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

• International Sanctions
• Foreign Policy Analysis
• Political Psychology
• Leadership Trait Analysis
• International Security

• Sub-Saharan Africa
• Middle East and North Africa (MENA) 
• Lebanon
• Iran

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

• Military Coups and Civilian Control of Armies

• Authoritarian Regimes, Authoritarian Institutions

• Regime Stability and Destabilization

• Party Systems and Cleavages in the Middle East and North Africa

• German Military Deployments in the MENA-Region and Sahel

• Middle East

• North Africa

• Sudan

• Afghanistan

• Large-scale land acquisitions

• Africa

• Latin America

• Asia

• 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

• Legitimacy in global governance

• Science, experts, and politics

• Nationalism and ethnicity in China

• Global IR

• China

• East Asia

• Primary Interests
  • Development policy
  • Microfinance and mobile money
  • Economic inequality
  • Democratization
• Secondary interests
  • Economic history
  • Theories of money
  • Digitalization

• Cambodia

• Kenya

• World Order Narratives of the Maghreb’s Leftist Movements

• States and Authoritarianism

• North African Politics

• Maghreb region

• Morocco

• Tunisia

• Turkish foreign policy towards Africa

• Turkey
• West Africa (particularly Ghana)
• Tanzania 

• 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)

• Human mobility within and from the Global South
• Forced migration governance
• Climate-related mobility
• Resource conflicts (esp. water)

• Syria
• Jordan
• Lebanon
• Israel/Palestine
• Turkey (refugee policy)

• 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

• 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

• Liberia, Sub-Saharan Africa

• Indonesia, South-East Asia

• China

• China

• Asia

• The Security Paradox

• The Security Arena

• Local Security Studies

• Restoration of State Authority

• Central African Republic

• Lebanon

• Somalia/Somaliland

• International sanctions

• Persistence and change of authoritarian regimes

• Legitimation of authoritarian regimes

• Simbabwe

• Burundi

• Fiscal Federalism

• Asia

• Work-life balance policies
• Capability approach
• Unpaid care work
• Welfare state systems
• Gender and social inequalities
• Socio-ecological transformation

• Uruguay
• Brazil
• Sweden

• Conflict transformation
• Intrastate conflict
• Social cohesion and trust
• Local understandings of peace and conflict transformation

• Latin America

• Family economics, social norms and marriage

• Fertility and religion

• Health and religion

• Political representation, public policies and gender

• Burkina Faso, Benin, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, Uganda, Malawi

• Indonesia

• 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

• Social cohesion
• Conflict
• Religion
• Experimental economics

• Ghana
• Liberia
• Sierra Leone
• Togo

• 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

• Kurdish Studies

• Democratization & Decentralization

• Political Sociology

• Security policy in & around Kurdistan

• Survey data harmonization

• Kurdistan

• Iraq
• Iran
• Syria
• Turkey

• Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East and North Africa

• Authoritarian learning

• Legitimation of authoritarian regimes

• Repression of protest movements

• Algeria

• Jordan

• Tunisia

• 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

• Extremism and Radicalisation
• Individual Attitudes towards Punishment and Punitivity

• Germany

• Emerging Powers

• International Climate Policy

• Brazil

• India

• China

• Religion

• Social Identities and Social Psychology

• Moral Foundations Theory

• Reconciliation

• Post-Conflict Societies

• Africa

• The Indo-Pacific as a New Strategic Space

• Comparative Area Studies: Analytical and Organisational Issues

• Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Island Countries

• Japan

• Korean peninsula

• Indo-Pacific

• 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

• EU

• China

• Employment in African Economies 
• Rigorous Impact Evaluations
• Firms and Investment 

• Africa

• Côte d'Ivoire

• 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

• Digital Politics
• Digital Authoritarianism
• Disinformation and Counter-Disinformation
• Online Radicalisation
• Internet Governance

