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From Monterrey to Seville: an overview

Klingebiel, Stephan / Jorge A. Pérez-Pineda / Kathrin Berensmann (2025)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

How the FfD process should promote a better alignment of financial markets with sustainability goals

Hilbrich, Sören / Kathrin Berensmann / Clara Brandi (2025)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

The Future of World Trade

Special "Future of the World Trade System": The world trade system is in a phase of upheaval and uncertainty. Against this background, the trade experts at DIE analyse the effectiveness, legitimacy and sustainability of the international trading system.

Allocating international loss and damage finance through national climate funds: prospects for African LDCs

Aleksandrova, Mariya / Washington Onyango Kanyangi / Assouhan Jonas Atchadé / Joanes Atela / Charles Tonui (2025)
Policy Brief 6/2025

The New Washington Dissensus: the 5 principles that are defining the Trump administration’s vision of global development cooperation

Klingebiel, Stephan / Andy Sumner (2025)
External Publications

The Trump administration’s vision for development cooperation is becoming clearer. We identify 5 principles seemingly guiding actions.

Populism and development policy: the case of European populist radical right parties

Hackenesch, Christine (2025)
External Publications

Development perspectives of the Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement

Berger, Axel / Mashayekhi, Mina / Smeets, Maarten (2025)
External Publications

Social contracts and the UN’s “Common Goals”: conceptualising a new role for international organisations

Loewe, Markus / Tina Zintl (2025)
Policy Brief 7/2025

International organisations often refer to social contracts. A concept developed by IDOS helps to fill the term with contents. It shows that international organisations can support the renegotiation of national social contracts and establish supra-national social contracts.

Securing Germany’s Leadership in Global Health

Strupat, Christoph / Srinivasa Srigiri (2025)
The Current Column, 07. April 2025

Those who cut funding to global health effectively score an own goal, creating risks worldwide—including at home—since viruses recognise no borders in our interconnected world.

Everything, everywhere, all at once? Donor bureaucrats struggle with four dimensions of development effectiveness

Esser, Daniel E. / Heiner Janus (2025)
External Publications

Africa’s regional and global integration: introduction to the Special Issue

Brandi, Clara / Katrin Kamin / Rainer Thiele (2025)
External Publications

Investment Facilitation for Development: what Should FfD4 Deliver?

Berger, Axel / Zoryana Olekseyuk (2025)
External Publications

Adaptive governance at work: how Chinese state actors respond to overseas pushback on the Belt and Road Initiative

Li, Hangwei / Wang Yuan (2025)
External Publications

Cross-Cutting Research – Sustainable Futures

Instead of searching for a single path, we emphasise ‘futures’ in the plural to underline the plurality of many different sustainable futures.

Mission and Vision

IDOS’ mission, is to through research, policy advice, transregional knowledge cooperation and training, collaboratively develop shared visions of, scientific expertise, transformative pathways and innovations for sustainable futures.

China in Africa: shaping economic relations through subnational actors

Li, Hangwei (2025)
External Publications

China’s engagement with Africa is significantly shaped by its subnational actors, especially provincial and local governments. This policy brief examines Zhejiang Province to explore its motivations and tactics, highlighting how it mobilizes city-level actors to foster stronger economic ties with Africa.

Knowledge integration in ocean governance (Special Issue)

Kuhn, Annegret / Dorothea Wehrmann (eds.) (2025)
External Publications

Application Deadline expired: Job advertisment: Full professorship for Global Policy for Sustainable Development / Deputy Director of IDOS (m/f/d)

We are looking for a strategically minded and integrative leader with excellent research experience in the field of global sustainable development.

Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement: potential gains

Balistreri, Edward J. / Zoryana Olekseyuk (2025)
External Publications

Social media and democracy: Reflections from South Korea’s impeachment

Yi, HyunAh / Dennis Schüpf (2025)
The Current Column, 14. April 2025

It shows us that democracy today is not just practised in parliaments or courtrooms, but also in digital plazas where hashtags replace headlines and solidarity is forged through shared playlists and viral posts.