9. Mai 2019 | Publication

Negotiating democracy with authoritarian regimes. EU democracy promotion in North Africa

in: Democratization (2019), 26:5, 869-888.

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9. Mai 2019 | Publication

The negotiation of democracy promotion. Issues, parameters and consequences

in: Democratization (2019), 26:5.

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23. April 2019 | News

Documentary ‘Citizens Offline’ by EDP member Tina Freyburg, nominated for Golden Impala Award, is online now

The documentary ‘Citizens Offline’ by our EDP member Tina Freyburg of the University of St. Gallen and two of her colleagues, Veronique Wavre and Lisa Garbe, nominated for the Golden Impala Award at the Amakula International Film Festival in Uganda in March is now available online for the broader public.

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23. April 2019 | EDP Wire

The New Federal Structure in Nepal: Challenges and Opportunities for Quality Governance

This EDP Wire was written by Dr. Prakash Bhattarai, Director of the Centre for Social Change in Nepal and a former PRIF guest researcher by invitation of the EDP Network. In his article, he argues that if managed well, the new federal structure of Nepal as provisioned in the Constitution of 2015 has an immense potential to promote local democracy and equip citizens with fundamental rights but also finds that Nepal is practicing federalism in the midst of fear, mistrust, and dubious mind-sets of political elites without a clear vision of its future.

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18. April 2019 | News

Three network members present findings to Carnegie Democracy Group in Brussels

Three network members – Julia Leininger, Annika Elena Poppe and Jonas Wolff – presented at the 15th meeting of the Carnegie Democracy Group in Brussels on April 16, 2019.

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16. April 2019 | Publication

Senior Leadership Performance Management in International Organizations

Report, UN and Global Order Programme, University of Reading, April 2019

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6. April 2019 | News

EDP informal expert meeting in Berlin: Democracy needs help! Which role can Germany and Europe play in the world?

During an informal expert meeting at the Federal Press and Information Office in Berlin on April 4, 2019, EDP network member Julia Leininger (DIE) together with European Network of Political Foundations (ENoP) members addressed opportunities and challenges of democracy support worldwide based on the results of our most recent PRIF Report on „Democracy Promotion in Times of Uncertainty“.

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22. März 2019 | News

Keynote lecture with Oliver Richmond at EDP co-sponsored event on “Concepts of Peace and Peacebuilding: Europe and Beyond” in Erfurt

Prof. Dr. Oliver Richmond of the University of Manchester gave a keynote lecture on March 7, 2019 on “Concepts of Peace and Peacebuilding: Europe and Beyond” at an event our EDP member Solveig Richter had organized at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy in Erfurt. Richmond spoke at the Annual Colloquium of the German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies in Erfurt, which was co-sponsored by the EDP Network.

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21. März 2019 | EDP Wire

How EU conditionality entrenches state capture in the Western Balkans

This EDP Wire was originally posted on blogs.lse.ac.uk. The article argues that the EU enlargement process in the Western Balkans has fallen short of reproducing the transformative impact it had in Central and Eastern Europe. EDP member Solveig Richter and …

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18. März 2019 | Publication

What do we know about post-conflict transitional justice from academic research: key insights for practitioners

in: DIE Briefing Paper 3/2019.

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