Completed Research Projects

A Dangerous Liaison? Ethnicity, Natural Resources and Civil Conflict Onset
German Research Foundation (DFG) |  2012 - 2016
Analysis of China’s Science and Technology Programmes and Strategies
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) |  2015 - 2016
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
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
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
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 - 2016
Globalisation of Chinese Companies
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) , European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry, European University Institute, Florence |  2010-2013
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 - 2016
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
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
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 Security Governance for Afghanistan
GIGA, German Research Foundation (DFG) |  2013-2015
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 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
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