Our graduates continue their careers in various working fields. We stay in contact with our alumni and keep track of their career paths. Many of them continue to work as researchers in academia or in administrative or managerial positions in the academic sphere. Others have positions in ministries, international organisations, political foundations, NGOs or in the consulting sector. You can find a list of all our alumni below.
Dastan Jasim: Civic Culture without a State: Kurdish Civic Culture in Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria between State-Control and Resistance
Anna Fünfgeld: No Power to Change? Energy Hegemony and Trasformismo in Indonesia
Jorge A. Rincón Barajas: Current Issues on Rural Development: Land Tenure, Land Use Change and Climate Change
Niklas Krösche: Explaining African Union Conflict and Crisis Interventions. The Drivers and Dynamics of Security Regionalism in Africa
Aline-Sophia Hirseland: Political integration in the Global South. What we can learn from Indigenous peoples in Bolivia and Muslim minorities in Guyana and Suriname
Rafael Castro Alegría: Crisis and Regional (Dis)Integration: A Post-structuralist Approach
Tom Konzack: From Peaceful Protest to Carnage: The Role of Resources and Sponsors in the Tactical Choices of Non-State Actors
Hana Attia: Biased Coercion: The Imposition, Management, and Termination of US Sanctions
Juliana Tappe Ortiz: Peace Spoilers and Peace Supporters: How Individual Characteristics Influence the Outcome and Duration of Civil Conflicts
Richard Roewer: Undemocratic Democrats: A Case Study of the National League for Democracy
Swantje Schirmer: Why do regional organisations use human rights for legitimation? Set-theoretic configurations of localisation, agents, and audiences of legitimation
So Young Chang: Invisible Hands: The Policies and Non-Policies That Make Migrant Domestic Work Precarious
Clara Franco Yáñez: Pathways to Dialogue: Mapping Norm Contestation in the Debate about Legal Abortion in Mexico from 2007 to 2021
Hannes Greve: Climate Change Mitigation and Economic Development
Nils Lukacs: The Search for a New Beginning: Obama and the United States’ Legacy in the Middle East
Gomes, Jessica: The Formation of National Role Conceptions in Regional Institutions: The Case of Brazil in MERCOSUR and Germany in the EU
Costa, Pedro: The Overlooked Role of the Brazilian Congress in Shaping the Bolsa Família Program: A New Approach to the Policy-making of Conditional Cash Transfers
García Pinzón, Viviana: Local order, violence, and trajectories of governance in peripheral cities in Colombia and El Salvador
Huber, Christopher: Imposing sanctions on violent non-state actors to restore international peace and security. A systematic analysis of the conditions under which UN targeted sanctions work
Rosales, Isabel: States Beyond Borders: A Comparative Study of Central American Sending States and their Emigrant Policy
Leone, Tharcisio: Striving for Educational Improvement: Essays on Intergenerational Mobility and Teacher Bonus Programs in Contemporary Brazil
Bandarra, Leonardo: Nuclear Latency and the Participation Puzzle: Constructing the International Non-Proliferation Regime
Hoffmann, Lisa: Social Cohesion under Threat? Evidence from Behavioral Experiments in sub-Saharan Africa
Ostermeier, Martin: Key labour market issues and decent work in developing and emerging countries
Strautmann, Michael: Harmonization is Dead, Long Live Complementarity: An Explorative Study of Interorganizational Coordination for Aid Effectiveness in Development Cooperation in Indonesia and Madagascar
Bellgardt, Jan: Institutions, Development and Living the Good Life in Ecuador. A PoliticalE-conomy Analysis of Policy Making Under the Buen Vivir Development Paradigm
Schöneich, Svenja: Living on a Time Bomb - Local perspectives and responses on fracking, oil and gas projects in a rural community in Veracruz, Mexico
Velosa, Eduardo: Formalizing Roles to Assess Extra Regional Powers' Influence on Foreign Policy. South America, China, and the United States, 1990-2015
Guerrero Valencia, Carolina: First Ladies in Politics: Lessons from Latin America, 1990-2016
Tibi Weber, Cordula: The Contested Role of Courts in New Democracies: Political Interferences in Comparative Perspective
Wiegel, Sarah: Employment and Microand Small Enterprises
Ewert, Insa: The China Watchers: EU Trade Policy in the Making
García, Pau Palop: Institutional Representation of Emigrants in their States of Origin: How much Presence from Abroad?
