglected Concept, November 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 648 kB])

• No 152 Durgesh K. Rai: Asian Economic Integration and Cooperation: Challenges and Ways Forward for Pan-Asian Regionalism, November 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 904 kB])

• No 151 Philip Kitzberger: The Media Activism of Latin America’s Leftist Governments: Does Ideology Matter?, November 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 800 kB])

• No 150 Lena Giesbert and Kati Schindler: Assets, Shocks, and Poverty Traps in Rural Mozambique, November 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 1300 kB])
  Published in: DIW Discussion Papers, 39 S., 1073 / 2010 (Assets, Shocks, and Poverty Traps in Rural Mozambique)
  Published in: World Development, 40, 8, 1594-1609 (Assets, Shocks, and Poverty Traps in Rural Mozambique)

• No 149 Gero Erdmann: Lessons to Be Learned: Political Party Research and Political Party Assistance, October 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 668 kB])
  Published in: Democratization, Volume 17, Issue 6, 2010, pp. 1275 – 1296 ( Political party assistance and political party research: towards a closer en-counter?)

• No 148 Nadine Haas: Representaciones de la violencia en la literatura centroamericana, October 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 589 kB] )
  Published in: Revista Cultura (San Salvador), 106, 123-150 ( Representaciones de la violencia en la literatura centroamericana)
  

• No 147 Georg Strüver: Too Many Resources or Too Few? What Drives International Conflicts?, October 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 698 kB])

• No 146 Robert Kappel: Verschiebung der globalen Machtverhältnisse durch den Aufstieg von Regionalen Führungsmächten: China, Indien, Brasilien und Südafrika, September 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 931 kB])
  Published in: Daniel Flemes, Dirk Nabers and Detlef Nolte (eds.), Macht, Führung und Regionale Ordnung, Weltregionen im Wandel, Bd. 12, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 237-263 (Zur Ökonomie der Regional Powers)

• No 145 Robert Kappel: On the Economics of Regional Powers: Comparing China, India, Brazil, and South Africa, September 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 793 kB])
  Published in: Nadine Godehardt and Dirk Nabers (eds.), Regional Powers and Regional Orders, London: Routledge, 68-92 (On the Economics of Regional Powers. Theory and Empirical Results)
  

• No 144 Otto Argueta: Private Security in Guatemala:The Pathway to Its Proliferation, September 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 777 kB])
  Published in: Bulletin of Latin American Research, 31, 3, 320-335 (Private Security in Guatemala: Pathway to Its Proliferation)

• No 143 Pedro Aravena Lavín: ¿Es el crecimiento económico suficiente para apoyar la democracia? Lecciones del caso chileno, August 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 630 kB])

• No 142 Joachim Betz and Melanie Hanif: The Formation of Preferences in Two‐level Games: An Analysis of India’s Domestic and Foreign Energy Policy, July 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 590 kB])

• No 141 Almut Schilling-Vacaflor: Bolivia’s New Constitution: Towards Participatory Democracy and Political Pluralism?, July 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 639 kB])
  Published in: European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 90, 3-22 (Towards Participatory Democracy and Political Pluralism?)

• No 140 Dirk Kohnert: Are the Chinese in Africa More Innovative than the Africans? Comparing Chinese and Nigerian Entrepreneurial Migrants’ Cultures of Innovation, July 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 643 kB])

• No 139 Sebastian Elischer: Measuring and Comparing Party Ideology in Nonindustrialized Societies: Taking Party Manifesto Research to Africa, June 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 611 kB])
  Published in: Democratization, 19, 4, 642-667 (Measuring and Comparing Party Ideology in Nonindustrialized Societies: Taking Party Manifesto Research to Africa)
  

• No 138 Sandra Destradi: A Regional Power Promoting Democracy? India’s Involvement in Nepal (2005–2008), June 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 640 kB])
  Published in: Democratization, 19, 2, 286-311 (India as a Democracy Promoter? New Delhi’s Involvement in Nepal’s Return to Democracy)

• No 137 Jann Lay: MDG Achievements, Determinants, and Resource Needs: What Has Been Learnt?, June 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 617 kB])
  Published in: Development Policy Review, 30, 1, 67-85 (MDG achievements and policies in education and health: What has been learnt?)
  

• No 136 Karl Hwang: Measuring Geopolitical Power in India: A Review of the National Security Index (NSI), May 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 629 kB])

• No 135 Leslie Wehner: From Rivalry to Mutual Trust: The Othering Process between Bolivia and Chile, May 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 612 kB])
  Published in: Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 36, 71, 109-138 (Developing Mutual Trust: The Othering Process between Bolivia and Chile)
  

• No 134 Armando Barrientos and Daniel Neff: Attitudes to Chronic Poverty in the “Global Village”, May 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 648 kB])
  Published in: Social Indicators Research, 100, 1, 101-115 (Attitudes to chronic poverty in the global village)

• No 133 Hannes Meissner: The Resource Curse and Rentier States in the Caspian Region: A Need for Context Analysis, May 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 720 kB])
  

• No 132 Miriam Shabafrouz: Fuel for Conflict or Balm for Peace? Assessing the Effects of Hydrocarbons on Peace Efforts in Algeria, April 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 724 kB])

