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
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
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
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
Security Sector Reform and the Stability of Post-War Peace
German Research Foundation (DFG) |  2016 - 2018
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 Influence of Religion on Sustainable Development
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) |  2015 - 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
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