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Democracy and Democratisation in Africa
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(In-)Formal Political Institutions in Emerging Democracies
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Political Representation
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Parliaments in Africa
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Personalization of Executive Power in Africa
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Intra/inter-party competition
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Sub-Sahara Africa
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Ghana
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South Africa
- 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
Large-scale land acquisitions
Africa
Latin America
Asia
- Youth politics
- Social movements
- Transnational activism
- Civil society
- East Asia (especially Taiwan and Hong Kong)
- Southeast Asia (especially Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia)
- Executive Personalization in Latin America
- Policy-making processes in democratic and authoritarian regimes
- Power relations and rule of law
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Economic statecraft
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Peace and conflict
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Global security
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Foreign policy
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Middle East
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Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
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Regional Explanations for Authoritarianism
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Statethood and Political Domination in the Middle East (with a focus on Jordan and Syria)
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The War in Syria
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Regional Politics and the Relationship between Arabism and Islamism
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Jordan
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Syria
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Palestine/Israel
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Turkey (Near East Politics)
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Resources conflicts
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Religion and violent conflict
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Civil–military relations
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Political institutions
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Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mali
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Niger
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Chad
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Botswana
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Legitimacy in global governance
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Science, experts, and politics
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Nationalism and ethnicity in China
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Global IR
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China
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East Asia
- Chinese investments in Latin America
- Foreign Direct Investment in China
- German investments in Brazil
- The political economy of energy transition
- South-South and South-North relations
- China
- Latin America
- Brazil
- Amazon region
- Development policy
- Impacts of digitalisation
- Microfinance, cash transfers and mobile money
- Economic inequality
- Democratisation and social cohesion
- Polarisation and radicalisation
- Elite social media use
- Institutional trust
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Cambodia
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Kenya
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World Order Narratives of the Maghreb’s Leftist Movements
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States and Authoritarianism
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North African Politics
Maghreb region
Morocco
Tunisia
- 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
- Human mobility within and from the Global South
- Forced migration governance
- Climate-related mobility
- Syria
- Jordan
- Lebanon
- Israel/Palestine
- Turkey (refugee policy)
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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
China
China
Asia
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International sanctions
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Persistence and change of authoritarian regimes
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Legitimation of authoritarian regimes
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Simbabwe
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Burundi
- Chinese foreign policy
- critical geopolitics
- global authoritarianism
- connectivity & infrastructure politics
- narratives in world politics
- China
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Fiscal Federalism
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Asia
- Conflict transformation
- Intrastate conflict
- Social cohesion and trust
- Local understandings of peace and conflict transformation
Latin America
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Saudi Foreign Policy towards Sub-Saharan Africa
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Political Opposition in Authoritarian Regimes
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Political Islam
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International Relations of the Persian Gulf
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Yemen
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Saudi Arabia
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Sub-Saharan Africa
- Negotiations and stakeholder dialogue
- Conflict management
- Transformation to sustainability
- Care and human flourishing
- Governance of sustainability transitions
- Knowledge cooperation, knowledge/science diplomacy
- Scenario-building and futures scenarios
- Sustainable energy
- Urban mobility
- Food security
- Climate change, climate governance
- Environmental and climate justice
- Asia and Pacific
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Southern Africa
- Philippines
- Indonesia
- India
- Japan
- Mexico
- Brazil
- South Africa
- Jamaica
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Cuba's Transformation: Crisis, Continuity and Change in Socialist Cuba
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Latin America
- Caribbean
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Cuba
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Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East and North Africa
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Authoritarian learning
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Legitimation of authoritarian regimes
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Repression of protest movements
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Algeria
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Jordan
- Tunisia
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Impacts on inter-gender relations in Libya
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Libya
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MENA regions
- Extremism and Radicalisation
- Individual Attitudes towards Punishment and Punitivity
- Germany
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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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The Indo-Pacific as a New Strategic Space
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Comparative Area Studies: Analytical and Organisational Issues
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Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Island Countries
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Japan
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Korean peninsula
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Indo-Pacific
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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
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Economic and social impacts of land-use change and global land acquisitions
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Smallholder farming systems in developing countries
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Development and Agricultural Economics
- Indonesia
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Civil-military relations
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Democratization
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Authoritarianism
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Research methods
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Taiwan
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South Korea
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Postwar Societies
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Violence and Social change
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Youth
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Central America
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Colombia
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Informal entrepreneurship in developing countries
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Structural change and its poverty and distributional implications
