Publications

In response to the polycrisis, this chapter introduces Homo Curans—the caring human—as a vision for sustainability and human flourishing. It argues for re-centering care across social institutions, challenging dominance-based paradigms and proposing care as an ethical foundation for just and resilient futures.

Explore six PEACEptions infographics that map the Pillars of Peace across diverse country contexts. In one glance, see how security, human rights, and conflict-transformation institutions interact—revealing where peace holds, where it frays, and what could strengthen it for the long term.

States increasingly use economic coercion - from sanctions to politically driven tariffs - to shape foreign policy. Once the go-to response to security crises, sanctions now share the stage with trade tools, raising questions about how coercion is evolving in global politics today worldwide.

This chapter details the evolution of French and German policies toward the Indo-Pacific region, shedding light on divergencies and differences. It concludes by outlining how the demand for alternatives across Indo-Pacific states creates room for European involvement outside the US-China rivalry.

How does political power become personalized? This special issue examines the gradual concentration of authority in chief executives across regime types, the mechanisms that weaken checks and collective decision-making, and why it matters for institutions, policymaking, and political accountability.

This article uses the concept of geonarratives and a dataset of nearly 3000 newspaper articles from Egypt, the Gulf countries, Iraq and Lebanon to analyse the perceptions and space framing assumptions of Russian geopolitical imaginaries in the Arab world and how history is mobilized to support them.

History plays a surprisingly large role in contemporary cannabis debates. By investigating differences and the similarities in the uses of the past in cannabis reform debates in Latin America, the article unearths not only whether but how the past gets politically used, misused and remains unused.

A comparative study across eight countries (2024-25) uses police, health, and social sector data to gauge how governments recognize and respond to women's IPV service needs. Findings show uneven performance, gaps in access and coordination, and propose health-sector levers to strengthen responses.

Der Monitor 2024/25 des MOTRA-Forschungsverbunds beschreibt das Radikalisierungsgeschehen in Deutschland in einer Phase anhaltender gesellschaftlicher Verunsicherung: Es vermittelt sich ein Bild einer Stabilisierung auf kritisch hohem Niveau, ohne dass bislang von einer Trendumkehr gesprochen werden kann.

Informal, low-quality employment in MSMEs remains a key challenge in low- and middle-income countries. Evidence from an RCT in Côte d’Ivoire shows that a light-touch business consulting program increased formal employment through better minimum wage compliance and more written contracts.

This special issue is an collection of articles exploring radical leftist politics in the Global South, with a focus in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Latin America. It features contributions from authors examining various dimensions of a diverse radical left across the two regions.

This article reframes contemporary global governance as structural transformation rather than decline. Introducing strategic pluralism, normative blending, and polycentricity, it shows how Global South actors act as co-creators of flexible, multi-scalar authority through pragmatic alliances and context-specific norm-making.

In response to the polycrisis, this chapter introduces Homo Curans—the caring human—as a vision for sustainability and human flourishing. It argues for re-centering care across social institutions, challenging dominance-based paradigms and proposing care as an ethical foundation for just and resilient futures.

Explore six PEACEptions infographics that map the Pillars of Peace across diverse country contexts. In one glance, see how security, human rights, and conflict-transformation institutions interact—revealing where peace holds, where it frays, and what could strengthen it for the long term.

States increasingly use economic coercion - from sanctions to politically driven tariffs - to shape foreign policy. Once the go-to response to security crises, sanctions now share the stage with trade tools, raising questions about how coercion is evolving in global politics today worldwide.

This chapter details the evolution of French and German policies toward the Indo-Pacific region, shedding light on divergencies and differences. It concludes by outlining how the demand for alternatives across Indo-Pacific states creates room for European involvement outside the US-China rivalry.