Team GIGA

• International Sanctions
• Foreign Policy Analysis
• Political Psychology
• Leadership Trait Analysis
• International Security

• Sub-Saharan Africa
• Middle East and North Africa (MENA) 

• Sub-Saharan Africa

• Mali

• Niger

• Chad

• Botswana

• Primary Interests
  • Development policy
  • Microfinance and mobile money
  • Economic inequality
  • Democratization
• Secondary interests
  • Economic history
  • Theories of money
  • Digitalization

• Civil War Research

• Repression

• Quantitative Methods

• Latin America

• human mobility within and from the Global South
• forced migration governance
• climate-related mobility
• resource conflicts
• Middle East (Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine)

• Conflict transformation
• Intrastate conflict
• Social cohesion and trust
• Local understandings of peace and conflict transformation

• Social cohesion
• Conflict
• Religion
• Experimental economics

• Ghana
• Liberia
• Sierra Leone
• Togo

• Indonesia

• Civil Society, Autocratization, International & Human Rights Law

• Nicaragua
• Central America

• Political and Electoral Behaviour
• Populism (attitudes and discourse)
• Far-right politics

• religious actors
• sustainable development
• Islam and politics
• Islamic education
• Islamic intellectuals
• science diplomacy
• transregionalism

• Islamic world, transregional
• Indonesia
• Maghreb

• 'Indo-Pacific' maritime politics
• Socio-economic transformation and political change in Northeast Asia
• Politcal geography and sociology of international relations

• Security

• Development

• Ecological change

• Middle East

• Post-conflict transformation and institutional reform

• Security sector reform

• Peacekeeping

• Peacebuilding

• Regional dynamics of conflict and violence

• Conflict analysis

• Sub-Saharan Africa

• DR Congo

• Togo

• Burkina Faso

• International and regional Oil Politics

• Arab Spring

• Regional Politics and Regional Powers in the Middle East

• Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

• Middle East (esp. Iran, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria)

• Political parties in India

• Regional Powers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

• Social policies of Indian states

• South Asia

• India

• Sri Lanka

• Triangular relations between Germany/Europe, the United States and China
• Hydro-politics and contending infrastructures in the Mekong River Basin

• China
• Mekong River Basin
• East Asia

• Comparative Regional Democratization

• Institutional Design in Divided Societies

• South Africa

• Comparative research on democracy and political regimes

• Authoritarianism and civil society development in Mozambique

• Governance, decentralisation, civil society participation, participatory budgeting

• Local government development and local economic development in South Africa and Mozambique

• Main regional focus on sub-Saharan Africa

• Mozambique

• South Africa

• Politics in Southeast Asia, especially in Indonesia, Thailand and Myanmar

• Violence

• Decentralization

• Thailand

• Indonesia

• Myanmar

• Military strategy of revisionist powers (Russia, China)

• Insurgency and asymmetric warfare

• Diffusion of international organizations

• Russia and the post-Soviet space

• Central and Eastern Europe

• Asia-Pacific

• Comparative social policy

• Democratic representation

• Latin American politics

• Latin America

• National, regional, and sectoral systems of innovation

• Large scientific infrastructures and innovation platforms

• Technology transfer

• China

• Foreign Policy Analysis of Middle Eastern States

• The Interplay Identity and Power in Middle East International Relations

• Identity politics

• Alliances and Threat Perception

• Regime-society relations

• Authoritarianism in the Middle East

• Saudi Arabia

• Egypt

• Syria and the Middle East

• State-building in everyday practice

• Borders and borderlands

• state-society relations in (post-) conflict settings

• South Sudan

• Central African Republic

• Horn of Africa

• West Africa

• Corruption and Political Authority

• Protest Movements and Historical Action

• Anthropology of the State

• Politics of Care

• Secularism and Religion

• Jordan

• Syria

• Germany

• Conflict analyses

• Civilian crisis prevention

• Development theory / progress research

• Comprehensive measures of societal development levels

• The “good live” in the “good Society”

• Strategies for fostering sustainable and egalitarian societies

• Power-sharing, democratic transitions and post-conflict political designs

• Migration and refugee governance

• The European Union’s external refugee and migration policy

• Arab immigrant communities in the West

• Migrants and protest movements

• Middle East

• North Africa

• The European Union’s regional engagement

• The Euro-Mediterranean Zone

• Arab diasporas in the West

• Effects of global land acquisitions on economic development and the environment

• Globalising agricultural markets and private governance structures

• Globalisation and natural resources

• Africa

• Regional Powers in the Middle East

• Political Islam

• Egypt

• Iraq

• Iran

Arabian Peninsula

• Urban Violence and Non State Armed Actors in Latin America

• Security and Defence in South America

• Armed Conflict and Peace Process in Colombia

• Illegal Markets and Violence in Latin America

• Latin America

• Comparative politics

• Latin American politics

• Gender and politics

• First Lady

• Presidencialism

• Latin America

• Chile

• Global Health Governance; Schwerpunkt: WTO/TRIPS und der Zugang zu Medikamenten

