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Beyond contestation: conceptualizing negotiation in democracy promotion

Poppe, Annika Elena / Julia Leininger / Jonas Wolff (2019)
External Publications

Communicating stability: managing the regulatory process to maximize communication infrastructure for peacebuilding

Martin-Shields, Charles (2016)
External Publications

EU’s Policy Coherence for Development and Trade: A false Agreement

Negre, Mario (2013)

Who cares about aid? Voters do!

Leininger, Julia / Martin-Shields, Charles (2025)
The Current Column, 18. February 2025

Right now, voters’ positive feelings about aid are abstract. However, when voters understand that an investment in development cooperation is an investment in their community as well, they will continue to support it.

Towards transnational agrarian conflicts? Global NGOs, transnational agrobusiness and local struggles for land on Sumatra

Brad, Alina / Jonas Hein (2022)
External Publications

Building Better Dams

Bonn, 04. February 2020

More than 3,700 large dams are planned or under construction worldwide, to service growing demands for energy, irrigation, urban water or flood control. This new generation of dam schemes, most in ‘developing countries’, has the potential to make a significant contribution towards achieving economic growth, the UN Sustainable Development…

Reforming International Institutions: From Wishful Thinking To Reality

Hulsman, John C. (2009)

High-Level Regional Roundtable on the WTO Investment Facilitation for Development Negotiations

Online, 30. March 2021

The Roundtable is meant to offer a platform for strategic exchange on the dynamic policy discussions and negotiations on investment facilitation for development – taking place on various levels and international fora – among a select group of high-level policy makers, government officials, investment promotion and private sector…

Forging Democracy

Bonn, 02. February 2011

Professor Todd Landman, Director of the Institute for Democracy and Conflict Resolution at the University of Essex, gave a Guest Lecture on “Forging Democracy”. Professor Landman has been at Essex since 1993 in the Department of Government and before being appointed Director of the Institute for Democracy and Conflict Resolution , he…

Linking aid effectiveness with the 2030 Agenda: three steps

Holzapfel, Sarah / Alexandra Rudolph (2017)
The Current Column, 06. March 2017

Development cooperation should be used as a tool to sustainably improve living conditions in partner countries.

'Creative industries': economic programme and boundary concept

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina (2011)
External Publications

Europe must deepen economic cooperation with the transforming countries of the Arab world

Wiemann, Jürgen (2011)
The Current Column, 28. February 2011

Aid for trade and export performance of recipient countries: the moderating role of institutions

Aboushady, Nora / Georges Harb / Chahir Zaki (2023)
External Publications

Exploring the current position of ESD in UK higher education institutions

Fiselier, Evelien S. / James W.S. Longhurst / Georgina K. Gough (2018)
External Publications

GLOBALGOALS2024 - The Future of the SDGs

Utrecht, The Netherlands, 29. August 2024

The adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was welcomed by practitioners and academics alike as a momentous step forward in global sustainability governance. And yet, an increasing body of studies suggests that the SDGs have failed to transform political and economic…

Sustainable dam development in India between global norms and local practices

Choudhury, Nirmalya (2010)
Discussion Paper 10/2010

SDG-aligned futures and the governance of transformation to sustainability: reconsidering governance perspectives on the futures we aspire to

Hernandez, Ariel (2021)
Discussion Paper 30/2021

This paper draws concepts from economics, sociology and political science and identifies the four different types of resources represented in three different scenarios of a sustainable future – the SDG-aligned scenarios - that can help governance be conducive to transformation to sustainability.

What is the renewed military offensive achieving?

Trautner, Bernhard / Tina Zintl (2018)
The Current Column, 31. January 2018

Barely has so-called Islamic State (IS) been militarily defeated in Iraq and, for the most part, in Syria, and Turkey is once again escalating the old conflict over the Kurdish people in its immediate border region. It is doubtful whether this offensive is actually promoting Turkish interests in the long term.

Energy security, sustainability and development in Morocco

Auktor, Georgeta (2018)
External Publications

Rising powers and the provision of transnational public goods: conceptual considerations and features of South Africa as a case study

Klingebiel, Stephan (2017)
Discussion Paper 3/2017

The paper addresses the group of countries known as the ‘rising powers’ and the role these countries could play as regards a globalised common good. It focuses on South Africa as a case study for the main rising power on the African continent.