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.
Doctoral Researchers
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Current Research
Countries and Regions
- International Sanctions
- Foreign Policy Analysis
- Political Psychology
- Leadership Trait Analysis
- International Security
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
- Lebanon
- Iran
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Civil-Military Relations in the Middle East and North Africa
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Military Coups and Civilian Control of Armies
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Authoritarian Regimes, Authoritarian Institutions
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Regime Stability and Destabilization
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Party Systems and Cleavages in the Middle East and North Africa
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German Military Deployments in the MENA-Region and Sahel
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Middle East
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North Africa
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Sudan
- Sahel
- Youth politics
- Social movements
- Transnational political engagement
- Political parties
- Civil society
- Democracy
- East Asia (especially Taiwan and Hong Kong)
- Southeast Asia (especially Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia)
- Turkish foreign policy (toward Africa)
- Turkey
- African continent (external actors)
- Tanzania (refugee policy)
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Social Protection Systems and Labour Markets
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Latin America
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Mexico
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Brazil
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The Political Economy of AKP's Foreign Aid: A Regional Assessment of Middle East and North Africa
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Middle East
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North Africa
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Large-scale land investments
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Rural development
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Socioeconomic inequalities and institutions
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Liberia, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Indonesia, South-East Asia
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Fiscal Federalism
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Asia
- Work-life balance policies
- Capability approach
- Unpaid care work
- Welfare state systems
- Gender and social inequalities
- Socio-ecological transformation
- Uruguay
- Brazil
- Sweden
- Conflict transformation
- Intrastate conflict
- Social cohesion and trust
- Local understandings of peace and conflict transformation
Latin America
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Impacts on inter-gender relations in Libya
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Libya
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MENA regions
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Cyber-Mediation / Digital Mediation / E-Mediation in international conflicts
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International conflict resolution
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Mediation in inter-state and intra-state conflicts
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Regional patterns and variations of mediation
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Regional security architecture of the Middle East
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Peace and conflict research
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Middle East
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Emerging Powers
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International Climate Policy
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Brazil
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India
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China
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Religion
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Social Identities and Social Psychology
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Moral Foundations Theory
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Reconciliation
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Post-Conflict Societies
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Africa
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Migration and Refugee Studies
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Critical Citizenship Studies
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Border Regimes
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Political Agency
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Civil Society Organisations
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Latin America
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Central America
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Mexico
- Employment in African Economies
- Rigorous Impact Evaluations
- Firms and Investment
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Africa
- Côte d'Ivoire
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Uganda
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Party systems
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Sub-National Elections
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Local Politics
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Federalism
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Democracy
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Latin America, particularly Argentina and Brazil
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Indian foreign policy
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Role of identities in international relations
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Media and politics
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India
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South Asia
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Persian Gulf politics
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Geopolitics
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Security in the Persian Gulf
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Feminist Foreign Policy
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Persian Gulf
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Iran and Saudi Arabia
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The Politics of COVID-19 Vaccination in Central America
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Latin America
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Social protection mechanisms in Latin America, Asia and the Middle East during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Policies on violence against women in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Policy efforts to eliminate child labor in Latin America
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Latin America
- Peru
- Bolivia
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Security Sector Reforms
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State Repression
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Violent Democracies
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Social Protest
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Discursive Politics
- Legitimizing Repression and state-driven violence
- Nicaragua
- El Salvador
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Central America
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Latin America
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Large-scale land acquisitions
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Rural Development
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Land conflicts
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Land policy in Colombia
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Colombia
- Autocratization, Law & Civil Resistance
- Nicaragua
- Central America
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Regional Organisations
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League of Arab States & African Union
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Legitimacy and Legitimation Strategies
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WMD Disarmament and non-proliferation.
North Africa
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Foreign direct investments
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Training and job creation
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Africa
- Development Economics, Labour Markets, FDI, Trade, and Structural Change
- Digitalization, Technology, Venture Capital, and Entrepreneurship
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Global South, in particular Africa
- Iran's foreign policy towards Africa
- Transnational Shia politics and networks
- Iran
- African continent (external actors)
- Political and Electoral Behaviour
- Populism (attitudes and discourse)
- Far-right politics
- Democratic Backsliding
- Attitudes
- Latin America
- Brazil
- United States
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Political Institutions
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Social Movements
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The politics of the People‘s Republic of China
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E-government & e-participation
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Ideology and political legitimation
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Central-local relations
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PR China
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Ecuadorian Foreign Policy
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Emerging Powers: China and Brazil
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International Cooperation
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South-South Cooperation, Integration and Regionalism in Latin America
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Ecuador
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