Publications

Conditional cash transfers boosted syphilis treatment completion in vulnerable communities in Cúcuta, Colombia. In a quasi-experimental trial, 78% of participants receiving cash incentives finished the three-dose regimen versus 45% in the control group, highlighting a promising public health strategy.

This volume offers fresh insights into key issues shaping Syria’s transition one year after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship: decentralization and state consolidation, sectarian violence, security-sector reform, transitional justice, refugee return, and sustainable economic recovery.

In this book, Prof. Sandra Destradi and GIGA-researcher Johannes Plagemann develop a novel theory of populism and foreign policy. The use of foreign policy for domestic mobilization and the personalization of decision making are key to explain different intensities of foreign policy change.

Escalating trade costs, driven by new tariff regimes, COVID-19, wars, and sustainability laws disrupt global supply chains and trade-led development. The 2025 US tariffs hit industrializing nations unevenly. Case studies show that export diversity boosts resilience and trade diversion gains.

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.

According to intergroup contact theory, interactions between members of different social groups can reduce prejudice. This article argues that everyday contact is often uneven, self-selected, and variable in valence, producing stable “contact habits” and discusses how ruptures can induce change.

We show that foreign-owned firms are more likely to adopt green management practices to monitor and reduce environmental impacts. This effect is strongest in high- and upper-middle-income host countries and where FDI comes mainly from environmentally strong economies.

The article studies the association between political orientation and drug policy by analyzing proposals and policies, not just specific reforms. The article finds that progressive politics and drug policies do not always go hand-in-hand. But the latter have mostly been implemented by the former.

This article analyses from a comparative perspective under what conditions Latin American constitutional and supreme courts implement mechanisms of social participation in judicial decision-making, particularly through public hearings and the acceptance of amicus curiae briefs.

Conditional cash transfers boosted syphilis treatment completion in vulnerable communities in Cúcuta, Colombia. In a quasi-experimental trial, 78% of participants receiving cash incentives finished the three-dose regimen versus 45% in the control group, highlighting a promising public health strategy.

This volume offers fresh insights into key issues shaping Syria’s transition one year after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship: decentralization and state consolidation, sectarian violence, security-sector reform, transitional justice, refugee return, and sustainable economic recovery.

In this book, Prof. Sandra Destradi and GIGA-researcher Johannes Plagemann develop a novel theory of populism and foreign policy. The use of foreign policy for domestic mobilization and the personalization of decision making are key to explain different intensities of foreign policy change.

Escalating trade costs, driven by new tariff regimes, COVID-19, wars, and sustainability laws disrupt global supply chains and trade-led development. The 2025 US tariffs hit industrializing nations unevenly. Case studies show that export diversity boosts resilience and trade diversion gains.