1st Edition, London: Routledge.
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15. August 2019 | EDP Wire
EU concepts of peace and peacebuilding
This EDP Wire was developed as a contribution to the EDP co-sponsored event on “Concepts of Peace and Peacebuilding: Europe and Beyond” on March 7 in Erfurt in lieu of a presentation by Tobias Heider, Advisor on Security and Defence for The Greens in the European Parliament. Heider, who is working on the practical dimension of EU policies since 2004, argues that on the operational level, the EU has not yet fully developed a peace or peacebuilding policy. Nora Berger-Kern, web editor for the EDP network at PRIF, helped with the further development and writing of this contribution.
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Jonas Wolff joined the World Order Watch (WOW) Research Network
EDP Network member Jonas Wolff (PRIF) joined the World Order Watch (WOW) international network. WOW connects international relations researchers sharing an intellectual interest in the dynamics of global order. The objective of the network is to generate an international cross-disciplinary …
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Preventing Civic Space Restrictions. An Exploratory Study of Successful Resistance Against NGO Laws
This EDP Wire contribution briefly summarizes the PRIF Report “Preventing Civic Space Restrictions. An Exploratory Study of Successful Resistance Against NGO Laws” by Jana Baldus, Nora Berger-Kern, Fabian Hetz, Annika Elena Poppe, and Jonas Wolff. The report analyzes four cases (Azerbaijan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan and Zambia) in which governmental attempts to adopt restrictive NGO laws have been frustrated, aborted or, at least, significantly mitigated as a consequence of domestic and/or international resistance. It then identifies conditions and dynamics that help understand successful resistance against legal civic space restrictions.
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Regime Legitimation Strategies (RLS), 1900-2018
7. August 2019 | Publication
Democratic Transformation after the Second World War
in: Kollmorgen, Raj/Merkel, Wolfgang/Wagener, Hans-Jürgen (Eds.): Oxford Handbook of Political, Social, and Economic Transformation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 280-292.
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How Do Inclusionary and Exclusionary Autocracies Affect Ordinary People?
7. August 2019 | News
Johannes Gerschewski joins Cluster of Excellence “SCRIPTS”
In June 2019, Johannes returned to Berlin and joined the Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)” at Freie Universität Berlin. “SCRIPTS” is a joint endeavor of various Berlin-based universities and research institutes that are dedicated to analyze the various contestations that liberalism expereinces, ranging from populism, authoritarianism, nationalism, to questions of citizenship and migration, from social inequality and free markets to different understandings of temporalities and critiques of ideas of linear progress. The Cluster is explicitly global, historical, and global in its outlook, unifying various disciplines under one thematic umbrella.
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Supporting peace after civil war: what kind of international engagement can make a difference?
28. July 2019 | Publication