Research Projects

Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CliCCS), Cluster of Excellence / Universität Hamburg
Excellence Strategy |  2019 - 2025
Competing Regional Integrations in Southeast Asia (CRISEA)
EC, Horizon 2020 (coordinator: Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient) |  2017 - 2020
Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS), Cluster of Excellence / FU Berlin
Excellence Strategy |  2019 - 2025
Context Matters - Country-Specific Politico-Economic Analyses, Conflict and Crisis Potentials, as well as Global and Regional Trends
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) |  2019 - 2022
De-Carbonizing Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (DeCaDe)
BMBF Funding Priority "Economics of Climate Change" |  2018 - 2021
Drifting Apart: International Institutions in Crisis and the Management of Dissociation Processes
Leibniz Collaborative Excellence |  2019 - 2022
Europe-Cuba Forum Network
EC, ErasmusPlus Projects, Jean Monnet Activities (coordinator: Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)) |  2018 - 2021
Every Immigrant Is an Emigrant: How Migration Policies Shape the Paths to Integration (IMISEM)
Leibniz Competition |  2017 - 2020
Experimental Research on Local Governance in Burkina Faso (REGLAB)
World Bank, Government of Burkina Faso |  2014 - 2021
Globalisation, Europe & Multilateralism – Sophistication of the Transnational Order, Networks, and European Strategies (GEM STONES)
H2020 (ITN / Joint European Doctorate; coordinated by Université de Bruxelles) |  2016 - 2020
Impact Evaluation of Out-grower Schemes in Ghana
Common Fund for Commodities |  2016 - 2021
Justifying Repression in Authoritarian Regimes of the Arab World: Official Framing and Target Audiences
German Research Foundation (DFG) |  2019 - 2023
Latin American Courts Going Public: Institutional Innovations for Social Participation in the Judicial Decision-Making Process
German Research Foundation (DFG) |  Start 12/2018 - 2021
Legitimate Multipolarity
German Research Foundation (DFG) |  2018 - 2021
Mediating Islam in the Digital Age (MIDA) – Work Package "Contested Authority and Knowledge Production"
EC, Horizon 2020, Initial Training Network (coordinator: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS) |  2019 - 2023
Migration Governance and Asylum Crises (MAGYC), Work Package "Comparing Crises"
EC, Horizon 2020 (coordinator: Hugo Observatory – University of Liège (ULg)) |  2018 - 2022
Performance Monitoring Asia Pacific Research Area (APRA)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (coordinator: Fraunhofer) |  2018 - 2020
Populism in Southeast Asia
EC, Horizon 2020 |  2017 - 2020
Presidents Who Die Too Soon and Presidents Who Live Too Long. Term Limits and Succession in Presidential and Semi-Presidential Regimes
PPP Program for Project-Related Personal Exchange - DAAD |  2019 - 2020
Protest and State Reaction: An Intra-Regional Comparison (Indonesia, Vietnam)
EC, Horizon 2020 (coordinator: Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient) |  2017 - 2020
Recalibrating China Policy: Australia and New Zealand in Comparative Perspective
GIGA Research Platform Asia, EU-Australia Leadership Forum, Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Canberra office) |  2018 - 2020
Research Support to the Special Initiative Training and Employment (RéUsSITE)
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) |  2019 - 2022
Sources and Consequences of Legitimation Strategies of Regional Organizations (LegRO)
Leibniz Competition, Leibniz-Best Minds: Junior Research Groups |  2018 - 2023
The (In)stability of Presidential Term Limits in Africa and Latin America: Assessing the Impact of Tenure-Rule Reforms on the Political Regime
German Research Foundation (DFG) |  2017 - 2020
The Anatomy of Repression in Authoritarian States – Micro-Level Analyses of the Security Forces of the Former German Democratic Republic
German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF) |  2018 - 2020
The Authority of International Organizations and Institutional Overlap
Volkswagen Foundation | Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Niedersächsisches Vorab-Programm: Research Cooperation Lower Saxony - Israel |  2018 - 2021
The Monopoly on the Use of Force and Paradoxes of Security – Discrepancies between Objective and Subjective Security in the Central African Republic and Lebanon
German Research Foundation (DFG) |  2020 - 2023
The Return of Race-based Inequalities in Contemporary Cuba: Analysing the Impact of Past Migration and Current Reforms
German Research Foundation (DFG) |  2016 - 2021
The Termination of International Sanctions: Causes, Processes and Domestic Consequences
German Research Foundation (DFG) |  2018 - 2021