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Four futures for a Global development cooperation system in flux: policy at the intersection of geopolitics, norm contestation and institutional shift

Klingebiel, Stephan / Andy Sumner (2025)
Policy Brief 11/2025

This brief situates the crisis of Official Development Assistance (ODA) within a broader transformation of global development cooperation. Today’s challenge goes beyond shrinking aid budgets; it reflects deeper pressures on the post-Cold War development consensus and its institutional architecture.

Ocean and Polar Regions in inter- and transnational cooperation

Special "Ocean and Polar Regions in inter- and transnational cooperation": Our experts investigate how the implementation of the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda can succeed in marine areas for humanity at large.

In search of a Plan B: like-minded internationalism and the future of global development

Klingebiel, Stephan / Andy Sumner / Len Ishmael (2025)
External Publications

Knowledge Cooperation

Researchers at IDOS investigate the role of transnational knowledge actors and knowledge communities in exploring and shaping global change.

Outlook for the new legislature: Energy transition at sea

Ittner, Irit (2025)
The Current Column, 10. February 2025

Continuity is required in order to secure previous successes and to achieve sustainable development goals.

2025

2025 Jump to: Oktober 2025 September 2025 August 2025 Juli 2025 Juni 2025 Mai 2025 April 2025 März 2025 Februar 2025 Januar 2025 Oktober 2025 Hacia una economía global del hidrógeno: ¿dónde nos encontramos hoy y qué significa esto para los países en desarrollo? Hay muchas razones que explican la crisis estructural en la expansión de la economía del hidrógeno. Creemos que una actitud de "esperar y ver qué pasa" supondría una pérdida de tiempo innecesaria. Proponemos…

International development cooperation is in Germany’s national interest

Furness, Mark (2025)
The Current Column, 27. January 2025

Germany’s international cooperation is as important for its own continued development, as it is for the countries where Germany invests public money.

Managing Global Governance (MGG)

The Managing Global Governance (MGG) network brings together governmental institutions, think tanks and research institutions as well as civil society and business organizations

Pragmatic, strategic and wide-reaching: the CCP’s party diplomacy in Africa

Hackenesch, Christine / Bader, Julia (2024)
External Publications

Events

We regularly organise scientific conferences and panel discussions open for the public.

Impacts of supermarkets on child nutrition in China

Liu, Zhen / Lukas Kornher / Matin Qaim (2024)
External Publications

Regional Expertise Africa

Thematic works on Africa. Information on relevant publications, events, projects and contacts with special regional expertise.

Ariel Macaspac Hernandez

Ariel Macaspac Hernandez is an Economist and Former Researcher of the Research Programme "Inter- and transnational cooperation".

IDOS in den Medien

Das German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) erfährt auch 2024 eine breite Medienaufmerksamkeit, es folgt eine Übersicht der Beiträge.

The land-water nexus

Online, 22. March 2024

On the occasion of World Water Day 2024, the Bonn Water Network and its members including the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the German Institute for Development and Sustainability (IDOS), the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Global Water Operators' Partnerships Alliance…

What global role for the EU?

Special “What global role for the EU?”: At times of multiple global crises, the European Union (EU) finds itself at a crossroads.

Bringing development policy (back) in the picture

Hackenesch, Christine / Niels Keijzer / Svea Koch (2024)
The Current Column, 29. January 2024

Continuing the current direction of assertively and pragmatically pursuing the EU’s geostrategic interests carries the risk of fuelling conflicts of interest with a more assertive Global South.

Previous Research Teams

The Research Teams follow a long tradition due to the IDOS-Postgraduate Programme

IDOS in den Medien

Das German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) erfährt auch 2023 eine breite Medienaufmerksamkeit, es folgt eine Übersicht der Beiträge.

China's footprint in Africa

Cissé, Daouda / Karoline Eickhoff / Julia Fath / Christine Hackenesch / Rainer Thiele (2023)
External Publications