Local actors should be involved in peacebuilding processes and security sector reforms (SSR). The book presents a feminist and intersectoral conceptualisation of SSR as well as quantitative and qualitative findings from 42 post-conflict societies as well as from Afghanistan and Colombia. Open Access until 11 December 2023!

„Sanktionen“ stellt fundiert, verständlich und anschaulich die Möglichkeiten und Fallstricke dieses zentralen Machtinstruments der internationalen Politik im 21. Jahrhundert vor und gibt einen Blick in die Zukunft: Wie werden Sanktionen künftig eingesetzt? Das Buch stellt Maßstäbe vor, die Europa und Deutschland bei der Verhängung ihrer Strafmaßnahmen in Zukunft leiten sollten.

Der Westen ist nicht mehr der Nabel der Welt. Stattdessen treten die Staaten des Globalen Südens mit neuem Selbstbewusstsein auf. Das Buch diskutiert, warum die Staaten des Globalen Südens so handeln, wie sie es tun, warum deren Skepsis gegenüber dem Westen so tief sitzt – und warum in der neuen Vielfalt auch Chancen liegen.

To what extent do minority grievances contribute to intrastate conflict? Based on a novel dataset on 771 religious minorities, the book offers new insights into classic debates on the influences of discrimination, deprivation, and inequality (DDI) on minority grievances and conflict behavior. DDI is a significant cause of minority grievances which, in turn, deeply influence their conflict behaviors.

The Open Access journals of the GIGA Journal Family were able to further increase their reach and influence in 2023. Sage has announced the new impact factors.

International relations have changed as a result of the intersection of diplomacy and digital tools. This paper examines the embrace of digital diplomacy by African countries. The integration of digital tools in diplomatic practices offers African countries an array of opportunities to enhance their international engagement.

The Iraq War of 2003 has been described as a conflict over the meaning of Europe between a transatlantic and a more independent, “Carolingian” vision of the continent. As such, it highlighted the continued importance of a US-led NATO for defining such meaning.

Today, the United States’ invasion of Iraq in 2003 is widely regarded as a strategic failure that caused tremendous humanitarian suffering, especially in its aftermath. Two decades later there is a shift in memory culture toward the inclusion of more Iraqi voices and alternative approaches.

In November 2021, the Chinese Communist Party approved the Resolution on the Major Achievements and Historical Experience of the Party over the Past Century. Together with a first resolution in 1945 and a second one passed in 1981, it forms a string of watershed documents, each of them inaugurating and legitimating a new ‘dynasty’ of Party rule.

This chapter serves as an introduction to the edited volume, the second of two books dedicated to the articulation of comparative area studies (CAS). The chapter reviews the rationale for, and defining elements of, CAS as a distinct variant of cross-regional comparative analysis.

This meticulously researched book offers a comprehensive analysis of strategic cooperation in authoritarian regimes, specifically focusing on Yemen’s Joint Meeting Parties—an alliance composed of diverse Islamist, Socialist, and Arab nationalist parties.

This article examines Australia’s ‘Pacific Step-up’, a signature foreign policy initiative of the Scott Morrison government (2018‒2022), from a signalling perspective. It also explains why Solomon Islands signed a security agreement with China in 2022 despite Australia’s wooing of Pacific Island countries.

All authoritarian regimes seek to substantiate their right to rule. In this chapter, we differentiate legitimation—understood as the process of claiming popular support—from legitimacy itself, which refers to the extent to which a regime is perceived as legitimate by its citizens.

In diesem MOTRA-Spotlight werden das Ausmaß der Kriegsangst sowie Einstellungen der Bevölkerung in Deutschland zu Militärhilfen für die Ukraine vorgestellt und diskutiert.

We investigate how global publics evaluate the legitimacy of two GGIs—the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Group of Twenty (G20)—and multipolarity’s role in those evaluations.

A collection of animated and interactive visualizations of the International Sanctions Termination Dataset.

Sometimes, people belonging to different religions do not get along well. In 2022 we travelled to Sierra Leone and Togo where interreligious relations were very peaceful. This comic depicts some examples of how to make interreligious peace: celebrating together, collaborating, being friends, and respecting each other despite differences.

