Completed Research Projects

A Dangerous Liaison? Ethnicity, Natural Resources and Civil Conflict Onset
German Research Foundation (DFG) |  2012 - 2016
Against all Odds - Youth in Post-War Societies
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) |  2013 - 2017
Analysis of China’s Science and Technology Programmes and Strategies
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) |  2015 - 2016
ANTICORRP: Anti-Corruption Policies Revisited – Global Trends and European Responses to the Challenge of Corruption
EC, 7th Framework Programme (FP7) |  2012 - 2017
Causes of Hybrid Regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa – Systematic Comparison
German Research Foundation (DFG) |  2009 - 2013
Civil Society Organizations as Supporters of Authoritarian Rule? A Cross-Regional Comparison (Vietnam, Algeria, Mozambique)
German Research Foundation (DFG) |  2013 - 2016
Climate Change Mitigation and Poverty Reduction (CliMiP) – Trade-Offs or Win-Win Situations?
VolkswagenStiftung |  2013 - 2016
Climate Protection, Development and Equity: Decarbonization in Developing Countries and Countries in Transition
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) |  2010 - 2013
Colombia in the Face of Brazilian Power Projection
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD / ProCol Programme) |  2015 - 2016
Comparing Autocracies in Asia
Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences, East Asia Institute, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung |  2009 - 2013
Contested World Orders
Leibniz Competition |  2012 - 2016
Debating Protests. On the Possibilities and Limits of Authoritarian Learning in China
GIGA |  2013-2015
desiguALdades.net – Migration and Unequal Citizenship
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) |  2014-2016
Diffusing the EU Model? The European Union’s Influence on Global Regionalism
Daimler and Benz Foundation |  2015 - 2017
Education (In)Security in the Central African Republic
Knowledge Management Fund |  05/2018 - 11/2018
Employment, Empowerment and Living Standard
KfW Entwicklungsbank |  2012 - 2015
Empowerment or Alienation? Descriptive Representation and Ethnic Relations in Bolivia
Fritz Thyssen Foundation |  2014-2015
Entrepreneurial Chinese Migrants and Petty African Entrepreneurs: Local Impacts of Interaction in Urban West Africa (Ghana and Senegal)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) |  2011 - 2013
Ethnic Voting in Latin America
German Research Foundation (DFG) |  2015 - 2019
Evaluating Development Interventions for Peace
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), KfW Development Bank |  2016
Evaluating Education Policies
EC, 7th Framework Programme, Economic Research Forum |  2012 - 2016
Explaining Reluctance in International Politics: Rising Powers and Crisis Management
Jean Monnet Fellowship, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute |  2014 - 2017
Extracting Justice? Exploring the Role of FPIC and Consultation, and Compensation Related to Socio-environmental Conflicts in Latin America
Norwegian Research Council |  2014 - 2017
From Civil War to Social Contract: State Services, Political Trust, and Political Violence
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), KfW Development Bank |  2014 - 2017
Gender Norms, Labour Supply and Poverty Reduction in Comparative Context: Evidence from Rural India and Bangladesh
ESRC/DFID Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research |  2014 - 2017
Globalisation of Chinese Companies
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) , European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry, European University Institute, Florence |  2010-2013
Governing People's Safety in Areas of Extremely Limited Statehood: South Sudan and the Central African Republic
German Research Foundation (DFG), part of CRC 700 |  2014 - 2017
Ideological Change and Regime Legitimacy in China
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) |  2010 - 2016
Ineffective Sanctions? External Sanctions and the Persistence of Autocratic Regimes
Fritz Thyssen Foundation |  2011 - 2017
Institutions for Sustainable Peace - Comparing Institutional Options for Divided Societies and Post-Conflict Countries
Leibniz Competition |  2012 - 2017
Inter-Elite Trust and the Fragility of Transitions: A Comparison between the Party Elites of Tunisia and Egypt
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) |  2014 - 2016
Judicial (In)dependence in New Democracies. Courts, Presidents and Legislatures in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa
Leibniz Competition |  2011 - 2016
Large-Scale Land Acquisitions and Sustainable Development
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) |  2010 - 2013
Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: Data, Patterns, Impacts, and Policies
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), European Commission |  2013 - 2018
Leaders or "Guides" of Public Opinion? The Media Role of Chinese Foreign Policy Experts
Taiwan Fellowship 2015 |  2015 - 2016
Long-Term Land Use, Poverty Dynamics and Emission Trade-Offs (part of CRC 990)
German Research Foundation, SFB 990 (DFG) |  2012 - 2015
Micro- and Small Enterprises in Developing Countries: Opportunities and Constraints
German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) |  2013-2015
Middle East Monarchies: A Configurational Comparison of Breakdown and Survival since 1945
Fritz Thyssen Foundation |  2012 - 2015
Performance and Dynamics of Micro and Small Firms in Developing Countries
2015 - 2018
Political Regimes, Reduction of Poverty and Inequality
EC, 7th Framework Programme (FP7) |  2012 - 2017
Polities beyond Borders. The New Dynamics of Emigrant Politics and Policies in Latin America
German Research Foundation (DFG) |  2014 - 2017
Poverty and Inequality Dynamics and the Role of Social Policies
EC, 7th Framework Programme (FP7), ESRC/DFID Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research |  2012 - 2017
Poverty, Social Mobility, and the Middle Class: The Case of South Africa
GIGA Research Platform South Africa, Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V. (Villigst) |  2016 - 2018
Power-Sharing in Multi-Ethnic Societies of the Middle East
VolkswagenStiftung |  2012 - 2016
Power-Sharing in Post-Conflict Situations: On the Institutional Prerequisites for Lasting Peace
German Research Foundation (DFG) |  2012 - 2015
Prior Consultation and Conflict Transformation in Resource Governance: Bolivia and Peru
German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF), Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) |  2012 - 2015
Regional Powers Network
Leibniz Competition, Fritz-Thyssen Foundation, GIGA |  2008 - 2018
Regional Security Governance for Afghanistan
GIGA, German Research Foundation (DFG) |  2013-2015
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
Socio-Economic Transitions
Claussen-Simon-Foundation |  2011-2015
Stability and Change of Authoritarian Regimes: A Systematic Comparison of Institutional and Material Conditions
German Research Foundation (DFG) |  2011 - 2015
The Development of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood
Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation (2008–2011), GIGA |  2008 - 2014
The Effects of Electoral Reform on Party Systems and Parliamentary Representation in Japan and New Zealand
GIGA |  2014 - 2016
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 Land Matrix
German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) |  2012 - 2015
The Local Arena of Power Sharing: Patterns of Adaptation or Continued Disorder
German Research Foundation (DFG) |  2011 - 2016
The Productivity Effects of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) of North–South and South–South Firms: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa
German Research Foundation (DFG) |  2012 - 2016
The Territorial Dynamics of Colonial State-Building
Gerda Henkel Foundation |  2014 - 2016
Transparency, Dynamics and Impacts of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions (LSLA): Global and Local Evidence
Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) |  2013 - 2014
Understanding the Development of Think Tanks in Asia
GIGA Research Platform Asia/India, Tsinghua University, Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) Beijing office, FES Yangon office |  2015 - 2018
Unlocking potential: Tackling economic, institutional and social constraints of informal entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa
World Bank Multi Donor Trust Fund / Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |  2010-2013
War that Produces Peace? Military Victory and Sustainable Peacebuilding
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |  2014 - 2016