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Working Papers

Title: State Extraction and Anti-Colonial Rebellion – Quantitative Evidence from the Former German East Africa
Authors: Alexander De Juan
Date: April 2015

Title: Nationalized Incumbents and Regional Challengers: Opposition- and Incumbent-Party Nationalization in Africa
Authors: Michael Wahman
Date: April 2015

Title: Electoral Rentierism? The Cross-National and Subnational Effect of Oil on Electoral Competitiveness in Multiparty Autocracies
Authors: Michael Wahman, Matthias Basedau
Date: April 2015

Title: The Plasticity of Regions: A Social Sciences–Cultural Studies Dialogue on Asia-Related Area Studies
Authors: Heike Holbig
Date: March 2015

Title: The Brazilian Rise and the Elusive South American Balance
Authors: Luis Leandro Schenoni
Date: March 2015

Title: SMARTer Indicators for Decent Work in a Post-2015 Development Agenda: A Discussion and a Proposal
Authors: Martin Ostermeier, Sarah Linde, Jann Lay, Sebastian Prediger
Date: March 2015

Title: Regional Linkages and Global Policy Alignment: The Case of China–Southeast Asia Relations
Authors: Pascal Abb, Georg Strüver
Date: March 2015

Title: Polyarchies, Competitive Oligarchies, or Inclusive Hegemonies? 23 Global Intergovernmental Organizations Compared
Authors: Dawisson Belém Lopes
Date: March 2015

Title: Multipolarity and the Future of Regionalism: Latin America and Beyond
Authors: Jorge Garzón
Date: January 2015

Title: The Ontological (In)security of Similarity: Wahhabism versus Islamism in Saudi Foreign Policy
Authors: May Darwich
Date: December 2014

Title: The Heterogeneity of FDI in Sub-Saharan Africa: How Do the Horizontal Productivity Effects of Emerging Investors Differ from Those of Traditional Players?
Authors: Birte Pfeiffer, Holger Görg, Lucia Perez-Villar
Date: December 2014

Title: International Sanctions against Iran under President Ahmadinejad: Explaining Regime Persistence
Authors: Oliver Borszik
Date: November 2014

Title: Demands for Media Democratisation and the Latin American 'New Left': Government Strategies in Argentina and Brazil in Comparative Perspective
Authors: Philip Kitzberger
Date: November 2014

Title: The Institutional Presidency from a Comparative Perspective: Argentina and Brazil since the 1980s
Authors: Magna Inácio, Mariana Llanos
Date: October 2014

Title: A Ticking "Time Bomb"? ‒ Youth Employment Problems in China
Authors: Günter Schucher
Date: October 2014

Title: Regional Sanctions against Burundi: A Powerful Campaign and Its Unintended Consequences
Authors: Julia Grauvogel
Date: September 2014

Title: Geographical Patterns of Analysis in IR Research: Representative Cross‐Regional Comparison as a Way Forward
Authors: Johannes Vüllers
Date: September 2014

Title: Contestations over Indigenous Participation in Bolivia's Extractive Industry: Ideology, Practices, and Legal Norms
Authors: Almut Schilling‐Vacaflor
Date: September 2014

Title: A Democratic Rentier State? Taxation, Aid Dependency, and Political Representation in Benin
Authors: Giulia Piccolino
Date: September 2014

Title: Researching Ethnic Relations as the Outcome of Political Processes
Authors: Anaïd Flesken
Date: August 2014

Title: China and Socialist Countries: Role Change and Role Continuity
Authors: Nele Noesselt
Date: August 2014

Title: Margins, Gravity, and Causality: Export Diversification and Income Levels Reconsidered
Authors: Karsten Mau
Date: July 2014

Title: Too Abstract to Be Feasible? Applying the Grounded Theory Method in Social Movement Research
Authors: Ina Peters
Date: May 2014

Title: The Scope and Selectivity of Comparative Area Studies: Transitional Justice Research
Authors: Anika Oettler
Date: May 2014

Title: Informal Interference in the Judiciary in New Democracies: A Comparison of Six African and Latin American Cases
Authors: Mariana Llanos, Cordula Tibi Weber, Charlotte Heyl, Alexander Stroh
Date: April 2014

Title: Does Violence Pay? The Effect of Ethnic Rebellion on Overcoming Political Deprivation
Authors: Carlo Koos
Date: March 2014

Title: Hooray for Global Justice? Emerging Democracies in a Multipolar World
Authors: Julian Culp, Johannes Plagemann
Date: December 2013

Title: Peace is Better Business, and Business Makes Better Peace: The Role of the Private Sector in Colombian Peace Processes
Authors: Angelika Rettberg
Date: November 2013

Title: Iran and the Arab Spring: Between Expectations and Disillusion
Authors: Henner Fürtig
Date: November 2013

Title: What Drives Interstate Balancing? Estimations of Domestic and Systemic Factors
Authors: Pascal Abb
Date: October 2013

Title: The Eritrean Diaspora: Savior or Gravedigger of the Regime? Diaspora Responses to the Imposition of UN Sanctions
Authors: Nicole Hirt
Date: October 2013