• Akteure, Koordination und Contestation in Global Governance

• Global Environmental/ Climate Governance

• Globale Normbildungsnetzwerke

• Latin America

• Democratization

• Political Institutions

• Constitutional Courts

• Elections

• Madagaskar

• Senegal

• East Africa

• Tanzania

• Conflict and Security

• South Asian Politics

• Rohingya Crisis

• Ethnic Violence

• International Relations Theory

• Researching Violence

• South & Southeast Asia

• International sanctions

• Religion and conflict

• Africa

• International and Regional Organisations

• African Union in Global Politics

• Sociological Institutionalism

• Postcolonial Theory

• Africa

• Energy choices for transport and cooking

• Entrepreneurship, formalization and enterprise development

• Financial linkages, MFIs sustainability and poverty reduction

• Gender and agribusiness

• Africa

• Transnational student mobility

• Migration infrastructures

• Social media

• Indian middle classes

• Social mobility

• South Asia

• Europe

• Shrinking civic spaces and covid-19

• Authoritarianism and democratic backsliding

• Civil and political rights

• Business and human rights

• Accountability and transparency

• International focus

• Latin America

• Ecuador

• Political Anthropology

• Civil Society

• Transnationalism

• Audiovisual Anthropology

• West Africa

• Security

• Intervention norms

• Responsibility to protect

• Brazil

• Political Islam in the Middle East and North Africa

• Power and Norms in Islamist Organizations

• Muslim Brotherhood in the MENA-Region and the Gulf

• Hezbollah, Hamas

• Lebanon

• Palestinian Territories

• International and regional governmental organizations in comparative perspective

• EU in global regionalism

• International institutional complexity

• Institutional design and evolution

• Legitimacy and legitimation

• Diffusion theories

• Latin America

• Salafism in the Maghreb (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco)

• Civil Society in Autocracies

• Authoritarianism and Civil Society Development in Algeria

• State Failure and Ethnic Conflicts in Southeast Asia (esp. Burma/Myanmar and the Philippines)

• Political Change in Burma/Myanmar

• Islam und Islamism in Bangladesh und Southeast Asia (esp. Philippines)

• Burma/Myanmar

• Bangladesch

• Philippinen

• Maghreb

• Fiscal/public policy and state budgets

• Resilience of authoritarian rule

• Political and non-political violence

• Economic development , modernization and transformation theory

• Middle East

• Nepal

• Online Surveillance of Marginalized Communities in Digitalizing Democracies

• Information Disorder (Disinformation, Misinformation, and Mal-information) and Online Radicalization in Digitalizing Democracies

• Use of Digital Platforms for Political Communications and Participation in Digitalizing Democracies

• India

• United States of America

• Israel

• Transnational Diffusion of Policing Doctrines (Europe – Maghreb Region)

• New Forms of Authoritarian Practices in the MENA region

• Morocco

• Algeria

• Tunisia

• Brazilian foreign policy
• International organisations and multilateralism
• Quantitative methods

• Security Studies

• Foreign Policy Analysis

• Regionalism

• South America, especially Venezuela and Colombia

• Petrostates

• (Im)mobility in the context of conflict and war

• Drivers of (forced) migration

• Migration governance

• Diaspora politics and transnational political participation

• North Africa

• Middle East

• Europe

• Extent, processes and effects of large-scale land acquisitions

• Rural development

• Agricultural transformations

• Zambia

• Kenya

• Mali

• Regional Powers

• Political Institutions in Latin America

• "Failed presidencies"

• Transitional Justice

• Argentina

• Chile

• Mexico

• Paraguay

• Critical development studies

• Comparative area studies

• Gender and queer theory

• Qualitative methodologies

• Central America

• Peru

• A Cross National Survey of the Reports of International Election Observation Missions in Africa

• Policies Tackling Electoral Violence in Africa

• Evolution of Political Institutions in Africa

• Africa

• Nigeria

• The Politics of Middle East

• Religion and International Relations

• Government and Politics

• Introduction to International Relations

• Middle East

• Global Value Chains and Sustainability

• Africa

• Migration policies

• Diaspora engagement

• Political representation

• Migration data

• Latin America

• Violence-prone groups, gangs

• Violence and security

• Youth

• Southeast Asia, Timor-Leste

• Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago

• Comparative migration and citizenship policies in Latin America, Asia and Europe

