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The group of doctoral researchers at the GIGA is composed of talented junior researchers from all over the world and from different disciplinary backgrounds. Our doctoral researchers are either self-funded (e.g. scholarship) or work in third party-funded projects at the GIGA while simultaneously pursuing their doctoral degrees.
Exchange and cooperation with scholars from around the world is a decades-long tradition at the GIGA. To promote cooperation and exchange amongst doctoral researchers, we offer stays for visiting doctoral researchers at the GIGA.
The professors and senior researchers at the GIGA and its partner universities and institutes have extensive experience supervising and mentoring doctoral researchers. Their participation in the selection process, the research colloquium, and on the doctoral board ensures the high quality of the GIGA Doctoral Programme.
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Current Research
Countries and Regions
Socioeconomic impact of mining Global value chains and human rights risks
Zambia
International Sanctions
Foreign Policy Analysis
Political Psychology
Leadership Trait Analysis
International Security
Sub-Saharan Africa
Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Lebanon
Iran
Civil-Military Relations in the Middle East and North Africa
Military Coups and Civilian Control of Armies
Authoritarian Regimes, Authoritarian Institutions
Regime Stability and Destabilization
Party Systems and Cleavages in the Middle East and North Africa
German Military Deployments in the MENA-Region and Sahel
Middle East
North Africa
Sudan
Sahel
Youth politics
Social movements
Transnational activism
Civil society
East Asia (especially Taiwan and Hong Kong)
Southeast Asia (especially Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia)
Peacebuilding
Intergroup Relations
Religion
Sub-Saharan Africa
Togo
Sierra Leone
Geopolitics of Energy Transition
Indian Foreign Policy
Emerging Powers
India
Asia
Civil-military relations
Democratization
Authoritarianism
East Asia
Turkish foreign policy (toward Africa)
Turkey
African continent (external actors)
Tanzania (refugee policy)
The Political Economy of AKP's Foreign Aid: A Regional Assessment of Middle East and North Africa
Middle East
North Africa
Fiscal Federalism
Asia
Peace Agreements and War Termination
Complexity of Conflict Issues
Violence and Social Change
Elite-level and individual-level Conflict Resolution
Quantitative and Qualitative Measurement of Conflict Issues
Southeast Asia
Indonesia
Democratisation (especially Sub-Saharan Africa)
Historical Institutionalism (especially Michael Mann)
Cold War Studies
Sub-Saharan Africa
DRC
Kenya
Ghana
Benin
Impacts on inter-gender relations in Libya
Libya
MENA regions
Migration and Refugee Studies
Critical Citizenship Studies
Border Regimes
Political Agency
Civil Society Organisations
Latin America
Central America
Mexico
Party systems
Sub-National Elections
Local Politics
Federalism
Democracy
Latin America, particularly Argentina and Brazil
Russia's foreign and security policy towards the MENA region
Great power competition
Strategic culture
Middle East and North Africa
Russian Federation
Ukraine
Social protection mechanisms
Gender-based violence
Child labor
Interest groups and social movements
Latin America
Peru
Bolivia
State Repression
Violent Democracies
Social Protest
Legitimisation of state-driven violence
Regime Change
Security Sector Reforms
Discursive Politics
Nicaragua
El Salvador
Central America
Latin America
Autocratization, Law & Civil Resistance
Nicaragua
Central America
Foreign direct investments
Training and job creation
Africa
Digital Repression
Digital Governance
Digital Policy
Cybersecurity
Civil Society
Middle East
East Asia
Geopolitics and History of International Relations in the Middle East
Iran's foreign policy
External actors in the African continent
Political and Electoral Behaviour
Populism (attitudes and discourse)
Far-right politics
Democratic Backsliding
Attitudes
Latin America
Brazil
United States
The politics of the People‘s Republic of China
Digital governance
Public participation
Central-local relations
PR China
