Research Projects

Contested Leadership in International Relations – Power Politics in South America, Eastern Europe, Asia and sub-Saharan Africa
VolkswagenStiftung, Schumpeter Fellowship |  2010 - 2018
Control of Infections: Perception of Risks and Political Agenda for Providing a Public Good
Leibniz Research Alliance "Infections 21", German Research Foundation (DFG, in preparation) |  2016 - 2019
Do Diasporas Contribute to the Persistence of Authoritarian Rule? Responses of Eritrean citizens abroad to transnational governance
German Research Foundation (DFG) |  2018 - 2020
Education (In)Security in the Central African Republic
Knowledge Management Fund |  05/2018 - 11/2018
Envisioning Peace | Transforming Conflict
LSE Latin America and Caribbean Centre, Centre on Conflict, Development, and Peacebuilding (CCDP), Graduate Institute Geneva, Colombian partners, GIGA, Philipps University Marburg |  2016 - 2019
Ethnic Voting in Latin America
German Research Foundation (DFG) |  2015 - 2019
Every Immigrant Is an Emigrant: How Migration Policies Shape the Paths to Integration
Leibniz Competition |  2017 - 2020
International Diffusion and Cooperation of Authoritarian Regimes - IDCAR-Network
Leibniz Competition |  2014 - 2018
Landscape-Level Assessment of the Ecological and Socio-Economic Functions of Rainforest Transformation Systems in Sumatra (Indonesia) (part of CRC 990)
German Research Foundation (DFG), SFB 990 (DFG) |  2016 - 2019
Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: Data, Patterns, Impacts, and Policies
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), European Commission |  2013 - 2018
Latin American Courts Going Public: Institutional Innovations for Social Participation in the Judicial Decision-Making Process
German Research Foundation (DFG) |  Start 12/2018 - 2021
Mitigating Trade-offs between Economic and Ecological Functions and Services through Certification
German Research Foundation (DFG), part of CRC 990 (project C04) |  2016 - 2019
Performance and Dynamics of Micro and Small Firms in Developing Countries
2015 - 2018
Populism in Southeast Asia
EC, Horizon 2020 |  2017 - 2020
Regional Powers Network
Leibniz Competition, Fritz-Thyssen Foundation, GIGA |  2008 - 2018
Religion and Conflict: On the Ambivalence of Religious Factors in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) , German Israeli Foundation |  2008 - 2018
Secondary Theatres of War: The Syrian War in Jordan
German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF) |  2016 - 2018
Security Sector Reform and the Stability of Post-War Peace
German Research Foundation (DFG) |  2016 - 2018
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 Dictator's Endgame: Theory and empirical analysis of military behavior in authoritarian regime crises, 1946-2014
German Research Foundation DFG |  2015 - 2019
The First Turkish Friday Sermons: A Genealogy of Official Islam in Turkey
Gerda Henkel Foundation |  2018 - 2019
The Influence of Religion on Sustainable Development
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) |  2015 - 2018
The Institutional Presidency in Latin America
DAAD / CAPES (PROBRAL Programme in cooperation with Brazil) |  2014 - 2018
The Return of Race-based Inequalities in Contemporary Cuba: Analysing the Impact of Past Migration and Current Reforms
German Research Foundation (DFG) |  2016 - 2018
The Rise of Middle Classes in Emerging and Developing Countries: Patterns, Causes, and Consequences
GIGA Research Platform South Africa, Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V. (Villigst) |  2016 - 2018
The Termination of International Sanctions: Causes, Processes and Domestic Consequences
German Research Foundation (DFG) |  2018 - 2021
War Economies and Postwar Crime
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |  2015 - 2018
West African Traders as Translators Between Chinese and African Urban Modernities
German Research Foundation (DFG) |  2013 - 2018