Publications

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.

Der Beitrag ordnet die öffentliche Debatte um „islamismusaffine Einstellungen“ auf Basis der MiD-Studie ein. Er greift zentrale Kritikpunkte auf, erläutert die methodischen Grundlagen der Messung und diskutiert, welche Interpretationen und Schlussfolgerungen die Daten zulassen – und welche nicht.

From the perspective of comparative politics, this article examines the issue of the polycrisis as a global phenomenon from the viewpoint of different regions of the world, and investigates how crises are perceived and framed in each region, as well as whether the narrative of the polycrisis is even present there.

Is climate change really a crisis multiplier? Drawing on a Frankfurt seminar on the climate–conflict nexus in West Asia and North Africa, this article advances a feminist, decolonial, intersectional, reflexive agenda with concrete steps across six areas to reshape methods, concepts, power, and practice.

Based on a survey of male university students in Germany (N = 1 792) this article examines how different forms of belief in a just world shape the perception and judgement of female victims and male perpetrators following verbal sexual harassment.

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.