redaktion, Author at EDP Network

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.

31. March 2020 | Publication

El rol de la gobernanza de las instituciones consultivas: Unión Europea y MERCOSUR

In: Revista de la Secretaría del Tribunal Permanente de Revisión de Mercosur, Vol. 8, No. 16, 204-223

18. March 2020 | Publication

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

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

11. March 2020 | Publication

Governing Markets in Autocratic Regimes

In: Abbott, Kenneth W./Zangl, Bernhard/Snidal, Duncan/Genschel, Philipp (Eds.): The Governor’s Dilemma. Indirect Governance Beyond Principals and Agents. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 239-256.

4. March 2020 | News

EDP Network meeting at DIE in Bonn: a new research agenda for challenges to democracy support

On February 27, our network members met at DIE (German Development Institute) in Bonn. Key issues of our meeting were the discussion and drafting of two joint research proposals addressing the current trend of de-democratization and how through ideation democracy …

1. March 2020 | Publication

“Mirror, Mirror On the Wall:” Self-Legitimation by International Organizations

in: International Studies Quarterly 64:1, 207-219. [Winner of the Best Research Output Prize 2020, University of Reading]

24. February 2020 | EDP Wire

Entwicklung und Frieden zusammendenken: Anregungen für die deutsche Politik

Die Erwartungen an die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, zu Konfliktbearbeitung beizutragen, sind gestiegen. Eine neue Studie zeigt: Es fehlt nicht in erster Linie das Wissen dazu, was nötig wäre, damit Entwicklungszusammenarbeit zu Frieden beiträgt. Es mangelt an der Umsetzung – gerade beim Primat der Prävention und der uralten Frage nach der Politikkohärenz.

12. February 2020 | News

Presenting our latest addition to the EDP Network: Welcome, Karina Mross!

The EDP Network welcomes Karina Mross, who will be joining our team from now on with her in-depth expertise in democracy support, post-conflict societies and peace processes, democratization after civil war, and fragile states.

6. February 2020 | Publication

Gradual, Cooperative, Coordinated: Effective Support for Peace and Democracy in Conflict-Affected States

in: International Studies Perspectives 21 (1), 54-77 (open access).

4. February 2020 | News

Workshop at the Federal Foreign Office on democracy promotion

The EDP network members Julia Leininger (German Development Institute) and Jonas Wolff (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt) took part in an expert workshop at the Federal Foreign Office on 30 January 2020 in Berlin.