GIGA Experts

• Democracy and Democratisation in Africa

• (In-)Formal Political Institutions in Emerging Democracies

• Political Representation

• Parliaments in Africa

• Personalization of Executive Power in Africa

• Intra/inter-party competition

• Sub-Sahara Africa

• Ghana

• South Africa

• Civil-Military Relations in the Middle East and North Africa

• Regime Change, Regime Stability, Democratization

• Authoritarian Regimes, Authoritarian Institutions

• Research Methodology

• Military Professionalism

• Party systems and cleavages

• Middle East

• North Africa

• Armed forces' reform in post-conflict societies

• Iraq

• Lebanon

• International sanctions

• International organisations (U.N Studies)

• Authoritarian regimes

• Quantitative methods

• Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

• Regional Explanations for Authoritarianism

• Statethood and Political Domination in the Middle East (with a focus on Jordan and Syria)

• The War in Syria

• Regional Politics and the Relationship between Arabism and Islamism

• Jordan

• Syria

• Palestine/Israel

• Turkey (Near East Politics)

• Resources conflicts

• Religion and violent conflict

• Civil–military relations

• Political institutions

• Sub-Saharan Africa

• Mali

• Niger

• Chad

• Botswana

• International Political Economy

• Energy Economics

• Iran

• GCC

• India’s nuclear negotiations and Mahabharata

• Indian foreign policy in neighbourhood

• India

• Gender and Policy

• Latin American Politics

• Comparative Politics

• Families and socio-economic inequalities

• Politics and policy

• Latin America

• Regionalism in Latin America and Southeast Asia

• Discourse Analysis and International Relations

• Foreign Policy of Colombia

• Latin America

• Colombia

• Citizenship policy

• Migration and development

• Gender and labour migration

• Asia

• Legitimacy in global governance

• Science, experts, and politics

• Nationalism and ethnicity in China

• Global IR

• China

• East Asia

• Social and public policies

• Poverty and welfare

• Political institutions in federal and presidential systems

• Legislative powers in Latin America

• Brazil

• Mexico

• Latin America

• Fintech and mobile money

• Microfinance

• Crowdfunding

• Blockchain

• Finance and moral philosophy

• Cambodia

• Kenya

• World Order Narratives of the Maghreb’s Leftist Movements

• States and Authoritarianism

• North African Politics

• Middle East and North Africa

• Morocco

• Tunisia

• Sino-Russian relations

• International human rights

• United Nations

• Foreign policy of authoritarian states

• China

• Russia

• East Asia

• Central Asia

• Civil War Research

• Repression

• Quantitative Methods

• Latin America

• Armed conflicts

• Religious discrimination

• Africa

• Religion and The Cyberspace (Religion Online)

• Religious Authority and Knowledge Production

• Moroccan Diaspora in Europe

• Middle East and North Africa

• MOTRA-Monitoring System and Transfer Platform Radicalization: Investigating international sources of domestic radicalization of right-, left-, and Islamist extremist groups

• Radicalization and Terrorism

• Quantitative Methods

• Social Protection Systems and Labour Markets

• Latin America

• Mexico

• Brazil

• Geoeconomics (infrastructure-security nexus)

• Middle East-China Relations

• China’s Belt and Road Initiative (aka “The New Silk Road”)

• Cybersecurity (“Digital Silk Road”, China 2025, etc.)

• The Middle East (Iran and GCC)

• East Asia (China)

• Advocacy on health-related issues

• Gender issues

• Human Rights and advocacy

• Mexico

• Human Mobility in the context of political and/or environmental crises

• North-South divide and its role for human mobility

• Resource scarcity and its role in violent conflict, esp. water conflicts

• Post/decolonial and poststructuralist approaches in peace and conflict studies

• Syria

• Israel/Palestine

• Jordan

• Turkey

• Energy Policy

• Climate Policy

• Infrastructure Studies

• Natural Resources & Resource Conflicts

• (Neo)Gramscian Approaches and Hegemony Analysis

• Critical Political Economy

• Indonesia / Southeast Asia

• Brazil / South America

• Urban Violence and Non State Armed Actors in Latin America

• Security and Defence in South America

• Armed Conflict and Peace Process in Colombia

• Illegal Markets and Violence in Latin America

• Latin America

• The Political Economy of AKP's Foreign Aid: A Regional Assessment of Middle East and North Africa