Title: Rethinking the Consultation-Conflict Link: Lessons from Bolivia's Gas Sector
Authors: Almut Schilling-Vacaflor
Date: October 2013

Title: Claims to Legitimacy Matter: Why Sanctions Fail to Instigate Democratization in Authoritarian Regimes
Authors: Julia Grauvogel, Christian von Soest
Date: October 2013

Title: Productive Power and Policy Change in Global Finance: An Analysis of China's Financial Policy Framing in the Bretton Woods Institutions
Authors: Sandra Heep
Date: September 2013

Title: Mind the Gap: An Annotated Overview of Datasets in the Study of Institutions and Conflict in Divided Societies
Authors: Nadine Ansorg, Matthias Basedau, Felix Haass, Julia Strasheim
Date: September 2013

Title: Informal Institutions in Autocracies: Analytical Perspectives and the Case of the Chinese Communist Party
Authors: Patrick Köllner
Date: August 2013

Title: Contingent Democrats in Action: Organized Labor and Regime Change in the Republic of Niger
Authors: Sebastian Elischer
Date: August 2013

Title: International Cooperation of Authoritarian Regimes: Toward a Conceptual Framework
Authors: Gero Erdmann, André Bank, Bert Hoffmann, Thomas Richter
Date: July 2013

Title: Civic Organizations in Vietnam's One-Party State: Supporters of Authoritarian Rule?
Authors: Jörg Wischermann
Date: July 2013

Title: Are All Dictators Equal? The Selective Targeting of Democratic Sanctions against Authoritarian Regimes
Authors: Christian von Soest, Michael Wahman
Date: July 2013

Title: Toward the Green Economy: Assessing Countries' Green Power
Authors: Babette Never
Date: June 2013

Title: Resource Scarcity, Spite and Cooperation
Authors: Sebastian Prediger, Björn Vollan, Benedikt Herrmann
Date: June 2013

Title: The Impact of Fuel Ownership on Intrastate Violence
Authors: Tim Wegenast
Date: May 2013

Title: The Effects of Regime Cooptation on the Geographical Distribution of Violence: Evidence from the Syrian Civil War
Authors: Alexander De Juan, André Bank
Date: May 2013

Title: Power Sharing in Syria: Lessons from Lebanon's Experience
Authors: Stephan Rosiny
Date: May 2013

Title: Convergence, Divergence and a Complex Interplay: Chile and the International and Transnational Anti-Corruption Campaign
Authors: Malte Gephart
Date: May 2013

Title: Why is Prior Consultation Not Yet an Effective Tool for Conflict Resolution? The Case of Peru
Authors: Almut Schilling-Vacaflor, Riccarda Flemmer
Date: April 2013

Title: Large-Scale Agricultural Investments under Poor Land Governance Systems: Actors and Institutions in the Case of Zambia
Authors: Kerstin Nolte
Date: April 2013

Title: From Military Instruments of Dictatorship to Political Instruments of Democracy: Regimes of Exception in Bolivia 2000–2010
Authors: Claire Wright, Soliz Landivar
Date: March 2013

Title: Explaining the Diffusion of Renewable Energy Technology in Developing Countries
Authors: Birte Pohl, Peter Mulder
Date: March 2013

Title: The Reform of China's Energy Policies
Authors: Joachim Betz
Date: February 2013

Title: Microblogs in China: Bringing the State Back In
Authors: Nele Noesselt
Date: February 2013

Title: Long-Term Monarchical Survival in the Middle East: A Configurational Comparison, 1945–2012
Authors: André Bank, Thomas Richter, Anna Sunik
Date: February 2013

Title: Sanctions and Democratization in the Post-Cold War Era
Authors: Christian von Soest, Michael Wahman
Date: January 2013

Title: China's Foreign Policy Think Tanks: Changing Roles and Structural Conditions
Authors: Pascal Abb
Date: January 2013

Title: Subjective Risk and Participation in Micro Life Insurance in Ghana
Authors: Lena Giesbert
Date: December 2012

Title: Mapping Political Violence – The Approaches and Conceptual Challenges of Subnational Geospatial Analyses of Intrastate Conflict
Authors: Alexander De Juan
Date: December 2012

Title: What Friends Are Made Of: Bilateral Linkages and Domestic Drivers of Foreign Policy Alignment with China
Authors: Georg Strüver
Date: November 2012

Title: The Nature and Role of Regional Agreements in International Environmental Politics: Mapping Agreements, Outlining Future Research
Authors: Jörg Balsiger, Miriam Prys, Niko Steinhoff
Date: October 2012

Title: Drivers of Strategic Contestation in South America
Authors: Daniel Flemes, Leslie Wehner
Date: October 2012

Title: The Politics of Contestation in Asia: How Japan and Pakistan Deal with their Rising Neighbors
Authors: Hannes Ebert, Daniel Flemes, Georg Strüver
Date: September 2012

Title: The Political Economy of Regional Power: Turkey under the AKP
Authors: André Bank, Roy Karadag
Date: September 2012

Title: Does Uranium Mining Increase Civil Conflict Risk? Evidence from a Spatiotemporal Analysis of Africa from 1945 to 2010, September 2012
Authors: Carlo Koos, Matthias Basedau
Date: September 2012

