redaktion, Author at EDP Network

7. October 2019 | Publication

From driver of change to marginalised actor: organised labour in post-revolutionary Egypt from a comparative perspective

The paper analyses why Egypt’s labour movement, while having played a significant role in the run-up to the 2011 revolution, has been increasingly marginalised politically ever since, failing to achieve either significant labour-specific gains and/or broader objectives related to the overall process of political transformation.

1. October 2019 | Publication

Internationale Reaktionen auf Krisen der Demokratie

in: Hartmann, Thomas/Dahm, Jochen/Decker, Frank (eds): Die Zukunft der Demokratie. Erkämpft, verteidigt – gefährdet?, Bonn: J.H.W. Dietz, 282-293.

19. September 2019 | EDP Wire

Can the new Ethiopian CSO proclamation open space for CSOs to contribute to the 2020 election of Ethiopia?

This post details the major changes of the 2019 Organizations of Civil Society Proclamation No. 1113/2019 proclamation which aims to open space for CSOs to contribute to the country’s democracy and human right promotion. While the analysis ”Negotiating international civil society support: the case of Ethiopia’s 2009 Charities and Societies Proclamation” sheds light on the process of international negotiations of the old proclamation and outlines the consequences of the proclamation for international civil society support in Ethiopia, the current post presents the differences of the two laws. It concludes by looking forward to the upcoming 2020 general election of Ethiopia.

14. September 2019 | exMember

Felix Haass

University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway

1. September 2019 | Publication

The Risks of Election Observation: International Condemnation and Post-Election Violence

in: International Studies Quarterly, 63:3, 654–667

20. August 2019 | exMember

Seraphine Maerz

Goethe University
Frankfurt am Main / Germany

16. August 2019 | Publication

US Democracy Promotion after the Cold War Stability, Basic Premises, and Policy toward Egypt

1st Edition, London: Routledge.

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.

8. August 2019 | News

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 …

8. August 2019 | EDP Wire

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.