• South and Southeast Asia
• India

• Political parties and party systems

• Elections

• Local politics

• Voting behaviour

• Electoral geography

• Political trust and democracy

• Latin America, particularly Brazil and Argentina

• Justice

• Security

• Community-building

• Latin America

• Brazil

• Indian foreign policy

• Role of identities in international relations

• Media and politics

• India

• South Asia

• Health and health systems

• Antimicrobial resistance

• Africa

• 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

• Feminist Foreign Policy

• Persian Gulf

• Iran and Saudi Arabia

• 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

• Gender stereotypes and perceptions of political leadership
• Determinants of women's representation
• Gender political violence
• Support for cash-transfer public policy
• Identity politics and democracy

• Latin America
• South America
• Andean region
• Bolivia

• 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

• Policy efforts to eliminate child labor in Latin America

• Latin America

• Peru
• Bolivia

• Multipolarity, rising powers, and International Politics

• Legitimacy and International Institutions

• Populism and Foreign Policy

• India

• South Asia

• Mozambique

• 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

• Legitimizing Repression and state-driven violence

• Nicaragua
• El Salvador

• Central America

• Latin America

• Geoeconomics of the energy transition
• Supply chains and climate change
• Climate-conflict Nexus
• Climate policy and international affairs

• Executive Personalization
• Global Political Economy
• Structural Adjustment and Sectoral Transformation
• Institutional and Material Determinants of Authoritarian Rule
• Shrinking Civic Spaces

• Small Gulf Monarchies
• Middle East and North Africa

• Large-scale land acquisitions

• Rural Development

• Land conflicts

• Land policy in Colombia

• Colombia

• Civil Society, Autocratization, International & Human Rights Law

• Nicaragua
• Central America

• International Criminal Court
• Africa's International Relations
• Transitional justice

• African Group (International Criminal Court)
• 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

• Asia

• Regional Organisations

• League of Arab States & African Union

• Legitimacy and Legitimation Strategies

• Critical Security Studies

• WMD Disarmament and non-proliferation.

• Middle East

• North Africa

• Legitimacy and legitimation of international organizations

• Politicization of international institutions

• Change and Empowerment of International Organiztions

• Latin America

• 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

• Latin America

• Civic activism, social movements, digital activism

• Authoritarian civil society and rightwing mobilisation

• Civil society space

• Digital repression in autocracies

• Asia

• Development Economics, Labour Markets, FDI, Trade, and Structural Change
• Digitalization, Technology, Venture Capital, and Entrepreneurship

• Global South, in particular Africa

• Iran's foreign policy towards Africa 
• Transnational Shia politics and networks

• Iran
• West Africa

• Political and Electoral Behaviour
• Populism (attitudes and discourse)
• Far-right politics
• Democratic Backsliding
• Attitudes

• Latin America
• Brazil
• United States

• Democratization

• Civil-Military Relations

• Political Islam

• Identity Politics in the Middle East

• Power and Resistance

• Turkey

• Egypt

• religious actors and sustainable development
• Islam and politics
• Islamic education
• Islamic intellectuals
• religion and diplomacy
• science diplomacy

• Islamic world, transregional
• Indonesia

• Democratization in Indonesia and Malaysia

• Anti-Fake News Laws in Indonesia and Malaysia

• Political parties in Southeast Asia

• Populism in Southeast Asia

• Civil society in Indonesia and Malaysia

• Foreign policy of Indonesia

• Southeast Asia

• Indonesia

• Malaysia

• Political Institutions in Latin America

• Social Movements

• Latin America

• Brazil

• International sanctions and interventions

• Authoritarian regimes

• Legitimation of political regimes

• Foreign policy and development policy

• Southern Africa and East Africa

• South Africa

• Botswana

• Zambia

• Zimbabwe

• Kenya

• 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

• Contemporary history of Iraq (1979-2003)

• Political Economy of the Middle East

• Energy and food security

• Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation

• Gulf region

• Iraq

• Egypt

• Syria

• A Handbook on Researching Iraq and the region
• Gender, Arts, and Politics in Latin America and Middle East (co-authoring)
• In Iraq:  Feminist Art is ArtiVism 

• Middle East

• 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

• Arab perceptions of Russia’s propaganda and its Eurasia narrative 
• Corruption in Iraq

• Iraq
• Middle East
• Russia   

• 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)