Title: The Geopolitics of Satellite Vision and North Korea
Authors: David Shim
Date: August 2012

Title: The Consequences of Failed Mediation in Civil Wars: Assessing the Sri Lankan Case
Authors: Sandra Destradi, Johannes Vüllers
Date: August 2012

Title: Political Change in the Middle East: An Attempt to Analyze the "Arab Spring"
Authors: Martin Beck, Simone Hüser
Date: August 2012

Title: Rising South Korea: A Minor Player or a Regional Power?
Authors: David Shim, Patrick Flamm
Date: July 2012

Title: Renewables in the Energy Transition: Evidence on Solar Home Systems and Lighting-Fuel Choice in Kenya
Authors: Jann Lay, Janosch Ondraczek, Jana Stoever
Date: July 2012

Title: Postwar Youth Violence: A Mirror of the Relationship between Youth and Adult Society
Authors: Sabine Kurtenbach
Date: July 2012

Title: Origins and Outcomes of Electoral Institutions in African Hybrid Regimes: A Comparative Perspective
Authors: Alexander Stroh, Sebastian Elischer, Gero Erdmann
Date: June 2012

Title: When Voicelessness Meets Speechlessness – Struggling for Equity in Chinese-Ghanaian Employment Relations
Authors: Karsten Giese, Alena Thiel
Date: May 2012

Title: The Puzzling Decline in Rural Women's Labor Force Participation in India: A Reexamination
Authors: Daniel Neff, Kunal Sen, Veronika Kling
Date: May 2012

Title: Institutional Conflict Settlement in Divided Societies: The Role of Subgroup Identities in Self-Government Arrangements
Authors: Alexander De Juan
Date: May 2012

Title: Contested Meanings of Corruption: International and Local Narratives in the Case of Paraguay
Authors: Malte Gephart
Date: April 2012

Title: "Informelle Politik" und "informelle Institutionen": Konzeptionelle Grundlagen, analytische Zugänge und Herausforderungen für das Studium autoritärer und anderer politischer Herrschaftssysteme
Authors: Patrick Köllner
Date: April 2012

Title: Is There a "Chinese School" of IR?
Authors: Nele Noesselt
Date: March 2012

Title: India's Turn in Climate Policy: Assessing the Interplay of Domestic and International Policy Change
Authors: Joachim Betz
Date: March 2012

Title: Finding the Cases that Fit: Methodological Challenges in Peace Research
Authors: Claudia Simons, Franzisca Zanker
Date: March 2012

Title: Frames We Can Believe In: Official Framing and Ideology in the CCP's Quest for Legitimacy
Authors: Maria Bondes, Sandra Heep
Date: February 2012

Title: Domestic Security in the Maghreb: Deficits and Counter-Measures
Authors: Hanspeter Mattes
Date: January 2012

Title: Democratizing Resource Governance through Prior Consultations? Lessons from Bolivia's Hydrocarbon Sector
Authors: Almut Schilling-Vacaflor
Date: January 2012

Title: Credit-constrained in Risky Activities? The Determinants of the Capital Stocks of Micro and Small Firms in Western Africa
Authors: Michael Grimm, Simon Lange, Jann Lay
Date: January 2012

Title: The International Dimensions of Authoritarian Legitimation: The Impact of Regime Evolution
Authors: Bert Hoffmann
Date: December 2011

Title: Perceptions of (Micro)Insurance in Southern Ghana: The Role of Information and Peer Effects
Authors: Lena Giesbert, Susan Steiner
Date: December 2011

Title: The G20: Engine of Asian Regionalism?
Authors: Hugo Dobson
Date: November 2011

Title: State-Building, War and Violence: Evidence from Latin America
Authors: Sabine Kurtenbach
Date: November 2011

Title: Chinese Commodity Imports in Ghana and Senegal: Demystifying Chinese Business Strength in Urban West Africa
Authors: Laurence Marfaing, Alena Thiel
Date: November 2011

Title: Fighting for a Kingdom of God? The Role of Religion in the Ivorian Crisis
Authors: Johannes Vüllers
Date: October 2011

Title: Burma's Transition to "Disciplined Democracy": Abdication or Institutionalization of Military Rule?
Authors: Marco Bünte
Date: September 2011

Title: Who Drives Change? Comparing the Evolution of Domestic Climate Governance in India and South Africa
Authors: Babette Never
Date: August 2011

Title: Turning Legal Pluralism into State-Sanctioned Law: Assessing the Implications of the New Constitutions and Laws in Bolivia and Ecuador
Authors: Anna Barrera
Date: August 2011

Title: Revisiting the Resource–Conflict Link: A Systematic Comparative Test of Causal Mechanisms in Four Major Oil-Exporting Countries
Authors: Matthias Basedau, Annegret Mähler, Miriam Shabafrouz
Date: August 2011

Title: Negotiating Political Spaces: Social and Environmental Activism in the Chinese Countryside
Authors: Maria Bondes
Date: July 2011

Title: Managing Ethnic Conflict: The Menu of Institutional Engineering
Authors: Matthias Basedau
Date: July 2011