• No 131 Thomas Richter: When Do Autocracies Start to Liberalize Foreign Trade? Evidence from Four Cases in the Arab World, April 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 725 kB])
  Forthcoming in: Review of International Political Economy (When Do Autocracies Start to Liberalize Foreign Trade? Evidence from Four Cases in the Middle East and North Africa)

• No 130 Alexander De Juan and Johannes Vüllers: Religious Peace Activism – The Rational Element of Religious Elites’ Decision-making Processes, April 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 609 kB])

• No 129 Anika Moroff: Ethnic Party Bans in East Africa from a Comparative Perspective, April 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 723 kB])

• No 128 Sören Scholvin: Emerging Non-OECD Countries: Global Shifts in Power and Geopolitical Regionalization, April 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 649 kB])
  Published in: Economics, Management, and Financial Markets, Vol. 6, 1, 19-43 (Emerging Non-OECD Countries: Global Shifts in Power and Geopolitical Regionalization)
  

• No 127 Heike Holbig and Bruce Gilley: In Search of Legitimacy in Post-revolutionary China: Bringing Ideology and Governance Back In, March 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 662 kB])
  Published in: Politics and Policy, 38 (3), pp. 395-442 (Reclaiming Legitimacy in China)

• No 126 Tim Wegenast: Inclusive Institutions and the Onset of Internal Conflict in Resource-rich Countries, March 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 420 kB])
  Published in: International Political Science Review, DOI: 10.1177/0192512112467214 (Full text) (Opening Pandora's Box? Inclusive Institutions and the Onset of Internal Conflict in Oil-Rich Countries)
  

• No 125 Babette Never. Regional Power Shifts and Climate Knowledge Systems: South Africa as a Climate Power?, March 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 420 kB])

• No 124 Nadine Godehardt and Oliver W. Lembcke: Regionale Ordnungen in politischen Räumen. Ein Beitrag zur Theorie regionaler Ordnungen, February 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 413 kB])

• No 123 Dirk Kohnert: Democratization via Elections in an African “Narco-state”? The Case of Guinea-Bissau, February 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 335 kB])

• No 122 David Shim: How Signifying Practices Constitute Food (In)security – The Case of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, February 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 702 kB])

• No 121 Daniel Flemes and Thorsten Wojczewski: Contested Leadership in International Relations: Power Politics in South America, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, February 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 406 kB])
  Published in: Asian Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 24, No.1, 1-27 (Contested Leadership in Comparative Perspective: Power Strategies in South Asia and South America)

• No 120 Annegret Mähler: Nigeria: A Prime Example of the Resource Curse? Revisiting the Oil-Violence Link in the Niger Delta, January 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 445 kB])

• No 119 Nicole Hirt: “Dreams Don’t Come True in Eritrea”: Anomie and Family Disintegration due to the Structural Militarization of Society, January 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 391 kB])

• No 118 Miriam Shabafrouz: Oil and the Eruption of the Algerian Civil War: A Context-sensitive Analysis of the Ambivalent Impact of Resource Abundance, January 2010 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 502 kB])

• No 117 Daniel Flemes and Michael Radseck: Creating Multilevel Security Governance in South America, December 2009 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 404 kB])
  Published in: Shaun Breslin/ Stuart Croft (eds.), Comparative Regional Security Governance, London and New York: Routledge, 154-180 (Creating multi-level security governance in South America)

• No 116 Andreas Mehler: Reshaping Political Space? The Impact of the Armed Insurgency in the Central African Republic on Political Parties and Representation, December 2009 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 358 kB])
  Published in: Journal of Modern African Studies, Nr. 1, Volume 49 (2011), pp. 115–139. (Rebels and parties: the impact of armed insurgency on representation in the Central African Republic)
  

• No 115 Malte Gephart: Contextualizing Conceptions of Corruption: Challenges for the International Anti-corruption Campaign, December 2009 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 436 kB])

• No 114 Andreas Mehler: The Production of Insecurity by African Security Forces: Insights from Liberia and the Central African Republic, November 2009 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 396 kB])
  Published in: Armed Forces & Society, 1 (2012) 38, 46-69 (Why Security Forces Do Not Deliver Security: Evidence from Liberia and the Central African Republic)
  

• No 113 Miriam Shabafrouz: Iran‘s Oil Wealth: Treasure and Trouble for the Shah‘s Regime. A Context-sensitive Analysis of the Ambivalent Impact of Resource Abundance, November 2009 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 596 kB])

• No 112 Annegret Mähler: Oil in Venezuela: Triggering Violence or Ensuring Stability? A Context‐sensitive Analysis of the Ambivalent Impact of Resource Abundance, October 2009 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 742 kB])
  Published in: Politics & Policy, 39, 4, 583-611 (Oil in Venezuela: Triggering Conflicts or Ensuring Stability? A Historical Comparative Analysis) (Full text)

• No 111 Martin Beck: Oil-rent Boom in Iran?, October 2009 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 633 kB])

• No 110 Juliane Brach and Robert Kappel: Global Value Chains, Technology Transfer and Local Firm Upgrading in Non-OECD Countries, October 2009 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 760 kB])

