13. February 2023 | News

Network member Sonja Grimm is scientific lead of the research Consortium EMBRACE

EMBRACing changE: Overcoming Blockages and Advancing Democracy in the European Neighbourhood (EMBRACE) The EMBRACE project analyses authoritarian resilience and de-democratization in the European Neighbourhood. It does so through an inter-disciplinary, multi-method and cross-regional assessment of both blockages to and drivers …

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23. January 2023 | Publication

Practices of Policy Orientation: A Study of the Heterogeneous Field of Democracy Promotion Research

In: International Studies Review, Volume 25, Issue 1

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22. December 2022 | Publication

The Belt and Road Initiative and Autocracy Promotion as Elements of China’s Grand Strategy

In: Securitization and Democracy in Eurasia, pp 361–374.

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22. December 2022 | News

Rebecca Wagner is Electoral Integrity Project Fellow in 2023

Rebecca Wagner, EDP network member and researcher at PRIF, joins the Electoral Integrity Project in 2023 as a junior fellow. During her fellowship, she will research the impact of international electoral aid on domestic politics. The research project is titled …

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22. December 2022 | Publication

International Democracy Promotion in Times of Autocratization: From Supporting to Protecting Democracy

In: IDOS Discussion Paper 21/2022

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22. December 2022 | News

EDP Network Meeting In Leipzig

On the 15th to 16th of December the EDP Network got to meet up in person in Leipzig. We discussed future options for the EDP Network in form of collaborations and shared research. The members also presented their current projects …

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21. November 2022 | News

EDP members at the third DVPW Thementagung

On the 11th of november our members Julia Leininger, Solveig Richter and Jonas Wolff presented their paper: „Demokratie, Sicherheit, Frieden: Wie verändert der russische Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine unser Verständnis von internationaler Demokratieförderung” on the third DVPW Thementagung titled „Turning …

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21. November 2022 | News

Jonas Wolff Inauguration lecture at Goethe University

Our member Jonas Wolff held his inauguration lecture on the 15th of November at the Goethe University Frankfurt. The title of the lecture was ‘Researching Democracy in Times of Autocratization: Conceptual developments and Latin American experiences’ and was part of …

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24. October 2022 | EDP Wire

Responding to Foreign Interference in the EU: Beware of Unintended Consequences

The EU’s emerging response to foreign interference, as it is currently debated in the EU Parliament, contains striking similarities to arguments put forth by some governments around the world seeking to justify harsh restrictions on foreign funding and “foreign agents.” …

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24. October 2022 | Publication

Institutional Order in Episodes of Autocratization

in: V-Dem Working Paper 133

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