Title: How Neopatrimonialism Affects Tax Administration: A Comparative Study of Three World Regions
Authors: Christian von Soest, Karsten Bechle, Nina Korte
Date: July 2011

Title: Fragile States, Robust Structures: Illegal Police Protection in Buenos Aires
Authors: Matías Dewey
Date: June 2011

Title: Do Religious Factors Impact Armed Conflict? Empirical Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Authors: Matthias Basedau, Georg Strüver, Johannes Vüllers, Tim Wegenast
Date: June 2011

Title: It's Not Only Rents: Explaining the Persistence and Change of Neopatrimonialism in Indonesia
Authors: Nina Korte
Date: May 2011

Title: Attitudes to Chronic Poverty in the "Global Village"
Authors: Armando Barrientos, Daniel Neff
Date: May 2011

Title: Religiosity as a determinant of happiness
Authors: Erich Gundlach, Matthias Opfinger
Date: April 2011

Title: North Korea and the Politics of Visual Representation
Authors: David Shim, Dirk Nabers
Date: April 2011

Title: Ex oleo bellare? The Impact of Oil on the Outbreak of Militarized Interstate Disputes
Authors: Georg Strüver, Tim Wegenast
Date: April 2011

Title: Chinese Perspectives on International Power Shifts and Sino-EU Relations (2008–2011)
Authors: Nele Noesselt
Date: April 2011

Title: Transition from Democracy Loss of Quality, Hybridisation and Breakdown of Democracy
Authors: Gero Erdmann
Date: March 2011

Title: Security Policies of India, Brazil and South Africa – Regional Security Contexts as Constraints for a Common Agenda
Authors: Daniel Flemes, Alcides Costa Vaz
Date: February 2011

Title: Cutting Bread or Cutting Throats? – Findings from a New Database on Religion, Violence and Peace in Sub‐Saharan Africa, 1990 to 2008
Authors: Matthias Basedau, Georg Strüver, Johannes Vüllers
Date: February 2011

Title: Why Do Some Oil Exporters Experience Civil War But Others Do Not? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Net Oil-Exporting Countries
Authors: Matthias Basedau, Thomas Richter
Date: January 2011

Title: Conflict Prevention through Natural Resource Management? A Comparative Study
Authors: Annegret Mähler, Miriam Shabafrouz, Georg Strüver
Date: January 2011

Title: Civil Society 2.0?: How the Internet Changes State-Society Relations in Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Cuba
Authors: Bert Hoffmann
Date: January 2011

Title: Technological Readiness in the Middle East and North Africa – Implications for Egypt
Authors: Juliane Brach
Date: December 2010

Title: India and the Civil War in Sri Lanka: On the Failures of Regional Conflict Management in South Asia
Authors: Sandra Destradi
Date: December 2010

Title: The Media Activism of Latin America's Leftist Governments: Does Ideology Matter
Authors: Philip Kitzberger
Date: November 2010

Title: Neopatrimonialism in Latin America: Prospects and Promises of a Neglected Concept
Authors: Karsten Bechle
Date: November 2010

Title: Assets, Shocks, and Poverty Traps in Rural Mozambique
Authors: Lena Giesbert, Kati Schindler
Date: November 2010

Title: Asian Economic Integration and Cooperation: Challenges and Ways Forward for Pan-Asian Regionalism
Authors: Durgesh K. Rai
Date: November 2010

Title: Too Many Resources or Too Few? What Drives International Conflicts?
Authors: Georg Strüver
Date: October 2010

Title: Representaciones de la violencia en la literatura centroamericana
Authors: Nadine Haas
Date: October 2010

Title: Lessons to Be Learned: Political Party Research and Political Party Assistance
Authors: Gero Erdmann
Date: October 2010

Title: Verschiebungen der globalen Machtverhältnisse durch den Aufstieg von Regionalen Führungsmächten. China, Indien, Brasilien und Südafrika im Vergleich
Authors: Robert Kappel
Date: September 2010

Title: Private Security in Guatemala:The Pathway to Its Proliferation
Authors: Otto Argueta
Date: September 2010

Title: On the Economics of Regional Powers: Comparing China, India, Brazil, and South Africa
Authors: Robert Kappel
Date: September 2010

Title: ¿Es el crecimiento económico suficiente para apoyar la democracia? Lecciones del caso chileno
Authors: Pedro Aravena Lavin
Date: August 2010

Title: The Formation of Preferences in Two-level Games: An Analysis of India's Domestic and Foreign Energy Policy
Authors: Joachim Betz, Melanie Hanif
Date: July 2010

Title: Bolivia's New Constitution: Towards Participatory Democracy and Political Pluralism?
Authors: Almut Schilling-Vacaflor
Date: July 2010

Title: Are the Chinese in Africa More Innovative than the Africans? Comparing Chinese and Nigerian Entrepreneurial Migrants' Cultures of Innovation
Authors: Dirk Kohnert
Date: July 2010

Title: Measuring and Comparing Party Ideology in Nonindustrialized Societies: Taking Party Manifesto Research to Africa
Authors: Sebastian Elischer
Date: June 2010

Title: MDG Achievements, Determinants, and Resource Needs: What Has Been Learnt?
Authors: Jann Lay
Date: June 2010

