6. May 2020 | EDP Wire

Tackling the pandemic without doing away with democracy

This EDP Wire is part of a German Development Institute (DIE) special series that explores the developmental and socioeconomic consequences of the corona crisis.

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24. April 2020 | Publication

Socioeconomic Protests in MENA and Latin America. Egypt and Tunisia in Interregional Comparison

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.  

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21. April 2020 | Publication

From Neo-Republicanism to Critical Republicanism

in: Leipold, Bruno/Nabulsi, Karma/White, Stuart (eds.), Radical Republicanism. Recovering the Tradition‘s Popular Heritage, Oxford University Press, 21-39.

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20. April 2020 | EDP Wire

Internal Threats to EU’s External Democracy Support in Times of a Pandemic – Can the New EU Council Conclusions on Democracy still Kick-off?

In the course of the worldwide outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, governments in Europe and across the world have called for states of emergency and restricted individual freedoms of their citizens in order to #FlattenTheCurve. While many citizens support the governmental initiatives, concerns about their implications on the state of democracy are growing stronger. Some fear that the coronavirus crisis will end in a crisis of democracy.

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16. April 2020 | Publication

Internal Threats to EU’s External Democracy Support in Times of a Pandemic – Can the New EU Council Conclusions on Democracy still Kick-off?

in: Prif Blog, 16.04.2020.

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1. April 2020 | Publication

Frieden und Entwicklung 2020: Eine Analyse aktueller Erfahrungen und Erkenntnisse

Die Studie „Frieden und Ent­wicklung 2020“ ana­ly­siert aktuelle Ent­wicklungen, Erfahr­ungen und Heraus­forder­ungen und leitet daraus praxis­orientierte Em­pfehl­ungen für die deutsche und inter­nationale EZ ab. Sie wurde im Rah­men eines Ressort­forschungs­vorhabens für das Bundes­ministerium für wirtschaft­liche Zusammen­arbeit und Ent­wicklung (BMZ) erstellt. Methodisch stützt sich die Analyse auf 30 Inter­views mit Expert­innen und Experten aus unter­schiedlichen Welt­regionen und ergänzt diese auf Basis einer Aus­wertung von Policy-Dokumenten und der ein­schlägigen Forschungs­literatur.

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1. April 2020 | Publication

Democracy

in: Olaf Kaltmeier/Anne Tittor/Daniel Hawkins/Eleonora Rohland (Hg.): The Routledge Handbook to the Political Economy and Governance of the Americas, London: Routledge, 341-349.

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1. April 2020 | Publication

COVID-19 as a Threat to Civic Spaces Around the World

in: PRIF Blog, 1 April 2020.  

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1. April 2020 | EDP Wire

COVID-19 as a Threat to Civic Spaces Around the World

As countries across the globe are desperately trying to control the COVID-19 pandemic, a rapidly increasing number of governments have started to impose severe restrictions on core civic freedoms. Although restrictions are currently necessary to save lives and protect health care from overburdening, these emergency measures must be proportional and strictly limited in time. It is crucial to monitor how restrictions are implemented to prevent governments from using the current crisis to justify new constraints on civic spaces, which have already  been shrinking in many places during the last 15 years.

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18. March 2020 | Publication

Crises and Critical Junctures in Authoritarian Regimes: Addressing Uprisings’ Temporalities and Discontinuities

In: Third World Quarterly, 41:3, 1030-1045.  

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