• Middle East

• North Africa

• Large-scale land investments

• Rural development

• Socioeconomic inequalities and institutions

• Crime and Education

• Africa

• Asia

• West African Traders as Translators Between Chinese and African Urban Modernities

• Chinese Entrepreneurial Migrants in Urban West Africa – Sociocultural Impacts of Intercultural Interaction

• Ethnic Migrant Workers in China – Perspectives of Poverty Reduction, Socioeconomic Development, Sociocultural Change and Individual Exploitation (planning stage)

• China

• Taiwan

• The Security Paradox

• The Security Arena

• Local Security Studies

• Restoration of State Authority

• Central African Republic

• Lebanon

• Somalia/Somaliland

• Institutional influence and leadership

• Ideas and values

• Foreign policy and regionalism

• Brazil

• Germany

• Mercosur

• Conflict actors and dynamics

• Social and political mobilization

• Post-conflict societies

• State repression

• Latin America

• International sanctions

• Persistence and change of authoritarian regimes

• Legitimation of authoritarian regimes

• Simbabwe

• Burundi

• Energy, environmental and development economics

• Effects of energy price increases on welfare and the performance of micro- and small enterprises in Mexico

• Ghana

• International productivity differences

• Socio-economic transitions

• Asia

• Fiscal Federalism

• Asia

• Health and gender

• Political representation, public policies and gender

• Family economics and intra-family solidarity

• Insurance

• Saudi Foreign Policy towards Sub-Saharan Africa

• Political Opposition in Authoritarian Regimes

• Political Islam

• International Relations of the Persian Gulf

• Yemen

• Saudi Arabia

• Sub-Saharan Africa

• Political integration of social groups

• Electoral behavior

• Democratic values

• Social conflicts

• Latin America

• Caribbean

• Bolivia

• Guyana

• Suriname

• Migration Policy of EU

• Persistence of Authoritarian Regimes

• Militarisation

• Diasporas and sanctions

• Peace and conflict studies

• Eritrea

• Ethiopia

• Djibouti

• Experimental Economics

• Behavioral Economics

• Corruption

• Social Norms

• Religion

• Ghana

• Tanzania

• Vietnam

• Transnational Migration Politics and Diaspora Policies

• Executive Board member of the research network desiguALdades.net

• Cuba's Transformation: Crisis, Continuity and Change in Socialist Cuba

• Latin America

• Cuba

• The politics of the People‘s Republic of China

• Ideology and political legitimation

• State-society relations in the Chinese reform period

• Protection of weak groups and interests in China and Japan

• Comparative research into authoritarianism

• Asia-related area studies

• VR China

• SVR Hongkong

• International sanctions

• Religion and conflict

• Africa

• Kurdish Studies

• Democratization and Decentralization

• Post-conflict reconstruction

• Survey data harmonization

• Middle East

• Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East and North Africa

• Authoritarian learning

• Legitimation of authoritarian regimes

• Repression of protest movements

• Algeria

• Jordan

• Impacts on inter-gender relations in Libya

• Libya

• MENA regions

• Cyber-Mediation / Digital Mediation / E-Mediation in international conflicts

• International conflict resolution

• Mediation in inter-state and intra-state conflicts

• Regional patterns and variations of mediation

• Regional security architecture of the Middle East

• Peace and conflict research

• Middle East

• Emerging Powers

• International Climate Policy

• Brazil

• India

• China

• Religion

• Social Identities and Social Psychology

• Moral Foundations Theory

• Reconciliation

• Post-Conflict Societies

• Africa

• Foreign-policy Signalling in the Indo-Pacific

• Comparative Area Studies: Methodology and Empirical Applications

• Australia, New Zealand, and South Pacific

• Japan

• Korean peninsula

• Indo-Pacific

• Terrorism as tactical consideration of social movement organisations and collective actors in contentious politics

• Religious Minorities: Discrimination, Grievances and Conflict

• Africa

• Middle East

• African Union (AU)

• AU Peace and Security Council (PSC)