Title: A Regional Power Promoting Democracy? India's Involvement in Nepal (2005-2008)
Authors: Sandra Destradi
Date: June 2010

Title: The Resource Curse and Rentier States in the Caspian Region: A Need for Context Analysis
Authors: Hannes Meissner
Date: May 2010

Title: Measuring Geopolitical Power in India: A Review of the National Security Index (NSI)
Authors: Karl Hwang
Date: May 2010

Title: From Rivalry to Mutual Trust: The Othering Process between Bolivia and Chile
Authors: Leslie Wehner
Date: May 2010

Title: Religious Peace Activism—The Rational Element of Religious Elites' Decision-making Processes
Authors: Alexander De Juan, Johannes Vüllers
Date: April 2010

Title: Fuel for Conflict or Balm for Peace? Assessing the Effects of Hydrocarbons on Peace Efforts in Algeria
Authors: Miriam Shabafrouz
Date: April 2010

Title: Ethnic Party Bans in East Africa from a Comparative Perspective
Authors: Anika Moroff
Date: April 2010

Title: Climate-Resilient Industrial Development Paths: Design Principles and Alternative Models
Authors: Thomas Richter
Date: April 2010

Title: Regional Power Shift s and Climate Knowledge Systems: South Africa as a Climate Power?
Authors: Babette Never
Date: March 2010

Title: Inclusive Institutions and the Onset of Internal Conflict in Resource-rich Countries
Authors: Tim Wegenast
Date: March 2010

Title: In Search of Legitimacy in Post-revolutionary China: Bringing Ideology and Governance Back In
Authors: Heike Holbig, Bruce Gilley
Date: March 2010

Title: Global Health, Aid Effectiveness and the Changing Role of the WHO
Authors: Wolfgang Hein, Ilona Kickbusch
Date: March 2010

Title: Regionale Ordnungen in politischen Räumen. Ein Beitrag zur Theorie regionaler Ordnungen
Authors: Nadine Godehardt, Oliver W. Lembcke
Date: February 2010

Title: How Signifying Practices Constitute Food (In)security – The Case of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Authors: David Shim
Date: February 2010

Title: Democratization via Elections in an African "Narco-state"? The Case of Guinea-Bissau
Authors: Dirk Kohnert
Date: February 2010

Title: Contested Leadership in International Relations: Power Politics in South America, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
Authors: Daniel Flemes, Thorsten Wojczewski
Date: February 2010

Title: Oil and the Eruption of the Algerian Civil War: A Context-sensitive Analysis of the Ambivalent Impact of Resource Abundance
Authors: Miriam Shabafrouz
Date: January 2010

Title: Nigeria: A Prime Example of the Resource Curse? Revisiting the Oil-Violence Link in the Niger Delta
Authors: Annegret Mähler
Date: January 2010

Title: Civilizing the World Order? The Scope and Potential of Transnational Norm-building Networks
Authors: Cord Jakobeit, Robert Kappel, Ulrich Mückenberger
Date: January 2010

Title: "Dreams Don't Come True in Eritrea": Anomie and Family Disintegration due to the Structural Militarization of Society
Authors: Nicole Hirt
Date: January 2010

Title: Reshaping Political Space? The Impact of the Armed Insurgency in the Central African Republic on Political Parties and Representation
Authors: Andreas Mehler
Date: December 2009

Title: Creating Multilevel Security Governance in South America
Authors: Daniel Flemes, Michael Radseck
Date: December 2009

Title: Contextualizing Conceptions of Corruption: Challenges for the International Anti-corruption Campaign
Authors: Malte Gephart
Date: December 2009

Title: The Production of Insecurity by African Security Forces: Insights from Liberia and the Central African Republic
Authors: Andreas Mehler
Date: November 2009

Title: Iran's Oil Wealth: Treasure and Trouble for the Shah's Regime. An Assessment of Theoretical Approaches to the Impact of Resource Wealth – and an Argument for Considering the Context
Authors: Miriam Shabafrouz
Date: November 2009

Title: Oil-rent Boom in Iran?
Authors: Martin Beck
Date: October 2009

Title: Oil in Venezuela: Triggering Violence or Ensuring Stability? A Context-sensitive Analysis of the Ambivalent Impact of Resource Abundance
Authors: Annegret Mähler
Date: October 2009

Title: Global Value Chains, Technology Transfer and Local Firm Upgrading in Non-OECD Countries
Authors: Juliane Brach, Robert Kappel
Date: October 2009

Title: The Culture of Fear and Control in Costa Rica (II): The Talk of Crime and Social Changes
Authors: Sebastian Huhn
Date: September 2009

Title: Where Minds Meet: The "Professionalization" of Cross-Strait Academic Exchange
Authors: Günter Schucher
Date: August 2009

Title: Shrimp amongst Whales? Assessing South Korea's Regional-power Status
Authors: David Shim
Date: August 2009

Title: Getting Off Lightly? The Impact of the International Financial Crisis on the Middle East and North Africa
Authors: Juliane Brach, Markus Loewe
Date: August 2009