• Political parties in India

• Regional Powers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

• Social policies of Indian states

• South Asia

• India

• Sri Lanka

• Triangular relations between Germany/Europe, the United States and China
• Hydro-politics and contending infrastructures in the Mekong River Basin

• China
• Mekong River Basin
• East Asia

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Africa

• 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

• 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

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

• Globalising agricultural markets and private governance structures

• Globalisation and natural resources

• Africa

• Regional Powers in the Middle East

• Political Islam

• Egypt

• Iraq

• Iran

Arabian Peninsula

• 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

• Comparative politics

• Latin American politics

• Gender and politics

• First Lady

• Presidencialism

• Latin America

• Chile

• International and Regional Politics of the Pacific Islands Countries
• Development and Security Policy in the Pacific Islands Region
• Implementation of the United Nations Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• International Climate Change Politics

• Pacific Islands Countries

• 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

• Migration Policy of EU

• Persistence of Authoritarian Regimes

• Militarisation

• Diasporas and sanctions

• Peace and conflict studies

• Eritrea

• Ethiopia

• Djibouti

• East Africa

• Tanzania

• Conflict and Security

• South Asian Politics

• Rohingya Crisis

• Ethnic Violence

• International Relations Theory

• Researching Violence

• South & Southeast Asia

• International sanctions

• Religion and conflict

• Africa

• 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

• 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

• 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 violence, in particular terrorism
• Dynamics of escalation
• Non-state actors
• Resource mobilisation
• Religious minorities
• Freedom of religion and belief

• Africa

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The Idea of Iraq in the Testimonies of Iraqi Refugees in Europe
• “Change” in US Foreign Policy Discourse

• MENA Region
• United States
• Israel & Palestine
• Iran
• Iraq

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

• New Forms of Authoritarian Practices in the MENA region

• Morocco

• Algeria

• Tunisia

• architectural humanities (history and theory)
• architecture of home and heritage in post war cities
• spatial justice
• conflicted identity(s), politics, ethics and gender equality
• urban environments contestation

• Iraq
• Middle East

• Brazilian foreign policy
• International organisations and multilateralism
• Quantitative methods

• Security Studies

• Foreign Policy Analysis

• Regionalism

• South America, especially Venezuela and Colombia

• Petrostates

• China’s foreign policy

• Authoritarian regimes

• Methods for text analysis

China

• (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

• 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

• Global Value Chains and Sustainability

• Africa

• Migration policies

• Diaspora engagement

• Political representation

• Migration data

• Latin America

• 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

• Behavioral development economics

• Employment and entrepreneurship

• Informal sector

• Common-pool resource management

• Microfinance

• Nepotism and leadership

• Religion and development

• Southern Africa

• Uganda

• Poverty and Inequality

• Education and teacher performance pay

• Social consequences of disabilities

• Discrimination in labor markets

• Discrimination in access to schooling

• Indonesia

• India

• 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

• State-Building and State Transformation in the Middle East.
• International Organizations and Public Administration in the Middle East.
• Economic Development and Political Mobilization in Arab States.
• Geopolitics, Militarization, and Violent Extremism in the Middle East.

• Syria and Lebanon

• Regional Organisation

• Legitimacy and Legitimation Strategies

• Human Rights

• Tunisia

• Lebanon

• League of Arab States

• 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

• Development of Chinese markets for natural resources, esp. mineral resources

• Natural resources production and trade flows in Northeast and Southeast Asia

• Electric batteries supply chains in China

• 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

• China's foreign policy

• Civil society policies and theory in China

• Foreign policy attitudes in South Korea

• Authoritarianism

• China

• East Asia

• 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

• 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 psychology in peace processes

• Political leadership and decision-making

• Emotions in Peace and Conflict Studies

• Africa (mainly South Africa)

• Latin America (mainly Colombia)

• 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

• 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

• Social and ecological sustainability of cocoa cultivation (Indonesia)

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

• Indonesia

• 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

• 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

• Occupational Health

• Health Statistics

• Japan

• Social science methodology
• Democratization
• Political institutions
• Political Science as a discipline

• Turkey
• Middle East

• Indo-pacific geo-economic and regional cooperation
• South Asia politics and economy

• Indo-Pacific region