• Representation and participation of migrants across democracies in the world

• Diaspora politics and policies

• Political transnationalism

• North-South relations with regard to migration policies

• Mexican politics

• Latin America

• Mexico

• Behavioral development economics

• Employment and entrepreneurship

• Informal sector

• Common-pool resource management

• Microfinance

• Nepotism and leadership

• Religion and development

• Southern Africa

• Uganda

• Poverty and Inequality

• Education and teacher performance pay

• Social consequences of disabilities

• Discrimination in labor markets

• Discrimination in access to schooling

• Indonesia

• India

• Military, arms, security and defence policy in Latin America

• Latin America

• Political Islam (in particular Salafism)

• Social movements

• Gramscian theory

• Arab Middle East, in particular the Levant

• Environmental and development economics

• Poverty reduction and low carbon economic development

• Sub-Saharan Africa

• Business behavior in contexts of armed conflict and peacebuilding

• Relationship between legal resources

• Armed conflict and crime

• Dynamics of transitional justice and reconciliation

• State-Building and State Transformation in the Middle East

• International Organizations and Public Administration in the Middle East

• Economic Development and Political Mobilization in Arab States

• Geopolitics, Militarization, and Violent Extremism in the Middle East

• Syria and Lebanon

• Comparative politics

• Migration policies

• State-led transnationalism

• Human rights and civic space

• Central America

• Clientelism and Social Policy in Mexico

• Causes and Consequences of Populism in Comparative Perspective

• Quality of Representative Democracy and the Measurement of Democracy

• Latin America

• Environmental politics

• Business and human rights

• Regulation and governance of global supply chains

• Indigenous peoples

• Brazil

• Andean countries, especially Bolivia

• Latin America

• The link between class and political attitudes

• Different approaches to defining the middle class

• The labour market as a transmission channel from growth to household welfare outcomes

• Ex-ante evaluation of alternative policy and growth scenarios to access their potential for poverty and inequality reduction

• Brazil

• South Africa

• Development of Chinese markets for natural resources, esp. mineral resources

• Natural resources production and trade flows in Northeast and Southeast Asia

• Electric batteries supply chains in China

• China

• Fiscal Federalism: Theory and Practice

• Distributive Fiscal Politics

• Multi-level Politics and Party System Change

• Foreign Relations of Subnational Units

• Federalism and Disaster Management

• India

• South Asia

• Mass-elite representation gap in old and new democracies, with specific focus on causes, measurement strategies, and normative implications

• Comparative welfare states of OECD countries, with special focus on East Asian countries

• Gender Politics of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, with special focus on legislative politics

• Multi-methods, with special focus on social network analysis and media content analysis

• Japan

• South Korea

• Taiwan

• Activities of UN peace operations

• UN peacebuilding at the local level

• Restrictions against civil society organizations, shrinking civic space

• Quantitative methods and quantitative text analysis

• Cote d'Ivoire

• Civic activism, social movements, digital activism

• Authoritarian civil society and rightwing mobilisation

• Civil society space

• Digital repression in autocracies

• Asia

• Post-conflict transitional governments

• Institutional reform in post-conflict societies

• Security Sector Reform (SSR)

• Quantitative and qualitative methods

• Nepal

• Comparative Study of Democracy / Regime Research

• Political role of constitutional courts

• Institutions in processes of democratization

• Parties, party systems and elections in Africa

• Francophone West Africa, particularly Benin, Burkina Faso, Togo and Rwanda

• Political attitudes and behaviour in autocracies

• Contentious politics in the Middle East and North Africa

• Authoritarian regimes and international cooperation

• Empirical research methods

• Maghreb

• Morocco

• Egypt

• Social and ecological sustainability of cocoa cultivation (Indonesia)

• Income Distribution (between Capital and Labor), International Capital Flows and Inequality

• Indonesia

• Africa

• GCC Narratives of World Order

• The GCC (Saudi, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates)

• Iraq

• Jordan

• Comparative Democratization: Latin American Politics and Mexican Politics

• Researcher in the Europe-Cuba Forum Network

• Latin America

• Mexico

• Civil society action in Southeast Asia

• Comparison of authoritarian regimes

• Vietnam

• Postcolonialism

• Peace and Conflict Resolution

• Traditional Peacebuilding

• Gender-just peacebuilding

• Counter-terrorism

• South Asia

• Afghanistan and Pakistan

• Peacekeeping in Africa

• International organizations and regime complexity

• Africa

• Revisiting ‘Regions’ in a Changing World Order: The Case of India and the Indo-Pacific

• The future of alliances in a changing world order

• The rise and resurgence of regional powers in international relations

• Status-seeking in world politics

• Indo-Pacific

• Global South

• India

• Occupational Health

• Health Statistics

• Japan

• China’s foreign policy

• Authoritarian regimes

• Methods for text analysis

China