Title: The Effects of Electoral Institutions in Rwanda: Why Proportional Representation Supports the Authoritarian Regime
Authors: Alexander Stroh
Date: July 2009

Title: The Culture of Fear and Control in Costa Rica (I): Crime Statistics and Law Enforcement
Authors: Sebastian Huhn
Date: July 2009

Title: Liberalisierung in Zeiten der Instabilität: Spielräume unkonventioneller Partizipation im autoritären Regime der VR China
Authors: Günter Schucher
Date: June 2009

Title: Power, Governance, and Ideas in Chile's Free Trade Agreement Policy
Authors: Leslie Wehner
Date: May 2009

Title: Ethnicity and Party Systems in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
Authors: Matthias Basedau, Alexander Stroh
Date: May 2009

Title: Contested Cornerstones of Nonviolent National Self-Perception in Costa Rica: A Historical Approach
Authors: Sebastian Huhn
Date: May 2009

Title: Stagnation of a "Miracle": Botswana's Governance Record Revisited
Authors: Christian von Soest
Date: April 2009

Title: Indian Involvement in Afghanistan: Stepping Stone or Stumbling Block to Regional Hegemony?
Authors: Melanie Hanif
Date: April 2009

Title: The Resilience of Authoritarian Rule in Syria under Hafez and Bashar Al-Asad
Authors: Annette Büchs
Date: March 2009

Title: The Power of Proximity: Strategic Decisions in African Party Politics
Authors: Alexander Stroh
Date: February 2009

Title: Handel, Hierarchien und Kooperation in der Globalisierung
Authors: Robert Kappel, Juliane Brach
Date: February 2009

Title: Savings, Credit and Insurance: Household Demand for Formal Financial Services in Rural Ghana
Authors: Mirko Bendig, Lena Giesbert, Susan Steiner
Date: January 2009

Title: Más allá de lo económico: Los objetivos estratégicos de los TLCs de Chile y México
Authors: Leslie Wehner
Date: January 2009

Title: Democracy and Human Rights in the European-Asian Dialogue: A Clash of Cooperation Cultures?
Authors: Howard Loewen
Date: December 2008

Title: Bringing Hirschman Back In: Conceptualizing Transnational Migration as a Reconfiguration of "Exit", "Voice", and "Loyalty"
Authors: Bert Hoffmann
Date: December 2008

Title: Regional Politics in a Highly Fragmented Region: Israel’s Middle East Policies
Authors: Martin Beck
Date: October 2008

Title: Civilising Globalism: Transnational Norm-Building Networks — A Research Programme
Authors: Ulrich Mückenberger
Date: October 2008

Title: The Chinese Meaning of Just War and Its Impact on the Foreign Policy of the People’s Republic of China
Authors: Nadine Godehardt
Date: September 2008

Title: Constraints to Economic Development and Growth in the Middle East and North Africa
Authors: Juliane Brach
Date: September 2008

Title: Breaking the “Insecurity Trap”? How Violence and Counter-violence are Perpetuated in Elite Power Struggles
Authors: Andreas Mehler
Date: September 2008

Title: AIDS, Access to Medicines, and the Different Roles of the Brazilian and South African Governments in Global Health Governance
Authors: Gilberto Calcagnotto, Wolfgang Hein, Christian von Soest, Jan Peter Wogart
Date: September 2008

Title: A History of Nonviolence: Insecurity and the Normative Power of the Imagined in Costa Rica
Authors: Sebastian Huhn
Date: August 2008

Title: Not Always in the People's Interest: Power-sharing Arrangements in African Peace Agreements
Authors: Andreas Mehler
Date: July 2008

Title: EU-African Economic Relations: Continuing Dominance, Traded for Aid?
Authors: Dirk Kohnert
Date: July 2008

Title: Empire, Hegemony, and Leadership: Developing a Research Framework for the Study of Regional Powers
Authors: Sandra Destradi
Date: June 2008

Title: Discourses on Violence in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua: Youth, Crime, and the Responses of the State
Authors: Peter Peetz
Date: June 2008

Title: Discourses on Violence in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua: Social Perceptions in Everyday Life
Authors: Sebastian Huhn
Date: June 2008

Title: Do Qualitative Data Help in Addressing Central American Violence? Research Note on Data Collection
Authors: Anika Oettler
Date: May 2008

Title: Developing a Contextually Relevant Concept of Regional Hegemony: The Case of South Africa, Zimbabwe and "Quiet Diplomacy"
Authors: Miriam Prys
Date: May 2008

Title: Business Constraints and Growth Potential of Micro and Small Manufacturing Enterprises in Uganda
Authors: Esther K. Ishengoma, Robert Kappel
Date: May 2008

Title: The Evolution of Cleavages in the Indonesian Party System
Authors: Andreas Ufen
Date: April 2008

Title: Structural Stability: On the Prerequisites of Nonviolent Conflict Management
Authors: Ulf Engel, Lena Giesbert, Jenny Kuhlmann, Andreas Mehler, Christian von Soest
Date: April 2008

Title: Social Movements as Agents of Innovation: Citizen Journalism in South Korea
Authors: Thomas Kern, Sang-Hui Nam
Date: April 2008