• No 109 Heinz Jockers, Dirk Kohnert and Paul Nugent: The Successful Ghana Election of 2008 – a Convenient Myth? Ethnicity in Ghana’s Elections Revisited, September 2009 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 1055 kB])
  Published in: Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 48 (2010) 1, pp. 95-115 (The Successful Ghana Election of 2008: A Convenient Myth?) (Full article)

• No 108 Sebastian Huhn: The Culture of Fear and Control in Costa Rica (II): The Talk of Crime and Social Changes, September 2009 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 850 kB])

• No 107 David Shim: A Shrimp amongst Whales? Assessing South Korea’s Regional-power Status, August 2009 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 550 kB])

• No 106 Günter Schucher: Where Minds Meet: The “Professionalization” of Cross-Strait Academic Exchange, August 2009 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 894 kB])
  Published in: Ying-Jeou Ma (ed.), Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs, Vol. 26 (2008, publ. 2010), London: Cameron May, 71-94 (Where Minds Meet. The 'Professionalization' of Cross-Strait Academic Exchange)
  

• No 105 Alexander Stroh: The Effects of Electoral Institutions in Rwanda: Why Proportional Representation Supports the Authoritarian Regime, July 2009 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 678 kB])
  Revised version published in: Journal of Eastern African Studies 2010, 4 (1), 1-19 (Electoral rules of the authoritarian game: Undemocratic effects of proportional representation in Rwanda)

• No 104 Sebastian Huhn: The Culture of Fear and Control in Costa Rica (I): Crime Statistics and Law Enforcement, July 2009 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 775 kB])
  Published in: Cuadernos de Sociología, Nr. 10, pp. 21-43 (Criminalidad, Miedo y Control en Costa Rica. Estadísticas de Criminalidad y Seguridad Ciudadana)

• No 103 Günter Schucher: Liberalisierung in Zeiten der Instabilität: Spielräume unkonventioneller Partizipation im autoritären Regime der VR China, June 2009 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 810 kB])
  Published in: ASIEN, Vol.: 111 (April), pp. 50-75 (Liberalisierung in Zeiten der Instabilität. Spielräume unkonventioneller Partizipation im autoritären Regime der VR China)

• No 102 Leslie Wehner: Power, Governance, and Ideas in Chile’s Free Trade Agreement Policy, May 2009 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 744 kB])

• No 101 Sebastian Huhn: Contested Cornerstones of Nonviolent National Self-Perception in Costa Rica: A Historical Approach, May 2009 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 679 kB])

• No 100 Matthias Basedau and Alexander Stroh: Ethnicity and Party Systems in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa, May 2009 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 846 kB])
  Published in: International Political Science Review, 33, 1, 5-24. (Abstract) (How ethnic are African parties really? Evidence from Francophone Africa)

• No 99 Christian von Soest: Stagnation of a “Miracle”: Botswana’s Governance Record Revisited, April 2009 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 682 kB])

• No 98 Melanie Hanif: Indian Involvement in Afghanistan: Stepping Stone or Stumbling Block to Regional Hegemony?, April 2009 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 589 kB])

• No 97 Annette Büchs: The Resilience of Authoritarian Rule in Syria under Hafez and Bashar Al-Asad, March 2009 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 750 kB])

• No 96 Alexander Stroh: The Power of Proximity: Strategic Decisions in African Party Politics, February 2009 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 1005 kB])
  Revised version published in: Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 28 (1), 1-29 (The Power of Proximity: A Concept of Political Party Strategies Applied to the Case of Burkina Faso)

• No 95 Robert Kappel and Juliane Brach: Handel, Hierarchien und Kooperation in der Globalisierung, February 2009 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 839 kB])
  Published in: Heidrun Zinecker und Rachid Ouaissa Leipzig (Hg.), Festschrift für Hartmut Elsenhans, Leipzig: Universitätsverlag Leipzig (Globalisierung – entgrenzte Welten versus begrenzte Identitäten?)
  

• No 94 Mirko Bendig, Lena Giesbert, Susan Steiner: Savings, Credit and Insurance: Household Demand for Formal Financial Services in Rural Ghana, January 2009 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 782 kB])

• No 93 Leslie Wehner: Más allá de lo económico: Los objetivos estratégicos de los TLCs de Chile y México, January 2009 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 767 kB])
  Published in: "Asian Journal of Latin American Studies", 2009/ no 2 /Vol. 22, pp. 47-82 (Más Allá de la Lógica Económica: Poder e Instituciones en los TLCs de Chile y México)

• No 92 Howard Loewen: Democracy and Human Rights in the European-Asian Dialogue: A Clash of Cooperation Cultures?, December 2008 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 640 kB])

• No 91 Bert Hoffmann: Bringing Hirschman Back In: Conceptualizing Transnational Migration as a Reconfiguration of “Exit”, “Voice”, and “Loyalty”; December 2008 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 650 kB])
  Published in: The Latin Americanist, Vol. 54, No. 2, June 2010, pp. 57-73 (Bringing Hirschman Back In: “Exit”, “Voice”, and “Loyalty” in the Politics of Transnational Migration)

