in: Del Sarto, Raffaella A./Tholens, Simone (eds.), Europe and the Middle East: Contestation beyond Borders, University of Michigan Press, 94-117.
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17. October 2020 | EDP Wire
COVID-19 and shrinking civic spaces: Findings from a preliminary assessment
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a majority of countries worldwide have introduced severe limitations on public life and individual freedoms. Although generally considered necessary to save lives and protect health care systems from overburdening, these restrictions pose the risk of government overreach, thereby potentially boosting the global trend of shrinking spaces for civil society actors.
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No action without talk? UN peacekeeping, discourse, and institutional self-legitimation
13. October 2020 | Publication
Die Corona-Pandemie als Bedrohung zivilgesellschaftlicher Handlungsspielräume
6. October 2020 | Publication
Nach Morales: Bolivianische Restauration?
2. October 2020 | Publication
COVID-19 and shrinking civic spaces: patterns and consequences
1. October 2020 | News
EDP Network meets to plan future strategic direction
On September 21, the EDP Network members met in a virtual online conference to discuss current plans for the further development and future strategic orientation of the network.
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We Need Democracy Protection to Counter Autocratisation
This EDP Wire is part of the German Development Institute’s weekly column discussing the most recent topics of international development politics. The authors discuss the need for international democracy protection against rising autocratic tendencies.
read more »21. September 2020 | Publication
Insurgency and Ivory: The Territorial Origins of Illicit Resource Extraction in Civil Conflicts
19. September 2020 | Publication
Networking with Chinese Characteristics: China’s party-to-party relations in Asia
in: Kneuer, Marianne/Demmelhuber, Thomas (eds.), Authoritarian Gravity Centres: A Cross-Regional Study of Authoritarian Promotion and Diffusion, New York: Routledge, 225-248.
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