This article assesses Saudi Arabia's ambivalent response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. In concluding, the implications of the Kingdom's stance on the war for future global order-making are discussed.

The dynamics of the relationship between the United States and China have been shifting. This has prompted changes in strategic calculus and policy adoption by the friends and foes of each side. Iran, given its decades-long links with China, has made several.

Our study argues that different types of external pressure, such as public shaming, the nature of companies’ business relationships, and the legal-regulatory environments affects how firms responded to the sanctions against Russia . Using results from a survey of 610 medium-sized companies in Germany, Poland, and the United States, we find support for this claim.

This book accounts for and analyses the latest developments in Latin American presidential democracies, with a special focus on political institutions.

Peace and conflict are not the same across territories and scales. Conceptualizing peace as a process based on three core functions of society and related norms allows us to identify variations in peacebuilding needs and perceptions. The entanglement of different scales shapes the diversity of peace and highlights the opportunities and challenges of peacebuilding and related norms, along with their diffusion and contestation.

This article investigates the communication of everyday repression in autocracies. It analyzes data from the novel "Justifications of Repressive Incidents in Morocco and Tunisia Dataset (JuRI)" covering human rights violations and judicial repression in the years 2000-2010.

This manuscript investigates how restrictions on CSOs affect the quality of horizontal accountability institutions like parliaments and courts. Our results imply that a crackdown on CSOs serves as a warning sign of deteriorating horizontal oversight.

This article conceptualises and empirically assesses the socioeconomic and environmental risks of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) for communal lands in the Global South.

This paper reviews the history of involvement of the two countries in these regions, and analyses how policies of confrontation in both countries have changed and developed over the different historical periods.

Ukraine is an untapped asset. It presents opportunities both nationally and for Europe as an engine of foreign policy in a century troubled by climate change and resources scarcity. Its 32 million ha of arable could easily become 40 million ha which would add 25% of new cropland to the European Union – from 160 million to 200 million ha – making Europe the world’s largest agricultural producer.

Niemals zuvor in der Geschichte wurden Sanktionen so häufig eingesetzt, noch nie waren so viele Staaten, Firmen und Personen sanktioniert. Der vermehrte Einsatz wirtschaftlicher Zwangsmittel ist ein beunruhigender Trend. Westliche Sanktionsmächte müssen die Glaubwürdigkeit dieses Instruments erhöhen.

The text analyzes the evolution of the Argentine National Congress after the transition to democracy in 1983. One of the main questions of the time was how President Alfonsín would govern without a solid parliamentary majority.

We analyze the labor market effects of oil palm cultivation among smallholder farmers in Indonesia.

The book applies the Mahabharat’s practical wisdom to strategic and ethical questions of our current times. Written for scholars, practitioners and other avid readers, it is useful for those seeking to put the world to rights and provides tasty food for thought for those who enjoy paradoxes and squared circles.

Local actors should be involved in peacebuilding processes and security sector reforms (SSR). The book presents a feminist and intersectoral conceptualisation of SSR as well as quantitative and qualitative findings from 42 post-conflict societies as well as from Afghanistan and Colombia. Open Access until 11 December 2023!

„Sanktionen“ stellt fundiert, verständlich und anschaulich die Möglichkeiten und Fallstricke dieses zentralen Machtinstruments der internationalen Politik im 21. Jahrhundert vor und gibt einen Blick in die Zukunft: Wie werden Sanktionen künftig eingesetzt? Das Buch stellt Maßstäbe vor, die Europa und Deutschland bei der Verhängung ihrer Strafmaßnahmen in Zukunft leiten sollten.

Der Westen ist nicht mehr der Nabel der Welt. Stattdessen treten die Staaten des Globalen Südens mit neuem Selbstbewusstsein auf. Das Buch diskutiert, warum die Staaten des Globalen Südens so handeln, wie sie es tun, warum deren Skepsis gegenüber dem Westen so tief sitzt – und warum in der neuen Vielfalt auch Chancen liegen.

To what extent do minority grievances contribute to intrastate conflict? Based on a novel dataset on 771 religious minorities, the book offers new insights into classic debates on the influences of discrimination, deprivation, and inequality (DDI) on minority grievances and conflict behavior. DDI is a significant cause of minority grievances which, in turn, deeply influence their conflict behaviors.