• No 90 Ulrich Mückenberger: Civilising Globalism: Transnational Norm-Building Networks — A Research Programme, October 2008 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 884 kB])
  Published in: Transnational Legal Theory, 1(4), 2010, 523–573 (Civilising Globalism: Transnational Norm-Building Networks as a Lever of the Emerging Global Legal Order?) (Full text )
  

• No 89 Martin Beck: Regional Politics in a Highly Fragmented Region: Israel’s Middle East Policies, September 2008 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 704 kB])

• No 88 Nadine Godehardt: The Chinese Meaning of Just War and Its Impact on the Foreign Policy of the People’s Republic of China,; September 2008 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 773 kB])

• No 87 Andreas Mehler: Breaking the “Insecurity Trap”? How Violence and Counter-violence are Perpetuated in Elite Power Struggles, September 2008 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 688 kB])

• No 86 Jan Peter Wogart, Gilberto Calcagnotto, Wolfgang Hein, Christian von Soest: AIDS, Access to Medicines, and the Different Roles of the Brazilian and South African Governments in Global Health Governance, September 2008 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 895 kB])
  Published in: "Making Sense of Global Health Governance – A policy perspective", (AIDS and Access to Medicines: Brazil, South Africa and Global Health Governance), Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, S. 137-163 (Abstract)
  

• No 85 Juliane Brach: Constraints to Economic Development and Growth in the Middle East and North Africa, September 2008 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 1345 kB])
  Published in: Review of Middle East Economics and Finance (Technology, Political Economy, and Economic Development in the Middle East and North Africa) (Full text)

• No 84 Sebastian Huhn: A History of Nonviolence: Insecurity and the Normative Power of the Imagined in Costa Rica, August 2008 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 825 kB])
  Revised version published in: Social Identities, Volume 15 Issue 6, November 2009, pp. 787-810. (A history of nonviolence? The social construction of Costa Rican peaceful identity)

• No 83 Andreas Mehler: Not Always in the People’s Interest: Power-sharing Arrangements in African Peace Agreements, July 2008 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 784 kB])
  Published in: African Affairs, 108 (2009) 432 (Peace and Power sharing in Africa: a not so obvious relationship)
  

• No 82 Dirk Kohnert: EU-African Economic Relations: Continuing Dominance Traded for Aid?, July 2008 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 661 kB])
  Published in: Bello, V./Gebrewold, B. (Hg.), A Global Security Triangle. European, African and Asian Interaction, London / New York: Routledge, S. 111-136

• No 81 Sebastian Huhn: Discourses on Violence in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua: Social Perceptions in Everyday Life, June 2008 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 754 kB])

• No 80 Peter Peetz: Discourses on Violence in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua: Youth, Crime, and the Responses of the State, June 2008 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 772 kB])
  Published in: Youth & Society, Vol 43, No 4, 1459 - 1498 (Youth violence in Central America: Discourses and policies)

• No 79 Sandra Destradi: Empire, Hegemony, and Leadership: Developing a Research Framework for the Study of Regional Powers, June 2008 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 652 kB])
  Published in: Review of International Studies, 36 (4), 903-930 (Regional Powers and Their Strategies: Empire, Hegemony, and Leadership)

• No 78 Esther K. Ishengoma and Robert Kappel: Business Constraints and Growth Potential of Micro and Small Manufacturing Enterprises in Uganda; May 2008 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 799 kB])

• No 77 Miriam Prys: Developing a Contextually Relevant Concept of Regional Hegemony: The Case of South Africa, Zimbabwe and “Quiet Diplomacy”, May 2008 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 600 kB])
  Revised version published in: Politikon – South African Journal for Political Studies, 36(2), pp. 193-218 (Regional Hegemon or Regional Bystander: South Africa’s Zimbabwe Policy 2000-2005)

• No 76 Anika Oettler: Do Qualitative Data Help in Addressing Central American Violence? Research Note on Data Collection, May 2008 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 578 kB])

• No 75 Andreas Mehler, Ulf Engel, Lena Giesbert, Jenny Kuhlmann and Christian von Soest: Structural Stability: On the Prerequisites of Nonviolent Conflict Management, April 2008 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 748 kB])

• No 74 Andreas Ufen: The Evolution of Cleavages in the Indonesian Party System, April 2008 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 630 kB])

• No 73 Thomas Kern and Sang-Hui Nam: Social Movements as Agents of Innovation: Citizen Journalism in South Korea, April 2008 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 728 kB])
  Forthcoming in: Current Sociology 57 (2009), 6 ("The Making of a Social Movement: Citizen Journalism in South Korea").