Title: The ‘Ambivalence of the Sacred’ in Africa: The Impact of Religion on Peace and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
Authors: Matthias Basedau, Alexander De Juan
Date: March 2008

Title: Gain Seeking in a "Double Security Dilemma": The Case of OPEC
Authors: Ellinor Zeino-Mahmalat
Date: March 2008

Title: Discourses on Violence in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua: Laws and the Construction of Drug- and Gender-Related Violence
Authors: Peter Peetz
Date: March 2008

Title: Measuring Party Institutionalization in Developing Countries: A New Research Instrument Applied to 28 African Political Parties
Authors: Matthias Basedau
Date: February 2008

Title: Ethnic Coalitions of Convenience and Commitment: Political Parties and Party Systems in Kenya
Authors: Sebastian Elischer
Date: February 2008

Title: China, Japan and the Quest for Leadership in East Asia
Authors: Dirk Nabers
Date: February 2008

Title: Promoting Peace and Democracy through Party Regulation? Ethnic Party Bans in Africa
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Date: January 2008

Title: Upgrading in Agricultural Value Chains: The Case of Small Producers in Honduras
Authors: Ingrid Fromm
Date: December 2007

Title: The Cleavage Model, Ethnicity and Voter Alignment in Africa: Conceptual and Methodological Problems Revisited
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Date: December 2007

Title: Discourses on Violence in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua: National Patterns of Attention and Cross-border Discursive Nodes
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Date: December 2007

Title: The Role and Development of Technology-Intensive Suppliers in Resource-Based Economies: A Literature Review
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Date: November 2007

Title: Sectoral Transformations in Neo-Patrimonial Rentier States: Tourism Development and State Policy in Egypt
Authors: Thomas Richter, Christian Steiner
Date: November 2007

Title: Oligopolies of Violence in Post-Conflict Societies
Authors: Daniel Lambach
Date: November 2007

Title: Why Is Liberal Peace-building So Difficult?
Authors: Sabine Kurtenbach
Date: September 2007

Title: Seeking Opportunities: Migration as an Income Diversification Strategy of Households in Kakamega District in Kenya
Authors: Lena Giesbert
Date: September 2007

Title: Transitions from Charismatic Rule: Theories of Leadership Change and Cuba’s Post-Fidel Succession
Authors: Bert Hoffmann
Date: August 2007

Title: Emerging Middle Powers’ Soft Balancing Strategy: State and Perspectives of the IBSA Dialogue Forum
Authors: Daniel Flemes
Date: August 2007

Title: AMBURG BLEIBT ZENTRUM DER NAHOST-FORSCHUNG
Date: August 2007

Title: Prestando acuerdo: El Senado frente a los nombramientos del Poder Judicial en la Argentina democrática (1983-2006)
Authors: Mariana Llanos, Constanza Figueroa Schibber
Date: July 2007

Title: Patronage-Preserving Federalism? Legislative Malapportionment and Subnational Fiscal Policies in Argentina
Authors: Jorge Gordin
Date: June 2007

Title: Conceptualising Regional Power in International Relations: Lessons from the South African Case
Authors: Daniel Flemes
Date: June 2007

Title: Crises, Hegemony and Change in the International System: A Conceptual Framework
Authors: Dirk Nabers
Date: May 2007

Title: African Migration to Europe: Obscured Responsibilities and Common Misconceptions
Authors: Dirk Kohnert
Date: May 2007

Title: Why Reform Fails: The ‘Politics of Policies’ in Costa Rican Telecommunications Liberalization
Authors: Bert Hoffmann
Date: April 2007

Title: Boda-bodas Rule: Non-agricultural Activities and Their Inequality Implications in Western Kenya
Authors: Jann Lay, George Michuki M'Mukaria,  Toman Omar Mahmoud
Date: April 2007

Title: The Role of Southern Actors in Global Governance: The Fight against HIV/AIDS
Authors: Sonja Bartsch, Lars Kohlmorgen
Date: March 2007

Title: Political Party and Party System Institutionalisation in Southeast Asia: A Comparison of Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand
Authors: Andreas Ufen
Date: March 2007

Title: Crafting Political Institutions in Africa. Electoral Systems and Systems of Government in Rwanda and Zambia Compared
Authors: Alexander Stroh
Date: March 2007

Title: The EU's Foreign Policy after the Fifth Enlargement: Any Change in Its Taiwan Policy?
Authors: Günter Schucher
Date: February 2007

Title: Securing Household Income among Small-scale Farmers in Kakamega District: Possibilities and Limitations of Diversification
Authors: Henriette Dose
Date: February 2007

Title: Gero Erdmann and Matthias Basedau: Problems of Categorising and Explaining Party Systems in Africa
Authors: Mattias Basedau, Gero Erdmann
Date: January 2007

Title: The Emergence of a New ‘Socialist’ Market Labour Regime in China
Authors: Jutta Hebel, Gunter Schucher
Date: December 2006

Title: Ten Years after: Achievements and Challenges of the Euro-Mediterranean Economic and Financial Partnership
Authors: Juliane Brach
Date: December 2006

