Articles and other Publications

Dreizehn Erkenntnisse zum Kapazitätsaufbau für die Nachhaltigkeitstransformation: Bedarfe, Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätze in Deutschland und im internationalen Kontext

Löpelt, Sarah / Axel Berger (2025)
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Entwicklungspolitik im Zeitalter der neuen Geopolitik: die Entdeckung des Globalen Südens

Klingebiel, Stephan (2025)
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Currency is a social contract and should not be hastily replaced (in arabic)

Abedtalas, Musallam (2025)
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Sicherheit: Worüber wir jetzt reden müssen

Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen (WBGU) (2025)
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Security: What we need to talk about

German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) (2025)
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In search of a Plan B: the future of Global development lies in “Like-Minded Internationalism”

Ishmael, Len / Stephan Klingebiel / Andy Sumner (2025)
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Toward a universal approach to financing for sustainable development: what Seville can deliver

Kloke-Lesch, Adolf (2025)
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Crony capitalism in post-Assad Damascus: from the illusion of liberation to the reproduction of exclusion (in arabic)

Abedtalas, Musallam (2025)
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Opinion: As the rules of global cooperation shift, here is plan B

Ishmael, Len / Stephan Klingebiel / Andy Sumner (2025)
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Like-minded internationalism is emerging as an alternative to the post-1945 multilateral cooperation model.

UN at 80 needs a new approach to reforming the UN development system

Baumann, Max-Otto (2025)
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Rebuilding legitimacy for Global Governance: the case for a new independent commission

Klingebiel, Stephan / Andy Sumner / Arief Anshory Yusuf (2025)
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Die Arktis im Brennpunkt: Klimakatastrophe im Schatten der Geopolitik

Wehrmann, Dorothea (2025)
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Geopolitisierung schwächt globale Kooperationsprozesse und Engagement gegen die Klimakatastrophe: Die Arktisregionen sind am Schnittpunkt der Krisen besonders betroffen.

Critique: Kevin P. Donovan, Money, value and the state: sovereignty and citizenship in East Africa. Kevin P. Donovan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Gutheil, Lena (2025)
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Women, gender fluidity and Shona kinship structure in Zimbabwe

Jaji, Rose (2025)
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Using a panel of 100 developing countries from 1990 to 2017, we find robust evidence that improvements in public expenditure efficiency significantly increase FDI inflows. This effect is complementary to institutional quality, per capita income, and binding fiscal frameworks such as fiscal rules.

Global development needs a Plan B: could this be it?

Klingebiel, Stephan / Andy Sumner / Len Ishmael (2025)
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As powerful nations turn inwards and multilateral institutions falter, alternative coalitions need to step into the breach to push for global progress. Such flexible and diverse groupings will be most effective if they are based around issues and deploy new tactics to seize every chance to shape international norms. Len Ishmael, Stephan Klingebiel and Andy Sumner explain the concept of ‘like-minded internationalism’.

The impact of shock-responsive social cash transfers: evidence from an aggregate shock in Kenya

Strupat, Christoph / Emmanuel Nshakira-Rukundo / Arndt Reichert (2025)
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Germany at the Poles: exploring legitimacy

Jacqueline Wingens, Svenja Holste & Charlotte Gehrke (2025)
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Preference convergence, functional pressure and supranational entrepreneurship: explaining the launch and design of the EU's military assistance mission to Ukraine

Romanyshyn, Iulian / Julian Bergmann (2025)
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In search of a Plan B: the future of Global development lies in ‘like-minded internationalism’

Klingebiel, Stephan / Andy Sumner / Len Ishmael (2025)
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Len Ishmael, Stephan Klingebiel and Andy Sumner argue that states and coalitions must soon decide whether they will become norm-takers or norm-makers.

MDBs at FfD4: more attention, few breakthroughs?

Walle, Yabibal (2025)
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