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

Klingebiel, Stephan / Andy Sumner / Len Ishmael (2025)
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‘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.

No “Nice-to-Have”: European support to critical civil society and free media

Lorch, Jasmin (2025)
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Jasmin Lorch argues that European support to human rights NGOs, critical civil society and free media is not merely a “nice-to-have“. Instead, it directly serves European interests due to the important information function that these civil society actors perform.

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.

Die Rolle von Deutschland und der EU auf der FfD4-Konferenz

Walle, Yabibal / Kathrin Berensmann / Clara Brandi (2025)
Die aktuelle Kolumne, 30. Juni 2025

Deutschland und die EU sollten ihren Worten Taten folgen lassen – durch Umsetzungsstrategien und Führung in der Sevilla Platform for Action.

Strategic humanitarian aid – could it weaken autocracies and boost confidence in Europe?

Sinanoglu, Semuhi (2025)
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Social protection and coloniality: learning from the past and present: Côte d’Ivoire case study

Lambin, Roosa / Arsène Brice Bado (2025)
Discussion Paper 19/2025

How do colonial legacies, external policy agendas, and domestic ambition shape social protection in Francophone West Africa? This new case study on Côte d’Ivoire explores how external and domestic forces have contributed to social protection formation both historically and today.

New ideas for United Nations development cooperation

Bonn, 18. Juli 2025

With the UN80 initiative, the UN development system once again goes through a repositioning exercise. In the past, similar reform processes have tended to follow a narrow path defined by old recipes and a reluctance to confront major dysfunction. There is now a need to take a fresh look at UN development cooperation. For two reasons:…

Fostering social cohesion in border contexts: learning from the experience of host communities and migrants in Casablanca

Delespesse, Elise / Charles Martin-Shields (2025)
Policy Brief 12/2025

Morocco has shifted from being primarily a country of transit and emigration to a country of settlement. Interviews conducted with NGOs and CSOs working with urban migrants in Casablanca highlighted ways that development cooperation can have a positive impact on social cohesion urban contexts.

Shifting parameters: contestation and the future of the International Order

Klingebiel, Stephan (2025)
Externe Publikationen 02/2025

Power shifts have long shaped international relations, but today’s rapid pace of change is unprecedented. The second Trump administration challenges existing norms, institutions, and decision-making forums at their core.

Weichenstellungen für eine neue deutsche Entwicklungspolitik

Die neue deutsche Bundesregierung richtet ihre Beziehungen zu Akteuren im Globalen Süden neu aus. IDOS beteiligt sich mit Debatten, wissenschaftlichen Analysen und Handlungsempfehlungen an dieser Gestaltung auswärtiger Politiken und internationaler Kooperation für nachhaltige Entwicklung.

Reform des Entwicklungssystems der VN

Das UNDS befindet sich in einem ehrgeizigen Reformprozess. Mitgliedstaaten und UN-Organisationen müssen ihre Unterstützung für Reformen verstärken.

Call for bids: Expert on “Civil Society and Civic Spaces in Asia”

The German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) in Bonn plans to contract an Expert on “Civil Society and Civic Spaces in Asia”.