• Multilateral Diplomacy

• Regional Security in Africa

• Legitimation of Regional Organisations

• Africa

• Migration and Refugee Studies

• Critical Citizenship Studies

• Border Regimes

• Political Agency

• Civil Society Organisations

• Latin America

• Central America

• Mexico

• Economic and social impacts of land-use change and global land acquisitions

• Smallholder farming systems in developing countries

• Development and Agricultural Economics

• Indonesia

• Civil-military relations

• Democratization

• Authoritarianism

• Research methods

• Taiwan

• South Korea

• Postwar Societies

• Violence and Social change

• Youth

• Central America

• Colombia

• Responses to the Belt and Road Initiative

• Digital networks

• Weaponized interdependence

• EU trade policy

• Gender and Entrepreneurship

• Innovation, Technology Use and Adaptation in Micro and Small Enterprises

• Africa

• Uganda

• Informal entrepreneurship in developing countries

• Structural change and its poverty and distributional implications

• Natural resources, economic development and conflict

• Africa

• Experimental political economics: social preferences, norm-oriented behaviour, and social incentives of political decision makers

• Political accountability

• Corruption and abuse of power

• Civic engagement and voter behaviour

• Policy innovation and experimentation

• Africa

• Political institutions in Latin America

• Presidentialism

• Latin American congresses

• Latin American courts

• President-Congress relations; president-court relations

• Latin America

• Argentina

• Brazil

• Land investments

• Rural development

• Elite Capture

• Social Security

• Africa

• Political parties and party systems

• Elections

• Local politics

• Voting behaviour

• Electoral geography

• Political trust and democracy

• Latin America, particularly Brazil and Argentina

• Justice, security and community-building

• Brazil

• South America

• Indian foreign policy

• Role of identities in international relations

• Media and politics

• India

• South Asia

• Religion and National Identity

• Marginalization and Social Inequality

• Borderlands

• Transitional Justice

• Kinship and Ambiguous Loss

• Middle East

• Tunisia

• Persian Gulf politics

• Geopolitics

• Security in the Persian Gulf

• Foreign policy strategies

• Persian Gulf

• Iran and Saudi Arabia

• State-building and Statehood

• Long-term Consequences of Colonialism

• Gender Inequality and Development Policy

• Anti-Corruption Policy

• Sub-Saharan Africa, especially Tanzania, Namibia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone

• The Politics of COVID-19 Vaccination in Central America

• Latin America

• International Trade

• International Negotiation

• Multilateralism

• World Trade Organisation

• Geoeconomics

• Economic Statecraft

• International Negotiation

• Indian Foreign Policy

• Rising Powers

• BRICS, especially India

• India

• Brazil

• China

• Authoritarian regimes

• Conceptualization and measurement of regime transformation episodes (autocratization)

• Political economy of inequalities

• Citizens behaviour and preferences in non-democratic regimes

• Civil-military relations

• South-eastern Asia

• Mostly global analysis of time-series cross-sectional data

• Social protection mechanisms in Latin America, Asia and the Middle East during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Policies on violence against women in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Comparative regionalism (EU, Mercosur, Andean Community)

• Norm diffusion

• Latin America

• Multipolarity, rising powers, and International Politics

• Legitimacy and International Institutions

• Populism and Foreign Policy

• India

• South Asia

• Mozambique

• Poverty and Inequality

• Education and teacher performance pay

• Social consequences of disabilities

• Discrimination in labor markets

• Discrimination in access to schooling

• Indonesia

• India

• Regional and emerging powers

• Global and regional environmental politics

• Global climate regime

• India

• BRICS

• Security Sector Reforms

• State Repression

• Violent Democracies

• Social Protest

• Discursive Politics

• Central America

• Latin America

• Structural Adjustment and Sectoral Transformation

• Institutional and Material Determinants of Authoritarian Rule

• Executive Personalization

• Shrinking Civic Spaces

• Small Gulf states

• Large-scale land acquisitions

• Rural Development

• Land conflicts

• Land policy in Colombia

• Colombia

• Social protection mechanisms in Latin America, Asia and the Middle East during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Democratisation Studies

• Comparative Politics

• Political Party Development

• State Transformation

• Religious Conflict

• Myanmar

• Southeast Asia

• South Africa

• Inclusion of smallholder farmers in more modern and high-value markets, and the resulting effects on e.g. household welfare and productivity

• Socioeconomic- and ecological trade-offs of small- and large-scale producers in Indonesia

• Regional Organisations

• League of Arab States & African Union

• Legitimacy and Legitimation Strategies

• Critical Security Studies

• WMD Disarmament and non-proliferation.