• No 72 Peter Peetz: Discourses on Violence in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua: Laws and the Construction of Drug- and Gender-Related Violence, March 2008 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 635 kB])

• No 71 Ellinor Zeino-Mahmalat: Gain Seeking in a “Double Security Dilemma”: The Case of OPEC, March 2008 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 629 kB])

• No 70 Matthias Basedau and Alexander De Juan: The ‘Ambivalence of the Sacred’ in Africa: The Impact of Religion on Peace and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa, March 2008 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 679 kB])

• No 69 Matthias Basedau and Alexander Stroh: Measuring Party Institutionalization in Developing Countries: A New Research Instrument Applied to 28 African Political Parties, February 2008 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 675 kB])

• No 68 Sebastian Elischer: Ethnic Coalitions of Convenience and Commitment: Political Parties and Party Systems in Kenya, February 2008 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 625 kB])
  Published in: Daniel Branch and Nicholas Cheeseman (eds.), Our Time to Eat: Kenyan Politics since 1960, Berlin: LIT, 2009 (Political Parties, Elections and Ethnicity in Kenya)
  

• No 67 Dirk Nabers: China, Japan and the Quest for Leadership in East Asia, February 2008 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 723 kB])

• No 66 Anika Becher and Matthias Basedau: Promoting Peace and Democracy through Party Regulation? Ethnic Party Bans in Africa; January 2008 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 749 kB])
  Revised Version published in: Democratization, 2010 / 4 / 17, pp. 666-686 (An effective measure of institutional engineering? Ethnic party bans in Africa)
  Substantially revised version published in: Party Politics, Vol 17, No 2, 2011, 205-225 (Parties in Chains – Do Ethnic Party Bans in Africa Promote Peace?)

• No 65 Anika Oettler: Discourses on Violence in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua: National Patterns of Attention and Cross-border Discursive Nodes; December 2007 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 713 kB])

• No 64 Ingrid Fromm: Upgrading in Agricultural Value Chains: The Case of Small Producers in Honduras; December 2007 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 813 kB])

• No 63 Gero Erdmann: The Cleavage Model, Ethnicity and Voter Alignment in Africa: Conceptual and Methodological Problems Revisited; December 2007 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 640 kB])
  Published in: K. Prasanna Rani (ed.), Politics and Democracy. Electoral Reforms, Hyderabad, India: Amicus Books, Icfai University Press, pp. 90-122 (The Cleavage Model, Ethnicity and Voter Alignment in Africa: Conceptual and Methodological Problems revisited)
  

• No 62 Daniel Lambach: Oligopolies of Violence in Post-Conflict Societies; November 2007 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 690 kB])

• No 61 Thomas Richter and Christian Steiner: Sectoral Transformations in Neo-Patrimonial Rentier States: Tourism Development and State Policy in Egypt; November 2007 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 810 kB])
  Published in: "Richter, Thomas and Steiner, Christian (2008), "Politics, Economics and Tourism Development in Egypt: Insights into the Sectoral Transformations of Rentier-States," Third World Quarterly, 29 (5), 935-955."

• No 60 Carlos Torres Fuchslocher: The Role and Development of Technology-Intensive Suppliers in Resource-Based Economies: A Literature Review; November 2007 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 640 kB])
  Published in: Research Policy 39 (2010), S. 268-277 (Understanding the Development of Technology-intesive Suppliers in Resource-based Developing Economies)
  

• No 59 Sabine Kurtenbach: Why Is Liberal Peace-building So Difficult? Some Lessons from Central America; September 2007 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 690 kB])
  Published in: European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, No. 88, April 2010, 95-110 (Why is Libral Peace-building so Difficult? Some Lessons from Central America)
  
  

• No 58 Lena Giesbert: Seeking Opportunities: Migration as an Income Diversification Strategy of Households in Kakamega District in Kenya; September 2007 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 850 kB])

• No 57 Daniel Flemes: Emerging Middle Powers’ Soft Balancing Strategy: State and Perspectives of the IBSA Dialogue Forum; August 2007 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 680 kB])
  Published in: International Studies, Vol. 46, No. 4, 401-421 (India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) in the New Global Order: Interests, Strategies and Values of the Emerging Coalition)

• No 56 Bert Hoffmann: Transitions from Charismatic Rule: Theories of Leadership Change and Cuba’s Post-Fidel Succession; August 2007 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 680 kB])
  Published in: International Political Science Review, Vol. 30, No. 3, June 2009, pp. 229-248 (Charismatic Authority and Leadership Change: Lessons from Cuba’s Post-Fidel Succession)
  

• No 55 Patrick Köllner: Campaigning for the Japanese Lower House: From Mobilising to Chasing Voters?; July 2007 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 410 kB])
  Published in: Journal of East Asian Studies 9 (2009), 1, pp. 121-149 ("Japanese Lower House Campaigns in Transition: Manifest Changes or Fleeting Fads?").
  

• No 54 Mariana Llanos and Constanza Figueroa Schibber: Prestando acuerdo: El Senado frente a los nombramientos del Poder Judicial en la Argentina democrática (1983-2006) [The Senate and the President: Judicial Nominations in Democratic Argentina (1983-2006)]; July 2007 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 490 kB])
  Revised version published in: Desarrollo Económico, vol.47, no.188, pp.607-637, 2008. IDES: Buenos Aires, "La participación de la Presidencia y el Senado en el nombramiento del Poder Judicial" (con Constanza Figueroa Schibber)
  

• No 53 Daniel Flemes: Conceptualising Regional Power in International Relations: Lessons from the South African Case; June 2007 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 880 kB])

