Completed Research Projects

A Dangerous Liaison? Ethnicity, Natural Resources and Civil Conflict Onset
German Research Foundation (DFG) |  2012 - 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
Education (In)Security in the Central African Republic
Knowledge Management Fund |  05/2018 - 11/2018
Employment, Empowerment and Living Standard
KfW Entwicklungsbank |  2012 - 2015
Entrepreneurial Chinese Migrants and Petty African Entrepreneurs: Local Impacts of Interaction in Urban West Africa (Ghana and Senegal)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) |  2011 - 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
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
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
Micro- and Small Enterprises in Developing Countries: Opportunities and Constraints
German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) |  2013-2015
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
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 Post-Conflict Situations: On the Institutional Prerequisites for Lasting Peace
German Research Foundation (DFG) |  2012 - 2015
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
The Influence of Religion on Sustainable Development
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) |  2015 - 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
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