• Middle East

• North Africa

• Anatomy of autocratic regimes

• Dynamics of state repression

• Inner workings of coercive organizations

• Civil war actors and dynamics

• Latin America

• Argentina

• Regional Organisation

• Legitimacy and Legitimation Strategies

• Human Rights

• Tunisia

• Lebanon

• League of Arab States

• Legitimacy and legitimation of international organizations

• Politicization of international institutions

• Change and Empowerment of International Organiztions

• Foreign direct investments

• Training and job creation

• Africa

• Comparing innovation systems and policies in China, India and Southeast Asia

• Research Cooperation between Europe and Southeast Asia

• Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investments

• High-Skilled Labour Migration: Brain Ciruculation between Asia and Europe

• China’s Economic Transition

• PR China

• SAR Hong Kong

• International Security

• Securitization Theory

• Discourse Analysis and Speech Act Theory

• Collective action and Contentious Politics

• Political Psychology and Identity

• Anti-Chinese sentiment in South Korea

• China’s INGOs

• soft power

• China

• War-to-peace transitions

• Ceasefires

• Political order

• Local rebel governance

• Legal systems

• Syria

• Legitimacy of state and non-state actors

• Politics and religion

• (Limited) statehood

• Local security perceptions

• Terrorism

• Sahel region

• Nigeria

• Liberia

• Libya

• Legitimation and stability of authoritarian regimes

• Foreign policy of authoritarian states

• Chinese foreign and security policy

• Natural resources and religion in intra-state conflicts

• China

• Latin America

• Structural Change

• Globalisation and Development

• Africa

• Uganda

• Political psychology in peace processes

• Political leadership and decision-making

• Emotions in Peace and Conflict Studies

• Africa (mainly South Africa)

• Latin America (mainly Colombia)

• Democratization

• Civil-Military Relations

• Political Islam

• Identity Politics in the Middle East

• Power and Resistance

• Turkey

• Egypt

• The role of courts in the political system

• Judicial legitimacy

• Courts and the public

• Judicial independence in new democracies, especially Latin America

• Development of democracy in Paraguay

• Latin America

• Paraguay

• Democratization

• Islamization

• Political parties

• Weak states and political violence

• Regional integration

• Indonesia

• East Timor

• Malaysia

• Philippines

• ASEAN

• Political Institutions in Latin America

• Social Movements

• Afro-Descendant Politics in Latin America

• Latin America

• Brazil

• International sanctions and interventions

• Authoritarian regimes

• Foreign policy and development policy

• Informal institutions / corruption and their effects on political regimes

• Statehood

• Southern Africa and East Africa

• South Africa

• Botswana

• Zambia

• Zimbabwe

• Kenya

• Narratives and local order in counterinsurgency/ceasefires

• Armed Order-Making in Northeast India

• Comparing Order and Knowledge across Counterinsurgencies

• Rebel Ordering and Governance

• India

• Northeast India

• South Asia

• The politics of the People‘s Republic of China

• E-government & e-participation

• Ideology and political legitimation

• Central-local relations

• PR China

• Innovation processes and networks in Japanese economy, science and society in international comparison

• Japan

• Traditional and Non-traditional (Critical) Security in East Asia and the Pacific

• Maritime Security Politics and Ocean Governance in East Asia

• Social and Political Change / Politics of Identity and Legitimacy in Northeast Asia

• Political Geography, Historical Sociology

• China

• Japan

• Korea

• East Asia

• Australia

• Contemporary history of Iraq (1979-2003)

• Political Economy of the Middle East

• Energy and food security

• Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation

• Gulf region

• Iraq

• Egypt

• Syria

• Security

• Development

• Ecological change

• Middle East

• Post-conflict transformation and institutional reform

• Security sector reform

• Peacekeeping

• Peacebuilding

• Regional dynamics of conflict and violence

• Conflict analysis

• Sub-Saharan Africa

• DR Congo

• Togo

• Burkina Faso

• Non-Proliferation and Disarmament

• Weapons of Mass Destruction (particularly Nuclear Weapons)