• No 52 Jorge P. Gordin: Patronage-Preserving Federalism? Legislative Malapportionment and Subnational Fiscal Policies in Argentina; June 2007 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 600 kB])
  Published in: Jan Erk/ Wilfried Swenden (eds.): Exploring New Avenues in Comparative Federalism, London: Routledge, 68-82 (Patronage-Preserving Federalism? Legislative Malapportionment and Subnational Fiscal Policies)

• No 51 Anja Zorob: The Potential of Regional Integration Agreements (RIAs) in Enhancing the Credibility of Reform: The Case of the Syrian-European Association Agreement; May 2007 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 760 kB])

• No 50 Dirk Nabers: Crises, Hegemony and Change in the International System: A Conceptual Framework; May 2007 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 734 kB])

• No 49 Dirk Kohnert: African Migration to Europe: Obscured Responsibilities and Common Misconceptions; May 2007 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 690 kB])
  Published in: Gebrewold, Belachew (ed.): Africa and Fortress Europe - Threats and opportunities. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, Hampshire, 2007, pp. 37-55 (Crisis Region Western Africa- The cradle of African migration to Europe)

• No 48 Jann Lay, George Michuki M'Mukaria and Toman Omar Mahmoud: Boda-bodas Rule: Non-agricultural Activities and Their Inequality Implications in Western Kenya; April 2007 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 720 kB])
  Forthcoming in: World Development, 2009 ("Few Opportunities, Much Desperation: The Dichotomy of Non-agricultural Activities and Inequality in Western Kenya")
  

• No 47 Bert Hoffmann: Why Reform Fails: The ‘Politics of Policies’ in Costa Rican Telecommunications Liberalization; April 2007 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 590 kB])
  Published in: European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies No. 84, April 2008, S. 3-19 (Full article)

• No 46 Sonja Bartsch and Lars Kohlmorgen: The Role of Southern Actors in Global Governance: The Fight against HIV/AIDS; March 2007 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 600 kB])

• No 45 Gero Erdmann: Ethnicity, Voter Alignment and Political Party Affiliation – an African Case: Zambia; March 2007 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 310 kB])

• No 44 Andreas Ufen: Political Party and Party System Institutionalisation in Southeast Asia: A Comparison of Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand; March 2007 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 500 kB])
  Published in: Pacific Review 21 (2008), 3, pp. 327-355 ("Political Party and Party System Institutionalisation in Southeast Asia: Lessons for Democratic Consolidation in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand").

• No 43 Alexander Stroh: Crafting Political Institutions in Africa. Electoral Systems and Systems of Government in Rwanda and Zambia Compared; March 2007 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 570 kB])

• No 42 Günter Schucher: The EU’s Foreign Policy after the Fifth Enlargement: Any Change in Its Taiwan Policy?; February 2007 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 690 kB])
  Published in: Issues & Studies, 43 (Sept. 2007) 3, pp.1-5 ("Old Hat, New Rhetoric: The EU's Policy toward Taiwan after the Fifth Enlargement")
  

• No 41 Henriette Dose: Securing Household Income among Small-scale Farmers in Kakamega District: Possibilities and Limitations of Diversification; February 2007 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 790 kB])

• No 40 Gero Erdmann and Matthias Basedau: Problems of Categorizing and Explaining Party Systems in Africa; January 2007 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 800 kB])
  Published in: Journal of Contemporary African Studies, No. 3, Vol. 26, S. 241-258 ("Party Systems in Africa: Problems of Categorizing and Explaining Political Party Systems")

• No 39 Jutta Hebel and Günter Schucher: The Emergence of a New ‘Socialist’ Market Labour Regime in China; December 2006 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 620 kB])
  Forthcoming in: Schubert, Gunter/Heberer, Thomas (eds.): Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Contemporary China. RoutledgeCurzon

• No 38 Barbara Fritz and Laurissa Mühlich: Regional Monetary Integration among Developing Countries: New Opportunities for Macroeconomic Stability beyond the Theory of Optimum Currency Areas?; December 2006 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 640 kB])

• No 37 Andreas Ufen: Political Parties in Post-Suharto Indonesia: Between politik aliran and ’Philippinisation’; December 2006 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 650 kB])
  Published in: South East Asia Research 16 (2008), 1, pp. 5-41 ("From Aliran to Dealignment: Political Parties in Post-Suharto Indonesia").
  

• No 36 Juliane Brach: Ten Years after: Achievements and Challenges of the Euro-Mediterranean Economic and Financial Partnership; December 2006 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 1.000 kB])
  Published in: European Foreign Affairs Review, 12 (2007) 4, pp. 555-579 ("Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: The Role and Impact of the Economic and Financial Dimension")
  

• No 35 Christian von Soest: Measuring the Capability to Raise Revenue. Process and Output Dimensions and Their Application to the Zambia Revenue Authority; December 2006 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 520 kB])
  Published in: Public Administration and Development; Vol. 27, No. 4, S. 353-365 (Measuring the Capability to Raise Revenue. Process and Output Dimensions and Their Application to the Zambia Revenue Authority)
  