Title: Regional Monetary Integration among Developing Countries: New Opportunities for Macroeconomic Stability beyond the Theory of Optimum Currency Areas?
Authors: Barbara Fritz, Laurissa Muhlich
Date: December 2006

Title: Political Parties in Post-Suharto Indonesia: Between politik aliran and ’Philippinisation’
Authors: Andreas Ufen
Date: December 2006

Title: Measuring the Capability to Raise Revenue. Process and Output Dimensions and Their Application to the Zambia Revenue Authority
Authors: Christian von Soest
Date: December 2006

Title: How Does Neopatrimonialism Affect the African State? The Case of Tax Collection in Zambia
Authors: Christian von Soest
Date: November 2006

Title: Exploding Crime? Topic Management in Central American Newspapers
Authors: Sebastien Huhn, Anika Oettler, Peetz. Peter
Date: November 2006

Title: Decentralisation in Uganda: Exploring the Constraints for Poverty Reduction
Authors: Susan Steiner
Date: November 2006

Title: Regional Powers in International Relations: Analytical Concepts and Research Approaches
Authors: Detlef Nolte
Date: October 2006

Title: Power and Power Hierarchies in International Relations: Towards an Analytical Concept for the Study of Regional Powers
Authors: Detlef Nolte
Date: October 2006

Title: Der Kampf gegen Infektionskrankheiten in Entwicklungsländern zwischen medizinischer Forschung und globaler Gesundheitspolitik
Authors: Andreas Mehler
Date: August 2006

Title: The Politics of Senatorial Confirmations: A Comparative Study of Argentina and Brazil
Authors: Leany Lemos, Mariana Llanos
Date: June 2006

Title: Brazil's Nuclear Policy. From Technological Dependence to Civil Nuclear Power
Authors: Daniel Flemes
Date: June 2006

Title: Economic Growth and Poverty: Does Formalisation of Informal Enterprises Matter?
Authors: Esther Ishengoma, Robert Kappel
Date: April 2006

Title: A Paradox of Plenty? Rent Distribution and Political Stability in Oil States
Authors: Matthias Basedau, Lacher Wolfram
Date: April 2006

Title: Ideological Reform and Political Legitimacy in China: Challenges in the Post-Jiang Era
Authors: Heike Holbig
Date: March 2006

Title: Guatemala in the 1980s: A Genocide Turned into Ethnocide?
Authors: Annika Oettler
Date: March 2006

Title: Towards a Dynamic Model of the Interplay Between International Institutions
Authors: Howard Loewen
Date: February 2006

Title: Neopatrimonialism Revisited - Beyond a Catch-All Concept
Authors: Ulf Engel, Gero Erdmann
Date: February 2006

Title: Modernisierung und Demokratisierung: Das Erklärungspotenzial neuer differenzierungstheoretischer Ansätze am Fallbeispiel Südkoreas
Authors: Thomas Kern
Date: January 2006

Title: Challenging Party Hegemony: Identity Work in China's Emerging Virreal Places
Authors: Karsten Giese
Date: January 2006

Title: Factionalism in Political Parties: An Analytical Framework for Comparative Studies
Authors: Matthias Basedau, Patrick Köllner
Date: December 2005

Title: Creating a Regional Security Community in Southern Latin America: The Institutionalisation of the Regional Defence and Security Policies
Authors: Daniel Flemes
Date: December 2005

Title: Representing Different Constituencies: Electoral Rules in Bicameral Systems in Latin America and Their Impact on Political Representation
Authors: Detlef Nolte, Francisco Sánchez
Date: November 2005

Title: Die Institutionalisierung von Parteien und die Konsolidierung des Parteiensystems in Indien. Kriterien, Befund und Ursachen dauerhafter Defizite
Authors: Joachim Betz
Date: October 2005

Title: The LDP at 50: The Rise, Power Resources, and Perspectives of Japan's Dominant Party
Authors: Patrick Köllner
Date: September 2005

Title: Culture and Collective Action - Japan, Germany and the United States after September 11, 2001
Authors: Dirk Nabers
Date: September 2005

Title: Global Health Governance: Conflicts on Global Social Rights
Authors: Wolfgang Hein, Lars Kohlmorgen
Date: August 2005

Title: Formale und informelle Politik aus institutioneller Perspektive: Ein Analyseansatz für die vergleichenden Area Studies
Authors: Patrick Köllner
Date: August 2005

Title: ¿Hacia una comunidad regional de seguridad? Las Fuerzas Armadas en la percepción de las elites parlamentarias en Argentina, Chile, Brasil, Uruguay y Paraguay
Authors: Ruth Fuchs
Date: July 2005

Title: Multiple Interfaces of Big Pharma and the Chance of Global Health Governance in the Face of HIV/AIDS
Authors: Jan Peter Wogart
Date: June 2005

Title: Major Flaws in Conflict Prevention Policies towards Africa. The Conceptual Deficits of International Actors' Approaches and How to Overcome Them
Authors: Andreas Mehler
Date: June 2005

Title: Decentralisation and Poverty Reduction: A Conceptual Framework for the Economic Impact
Authors: Susan Steiner
Date: June 2005

Title: Context Matters - Rethinking the Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa
Authors: Matthias Basedau
Date: June 2005