Flemmer, Riccarda: The Contested Meaning of Prior Consultation and FPIC. Indigenous Grassroots and the Politics of Translating Rights in Struggles over Resources in the Peruvian Amazon
Soliz Landivar de Stange, Anna: Triangular Relations: China, Latin America, and the United States
Schotte, Simone: Poverty, Social Mobility, and the Middle Class: The Case of South Africa
Mijares, Víctor M.: Explaining Flaws of Security Regionalism in the Global South: Lessons from South America
Heuser, Christoph: Contested State Formation? The Effect of Illicit Economies in the Margins of the State
Giolbas, Anna: Four Essays on the Political Economy of Social Transfers
Glawion, Tim: Security Arena – Local Order Making in the Central African Republic, Somaliland and South Sudan
Bunselmeyer, Elisabeth: Trust Repaired? The Impact of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Reparation Program on Social Cohesion in Post-Conflict Communities of Peru
Heyl, Charlotte: The Contribution of Constitutional Courts to the Democratic Quality of Elections in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Case Study of Madagascar and Senegal
Haaß, Felix: Buying Democracy? The Political Economy of Foreign Aid, Power-Sharing Governments, and Post-Conflict Political Development
Bondes, Maria: A Burning Issue: Waste Incineration and the Diffusion of Environmental Contention in China
van Treeck, Katharina: The Role of Labor in Sustainable Development
Sunik, Anna: Monarchic Peace? Foreign Policy and Ingroup Identity of Middle East Monarchies
Wilczak, Jessica: Reconstructing Rural Chengdu: Urbanization as Development in the Post-Quake Context
Strüver, Georg: Explaining Alignment in International Politics: The Case of Foreign Policy Convergence and Partnerships with China
Negrete García, Ana Karen: Microenterprise Performance and Economic Development: Evidence from Mexico
Hettig, Elisabeth: Agricultural Transformation and Land-Use Change: Evidence on Causes and Impacts from Indonesia
Grauvogel, Julia: The 'Internal Opposition Effect' of International Sanctions: Insights from Burundi, Zimbabwe and a Qualitative-Comparative Analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa
Renner, Sebastian: Poverty, inequality and the decarbonization of economic development
Strasheim, Julia: Interim Governments and the Stability of Peace
Pawelz, Janina: The Transformation of Violence-Prone Groups. The Cases of Trinidad and Tobago and Timor-Leste
Hoffmann, Anne: Regional Public Policy-Making. The Case of UNASUR
Ebert, Hannes: Change and Contestation in South Asia
Wojczewski, Thorsten: India and the Quest for World Order: Hegemony and Identity in India's post-Cold War Foreign Policy Discourse
Roy, Vita: Managing Lootable Natural Resources: What Makes Successful Strategies of Reconstruction?
Garzón, Jorge: The Problem of Regions and Regionalism in a Multipolar World
Burilkov, Alex: The Maritime Strategy of Regional Powers: China, India, Iran, and Brazil from 2001 to 2015
Peters, Ina: Cohesion and Fragmentation in the Social Movement against Belo Monte: How Frames and Identities promote Movement Dynamics
García, Daniela: Solar Energy and the Problem of Path Dependency in Costa Rica's Energy System
Koß, Maren: Islamist Resistance Organizations and Conceptions of Political Order: Comparing Hezbollah and Hamas from 2005 to 2013
Gephart, Malte: Local embedding of the international and transnational anti-corruption discourse from a post-development perspective: Anti-corruption narratives in Paraguay and Chile
Lucas, Viola: The Effects of Autocracies on Governance
Mau, Karsten: Essays in International Economics: China’s Exports, Economic Growth, and Comparative Advantage
Darwich, May: The Interplay of Ideational and Material Forces in Threat Perception: Saudi and Syrian Choices in Middle East Wars
Zanker, Franzisca: The Legitimisation of Peace Negotiations: A Role for Civil Society
Nymalm, Nicola: Debates on Economic Policies towards Japan (1985-1995) and China (1995-2008) in the United States
Koos, Carlo: Ethnic Mobilization in Resource-Abundant African States. Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses of the Role of Ethnic Identity and Natural Resources in Armed Intrastate Conflicts
Wagner, Maren: Emergence, Complexity, Discourse: A critical realist approach to institutional dynamics in East Asia
Nolte, Kerstin: Large-scale land acquisitions in sub-Saharan Africa. Determinants, processes and actors
Carpes, Mariana: From Breadcrumbs to threads of wool: Building a neoclassical realist model for the study of regional powers’ nuclear choices
Borszik, Oliver: Irans Führungsanspruch (1979-2013): Mission, Anhängerschaft und islamistische Konzepte im Diskurs der Politikelite
Bothmann, Astrid: Drawing a Line Under the Past. Transitional Justice in Nicaragua 1990-2012
Stolte, Christina: Brazil in Africa – Extraregional Engagement as Stepping Stone to Great Power Status?