• No 34 Sebastian Huhn/Anika Oettler/Peter Peetz: Construyendo Inseguridades. Aproximaciones a la violencia en Centroamérica desde el análisis del discurso [Constructed insecurities. Discourse analysis and the understanding of violence in Central America]; November 2006 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 620 kB])
  Published in: Revista de Ciencias Sociales, Nr. 117-118, 2007 (La construcción de realidades inseguras. Reflexiones acerca de la violencia en Centroamérica)
  

• No 33 Sebastian Huhn/Anika Oettler/Peter Peetz: Exploding Crime? Topic Management in Central American Newspapers; November 2006 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 730 kB])
  Published in: International Communication Gazette, 71, 4, 243-261 (Contemporary Discourses on Violence in Central American Newspapers) and in: Lateinamerikagruppe Marburg (eds.), Medien und Demokratie in Lateinamerika, Berlin: Karl Dietz Verlag, 200-220 (Zentralamerika: Zum schwankenden Nachrichtenwert von Kriminalität in einer heterogenen Printmedienlandschaft) (Full text)
  

• No 32 Christian von Soest: How Does Neopatrimonialism Affect the African State? The Case of Tax Collection in Zambia; November 2006 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 540 kB])
  Published in: Journal of Modern African Studies; Vol. 45, No. 4, S. 621-645 (How Does Neopatrimonialism Affect the African State? The Case of Tax Collection in Zambia)
  

• No 31 Susan Steiner: Decentralisation in Uganda: Exploring the Constraints for Poverty Reduction; November 2006 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 480 kB])
  Published in: Gordon Crawford and Christof Hartmann (eds.): Decentralisation in Africa: A Pathway out of Poverty and Conflict?, Amsterdam University Press, May 2008, pp. 33-72 ("Constraints on the implementation of decentralisation and implications for poverty reduction ­ The case of Uganda")

• No 30 Detlef Nolte: Potencias regionales en la política internacional: conceptos y enfoques de análisis [Regional Powers in International Relations: Analytical Concepts and Research Approaches]; October 2006 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 560 kB])

• No 29 Detlef Nolte: Macht und Machthierarchien in den internationalen Beziehungen: Ein Analysekonzept für die Forschung über regionale Führungsmächte [Power and Power Hierarchies in International Relations: Towards an Analytical Concept for the Study of Regional Powers]; October 2006 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 620 kB])

• No 28 Bert Hoffmann and Laurence Whitehead: Cuban Exceptionalism Revisited; September 2006 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 740 kB])
  Published in: Hoffmann, Bert/Whitehead, Laurence (eds.): Debating Cuban Exceptionalism. New York/London: Palgrave 2007

• No 27 Andreas Mehler: Political Discourse in Football Coverage – The Cases of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana; August 2006 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 820 kB])
  Forthcoming in: Soccer and Society, 9 (January 2008) 1

• No 26 Martin Beck: Probleme des Rentierstaats-Ansatzes in vergleichender Perspektive [Problems of the Rentier State Approach in Comparative Perspective]; August 2006 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 730 kB])
  

• No 25 Dirk Kohnert: Cultures of Innovation of the African Poor. Common Roots, Shared Traits, Joint Prospects? On the Articulation of Multiple Modernities in African Societies and Black Diasporas in Latin America; July 2006 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 880 kB])
  Published in: LeMeur, Pierre-Yves/ Schareika, Nik/ Spies, Eva (eds.), Auf dem Boden der Tatsachen. Festschrift für Thomas Bierschenk, Köln: Rüdiger Köppke, 241-262 ( Cultures of Innovation of the African Poor – Common roots, shared traits, joint prospects? On the articulation of multiple modernities in African societies and Black Diasporas in Latin America)
  

• No 24 Jan Peter Wogart: Multiple Interfaces of Big Pharma and the Change of Global Health Governance in the Face of HIV/AIDS; June 2006 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 820 kB])
  Forthcoming in: Hein, Wolfgang et al.: Global Health Governance. Palgrave 2007

• No 23 Daniel Flemes: Brazil's Nuclear Policy. From Technological Dependence to Civil Nuclear Power; June 2006 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 790 kB])

• No 22 Leany Barreiro Lemos and Mariana Llanos: The Politics of Senatorial Confirmations: A Comparative Study of Argentina and Brazil; May 2006 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 770 kB])
  Revised version published in: Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais (RBCS)/, ISSN 0102-6909, vol. 22, no. 64, June 2007, pp. 115-138, "O Senado e as aprovações de autoridades: um estudo comparativo entre Argentina e Brasil" (with Leany Lemos)

• No 21 Matthias Basedau and Wolfram Lacher: A Paradox of Plenty? Rent Distribution and Political Stability in Oil States; April 2006 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 770 kB])

• No 20 Esther K. Ishengoma and Robert Kappel: Economic Growth and Poverty: Does Formalisation of Informal Enterprises Matter?; April 2006 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 830 kB])
  Published in: Dey, Dalia (ed.): Informal Sector in a Globalized Era, Hyderabad: The ICFAI University Press, pp. 89-119

• No 19 Anika Oettler: Guatemala in the 1980s: A Genocide Turned into Ethnocide?; March 2006 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 660 kB])

• No 18 Heike Holbig: Ideological Reform and Political Legitimacy in China: Challenges in the Post-Jiang Era; March 2006 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 740 kB])
  Published in: Schubert, Gunter/Heberer, Thomas (eds.): Regime Legitimacy in Contemporary China: Institutional Change and Stability, London and New York: Routledge 2008, pp. 13-34.