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Natural resources, economic development and conflict
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Africa
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Political institutions in Latin America
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Presidentialism
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Latin American congresses
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Latin American courts
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President-Congress relations; president-court relations
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Latin America
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Argentina
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Brazil
- Geopolitics of Tech
- Digital Politics
- Digital Authoritarianism
- Disinformation and Counter-Disinformation
- Hybrid Threats, Information Warfare, Cyber Resilience
- AI and Internet Governance
- South and Southeast Asia
- India
- Bangladesh
- Indonesia
- Singapore
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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
Justice
Security
Community-building
Latin America
Brazil
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Religion and National Identity
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Marginalization and Social Inequality
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Borderlands
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Transitional Justice
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Kinship and Ambiguous Loss
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Middle East
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Tunisia
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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
- Gender stereotypes and perceptions of political leadership
- Determinants of women's representation
- Gender political violence
- Support for cash-transfer public policy
- Identity politics and democracy
- Latin America
- South America
- Andean region
- Bolivia
- Russia's foreign and security policy towards the MENA region
- Great power competition
- Strategic culture
- Middle East and North Africa
- Russian Federation
- Ukraine
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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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Multipolarity, Rising Powers, and International Politics
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Legitimacy and International Institutions
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Populism and Foreign Policy
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India
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South Asia
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Mozambique
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Regional and emerging powers
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Global and regional environmental politics
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Global climate regime
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India
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BRICS
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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
- Geoeconomics of the energy transition
- Supply chains and climate change
- Climate-conflict Nexus
- Climate policy and international affairs
- Executive Personalization
- Global Political Economy
- Structural Adjustment and Sectoral Transformation
- Institutional and Material Determinants of Authoritarian Rule
- Shrinking Civic Spaces
- Small Gulf Monarchies
- Middle East and North Africa
- Autocratization, Law & Civil Resistance
- Nicaragua
- Central America
- International Criminal Court.
- Africa's International Relations and agency.
- South African politics and international relations.
- Transitional and transformative justice.
- Reparations.
- African members of the International Criminal Court.
- South Africa
- Analysis of land-use changes in tropical and subtropical regions, emphasizing institutional, governance, and technological drivers.
- Integration of social, economic, technological, and environmental perspectives to advance sustainable rural and agri-food system transformation.
- Investigation of and engagement with science-policy interfaces in climate, biodiversity, agriculture, and food systems to bridge research and policy action.
- Exploration of innovations, including digital tools and policy frameworks, to strengthen sustainability, resilience, and adaptation in food systems and landscapes.
Asia
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Foreign direct investments
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Training and job creation
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Africa
- Digital Repression
- Digital Governance
- Digital Policy
- Cybersecurity
- Civil Society
- Middle East
- East Asia
- Civic activism, social movements, digital activism
- Digital repression in autocracies
- Computational propaganda
- Politics of civil society
- Civil resistance
- Thailand
- South East Asia
- Social movements and mobilization
- Social (in)justice and marginalization
- Islamist radicalization and political violence
- Political transformation and regime change
- Tunisia
- Maghreb
- 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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Democratization
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Civil-Military Relations
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Political Islam
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Identity Politics in the Middle East
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Power and Resistance
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Turkey
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Egypt
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The role of courts in the political system
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Judicial legitimacy
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Courts and the public
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Judicial independence in new democracies, especially Latin America
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Development of democracy in Paraguay
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Latin America
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Paraguay
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Democratisation in Indonesia and Malaysia
- Anti-Fake News Laws in Indonesia and Malaysia
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Political parties in Southeast Asia
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Populism in Southeast Asia
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Civil society in Indonesia and Malaysia
- Foreign policy of Indonesia
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Southeast Asia
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Indonesia
- Malaysia
- Drug Policy
- Cannabis Legalization
- Policy Processes
- Judicial Politics
- Morality Policies
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Drug Trafficking
- Latin America
- Mexico
- Uruguay
- Chile
- International sanctions and interventions
- Authoritarian regimes
- Legitimation of political regimes
- Foreign policy and development policy
- Southern Africa and East Africa
- South Africa
- Botswana
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- Kenya
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The politics of the People‘s Republic of China
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Digital governance
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Public participation
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Central-local relations
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PR China
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Innovation processes and networks in Japanese economy, science and society in international comparison
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Japan
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Contemporary history of Iraq (1979-2003)
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Political Economy of the Middle East
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Energy and food security
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Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation
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Gulf region
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Iraq
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Egypt
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Syria
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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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Current Research
Countries and Regions
- Genealogies of Muslim Thought in Mashreq and Maghreb: The Case of Ennahda’s Muslim Democracy
- Comparative study of Muslim thoughts in Mashreq and Maghreb
- Maghreb: Tunisia
Diaspora politics
International Migration
Identity Politics
Turkish Politics
Comparative Politics
Turkey
Germany
The Middle East
- Leftist politics
- Democratisation in Indonesia and Southeast Asia
- Civil society
- Capitalist development
- Authoritarian turn and illiberal legalism
- Sociology of violence
- Southeast Asia
- Indonesia
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European Development Policy
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