Fraundorfer, Markus: Global solutions from the tropics. Brazil’s increasing influence in global sectoral governance
Wodrig, Stefanie: Discourses of intervention: The crises in Burundi and Zimbabwe as arenas of regional politics
Seemann, Miriam: Water Security and the Politics of Water Rights Formalization in Peru and Bolivia. The Struggle for Water Justice in Andean Water User Communities
Barrera, Anna: Promoting Change in Legally Plural Settings: Domestic Violence and Indigenous Women´s Quest for Justice in the Andes
Korte, Nina: The Political Economy of Public Administration Reforms in Southeast Asia: A Comparative Analysis of the Tax Administration in Indonesia and the Philippines
Hess, Natalie: The Strategic Partnerships between the European Union and Regional Powers (Brazil, India, South Africa)
Prasad, Karolina: Ethnicity as the dependent variable in politics: A comparative study of Malaysian Sarawak and Indonesian West Kalimantan
Giesbert, Lena: Microinsurance and risk management: Evidence from Ghana
Abb, Pascal: China’s Foreign Policy Think Tanks: Explaining Institutional Developments and Shifting Roles
Scholvin, Sören: The Geopolitics of Regional Powers: How Do Geographical Conditions Influence South Africa’s Regional Economic and Political Relations?
Plagemann, Johannes: On the Transformation of Sovereignty in Democratic Regional Powers. Normative Aspects of the Rise of the Rest
Never, Babette: Knowledge Systems and Change in Climate Governance: Comparing India and South Africa 2007-2010
Albrechts, Nicole: Die Effektivität verschiedener Initiativen und Konzepte zur Korruptionsbekämpfung in Staaten mit Erdölvorkommen. Ein Vergleich von Nigeria, Kamerun, Kasachstan und Ecuador
Heep, Sandra: China in Global Finance: Domestic Financial Repression and International Financial Power
Buitrago Bascopé, Miguel Angel: The Effects of Decentralization on the Democratic Deepening Process: A Case Study of Bolivia
Eucker, Dennis: Development and Climate Change in the Mekong River Delta. A case study on poverty, vulnerability, and how adaptive capacity can be enhanced
Godehardt, Nadine: Regional Orders and Intertwined Actors. China’s engagement in Central Asia, 2001-2010
Haas, Nadine: Violence in Central American literature and other media
Hanif, Melanie: The rise of regional powers and the changing legitimacy of regions in international relations. With a reconstruction of the Indian case
Kuhn, Annegret: Cursed by resource wealth? The political economy of oil in Latin America
Meissner, Hannes: The Resource Curse and the Effect of Inter- and Transnational Initiatives to Enhance Accountability and Transparency over Revenues in Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan
Ranko, Annette: The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood under Mubarak – Transformation in the Process of Ideational Interaction with the state
Shim, David: Seeing is Believing: Imaging North Korean in International Politics
Stroh, Alexander: Erfolgsbedingungen politischer Parteien in Afrika. Benin und Burkina Faso seit der Rückkehr zum Mehrparteiensystem
Vüllers, Johannes: Es sind noch keine Friedensengel vom Himmel gefallen... Friedensengagement von Religionsgemeinschaften in innerstaatlichen Gewaltkonflikten, 1990 bis 2009
Zeino-Mahmalat, Ellinor: Saudi Arabia’s and Iran’s Iraq Policies in the Post-Gulf War Era – Rethinking Foreign Policy Analysis in the Gulf at the Intersection of Power, Interests, and Ideas
Argueta, Otto: Private Security in Guatemala: explanatory factors and effects on Democracy