• International Institutions

• International Regimes and Treaties

• International Security and Peace Studies

• Brazil

• Argentina

• Germany

• International and regional Oil Politics

• Arab Spring

• Regional Politics and Regional Powers in the Middle East

• Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

• Middle East (esp. Iran, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria)

• Comparative Regional Democratization

• Institutional Design in Divided Societies

• South Africa

• Peacekeeping in Africa

• International organizations and regime complexity

• Africa

• Comparative research on democracy and political regimes

• Authoritarianism and civil society development in Mozambique

• Governance, decentralisation, civil society participation, participatory budgeting

• Local government development and local economic development in South Africa and Mozambique

• Main regional focus on sub-Saharan Africa

• Mozambique

• South Africa

• Politics in Southeast Asia, especially in Indonesia, Thailand and Myanmar

• Violence

• Decentralization

• Thailand

• Indonesia

• Myanmar

• Military strategy and modernization

• Insurgency and asymmetric warfare

• Diffusion of regional organizations

• Asia

• China

• Russia

• Comparative social policy

• Democratic representation

• Latin American politics

• Latin America

• National, regional, and sectoral systems of innovation

• Large scientific infrastructures and innovation platforms

• Technology transfer

• China

• Foreign Policy Analysis of Middle Eastern States

• The Interplay Identity and Power in Middle East International Relations

• Identity politics

• Alliances and Threat Perception

• Regime-society relations

• Authoritarianism in the Middle East

• Saudi Arabia

• Egypt

• Syria and the Middle East

• State-building in everyday practice

• Borders and borderlands

• state-society relations in (post-) conflict settings

• South Sudan

• Central African Republic

• Horn of Africa

• West Africa

• Corruption and Political Authority

• Protest Movements and Historical Action

• Anthropology of the State

• Politics of Care

• Secularism and Religion

• Jordan

• Syria

• Germany

• Conflict analyses

• Civilian crisis prevention

• Development theory / progress research

• Comprehensive measures of societal development levels

• The “good live” in the “good Society”

• Strategies for fostering sustainable and egalitarian societies

• Foreign Policy Analysis

• BRICS and International Order

• State fragility and transformation

• Cyber foreign policy

• Pakistan

• India

• Afghanistan

• Power-sharing, democratic transitions and post-conflict political designs

• Migration and refugee governance

• The European Union’s external refugee and migration policy

• Arab immigrant communities in the West

• Migrants and protest movements

• Middle East

• North Africa

• The European Union’s regional engagement

• The Euro-Mediterranean Zone

• Arab diasporas in the West

• Effects of global land acquisitions on economic development and the environment

• Globalising agricultural markets and private governance structures

• Globalisation and natural resources

• Africa

• Identity and foreign policy

• Role theory

• International politics of the environment Polar politics

• South Korea

• New Zealand

• Antarctica

• Regional Powers in the Middle East

• Political Islam

• Egypt

• Iraq

• Iran

Arabian Peninsula

• Comparative politics

• Latin American politics

• Gender and politics

• First Lady

• Presidencialism

• Latin America

• Chile

• Global Health Governance; Schwerpunkt: WTO/TRIPS und der Zugang zu Medikamenten

• Akteure, Koordination und Contestation in Global Governance

• Global Environmental/ Climate Governance

• Globale Normbildungsnetzwerke

• Latin America

• Democratization

• Political Institutions

• Constitutional Courts

• Elections

• Madagaskar

• Senegal

• East Africa

• Tanzania

• Conflict and Security

• South Asian Politics

• Rohingya Crisis

• Ethnic Violence

• International Relations Theory

• Researching Violence

• South & Southeast Asia

• International and Regional Organisations

• African Union in Global Politics

• Sociological Institutionalism

• Postcolonial Theory

• Africa

• Energy choices for transport and cooking

• Entrepreneurship, formalization and enterprise development

• Financial linkages, MFIs sustainability and poverty reduction

• Gender and agribusiness

• Africa

• Transnational student mobility

• Migration infrastructures

• Social media

• Indian middle classes

• Social mobility

• South Asia

• Europe

• Shrinking civic spaces and covid-19

• Authoritarianism and democratic backsliding

• Civil and political rights

• Business and human rights

• Accountability and transparency

• International focus

• Latin America

• Ecuador

• Political Anthropology

• Civil Society

• Transnationalism

• Audiovisual Anthropology

• West Africa

• Security

• Intervention norms

• Responsibility to protect

• Brazil

• Political Islam in the Middle East and North Africa

• Power and Norms in Islamist Organizations

• Muslim Brotherhood in the MENA-Region and the Gulf

• Hezbollah, Hamas

• Lebanon

• Palestinian Territories

• Regionalism and its role in security management in Latin America

• European Union politics and its current crisis

• Latin America, especially Honduras

• International and regional governmental organizations in comparative perspective

