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The Changing Landscape of Sustainability Governance. What next for VSS?

Bonn, 31. März 2025

The UNFSS Academic Advisory Council (AAC) annual meeting brought together an international mix of academic and policy experts from various disciplines and backgrounds to consolidate the knowledge on Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) and contribute to a comprehensive understanding of VSS effectiveness. The global sustainability…

How does the new collective quantified goal on climate finance reshape the climate–development finance nexus?

Aleksandrova, Mariya / Svea Koch (2025)
Mitarbeiter sonstige

EU-Africa cooperation on security, peace and humanitarian aid in the post-Cotonou era: an asymmetric partnership

Bergmann, Julian / Ina Friesen / Mark Furness (2025)
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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.

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

Esser, Daniel E. / Heiner Janus (2025)
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China in Africa: shaping economic relations through subnational actors

Li, Hangwei (2025)
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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.

Wissenskooperation

Forscher*innen am IDOS untersuchen die Rolle von transnationalen Wissensakteuren und Wissensgemeinschaften bei der Erforschung und der Gestaltung des globalen Wandels.

Starke Schnittstelle zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik für Klima und Biodiversität

Faus Onbargi, Alexia / Alicia Perez-Porro / Anna de las Heras Carles (2025)
Die aktuelle Kolumne, 22. April 2025

Zur Bewältigung dieser miteinander verbundenen Krisen braucht es auf allen Ebenen eine evidenzbasierte politische Entscheidungsfindung, was eine Stärkung der Schnittstelle zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik für Klima und Biodiversität voraussetzt.

The new Washington dissensus: Trump’s five principles for global development policy

Sumner, Andy / Stephan Klingebiel (2025)
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The Trump administration’s actions related to development policy are rooted in the “America First” doctrine. Their approach is not in line with internationally agreed objectives but narrowly aligned with perceived national interests.

Matrilineal kinship norms and gender gaps in labor market outcomes

Reichert, Arndt / Anne Simon / Alina Sowa / Christoph Strupat (2025)
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In search of a Plan B: like-minded internationalism and the future of global development

Ishmael, Len / Stephan Klingebiel / Andy Sumner (2025)
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Bureaucratic Aversion to Criticism

Berlin, 15. Mai 2025

Focus Hosted by the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), the workshop offers a unique opportunity for a select group of scholars researching bureaucratic politics to discuss work in progress in a collegial Chatham House setting. The workshop’s objective is to explore bureaucratic aversion to criticism across common…

‘Managing’ the paradox: refugee self-reliance and solving the problem of refugee policy discontinuity

Kohlenberger, Judith / Martin-Shields, Charles / Easton-Calabria, Evan (2025)
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What if it’s not in our country’s interest? Against the nationalist turn

Effert, Sarah-Lea / Sören Hilbrich (2025)
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The digital and digitally enabled economy as a driver of women employment? The Case of Jordan

Zintl, Tina (2025)
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Training for Transformation

Hamburg, 02. Juni 2025

The MGG Training and Learning Side Event to the Hamburg Sustainability Conference focused on multi-stakeholder processes. The Hamburg Sustainability Conference challenged barriers to SDG implementation with a systemic approach. It was driven by the vision that reaching the SDGs requires interdisciplinary and trustful collaboration among…

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

Baumann, Max-Otto (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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Meeres- und Polarregionen in der inter- und transnationalen Zusammenarbeit

Special "Meeres- und Polarregionen in der inter- und transnationalen Zusammenarbeit": Die Forschung des IDOS identifiziert Zielkonflikte, macht Reform- und Anpassungsbedarf sichtbar und entwickelt Handlungsvorschläge.

Europas Doppelmoral im Angesicht des Völkerrechts

El-Haddad, Amirah / Aboushady, Nora (2025)
Die aktuelle Kolumne, 24. Juni 2025

Deutschland sollte, anstatt völkerrechtswidrige Handlungen stillschweigend zu billigen, die Waffenverkäufe beenden, die laufende Kriege befeuern.