Huhn, Sebastian: Crime in Costa Rica. The Discursive Construction of a Social and Political Problem
Peetz, Peter: Maras, Medien, Militär: Gesellschaftlicher Diskurs und staatliche Politik gegenüber Jugendbanden in Honduras
Destradi, Sandra: Regional Powers and their Strategies – Empire, Hegemony, and Leadership: India’s Relations with Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh
Capdepón, Ulrike: Vom Fall Pinochet zu den Verschwundenen des Spanischen Bürgerkrieges. Die Auseinandersetzung mit Diktatur und Menschenrechtsverletzungen in Spanien und Chile
Fromm, Ingrid
Wehner, Leslie: Stalled Free Trade Agreement Negotiations in the Global Economy
Fuchs, Ruth: Vergangenheitspolitik und Demokratisierung in Argentinien und Uruguay
Bornschein, Dirk: Vergangenheitspolitik im Prozess der Demokratisierung: Das Beispiel Guatemala
Hillger, Doris: Bildungspolitik in Indien
Hille, Kristina: Die empresas recuperadas in Argentinien
Kursawe, Janet: Drug Policy in the Golden Crescent: Perceptual Pattern and Strategies in the Fight against Drugs as Responses to the Rise of Trafficking in Narcotics in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran
Richter, Thomas: Autoritäre Herrschaft, materielle Ressourcen und Außenhandelsreformen: Ein Vergleich von Marokko, Tunesien, Ägypten und Jordanien
Smith-Höhn, Judith: Challenges to Rebuilding the Security Sector in Post-Conflict Societies: Perceptions and Potentials in Liberia and Sierra Leone
Ungerer, Michaela: Vietnamesische Textilindustrie
Brach, Juliane: Economic Development in the Arab Countries of the Middle East and North Africa. Determinants, Constraints and Implications for EU-Arab Relations
Desta, Isaac Hailemariam: Democratisation, Improved Governance and the Creation of Conducive Environment for Small and Medium Scale Enterprise Development in sub Saharan Africa: The Case of Eritrea
Kisekka-Ntale, Fredrick: Institutional Dilemmas in Tropical Resource Management. A Case Study of Kakamega Forst, Kenya
Michuki M’Mukaria, George: Trapped in Subsistence? A Study of Poor Rural Livelihoods in Rural Kenya with a Focus on Non-Agricultural Activities
Muteanu, Olga: Globale Wertschöpfungsketten im Wandel. Die Herausforderungen für lokale Automobilzulieferer in Ungarn
Zeng, Xiuhua: Locational Factors and the Development of High-tech Enterprises in China
Soest, Christian: Leistungsfähigkeit afrikanischer Bürokratien – Botswana und Zambia
Steiner, Susan: An Evaluation of the Impact of Decentralisation on Poverty – The Case of Uganda
Shohat, Michael: Voraussetzungen für die Entwicklung des E-Commerce in Südamerika am Beispiel Chile
Eberhardt, David: Die Auswirkungen von “bad” governance am Beispiel der argentinischen Wirtschaftsentwicklung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Systemvertrauens
Jansen, Karin: Auswirkungen der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Eine kritische Betrachtung der dualen Berufsausbildung in Togo
Schmieg, Evita: Regionale Integration. Die Europäische Union und die Karibik
Torres Fuchslocher, Carlos: Development of Technology-Intensive Suppliers in Natural Resource Based Economies: The Case of Aquaculture in Chile
Flemes, Daniel: Brazil’s Cooperative Leadership in Southern Latin America’s Security Politics. A Regional Power Striving for a Pluralistic Security Community in View of Domestic Tensions and Transnational Security Threats
Plessis, Sophia du: Institutions and Institutional Change as Explanation for Differences in Economic Development – A Study of Experience of Zambia and Botswana
Woeller, Axel: Die Landfrage und Landreform in Namibia