• EU in global regionalism

• International institutional complexity

• Institutional design and evolution

• Legitimacy and legitimation

• Diffusion theories

• Latin America

• Intergeneration Social Mobility

• Equality of Opportunity

• Education economics

• Inequality

• Public Economics

• Latin America

• Salafism in the Maghreb (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco)

• Civil Society in Autocracies

• Authoritarianism and Civil Society Development in Algeria

• State Failure and Ethnic Conflicts in Southeast Asia (esp. Burma/Myanmar and the Philippines)

• Political Change in Burma/Myanmar

• Islam und Islamism in Bangladesh und Southeast Asia (esp. Philippines)

• Burma/Myanmar

• Bangladesch

• Philippinen

• Maghreb

• Fiscal/public policy and state budgets

• Resilience of authoritarian rule

• Political and non-political violence

• Economic development , modernization and transformation theory

• Middle East

• Nepal

• Online Surveillance of Marginalized Communities in Digitalizing Democracies

• Information Disorder (Disinformation, Misinformation, and Mal-information) and Online Radicalization in Digitalizing Democracies

• Use of Digital Platforms for Political Communications and Participation in Digitalizing Democracies

• India

• United States of America

• Israel

• Migration

• Mobility

• West Africa

• Foreign Policy Analysis

• EU External Relations

• Europe in a Non-European World

• EU-Japan

• European Responses to Rising Powers

• Comparative Regionalism in Asia and Europe

• Power-sharing after peace agreements

• Violent conflicts and conflict prevention

• State and statehood

• democratization processes

• German and French Africa policy

• Frankophone Central and West Africa

• Transnational Diffusion of Policing Doctrines (Europe – Maghreb Region)

• New Forms of Authoritarian Practices in the MENA region

• Morocco

• Algeria

• Tunisia

• Security Studies

• Foreign Policy Analysis

• Regionalism

• South America, especially Venezuela and Colombia

• Petrostates

• (Im)mobility in the context of conflict and war

• Drivers of (forced) migration

• Migration governance

• Diaspora politics and transnational political participation

• North Africa

• Middle East

• Europe

• Micro and Small Enterprises in Developing Countries

• Innovation and Capital Accumulation

• Exposure to International Trade

• Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction

• Latin America

• Extent, processes and effects of large-scale land acquisitions

• Rural development

• Agricultural transformations

• Zambia

• Kenya

• Mali

• Regional Powers

• Political Institutions in Latin America

• "Failed presidencies"

• Transitional Justice

• Argentina

• Chile

• Mexico

• Paraguay

• Critical development studies

• Comparative area studies

• Gender and queer theory

• Qualitative methodologies

• Central America

• Peru

• A Cross National Survey of the Reports of International Election Observation Missions in Africa

• Policies Tackling Electoral Violence in Africa

• Evolution of Political Institutions in Africa

• Africa

• Nigeria

• The Politics of Middle East

• Religion and International Relations

• Government and Politics

• Introduction to International Relations

• Middle East

• Global Value Chains and Sustainability

• Africa

• Migration policies

• Diaspora engagement

• Political representation

• Migration data

• Latin America

• Violence-prone groups, gangs

• Violence and security

• Youth

• Southeast Asia, Timor-Leste

• Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago

• Comparative migration and citizenship policies in Latin America, Asia and Europe

• Representation and participation of migrants across democracies in the world

• Diaspora politics and policies

• Political transnationalism

• North-South relations with regard to migration policies

• Mexican politics

• Latin America

• Mexico

• The ‘victor’s peace’ and post-conflict reconstruction in comparative perspective

