17. Oktober 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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16. Oktober 2020 | Publication

No action without talk? UN peacekeeping, discourse, and institutional self-legitimation

in: Review of International Studies, 46:4, 477-494.

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13. Oktober 2020 | Publication

Die Corona-Pandemie als Bedrohung zivilgesellschaftlicher Handlungsspielräume

in: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, 33:3, 671-676.  

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6. Oktober 2020 | Publication

Nach Morales: Bolivianische Restauration?

in: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, Oktober 2020, 41–44.  

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2. Oktober 2020 | Publication

COVID-19 and shrinking civic spaces: patterns and consequences

in: Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Online first, 2 October 2020.  

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1. Oktober 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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29. September 2020 | EDP Wire

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.

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21. September 2020 | Publication

Insurgency and Ivory: The Territorial Origins of Illicit Resource Extraction in Civil Conflicts

in: Comparative Political Studies, Online First

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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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19. September 2020 | Publication

The Struggle for Minds and Influence: The Chinese Communist Party’s Global Outreach

in: International Studies Quarterly, 64:3, 723-733.

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