• No 17 Howard Loewen: Towards a Dynamic Model of the Interplay Between International Institutions; February 2006 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 640 kB])

• No 16 Gero Erdmann and Ulf Engel: Neopatrimonialism Revisited - Beyond a Catch-All Concept; February 2006 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 800 kB])
  Published in: Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Studies, 45 (February 2007) 1, pp. 95-119 ("Neopatrimonialism Reconsidered: Critical Review and Elaboration of an Elusive Concept") Abstract

• No 15 Thomas Kern: Modernisierung und Demokratisierung: Das Erklärungspotenzial neuer differenzierungstheoretischer Ansätze am Fallbeispiel Südkoreas [Modernization and Democratization: The Explanatory Potential of New Differentiation Theoretical Approaches on the Case of South Korea]; January 2006 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 580 kB])
  Published in: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 59 (2007) 1, pp. 30-58 ("Modernisierung und Demokratisierung: Das Erklärungspotenzial neuerer differenzierungstheoretischer Ansätze") Abstract

• No 14 Karsten Giese: Challenging Party Hegemony: Identity Work in China`s Emerging Virreal Places; January 2006 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 660 kB])
  

• No 13 Daniel Flemes: Creating a Regional Security Community in Southern Latin America: The Institutionalisation of the Regional Defence and Security Policies; December 2005 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 560 kB])

• No 12 Patrick Köllner and Matthias Basedau: Factionalism in Political Parties: An Analytical Framework for Comparative Studies; December 2005 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 540 kB])

• No 11 Detlef Nolte and Francisco Sánchez: Representing Different Constituencies: Electoral Rules in Bicameral Systems in Latin America and Their Impact on Political Representation; November 2005 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 690 kB])

• No 10 Joachim Betz: Die Institutionalisierung von Parteien und die Konsolidierung des Parteiensystems in Indien. Kriterien, Befund und Ursachen dauerhafter Defizite [The Institutionalisation of Parties and the Consolidation of the Party System in India. Criteria, State and Causes of Persistent Defects]; October 2005 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 510 kB])
  Published in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 47 (Dezember 2006) 4, pp. 618-640 ("Die Institutionalisierung politischer Parteien in Indien") Abstract

• No 9 Dirk Nabers: Culture and Collective Action - Japan, Germany and the United States after September 11, 2001; September 2005 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 530 kB])
  Forthcoming in: Cooperation and Conflict, 41 (September 2006) 3, pp. 305-326

• No 8 Patrick Köllner: The LDP at 50: The Rise, Power Resources, and Perspectives of Japan's Dominant Party; September 2005 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 520 kB])
  Published in: Social Science Japan Journal, 9 (2006) 2, pp. 243-257 ("The Liberal Democratic Party at 50: Sources of Dominance and Changes in the Koizumi Era").
  

• No 7 Wolfgang Hein and Lars Kohlmorgen: Global Health Governance: Conflicts on Global Social Rights; August 2005 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 570 kB])

• No 6 Patrick Köllner: Formale und informelle Politik aus institutioneller Perspektive: Ein Analyseansatz für die vergleichenden Area Studies [Formal and Informal Politics from an Institutional Perspective: An Analytical Approach for Comparative Area Studies]; August 2005 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 520 kB])
  Published in: Köllner, Patrick: Die Organisation japanischer Parteien. Entstehung, Wandel und Konsequenzen formaler und informeller Institutionen. Hamburg: Institut für Asienkunde 2006

• No 5 Ruth Fuchs: ¿Hacia una comunidad regional de seguridad? Las Fuerzas Armadas en la percepción de las elites parlamentarias en Argentina, Chile, Brasil, Uruguay y Paraguay [Moving towards a Regional Security Community? The Armed Forces in the Perception of Parliamentary Elites in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay y Paraguay]; July 2005 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 340 kB])
  Forthcoming in: Revista de Ciencia Política, 26 (diciembre del 2006) 2
  

• No 4 Andreas Mehler: Major Flaws in Conflict Prevention Policies towards Africa. The Conceptual Deficits of International Actors’ Approaches and How to Overcome Them; June 2005 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 740 kB])

• No 3 Susan Steiner: Decentralisation and Poverty Reduction: A Conceptual Framework for the Economic Impact; June 2005 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 350 kB])
  Published in: Public Administration and Development, 27 (2007) 2, pp. 175-185 ("Decentralisation and poverty: conceptual framework and application to Uganda") Abstract

• No 2 Bert Hoffmann: Emigration and Regime Stability: Explaining the Persistence of Cuban Socialism; June 2005 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 450 kB])
  Published in: The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 21 (December 2005) 4, pp. 436-461 Abstract

• No 1 Matthias Basedau: Context Matters - Rethinking the Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa; May 2005 (Abstract / Full article [ca. 550 kB])
  Published in: Basedau, Matthias/Mehler, Andreas: Resource Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa. Hamburg: Institut für Afrika-Kunde 2005