• Regionalism and conflict transformation in West Africa

• Voter registration, democracy and statebuilding in West Africa

• West Africa

• Behavioral development economics

• Employment and entrepreneurship

• Informal sector

• Common-pool resource management

• Microfinance

• Nepotism and leadership

• Religion and development

• Southern Africa

• Uganda

• Military, arms, security and defence policy in Latin America

• Latin America

• Political Islam (in particular Salafism)

• Social movements

• Gramscian theory

• Arab Middle East, in particular the Levant

• Environmental and development economics

• Poverty reduction and low carbon economic development

• Sub-Saharan Africa

• Business behavior in contexts of armed conflict and peacebuilding

• Relationship between legal resources

• Armed conflict and crime

• Dynamics of transitional justice and reconciliation

• Clientelism and Social Policy in Mexico

• Causes and Consequences of Populism in Comparative Perspective

• Quality of Representative Democracy and the Measurement of Democracy

• Latin America

• Environmental politics

• Business and human rights

• Regulation and governance of global supply chains

• Indigenous peoples

• Brazil

• Andean countries, especially Bolivia

• Latin America

• The link between class and political attitudes

• Different approaches to defining the middle class

• The labour market as a transmission channel from growth to household welfare outcomes

• Ex-ante evaluation of alternative policy and growth scenarios to access their potential for poverty and inequality reduction

• Brazil

• South Africa

• Internationalization Strategies of Chinese Enterprises

• Chinese Outward Direct Investment in Europe

• EU-China Investment Agreement

• Sino-German Economic Relations

• China

• Fiscal Federalism: Theory and Practice

• Distributive Fiscal Politics

• Multi-level Politics and Party System Change

• Foreign Relations of Subnational Units

• Federalism and Disaster Management

• India

• South Asia

• Mass-elite representation gap in old and new democracies, with specific focus on causes, measurement strategies, and normative implications

• Comparative welfare states of OECD countries, with special focus on East Asian countries

• Gender Politics of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, with special focus on legislative politics

• Multi-methods, with special focus on social network analysis and media content analysis

• Japan

• South Korea

• Taiwan

• Activities of UN peace operations

• UN peacebuilding at the local level

• Restrictions against civil society organizations, shrinking civic space

• Quantitative methods and quantitative text analysis

• Cote d'Ivoire

• Civic activism, social movements, digital activism

• Authoritarian civil society and rightwing mobilisation

• Civil society space

• Digital repression in autocracies

• Asia

• Post-conflict transitional governments

• Institutional reform in post-conflict societies

• Security Sector Reform (SSR)

• Quantitative and qualitative methods

• Nepal

• Comparative Study of Democracy / Regime Research

• Political role of constitutional courts

• Institutions in processes of democratization

• Parties, party systems and elections in Africa

• Francophone West Africa, particularly Benin, Burkina Faso, Togo and Rwanda

• Political attitudes and behaviour in autocracies

• Contentious politics in the Middle East and North Africa

• Authoritarian regimes and international cooperation

• Empirical research methods

• Maghreb

• Morocco

• Egypt

• Social and ecological sustainability of cocoa cultivation (Indonesia)

• Income Distribution (between Capital and Labor), International Capital Flows and Inequality

• Indonesia

• Democracy in Latin America

• Digital activism

• Protest

• Social movement organizations

• Elections and digital strategies

• Populism

• Latin America

• Africa

• GCC Narratives of World Order

• The GCC (Saudi, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates)

• Iraq

• Jordan

• Comparative Democratization: Latin American Politics and Mexican Politics

• Researcher in the Europe-Cuba Forum Network

• Latin America

• Mexico

• Civil society action in Southeast Asia

• Comparison of authoritarian regimes

• Vietnam

• Postcolonialism

• Peace and Conflict Resolution

• Traditional Peacebuilding

• Gender-just peacebuilding

• Counter-terrorism

• South Asia

• Afghanistan and Pakistan

• Power-sharing

• Post-conflict reforms

• Civil society

• Legitimacy and representation in peace negotiations

• Sub-Saharan Africa

• International Migration

• Migration Policies

• Gender

• Andean Countries

• Ecuador

• Revisiting ‘Regions’ in a Changing World Order: The Case of India and the Indo-Pacific

• The future of alliances in a changing world order

• The rise and resurgence of regional powers in international relations

• Status-seeking in world politics

• Indo-Pacific

• Global South

• India

• Occupational Health

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